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Livingston, Eric (2006) The Textuality of Pleasure New Literary History 37.3:655-672 Topic close reading readers trash/literary and or intellectual quality Gina Wilkins
Litton, Joyce A. (1994) "From Seventeenth Summer to Miss Teen Sweet Valley: Female and Male Sex Roles in Teen Romances, 1942-91 " Images of the Child 19-34 Topic YA/teenage romance gender Rosamond du Jardin Betty Cavanna Maureen Daly family
Eiss, Harry (1994) Images of the Child Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press
Linke, Gabriele (2000) Visions and Versions of Parenthood in British and American Series Romances Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions 6:18-29 Topic family
Linke, Gabriele (1997) Contemporary Mass Market Romances as National and International Culture: A Comparative Study of Mills & Boon and Harlequin Romances Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:195-213 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon United States of America UK national identity race/ethnicity
Linke, Gabriele (1997) Local Color in Contemporary Harlequin and Silhouette Romances: Popular Imagery of the American South and West Mid-Atlantic Almanack: The Journal of the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association 6:15-30 Topic United States of America settings Harlequin Mills & Boon