Romance Scholarship DB

(1994) 'A World of Caribbean Romance': Reformulating the Legend of Love (or: 'Can a Caress Be Culturally Specific?') Caribbean Studies 27.3/4:346–366

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

social/economic class

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Valerie Belgrave

Bryce, Jane

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Brunt, Rosalind

(1984) "A Career in Love: The Romantic World of Barbara Cartland " Popular Fiction and Social Change 127-156 DOI:10.1007/978-1-349-15856-0_6

Topic

Barbara Cartland

social/economic class

religion/spirituality

Pawling, Christopher

(1984) Popular Fiction and Social Change New York: St. Martin’s

Pawling, Christopher

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Brunt, Rosalind

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Brown, Sonya C.

(2011) Does This Book Make Me Look Fat? Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.2:

Topic

fashion/clothing

Jennifer Crusie

Brown, Sonya C.

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Bronstein, Carolyn

(2014) The Political Uses of Lesbian Romance Fiction: Reading Patrick Califia’s Macho Sluts as a Response to 1980s Anti-Pornography Feminism Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.1:

Topic

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

Patrick Califia

Bronstein, Carolyn

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