Romance Scholarship DB

Delamoir, Jeanette

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(2010) Constrained Writing, Creative Writing: The Case of Handbooks for Writing Romances Poetics Today 31.1:81-106 DOI: 10.1215/03335372-2009-015

Topic

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

genre definitions

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

de Geest, Dirk

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Deffenbacher, Kristina

(2014) Rape Myths' Twilight and Women's Paranormal Revenge in Romantic and Urban Fantasy Fiction Journal of Popular Culture 47.5:923-936 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12179

Topic

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

Patricia Briggs

Christine Feehan

Karen Marie Moning

Charlaine Harris

Deffenbacher, Kristina

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Dascăl, Reghina

(2012) "Raj Matriarchs: Women Authors of Anglo-Indian Romance " Romance: The History of a Genre 179-200

Topic

Flora Annie Steel

Dascăl, Reghina

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Şerban, Andreea

(2012) "Romancing the Paranormal: A Case Study of J.R. Ward’s The Black Dagger Brotherhood " Romance: The History of a Genre 89-110

Topic

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

Şerban, Andreea

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Goşa, Codruţa

(2012) "Sex and the Genre: The Role of Sex in Popular Romance " Romance: The History of a Genre 14-28

Topic

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Judith McNaught