Romance Scholarship DB

Frantz, Sarah S. G.

(2008) "Suzanne Brockmann" Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-19

Topic

Suzanne Brockmann

war/armed forces

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

romantic suspense

(1997) Paradox in Popular Romances of the 1990s: The Paranormal versus Feminist Humor Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:94-106

Topic

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

rom-com romance

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Rebecca Flanders

Jennifer Crusie

Beverly Sommers

Booth, Sandra

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(2015) "Good Vibrations: Shaken Subjects and the Disintegrative Romance Heroine " Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets & Readers 99-116

Topic

Samuel Richardson

Booth, Naomi

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(1980) Trash in the Library Library Journal 105.10:1138-1139

Topic

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Bold, Rudolph

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Valeo, Christina A.

(2012) "The Power of Three: Nora Roberts and Serial Magic " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 229-239

Topic

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

religion/spirituality

(2012) ""A consummation devoutly to be wished": Shakespeare in Popular Historical Romance Fiction " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 218-228

Topic

Jacquie D'Allessandro

Sabrina Jeffries

Kalen Hughes/Isobel Carr

historical romance

(2012) "Happy Readers or Sad Ones? Romance Fiction and the Problems of the Media Effects Model " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 206-217

Topic

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse