Romance Scholarship DB

Secrease, Cassandra L

(2000) A comparative analysis of lesbian romance novels and heterosexual romance novel themes Master of Arts, Central Missouri State University

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LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

Karin Kallmaker

Katherine V. Forrest

Secrease, Cassandra L

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Cruz-Bibb, Rosanna

(2022) Patriarchy, Feminism, and The Space Between: The Production and Consumption of Feminism in Romance Novels PhD thesis, University of Georgia

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Cruz-Bibb, Rosanna

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Pierini, Francesca

(2022) Critical Approaches to the Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Romance Novel (From A Room with a View to Fifty Shades of Grey) Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/MHSY2470

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teaching romance

Jennifer Crusie

Beverly Jenkins

(2022) "Original Slash, Romance, and C.S. Pacat’s Captive Prince " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 216-232

Topic

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Alberto, Maria

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Golubov, Nattie

(2022) "Women Policing Whiteness: Deviance and Surveillance in Contemporary Police Procedural Romance " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 167-186

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romantic suspense

social/economic class

Catherine Coulter

(2022) "The “Grandly and Inhospitably Strange” World of Autistic Heroines in Romance Fiction " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 150-164

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(2022) "Eating Disorders and Romance " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 136-149

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Katherine Locke