history

Alfonso García, María del Carmen

(2000) "Sobre novela rosa y condición femenina en la España de posguerra " Homenaje a José María Martínez Cachero: investigación y crítica, Vol. 2 23-40

Topic

Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de

Alonso Valero, Encarna

(2011) Cincuenta años de usos amorosos: El amor y la novela rosa Ogigia: Revista electrónica de estudios hispánicos 9:33-43

Topic

Silva, Erotilde Honório

(2010) A vida em cor de rosa: o romance sentimental e a ditadura militar no Brasil Famecos 17.2:41-48 DOI: 10.15448/1980-3729.2010.2.7541

Topic

Ardis, Ann

(1996) E. M. Hull, Mass Market Romance and the New Woman Novel in the Early Twentieth Century Women's Writing 3.3:287-296 DOI: 10.1080/0969908960030307

Topic

emotions

Arnold-Forster, Agnes

Moulds, Alison

(2018) Medical women in popular fiction The BMJ Opinion September 26, 2018:

Topic

medical romance

Austin, Allan W.

(2024) Courting Tragedy: Romance and the Liberal Redemption of Japanese American Mass Incarceration Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13: DOI: 10.70138/YEVW1299

Topic

Backman, Nelina Esther

(1999) Evangelism Embarrassed: Christian Literature in a post-Christian Culture PhD, Brown University

Topic

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

Barot, Len

(2016) "Queer Romance in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century America: Snapshots of a Revolution " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 389-404

Topic

Marion Zimmer Bradley

(1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen

Topic

socialism and/or communism

(2012) Working the Skies: Changing Representations of Gendered Work in the Airline Industry, 1930-2011 Tourism Management 33.5:1185-1194 DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2011.11.012

Topic

(1983) A Very Great Profession: The Woman’s Novel 1914-39 London: Virago

Topic

(2011) Feminism and Sexuality in Ellen Wilkinson's Fiction Parliamentary Affairs 64.2:248–262 DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsq060

Topic

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

Belgrave, Valerie

(1990) "On Combining Batik Art and Novel Writing " Caribbean Women Writers: Essays from the First International Conference 317-324

Topic

(1990) "Thoughts on the Choice of Theme and Approach in Writing Ti Marie " Caribbean Women Writers: Essays from the First International Conference 325-327

Topic

(1995) "Cross-dressing in Wartime: Georgette Heyer's The Corinthian in its 1940 Context " War Culture: Social Change and Changing Experience in World War Two Britain 151-159

Topic

Bettinotti, Julia

(1996) Medieval romances in today's popular culture: The feminist in the castle The European Legacy 1.3:1146-1152 DOI: 10.1080/10848779608579542

Topic

(1998) Re-imagining the Gold Rush; Prospectors, Log Cabins and Mail-Order Brides in Contemporary Western Romances Northern Review 19:170-180

Topic

settings

Canada

(2003) "What "Race" is the Sheik?: Rereading a Desert Romance " Doubled Plots: Romance and History 67-85

Topic

(1999) "Medieval Magic and Witchcraft in the Popular Romance Novel " Romantic Conventions 75-85

Topic

Brown, Fahamisha Patricia

(2008) Anita Richmond Bunkley Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-5

Topic

Anita Richmond Bunkley

Brown, Fahamisha Patricia

(2008) Beverly Jenkins Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-6

Topic

Beverly Jenkins

(2012) "Do Knights Still Rescue Damsels in Distress?: Reimagining the Medieval in the Mills & Boon Historical Romance " The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction 95-114

Topic

paratext

food, drink

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

Burge, Amy

(2016) Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

virginity

Burge, Amy

(2016) "‘I Will Cut Myself and Smear Blood on the Sheet’: Testing Virginity in Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance " Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen 17-44

Topic

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

virginity

Byatt, A. S.

(1969) "An Honourable Escape: Georgette Heyer " Passions of the Mind: Selected Writings

Topic

Caton, Steven C.

(2000) "The Sheik: Instabilities of Race and Gender in Transatlantic Popular Culture of the Early 1920s " Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930 99-117

Topic

Cella, Laurie J. C.

(2019) The Personal and the Political in American Working-Class Literature, 1850-1939: Defining the Radical Romance Lanham, Maryland: Lexington

Topic

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

socialism and/or communism

Chandra, Elizabeth

(2015) Blossoming Dahlia: Chinese Women Novelists in Colonial Indonesia Southeast Asian Studies 4.3:533-564

Topic

Indonesia

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

(1999) Popular Sexual Knowledges and Women’s Agency in 1920s England: Marie Stopes’s Married Love and E.M. Hull’s The Sheik Feminist Review 63:64-87 DOI: 10.1080/014177899339063

Topic

(2009) La censure du roman sentimental en France ou le refoulement des mauvais genres Belphégor 8.2:

Topic

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

France

(2015) Biblioteca Rocío" (1937-1939) o las virtudes de la novela rosa durante la Guerra Civil española Tropelias: Revista de teoría de la literatura y literatura comparada 23:26-48 DOI: 10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.201523993

Topic

Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert

Crawford, Joseph

(2021) "Old-World Heroes and New-World Heroines in Post-Millennial Anglophone Romance Media " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 29-54

Topic

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

(2003) "The Race, Gender, Romance Connection: A Black Feminist Reading of African American Women's Historical Romances " Doubled Plots: Romance and History 185-201

Topic

Dandridge, Rita B.

