Romance Scholarship DB

Tatlock, Lynne

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Talbot, Mary M.

(1997) "‘An Explosion Deep inside Her’: Women’s Desire and Popular Romance Fiction " Language and Desire: Encoding Sex, Romance, and Intimacy 106-122

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

(1997) Language and Desire: Encoding Sex, Romance, and Intimacy London: Routledge

Shalom, Celia

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Harvey, Keith

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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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