community

science fiction/futuristic romance

police officers/police forces

Baldus, Kimberly

(2012) Gossip, Liminality, and Erotic Display: Jennifer Crusie’s Links to Eighteenth-Century Amatory Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

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(2022) "I'm Rooting for Everybody Black: Black Solidarity, Black World-Building, and Black Love " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 29-64

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United States of America

race/ethnicity

African American romance

romance and, or as, activism

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

(2009) Lesbian Romance Novels: A History and Critical Analysis Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co

Topic

lesbian romance

Bryce, Jane

(1994) 'A World of Caribbean Romance': Reformulating the Legend of Love (or: 'Can a Caress Be Culturally Specific?') Caribbean Studies 27.3/4:346–366

Topic

Caribbean

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

(2014) The Warrior Woman in Contemporary Romance Fiction Masters, Federation University Australia

Topic

war/armed forces

Harlequin Mills & Boon

(2019) The Power of Popular Romance Culture: Community, Fandom, and Sexual Politics PhD, Ohio University

Topic

(2009) "Home on the Range: Montana Romances and Geographies of Hope " All Our Stories Are Here: Critical Perspectives on Montana Literature 55-77

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settings

United States of America

rural romance

Tami Hoag

(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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race/ethnicity

romantic suspense

(2013) Happily Ever After ... And After: Serialization and the Popular Romance Novel Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present) 12.1:

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Greenfeld-Benovitz, Miriam

(2014) "The Interactive Romance Community: The Case of "Covers Gone Wild" " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 195-205

Topic

(2010) The Comfortable Reader: Romantic Bestsellers and Critical Disdain French Cultural Studies 21.4:287-296 DOI: 10.1177/0957155810378576

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France

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

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

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African American romance

United States of America

happy ending

Kanerick, Caroline

(2010) ‘A Jazzed and Patchwork Modern’: ‘future’ girls and modern masculinities in the early popular romances of Berta Ruck Women's History Review 19.5:685-702 DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2010.509147

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Berta Ruck

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

history

Kolko, Beth E.

(1994) Writing the Romance: Cultural Studies, Community, and the Teaching of Writing PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Topic

(2003) "'Womanhood Reinvented: Eve Dallas, Protagonist in J. D. Robb's "In Death" Series " The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference 1989-2019

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science fiction/futuristic romance

feminism

work

marriage

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

Melman, Billie

(1988) Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties: Flappers and Nymphs Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan

Topic

romances in magazines and newspapers

pornography

(2015) 'Sometimes It Feels More Like a Commune Than a Town': Envisioning Utopian Possibilities in Robyn Carr's Virgin River Romance Novels Studies in Popular Culture 37.2:25-42

Topic

(2015) 'Sometimes It Feels More Like a Commune Than a Town': Envisioning Utopian Possibilities in Robyn Carr's Virgin River Romance Novels Studies in Popular Culture 37.2:25-42

Topic

(2019) "Succulent Texts: Desire, Outlaws, and Consumption in Popular Romance " Food and Feast in Modern Outlaw Tales 167-187 DOI:10.4324/9780429061301-9

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religion/spirituality

rural romance

Šmídová, Monika Markéta

(2021) Five Thousand for Justice: The Use of English Folklore in the Novels of KJ Charles Masters, Masaryk University

Topic

K. J. Charles

fairytales/folktales

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

historical romance

family

Tindall, Natalie T. J.

(2022) Black Romance Authors and Community Cultural Wealth: A Case Study of Brenda Jackson’s Career Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

Topic

African American romance

Valeo, Christina A.

(2012) "The Power of Three: Nora Roberts and Serial Magic " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 229-239

Topic

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

religion/spirituality

(2016) Pursuing Happiness: Reading American Romance as Political Fiction Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks

Vivanco, Laura

(2020) Faith, Love, Hope and Popular Romance Fiction Online:

Topic

religion/spirituality

romance and, or as, activism

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

sex/sexuality

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

Suleikha Snyder