Romance Scholarship DB

Goris, An

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Bly, Mary

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Teo, Hsu-Ming

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(2012) "One Ring to Bind Them: Ring Symbolism in Popular Romance Fiction " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 99-107

Topic

fashion/clothing

Jennifer Crusie

Melissa McClone

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Roslyn Hardy Holcomb

metaphor/symbolism

Frantz, Sarah S. G.

Selinger, Eric Murphy

(2012) New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland

Frantz, Sarah S. G.

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Selinger, Eric Murphy

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(2011) For Love and Money: The Literary Art of the Harlequin Mills & Boon Romance Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

fairytales/folktales

metaphor/symbolism

Caroline Anderson

Elizabeth Ashton

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Jennifer Crusie

Polly Forrester

Marcia King-Gamble

Margaret Malcolm

Emilie Richards

Fay Robinson/Carmel Parsons Thomaston

Deborah Simmons

Michelle Styles

Claire Thornton

ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change

(2010) There Are Six Bodies in This Relationship: An Anthropological Approach to the Romance Genre Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1:

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Christian romance

lesbian romance

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

Kramer, Kyra

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