Romance Scholarship DB

Radway, Janice A.

(1984) Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press

Topic

genre definitions

(1996) Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences for a Postmodern World London and New York: Routledge

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Ang, Ien

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(1999) "Hero, Heroine, or HERA: A New Name for an Old Problem " Romantic Conventions 187-192

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Andresen, Julie Tetel

(1999) "Postmodern Identity (Crisis): Confessions of a Linguistic Historiographer and Romance Writer " Romantic Conventions 173-186

Topic

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Andresen, Julie Tetel

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Heinecken, Dawn

(1999) "Changing Ideologies in Romance Fiction " Romantic Conventions 149-172

Topic

historical romance

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Heinecken, Dawn

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Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E.

(1999) "Leading Us into Temptation: The Language of Sex and the Power of Love " Romantic Conventions 113-148

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Candace Schuler

Jennifer Crusie

Teague, Anna Sophia Wester

(2015) “If my hubby ever did half the stuff my book boyfriends did… I’d put him six ft in the ground” : narratives of interpersonal and gendered violence as discussed in romance novel review websites Honors thesis, Whitman College

Topic

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse