Romance Scholarship DB

Schell, Heather

(2020) After “I Do”: Turkish Harlequin Readers Re-Imagine the Happy Ending Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/KCOO7755

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Johnson, Emily D.

(2020) Exploring His/Her Library: Reading and Books in Russian Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/EVAV6668

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Galina Kulikova

Natal’ia Mironova

socialism and/or communism

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Johnson, Emily D.

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Cassiday, Julie A.

(2020) A World Without Safe Words: Fifty Shades of Russian Grey Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/VSFX5408

Topic

Alisa Klever/Tatiana Vedenska

national identity

romantic suspense

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Cassiday, Julie A.

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(1984) Words of Love: A Complete Guide to Romance Fiction New York and London: Garland Publishing

Topic

genre definitions

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

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

historical romance

Georgette Heyer

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Fallon, Eileen

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Kamblé, Jayashree

(2020) When Wuxia Met Romance: The Pleasures and Politics of Transculturalism in Sherry Thomas’s My Beautiful Enemy Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/AWFD7941

Topic

war/armed forces

historical romance

national identity

McAlister, Jodi

Parnell, Claire

Trinidad, Andrea Anne

(2020) #RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family Publishing Research Quarterly 36:403–417 DOI: 10.1007/s12109-020-09733-1

Topic

genre definitions

Mina V. Esguerra

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

Trinidad, Andrea Anne

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