emotions

psychology

Cheyne, Ria

(2019) Disability, Literature, Genre: Representation and Affect in Contemporary Fiction Liverpool: Liverpool University Press

Topic

(2021) "Loving and giving: realism, emotional hypocrisy and generosity in A Civil Contract " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 88-104 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.11

Topic

Coddington, Lynn

(1997) Wavering Between Worlds: Feminist Influences in the Romance Genre Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:58-77

Topic

Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal

Barbara McMahon

Cunha, Maria Teresa Santos

Jennifer Crusie

(2009) "Para ler e educar-se: a ciculacao das novelas de Corin Tellado no sul do Brasil (1965-1975) " Emociones, cultura y educación: Un enfoque interdisciplinar 49-60

Topic

Corín Tellado

Brazil

Damian-Gaillard, Béatrice

(2012) "Prince charmant. Représentations des ressources et des coûts des masculinités dans les romans sentimentaux des collections Harlequin " Boys Don't Cry! Les coûts de la domination masculine 91-109 DOI:10.4000/books.pur.67095

Topic

Deng, Yiwei

(2022) The Aesthetic form of Childhood Sweetheart: I Love You, None of Your Business Frontiers in Economics and Management 3.4:625-629 DOI: 10.6981/FEM.202204_3(4).0081

Topic

(1995) Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances Nursing Inquiry 2.4:203-210 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.1995.tb00147.x

Topic

(2020) "Speech Verbs in French and English Novels " Phraseology and Style in Subgenres of the Novel: A Synthesis of Corpus and Literary Perspectives 83-113 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-23744-8_4

Topic

(2009) Readers' Knowledge of Popular Genre Discourse Processes 46.6:541-571 DOI: 10.1080/01638530902959570

Topic

(1995) Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances Nursing Inquiry 2.4:203-210 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.1995.tb00147.x

Topic

Ebert, Teresa L.

(2014) Hegel's “picture-thinking” as the interpretive logic of the popular Textual Practice 28.1:9-33 DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2012.719712

Topic

capitalism/business

religion/spirituality

(2016) Superhero, Sleeping Beauty, or Devil? The Making of Orphan Myths and Public Administration Public Voices 14.2:67-84

Topic

family

romance and, or as, activism

Egan, Jesi

(2016) Cultural Futurity and the Politics of Recovery: Mary Renault's Ambivalent Romances MFS Modern Fiction Studies 62.3:462-80 DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2016.0038

Topic

Mary Renault

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

modernism

Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de

Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia

(2018) A cultura emotiva das comunidades virtuais de leitura de livros de amor RBSE Revista Brasileira de Sociologia da Emoção 17.51:91-104

Topic

(2022) Confluent Love and the Evolution of Ideal Intimacy: Romance Reading in 1980 and 2016 Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/OCWW4702

Topic

(2014) Writing the Happy Ever After: An Interview with Anne Gracie Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

Topic

Anne Gracie

(2016) "Flipping the Script: Romancing Zane's Urban Erotica " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 167-180

Topic

Zane

romance and, or as, activism

(2024) Reader, I Included It: Reading Lists and Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13: DOI: 10.70138/BQRY8070

Topic

(2009) Darcy’s Vampiric Descendants: Austen’s Perfect Romance Hero and J. R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood Persuasions 30.1:

Topic

(2016) "The Inside Story: Jennifer Crusie and the Architecture of Love " Popular Fiction and Spatiality: Reading Genre Settings 79-93

Topic

(2022) "La promesa de felicidad: la novela rosa y el placer de la lectura afectiva " El placer de la lectura: cuerpos, afectos, textos 65-94

Topic

(2023) Female Warriors, Social Injustice and the Transformational Force of Anger in Jaye Wells' Sabina Kane Series Esferas Literarias 6:21-37 DOI: 10.21071/elrl.vi6.16293

Topic

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

(2020) "Speech Verbs in French and English Novels " Phraseology and Style in Subgenres of the Novel: A Synthesis of Corpus and Literary Perspectives 83-113 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-23744-8_4

Topic

(1995) Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances Nursing Inquiry 2.4:203-210 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.1995.tb00147.x

Topic

(2020) "Speech Verbs in French and English Novels " Phraseology and Style in Subgenres of the Novel: A Synthesis of Corpus and Literary Perspectives 83-113 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-23744-8_4

Topic

(2012) Mind, Body, Love: Nora Roberts and the Evolution of Popular Romance Studies Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.1:

