Romance Scholarship DB

Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth

(2010) Twenty-five years and counting of Sweet Valley: Jessica and Elizabeth in romance novels for young children? Journal of Research in Childhood Education 24.2:123-139 DOI: 10.1080/02568541003635201

Topic

YA/teenage romance

Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth

(2002) Meet Jessica and Elizabeth from Sweet Valley: Who Are the Female Role Models in Popular Romance Novels for Children? Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (New Orleans, LA, April 1-5,2002) ERIC document ED470819:

Topic

YA/teenage romance

Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth

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Roach, Catherine M.

(2010) Getting a Good Man to Love: Popular Romance Fiction and the Problem of Patriarchy Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1:

Topic

religion/spirituality

(2009) “Love in the Clouds”: Barbara Cartland’s Religious Romances The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 21.2: DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.21.2.002

Topic

Barbara Cartland

religion/spirituality

Christian romance

Rix, Robert W.

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Ricker-Wilson, Carol

(1999) Busting Textual Bodices: Gender, Reading, and the Popular Romance The English Journal 88.3:57-64 DOI: 10.2307/821580

Topic

social/economic class

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Ricker-Wilson, Carol

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(2011) "Female genre fiction in the twentieth century " The Cambridge History of the American Novel 847-860 DOI:10.1017/CHOL9780521899079.056

Topic

genre definitions

Samuel Richardson

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

E. D. E. N. Southworth

religion/spirituality

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Jennifer Crusie

Beverly Jenkins

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Cassuto, Leonard

Eby, Clare Virginia

Reiss, Benjamin

(2011) The Cambridge History of the American Novel Cambridge: Cambridge University Press