Romance Scholarship DB

(1994) And Then Their Hearts Stood Still: An Exuberant Look at Romantic Fiction Past and Present London: Macmillan

Topic

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

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Charlotte M. Yonge

Augusta Jane Evans

Rhoda Broughton

Florence Barclay

Barbara Cartland

Judith McNaught

Rita, pen name of Mrs. Eliza Margaret Humphreys

romances in magazines and newspapers

Charlotte Brontë

war/armed forces

Daphne du Maurier

Colleen McCullough

Violet Winspear

Flora Annie Steel

Georgette Heyer

Jane Aiken Hodge

Margaret Mitchell

Mabel Barnes Grundy

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Lucilla Andrews

Caroline Anderson

Cadogan, Mary

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Ménard, A. Dana

Cabrera, Christine

(2011) ‘Whatever the Approach, Tab B Still Fits into Slot A’: Twenty Years of Sex Scripts in Romance Novels Sexuality & Culture 15.3:240–255 DOI: 10.1007/s12119-011-9092-3

Topic

Ménard, A. Dana

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Cabrera, Christine

Ménard, Amy Dana

(2013) 'She Exploded into a Million Pieces': A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Orgasms in Contemporary Romance Novels Sexuality & Culture 17.2:193-212 DOI: 10.1007/s12119-012-9147-0

Topic

Ménard, Amy Dana

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Cabrera, Christine

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(1969) "An Honourable Escape: Georgette Heyer " Passions of the Mind: Selected Writings

Topic

Georgette Heyer

social/economic class

fashion/clothing

(1991) Passions of the Mind: Selected Writings London: Chatto & Windus

Byatt, A. S.

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