(1973)
Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic
Journal of Popular Culture
6.4:666-691
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(1974)
The Purple Heart Throbs: The Sub-Literature of Love
London:
Hodder and Stoughton
Topic
(1979)
"True to Me Always": An Analysis of Women's Magazine Fiction
The British Journal of Sociology
30.1:91-119
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(1979)
Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women is Different
Radical History Review
20:141-161
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(1982)
Sweet Dreams for Sleeping Beauties: Pre-Teen Romances
Children's Literature Association Quarterly
7.1:28-32
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(1982)
Sweet Dreams for Sleeping Beauties: Pre-Teen Romances
Children's Literature Association Quarterly
7.1:28-32
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(1983)
Harlequin et Colombine : l’industrie plafonne, l’amour aussi
Études littéraires
16.3:351–362
DOI: 10.7202/500620ar
(1983)
Le titre comme séduction dans le roman Harlequin: une lecture sociosémiotique
Études littéraires
16.3:379–398
DOI: 10.7202/500622ar
(1984)
Delly: autopsie du roman rose
Communication et langages
61:77-86
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(1984)
Love's $weet Return: The Harlequin Story
Toronto:
The Women's Educational Press
(1984)
Fantasy and Reconciliation: Contemporary Formulas of Women’s Romance Fiction
Westport, Connecticut:
Greenwood Press
Topic
(1985)
Indian Romances: Tracts for the Times
Journal of Popular Culture
18.4:2-15
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(1986)
La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin
Montréal:
Université du Québec à Montréal
(1986)
La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin
Montréal:
Université du Québec à Montréal
(1986)
La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin
Montréal:
Université du Québec à Montréal
(1986)
La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin
Montréal:
Université du Québec à Montréal
(1986)
La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin
Montréal:
Université du Québec à Montréal
(1987)
Harlequin : l'unité dans la diversité et vice-versa
Pratiques: linguistique, littérature, didactique
54:5-19
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(1988)
"Textual Matters: The Social Effectiveness of Style
"
Functions of Style
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(1988)
Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties: Flappers and Nymphs
Houndmills, Basingstoke:
Macmillan
(1994)
'A World of Caribbean Romance': Reformulating the Legend of Love (or: 'Can a Caress Be Culturally Specific?')
Caribbean Studies
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(1995)
Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances
Nursing Inquiry
2.4:203-210
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(1995)
Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances
Nursing Inquiry
2.4:203-210
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(1995)
Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances
Nursing Inquiry
2.4:203-210
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(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
(1995)
The Mills and Boon memsahibs: women's romantic Indian fiction 1877-1947
PhD,
University of Lancaster
(1995)
Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure
New York and London:
Routledge
(1995)
Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances
Nursing Inquiry
2.4:203-210
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(1997)
La représentation du couple à travers les pages couvertures des romans Harlequin
Cahiers de la recherche en éducation
4.2:269–297
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(1997)
Local Color in Contemporary Harlequin and Silhouette Romances: Popular Imagery of the American South and West
Mid-Atlantic Almanack: The Journal of the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association
6:15-30
(1997)
Paradoxa Interview with Nora Roberts
Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres
3.1-2:155-163
(1998)
Brave New Causes: Women in British Postwar Fictions
London:
Leicester University Press
(1998)
Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction
Manchester:
Manchester University Press
(1998)
Love and the Novel: The Poetics and Politics of Romantic Fiction
Houndmills, Basingstoke:
Macmillan
(1998)
Brave New Causes: Women in British Postwar Fictions
London:
Leicester University Press
(2001)
From Australia with love: Australian romance novels, 1950-2000
PhD,
University of Melbourne
(2002)
Pas de romance sans finance: la construction du couple moderne dans les romans sentimentaux de l'Afrique de l'Ouest
