Romance Scholarship DB

Talbot, Mary M.

(1995) Fictions at Work: Language and Social Practice in Fiction London and New York: Longman

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

fashion/clothing

social/economic class

romances in magazines and newspapers

YA/teenage romance

Swaffield, Audrey-Claire

(1981) Paperbacks Promoting Passion! What Is Harlequin Really Presenting? Canadian Woman Studies/Les Cahiers de la Femme 3.2:4-6

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Swaffield, Audrey-Claire

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(2011) Sisters of Sorts: Reading Romantic Fiction and the Bonds Among Female Readers Journal of Popular Culture 44.6:1289-1306 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2011.00901.x

Topic

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

Struve, Laura

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Stotesbury, John A.

(2004) "Genre and Islam in Recent Anglophone Romantic Fiction " Refracting the Canon in Contemporary British Literature and Film 69-82 DOI:10.1163/9789401208307_005

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religion/spirituality

Gutleben, Christian

(2004) Refracting the Canon in Contemporary British Literature and Film Amsterdam: Rodopi

Onega, Susana

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Gutleben, Christian

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Stotesbury, John A.

(1994) Language and Mindstyle in Anglophone Popular Romantic Fiction under Apartheid Logos 14:18-32

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