Eike, Ann M. (1986) An Investigation of the Market for Paperback Romance Novels Journal of Cultural Economics 10.1:25-36 DOI: 10.1007/BF00223821 Topic Publishing
Smith, Faith (1999) "Beautiful Indians, Troublesome Negroes, and Nice White Men: Caribbean Romances and the Invention of Trinidad " Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation 163-182 Topic Caribbean race/ethnicity Valerie Belgrave feminism national identity
Edmondson, Belinda (1999) Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press
Edmondson, Belinda (2007) The Black Romance Women's Studies Quarterly 35.1/2:191-211 Topic African American romance Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) sex/sexuality race/ethnicity Frances Watkins Harper Caribbean film/movies social/economic class national identity
Ebert, Teresa L. (2014) Hegel's “picture-thinking” as the interpretive logic of the popular Textual Practice 28.1:9-33 DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2012.719712 Topic capitalism/business social/economic class religion/spirituality Linda Howard philosophy emotions
Ebert, Teresa L. (2009) The Task of Cultural Critique Urbana: University of Illinois Press Topic capitalism/business social/economic class chick lit Elizabeth Lowell
Ebert, Teresa L. (1988) The Romance of Patriarchy: Ideology, Subjectivity, and Postmodern Feminist Cultural Theory Cultural Critique 10:19-57 Topic gender capitalism/business work Harlequin Mills & Boon feminism readers Sarah James Janet Dailey