Sites: The Journal of Twentieth-Century/Contemporary French Studies revue d'études français
6.1:67-78
DOI: 10.1080/10260210290021789
(2003)
Marie Bjelke Petersen's 'virile story': Jewelled Nights, gender instability, and the bush
Hecate
29.1:115-131
(2003)
“Like Bush Fire in My Arms”: Interrogating the World of Caribbean Romance
Journal of Popular Culture
36.4:804-827
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(2005)
Margins of Desire: The Suburbs in Fiction and Culture, 1880-1925
Manchester:
Manchester University Press
(2005)
L’invention du romantique. La littérature rose révolutionne l'édition africaine
Africultures
63:
(2007)
Ladies and Loners: A Comparative Gender Study of the Romance and Popular Western
Master of Arts,
University of Texas at Arlington
(2007)
And You Can Be My Sheikh: Gender, Race, and Orientalism in Contemporary Romance Novels
Journal of Popular Culture
40.6:1032-1051
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2007.00484.x
(2008)
A genre of our own: the cultural work of women's popular romance fiction
PhD,
Arkansas State University
Topic
(2008)
LaVyrle Spencer
Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice
2.2/3:1-17
(2008)
The Troubling Popularity of West African Romance Novels
Research in African Literatures
39.4:120-132
(2008)
"And I Deliver": An Interview with Emma Darcy
Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies
22.1:113-126
DOI: 10.1080/10304310701732757
(2009)
Lesbian Romance Novels: A History and Critical Analysis
Jefferson, North Carolina:
McFarland & Co
(2009)
Genres populaires et «érographiques» en Afrique francophone: le cas des romans de la collection Adoras
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
72.1:33-47
Topic
(2010)
« Tout un monde d’évasion » : adapter les romans sentimentaux pour un lectorat français
Meta
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(2012)
Gossip, Liminality, and Erotic Display: Jennifer Crusie’s Links to Eighteenth-Century Amatory Fiction
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
2.2:
(2012)
“It Is Only with One’s Heart That One Can See Clearly”: The Loss of Sight in Teresa Medeiros’s The Bride and the Beast and Yours until Dawn
Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies
6.3:275-289
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(2013)
Thrill of the Chaste: the Allure of Amish Romance Novels
Baltimore:
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Topic
(2014)
‘For you are a man and she is a maid’: Performing masculinity in Orientalist medieval and modern popular romance fiction
Journal of European Popular Culture
5.2:89-103
DOI: 10.1386/jepc.5.2.89_1
(2014)
Island fictions: Castaways and imperialism
PhD,
University of Tasmania
(2014)
Demon Lovers: Embracing the Monster in Paranormal Romance
:1-23
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(2014)
“We have to learn to love imperially”: Love in Late Colonial and Federation Australian Romance Novels
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
4.2:
Topic
(2014)
Polar bears and evil scientists: Romance, comedy and climate change
Australasian Journal of Popular Culture
3.3:363-374
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(2015)
Love in the Desert: Images of Arab-American Reconciliation in Contemporary Sheikh Romance Novels
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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(2015)
Love on the Land: Australian Rural Romance in Place
English Studies
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(2016)
Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance
Houndmills, Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2016)
The Genre of Islands: Popular Fiction and Performative Geographies
Island Studies Journal
11.2:637-650
Topic
(2016)
The Genre of Islands: Popular Fiction and Performative Geographies
Island Studies Journal
11.2:637-650
Topic
(2017)
Island Genres, Genre Islands: Conceptualisation and Representation in Popular Fiction
London:
Rowman & Littlefield
(2017)
Island Genres, Genre Islands: Conceptualisation and Representation in Popular Fiction
London:
Rowman & Littlefield
(2018)
What is Australian Popular Fiction?
Australian Literary Studies
33.4:1-11
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(2018)
What is Australian Popular Fiction?
Australian Literary Studies
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(2018)
Cultural symbols, myth and identity in four 20th-century English popular romance fiction novels set in Tenerife
Anuario de Estudios Atlánticos
64:1-16
(2018)
Ireland and the Popular Genre of Historical Romance: The Novels of Karen Robards
ABEI: Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies
20.2:97-109
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(2018)
What is Australian Popular Fiction?
