Romance Scholarship DB

(2016) "The Romance Novel " Gender: Love 255-270

Topic

genre definitions

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Barbara Cartland

Georgette Heyer

historical romance

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

wealth/prosperity

capitalism/business

Nash, Jennifer C.

(2016) Gender: Love : Macmillan

Nash, Jennifer C.

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Bywaters, Barbara

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Bywaters, Barbara

(2001) "Decentering the Romance: Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, and Popular Romance Fiction " Georgette Heyer: A Critical Retrospective 493-508

Topic

Georgette Heyer

Wheeler, Duncan

(2020) Following Franco: Spanish culture and politics in transition, 1962–92 Manchester: Manchester University Press

Topic

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Wheeler, Duncan

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Wiegand, Wayne A.

(2015) A Part of Our Lives: A People’s History of the American Public Library Oxford: Oxford University Press

Topic

libraries/librarians

Wiegand, Wayne A.

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