Topic

romance scholarship

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

(2019) Aspirational Emotion Work: Calling, Emotional Capital, and Becoming a 'Real' Writer Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 48.1:51-79 DOI: 10.1177/0891241617749011

Topic

(2020) "Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption in English and French Novels Since the 1950s: A Corpus-Stylistic Analysis " Phraseology and Style in Subgenres of the Novel: A Synthesis of Corpus and Literary Perspectives 115-150 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-23744-8_5

Topic

Topic

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

(2020) "Speech Verbs in French and English Novels " Phraseology and Style in Subgenres of the Novel: A Synthesis of Corpus and Literary Perspectives 83-113 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-23744-8_4

Topic

(2025) Exploring the ‘language of intimacy’ in English and French romance novels by means of a corpus-driven approach International Journal of Corpus Linguistics ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.23150.nov

Topic

(1989) Beauty and the Beast: 20th Century Romance? Merveilles & contes 3.1:75–83

Topic

fairytales/folktales

Robin McKinley

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

(2005) Margins of Desire: The Suburbs in Fiction and Culture, 1880-1925 Manchester: Manchester University Press

Topic

Publishing

romances in magazines and newspapers

(2016) Speaking through the flesh: Affective encounters, gazes and desire in Harlequin romances MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research 32.61:42-57 DOI: 10.7146/mediekultur.v32i61.22382

Topic

Koski, Patricia

Holyfield, Lori

Thompson, Marcella

(1997) Romance Novels as Women's Myths Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:219-232

Topic

(2022) "Empirical Approaches to Studying Emotion in Literature: The Case of Gender " The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion DOI:10.4324/9780367809843-8

Topic

(2021) Counterpublics of care: making space for mediated intimacy and romantic self-making in Malaysia Gender, Place & Culture : DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2021.1994928

Topic

(2022) Freedom’s Epilogue: Love as Freedom in Alyssa Cole’s Historical Novellas Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/ZYOB2141

Topic

African American romance

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

happy ending

Jackson, Stevi

(1995) "Women and Heterosexual Love: Complicity, Resistance and Change " Romance Revisited 49-62

Topic

(1997) Romance Novels as Women's Myths Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:219-232

Topic

Topic

(1987) Deconstructive Laughter: Romance Author as Subject, The Pleasure of Writing the Text Journal of Communication Inquiry 11.2:26-46 DOI: 10.1177/019685998701100203

Topic

(1992) Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press

Topic

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Laura Kinsale

psychology

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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

Daphne Clair

Suzanne Simmons Guntrum

Diana Palmer

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Kustritz, Anne

(2003) Slashing the Romance Narrative The Journal of American Culture 26.3:371-384 DOI: 10.1111/1542-734X.00098

Topic

(2011) Translated Romances: the Effect of Cultural Textual Norms on the Communication of Emotions Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1:

Topic

(1997) La représentation du couple à travers les pages couvertures des romans Harlequin Cahiers de la recherche en éducation 4.2:269–297 DOI: 10.7202/1017331ar

Topic

paratext

(2005) Romancing Your Readers: How Public Libraries Can Become More Romance Reader Friendly Public Libraries 44.1:43–48

Topic

(2019) Aspirational Emotion Work: Calling, Emotional Capital, and Becoming a 'Real' Writer Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 48.1:51-79 DOI: 10.1177/0891241617749011

Topic

(2020) ""World Turned Upside Down": The Role of Revolutions in Maya Rodale's Regency-Set Romances " Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture 38-52

Topic

Maya Rodale

historical romance

(2022) "Empirical Approaches to Studying Emotion in Literature: The Case of Gender " The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion DOI:10.4324/9780367809843-8

Topic

(1982) Mills & Boon: guilt without sex Red Letters 14:5-13

Topic

work

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Margolis, Harriet

(1997) A Childe in Love, Or Is It Just Fantasy? The Values of Women's Genres Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:121-144

Topic

(1999) "The Good Provider in Romance Novels " Romantic Conventions 10-22

Topic

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

(2022) "Empirical Approaches to Studying Emotion in Literature: The Case of Gender " The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion DOI:10.4324/9780367809843-8

Topic

(2021) The politics of happily-ever-after: romance genre fiction as aesthetic public sphere American Journal of Cultural Sociology 9:177–210 DOI: 10.1057/s41290-020-00126-7

Topic

sociology

romance and, or as, activism

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

(1988) Confessions of a Harlequin Reader: Romance and the Myth of Male Mothers Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory 12. 1-2:1-37

