Romance Scholarship DB

(1984) Beyond Gatekeepers: Romance Publishing and the Production of Culture PhD, Vanderbilt University

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(2006) The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative Columbus: Ohio State University Press

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

historical romance

Rosemary Rogers

Daphne du Maurier

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Georgette Heyer

Charlotte Brontë

Samuel Richardson

(2003) Heidegger, the Erotics of Ontology, and the Mass-Market Romance Comparative Literature and Culture 5.3: DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.1194

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(2004) The Dangerous Lover and the Erotics of Failure: Nineteenth-century Byronism and the Contemporary Romance PhD, City University of New York

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

historical romance

Lohmann, Jennifer

(2006) 'Beauty and the Beast' Themes in Romance Novels Master of Science in Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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fairytales/folktales

Lohmann, Jennifer

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(1992) Social Change and Romantic Ideology: The Impact of the Publishing Industry, Family Organization, and Gender Roles on the Reception and Interpretation of Romance Fiction in Taiwan, 1960-1990 PhD, University of Pennsylvania

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Lamprinou, Artemis

(2012) A Study on the Cultural Variations in the Verbalisation of Near-Universal Emotions: Translating Emotions from British English into Greek in Popular Bestseller Romances PhD, University of Surrey

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Lamprinou, Artemis

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Kramer, Devon J.

(2010) Truth through the medium of cheerfulness: Romance novels as points of resistance Master of Arts, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

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Maria Edgeworth

Elizabeth Gaskell

Georgette Heyer

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