Burge, Amy (2016) "‘I Will Cut Myself and Smear Blood on the Sheet’: Testing Virginity in Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance " Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen 17-44 Topic sex/sexuality history Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) sheikh romance gender Harlequin Mills & Boon virginity
Allan, Jonathan A. Santos, Cristina Spahr, Adriana (2016) Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen London: Zed
Sinner, Carsten (2012) "Fictional orality in romance novels: Between linguistic reality and editorial requirements " The Translation of Fictive Dialogue 119–136 DOI:10.1163/9789401207805_009 Topic translation languages