Frantz Lyons, Sarah Selinger, Eric Murphy (2016) "Strange Stirrings, Strange Yearnings: The Flame and the Flower, Sweet Savage Love, and the Lost Diversities of Blockbuster Historical Romance " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 89-110 Topic historical romance Kathleen Woodiwiss feminism sex/sexuality Rosemary Rogers rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse United States of America
Matelski, Elizabeth (2016) ""I'm Not the Only Lesbian Who Wears a Skirt": Lesbian Romance Fiction and Identity in Post-World War II America " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 71-88 Topic LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors fashion/clothing United States of America gender Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) history metafiction Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith lesbian romance Valerie Taylor Ann Bannon Rita Mae Brown
Masteller, Jean Carwile (1996) "Romancing the Reader: From Laura Jean Libbey to Harlequin Romance and Beyond " Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes: Dime Novels, Series Books, and Paperbacks 263-284 Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Laura Jean Libbey romances in magazines and newspapers Publishing work social/economic class Harlequin Mills & Boon sex/sexuality Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle metafiction
Sullivan, Larry E. Schurman, Lydia Cushman (1996) Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes: Dime Novels, Series Books, and Paperbacks New York: Haworth Press
Gleason, William A. (2016) "Postbellum, Pre-Harlequin: American Romance Publishing in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 57-70 Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) romances in magazines and newspapers Publishing United States of America Lucille Hollis Charlotte M. Brame paratext