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Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances
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Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances
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Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances
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Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances
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Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences for a Postmodern World
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Romance Novels as Women's Myths
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The Art of Romance Novels
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Slashing the Romance Narrative
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Romancing Your Readers: How Public Libraries Can Become More Romance Reader Friendly
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Margins of Desire: The Suburbs in Fiction and Culture, 1880-1925
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Romancing Your Readers: How Public Libraries Can Become More Romance Reader Friendly
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"And I Deliver": An Interview with Emma Darcy
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Blood Ties: The Vampire Lover in the Popular Romance
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Translated Romances: the Effect of Cultural Textual Norms on the Communication of Emotions
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Mind, Body, Love: Nora Roberts and the Evolution of Popular Romance Studies
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Writing the Happy Ever After: An Interview with Anne Gracie
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Cultural Futurity and the Politics of Recovery: Mary Renault's Ambivalent Romances
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Speaking through the flesh: Affective encounters, gazes and desire in Harlequin romances
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Feeling Men: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Emotion in the Contemporary Romance
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A cultura emotiva das comunidades virtuais de leitura de livros de amor
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A cultura emotiva das comunidades virtuais de leitura de livros de amor
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Rewriting the Romance: Emotion Work and Consent in Arranged Marriage Fanfiction
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(2019)
Disability, Literature, Genre: Representation and Affect in Contemporary Fiction
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Aspirational Emotion Work: Calling, Emotional Capital, and Becoming a 'Real' Writer
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Aspirational Emotion Work: Calling, Emotional Capital, and Becoming a 'Real' Writer
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Rougir / devenir rouge : l’expression linguistique du langage corporel et ce qu’elle laisse inférer dans un genre textuel
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Mourning and Sentimental Heroism in Maureen Child's Lost in Sensation
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Faith, Love, Hope and Popular Romance Fiction
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The Aesthetic form of Childhood Sweetheart: I Love You, None of Your Business
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Confluent Love and the Evolution of Ideal Intimacy: Romance Reading in 1980 and 2016
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Freedom’s Epilogue: Love as Freedom in Alyssa Cole’s Historical Novellas
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(2022)
Freedom, Sincerity, and the Modern Woman in the Interwar Romances of Berta Ruck
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Female Warriors, Social Injustice and the Transformational Force of Anger in Jaye Wells' Sabina Kane Series
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(2023)
Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation
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Emotionality: Heterosexual Love and Emotional Development in Popular Romance
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Reader, I Included It: Reading Lists and Romance
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(2024)
A Hero in Tears: How the Female Gaze Elicits Male Emotional Vulnerability in Romance Novels
Honors Thesis,
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(2024)
Feeling Judged: Reflections on Pornography and Romance from a Minotaur Milking Farm
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Exploring the ‘language of intimacy’ in English and French romance novels by means of a corpus-driven approach
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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