Australian Literary Studies
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(2019)
Viaje y romance en Canarias: el discurso del paraíso en dos novelas publicadas en los Estados Unidos
Revista de Filología de la Universidad de La Laguna
38:111-124
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Topic
(2019)
Queer Loves, Queer Spaces: Reading Spatiality in Contemporary Indian ‘Gay Romance’ Novels in English
M. Phil thesis,
Jadavpur University
(2020)
The Kitchen and Beyond: The Romantic Chronotope in Pakistani Popular Fiction
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
9:
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(2020)
Venetia: Georgette Heyer’s Pastoral Romance
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
9:
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(2020)
Types and Tropes: History and Moral Agency in Evangelical Inspirational Fiction
Christianity & Literature
69.1:73-90
(2022)
"Paisaje sociocultural y lingüístico de la isla de Madeira: Visiones anglocéntricas en una muestra de seis novelas rosa
"
Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries
65-83
(2022)
"The sociocultural and linguistic landscape of Madeira: Anglocentric visions in a sample of six romance novels
"
Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries
257-274
(2022)
Beyond Outlander: Annie S. Swan and the Scottish popular romance novel
Scottish Literary Review
14.2:1-19
(2022)
Reading historical popular romance in 21st-century Pakistan
PhD thesis,
University of Tasmania
(2022)
"Imperfect paradise: Madeira in the novels of Margaret Rome, Katrina Britt, and Sally Wentworth
"
Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries
247-256
(2022)
Mass Tourism, Ecocriticism, and Mills & Boon Romances (1970s-1980s)
Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism
26.4:383-396
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(2022)
The desert-governess romance: Regency England meets exotic Arabia
Lund Journal of English Studies
4:1-24
DOI: 10.48148/ljes.v4i.24863
(2022)
The desert-governess romance: Regency England meets exotic Arabia
Lund Journal of English Studies
4:1-24
DOI: 10.48148/ljes.v4i.24863
(2023)
Cover story: developing methodologies for the analysis of book titles and book covers
PhD,
University of Queensland
(2023)
Repurposing Fantasy Island: Lani Wendt Young’s Telesā Series and the Politics of Postcolonial Romance
Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies
25.1:100-117
DOI: 10.1080/1369801X.2022.2054011
(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
(2023)
Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press
(2023)
Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press
(2023)
Afterlives of Colonialism: Nostalgia, Reader’s Response and the Case of Noel Barber’s Tanamera
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
58.2:340-358
DOI: 10.1177/0021989420971331
(2023)
Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press
(2024)
Buildings, books, and memories: Analysing the culture of reading anglophone romance in Pakistan
Journal of Postcolonial Writing
ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST
DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2024.2433024
(2024)
Nostalgia for the Empire: British nationalism in the spatial representation of colonial India in contemporary romantic novels
NEGOTIATIONS: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies
6.1:100-108
(2025)
The Women Who Changed the American Mass-Market Romance Genre: BIPOC Editors, Authors, and Category Romance Novels from 1980 to 1988
Contemporary Women's Writing
19:
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(2025)
Exoticism Without Cosmopolitanism: The Quebec Romance Novel of the 1940s and 1950s
Contemporary French and Francophone Studies
29.1:154-166
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(2025)
Tourists not welcome: perceptions of tourism in popular romance novels
Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change
ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14766825.2024.2448189
(2025)
Romancing the Caribbean Sea: Size, Mobility and Sustainability in Cruise Ship Romance Fiction
Anglia
143.2:382-397
DOI: 10.1515/ang-2025-0026
(2025)
Exoticism Without Cosmopolitanism: The Quebec Romance Novel of the 1940s and 1950s
Contemporary French and Francophone Studies
29.1:154-166
DOI: 10.1080/17409292.2025.2454174