Romance Scholarship DB

Wherry, Maryan

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Weston, Louise C.

Ruggiero, Josephine A.

(1978) Male-Female Relationships in Best-Selling "Modern Gothic" Novels Sex Roles 4.5:647-655 DOI: 10.1007/BF00287330

Topic

romantic suspense

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Phyllis A. Whitney

Spraggs, Gillian

(1992) "Hell and the Mirror: A Reading of Desert of the Heart " New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings 115-131

Topic

religion/spirituality

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

Spraggs, Gillian

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Wilson, Elizabeth

(1992) "The Greyhound Bus Station in the Evolution of Lesbian Popular Culture " New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings 95-113

Topic

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

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

Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith

(1992) New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings New York: Columbia University Press

Munt, Sally

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Wilson, Elizabeth

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Weir, Angela

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Weibel, Kathryn

(1977) Mirror Mirror: Images of Women Reflected in Popular Culture Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon