Romance Scholarship DB

(2014) "The Sheik Returns: Imitations and Parodies of the Desert Romance " Hype: Bestsellers and Literary Cultures 185-202

Topic

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Harlequin Mills & Boon

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Kärrholm, Sara

(2014) Hype: Bestsellers and Literary Cultures Lund, Sweden: Nordic Academic Press

Steiner, Ann

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Kärrholm, Sara

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Helgason, Jon

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Turner, Ellen

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Matter, Laura Sewell

(2007) Pursuing the Great Bad Novelist The Georgia Review 61.3:444-459

Topic

Charles Garvice

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

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

Matter, Laura Sewell

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Sanders, Lise Shapiro

(2018) "Making the Modern Girl: Fantasy, Consumption, and Desire in Romance Weeklies of the 1920s " Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period 87-102 DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474412537.003.0008

Topic

romances in magazines and newspapers

social/economic class

fashion/clothing

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

Clay, Catherine

(2018) Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press