Romance Scholarship DB

(1992) Sexuality in Lesbian Romance Fiction Feminist Review 42.1:49-66 DOI: 10.1057/fr.1992.48

Topic

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

Katherine V. Forrest

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

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Michelle Martin

Hermes, Joke

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(2012) The Upper-Class Bisexual Top as Romantic Hero: (Pre)dominant in the Social Structure and in the Bedroom Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.1:

Topic

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

wealth/prosperity

social/economic class

historical romance

Georgette Heyer

(1997) Having It All: Consumption and Ideological Tension in an Innovative Romance Novel Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 30.3:243-264

Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra

(2020) "India, Heat, Dust, and Tea? Alienness and Marketability in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Nicole C. Vosseler " Diasporic Inquiries into South Asian Women’s Narratives: Alien Domiciles 39-51

Topic

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Nicole C. Vosseler

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Bhat, Shilpa Daithota

(2020) Diasporic Inquiries into South Asian Women’s Narratives: Alien Domiciles Lanham, Maryland: Lexington

Bhat, Shilpa Daithota

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Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra

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Heller, Tamar

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(2015) 14 Weeks of Love and Labour: Teaching Regency and Desert Romance to Undergraduate Students Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

Topic

teaching romance

historical romance

Georgette Heyer

Marguerite Kaye