Topic

psychology

Moffitt, Mary Anne Smeltzer

(1990) Understanding Middle-Class Adolescent Leisure: A Cultural Studies Approach to Romance Novel Reading PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Topic

Moody, Stephanie

(2016) Identification, Affect, and Escape: Theorizing Popular Romance Reading Pedagogy 16.1:105-123 DOI: 10.1215/15314200-3158669

Topic

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

(1990) "No More Virgins": Writing Romance ‐ an Interview with Emma Darcy Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture 4.1:37-53 DOI: 10.1080/10304319009388180

Topic

Emma Darcy

(1995) Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances Nursing Inquiry 2.4:203-210 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.1995.tb00147.x

Topic

Muryn, Teresa

(2019) Rougir / devenir rouge : l’expression linguistique du langage corporel et ce qu’elle laisse inférer dans un genre textuel Studia Romanica Posnaniensia 46.1:137-151 DOI: 10.14746/strop.2019.461.008

Topic

linguistics

Topic

(2009) Les prémices d'une histoire d'amour ou comment écrire un roman sentimental Recto/Verso 4:

Topic

Publishing

translation

France

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

Penttinen, Sara

(2025) Mind-Reading the Romance Novel: Effects of Single Perspective and Dual Perspective in Christina Lauren’s The Unhoneymooners and Julie Olivia’s The Fiction Between Us Master's in English Studies, University of Helsinki

Topic

(2023) Towards a Regime of Authenticity. Reading A Room with a View through the Lens of Contemporary Romance Scholarship LEA - Lingue E Letterature D'Oriente E D'Occidente 12:217-228 DOI: 10.36253/lea-1824-484x-14273

Topic

E. M. Forster

Popova, Milena

(2018) Rewriting the Romance: Emotion Work and Consent in Arranged Marriage Fanfiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 7:

Topic

(2007) "The Romance Genre Blues or Why We Don't Get No Respect " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 12-19

Topic

(2017) "Love under Threat: The Emotional Valences of the Twilight Saga " Writing Emotions: Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature 347-362

Topic

(1985) Reading the Romantic Heroine: Text, History, Ideology Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press

Topic

(1985) Romance in the Age of Electronics: Harlequin Enterprises Feminist Studies 11.1:39-60 DOI: 10.2307/3180131

Topic

(2011) What Do Critics Owe the Romance? Keynote Address at the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1:

Topic

Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal

(1997) The Art of Romance Novels Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:78-80

Topic

(2001) Au-delà du vertige. Mises en abyme ou la traduction des réseaux de clichés dans les romans Harlequin Palimpsestes 13:155-166 DOI: 10.4000/palimpsestes.1564

Topic

translation

Sandbakken, Asta Margrethe

(2016) Feeling Men: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Emotion in the Contemporary Romance MA thesis, University of Oslo

Topic

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Shibamoto Smith, Janet S.

Seidel, Kathleen Gilles

(1992) "Judge Me by the Joy I Bring " Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance 159-179

Topic

Selinger, Eric Murphy

(2022) "Disenchantment and its discontents: “modern love” and irony in popular romance fiction " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-30

Topic

love

Jennifer Crusie

science/technology

religion/spirituality

(2005) "Translating True Love: Japanese Romance Fiction, Harlequin-Style " Gender, Sex and Translation: The Manipulation of Identities 97-116

Topic

Japan

Topic

Smith, Janet S. (Shibamoto)

(1999) " From Hiren to Happî-endo: Romantic Expression in the Japanese Love Story " Languages of Sentiment: Cultural constructions of emotional substrates 131-150 DOI:10.1075/aicr.18.08shi

Topic

(2024) A Hero in Tears: How the Female Gaze Elicits Male Emotional Vulnerability in Romance Novels Honors Thesis, Abilene Christian University

Topic

(1995) Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances Nursing Inquiry 2.4:203-210 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.1995.tb00147.x

Topic

Taylor, Jessica

(2016) "Love the Market: Discourses of Passion and Professionalism in Romance Writing Communities " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 273-295

Topic

(2008) "And I Deliver": An Interview with Emma Darcy Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 22.1:113-126 DOI: 10.1080/10304310701732757

Topic

Emma Darcy

(1997) Romance Novels as Women's Myths Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:219-232

Topic

myth

Treacher, Amal

(1988) "What is Life Without My Love?: Desire and Romantic Fiction " Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender and Popular Fiction 73-90

Topic