Romance Scholarship DB

Parameswaran, Radhika

(1999) Western Romance Fiction as English-Language Media in Postcolonial India Journal of Communication 49.3:84-105 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.1999.tb02806.x

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

India

readers

social/economic class

libraries/librarians

sex/sexuality

gender

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Parameswaran, Radhika

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Paizis, George

(2006) "Category Romance in the Era of Globalization: The Story of Harlequin " The Global Literary Field 126-151

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

(2006) The Global Literary Field Newcastle: Cambridge University Press

Guttman, Anna

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Béres, Laura

(2001) Romance, suffering and hope, reflective practice with abused women PhD, University of Toronto

Topic

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

readers

psychology

fairytales/folktales

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

Michele Hauf

V. C. Andrews

Béres, Laura

(2002) Negotiating Images: Popular Culture, Imagination, and Hope in Clinical Social Work Practice Affilia 17.4:429–447 DOI: 10.1177/088610902237360

Topic

psychology

readers

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Michele Hauf

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

Béres, Laura

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Reid-Walsh, Jacqueline

(1993) "Adolescent Girls' Romance Fiction: Contemporary Conduct Books? " Weaving Alliances: Selected Papers Presented For The Canadian Women's Studies Association at the 1991 and 1992 Learned Societies Conferences 303-318

Topic

YA/teenage romance

readers

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

gender