Romance Scholarship DB

(1987) Up From Under, or On Not Marrying the Racist Aussie Boss: Strategies for Reading Romantic Fiction Hecate 13.1:7-20

Topic

social/economic class

romance scholarship

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Levy, Bronwen

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Bellanta, Melissa

(2014) A Masculine Romance: The Sentimental Bloke and Australian Culture in the War-and Early Interwar Years Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

Topic

Bellanta, Melissa

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O'Mahony, Lauren

(2021) "Australian romance fiction " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 72-96 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-3

Topic

national identity

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

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Marie Bjelke Petersen

libraries/librarians

(2021) "The evolution of the American romance novel " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 51-71 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-2

Topic

United States of America

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

romance scholarship

Charles Brockden Brown

Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Lydia Maria Child

E. D. E. N. Southworth

Louisa May Alcott

Frances Watkins Harper

Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

(2021) "History of English romance novels, 1621-1975 " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 27-50 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-1

Topic

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

Harlequin Mills & Boon

historical romance

(2018) What is Australian Popular Fiction? Australian Literary Studies 33.4:1-11 DOI: 10.20314/als.4e3df0ec9c

Topic

national identity

(1995) Love Brought to Book: A Bio-Bibliography of 20th Century Australian Romance Novels Melbourne: National Centre for Australian Studies

Topic

Deller, Ruth A.

Smith, Clarissa

(2013) Reading the BDSM romance: Reader responses to Fifty Shades Sexualities 16.8:932–950 DOI: 10.1177/1363460713508882

Topic

trash/literary and or intellectual quality