(2004) Black Women's Activism: Reading African American Women's Historical Romances New York: Peter Lang

Topic

Anita Richmond Bunkley

(2016) "Love Prevailed Despite What American History Said: Agape and Eros in Beverly Jenkins's Night Song and Through the Storm " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 151-166

Topic

family

wealth/prosperity

Dascăl, Reghina

(2012) "Raj Matriarchs: Women Authors of Anglo-Indian Romance " Romance: The History of a Genre 179-200

Topic

(1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen

Topic

Derbyshire, Valerie Grace

(2023) “Do you think I haven’t paid for what I did?”: Rape in the Mills & Boon Romantic Novels of Penny Jordan Journal of Popular Romance Studies 12:

Topic

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

(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

Duder, C. J. D.

(1991) Love and the Lions: The Image of White Settlement in Kenya in Popular Fiction, 1919-1939 African Affairs 90.360:427-438 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098441

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

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

Fallon, Eileen

(1984) Words of Love: A Complete Guide to Romance Fiction New York and London: Garland Publishing

Topic

genre definitions

Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina

(2019) Chamorro WWII Romances: Combating Erasure with Tales of Survival and Vitality Journal of Popular Romance Studies 8:

Topic

Guam

languages

Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina

(2024) "The US Civil War and its Aftermath in Historical Quaker Romances Hailing White Heroines as Builders and Healers of the Nation " Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History DOI:10.4324/9781003493792-7

Topic

Ficke, Sarah

(2022) "House, home and husband in historical romance fiction " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-11

Topic

(2021) "The historical romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 118-140 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-5

Topic

Beverly Jenkins

Fletcher, Lisa

Gaby, Rosemary

Kloester, Jennifer

(2011) Pedagogy Report: Embedding Popular Romance Studies in Undergraduate English Units: Teaching Georgette Heyer’s Sylvester Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.2:

Topic

(2007) "How Dare a Black Woman Make Love to a White Man! Black Women Romance Novelists and the Taboo of Interracial Desire " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 103-128

Topic

Fragero Guerra, Carmen

(2014) "Soñar la vida": La narrativa de Carmen de Icaza (1936-1960) PhD, Universidad de Córdoba

Topic

film/movies

Fresno-Calleja, Paloma

(2024) "Introduction: Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History " Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History 1-25 DOI:10.4324/9781003493792-1

Topic

(2011) Pedagogy Report: Embedding Popular Romance Studies in Undergraduate English Units: Teaching Georgette Heyer’s Sylvester Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.2:

Topic

(2021) Novel Approaches to Lesbian History Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

pirates and outlaws

Gardner, Dora Abigail

(2019) Defending the Bodice Ripper MA thesis, Eastern Kentucky University

Topic

Gardner, Jeanne Emerson

(2013) She Got Her Man, but Could She Keep Him? Love and Marriage in American Romance Comics, 1947–1954 The Journal of American Culture 36.1:16-24 DOI: 10.1111/jacc.12009

Topic

Garton, Stephen

(2008) 'Fit Only for the Scrap Heap': Rebuilding Returned Soldier Manhood in Australia After 1945 Gender & History 20.1:48-67 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0424.2007.00501.x

Topic

(2023) Return Fantasies: Martial Masculinity, Misogyny and Homosocial Bonding in the Aftermath of Second World War Gender & History ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12742

Topic

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

Gillis, Stacy

(2018) "Manners, Money, and Marriage: Austen, Heyer, and the Literary Genealogy of the Regency Romance " After Austen: Reinventions, Rewritings, Revisitings 81-101 DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-95894-1_5

Topic

Jane Austen

Georgette Heyer

Glennemeier, Jaelyn

(2018) “And he was an Arab!:” Imperial Femininity and Pleasure in E. M. Hull's 1919 Desert Romance, The Sheik Honors thesis, University of Kansas

Topic

Gómez Calderón, María José

(2007) Romancing the Dark Ages: The Viking Hero in Sentimental Narrative Boletín Millares Carlo 26:287-297

Topic

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

(2018) Lectura, paraliteratura y mujeres en España: de la novela rosa a cincuenta sombras Arenal 25.1:215-236

Topic

González-Allende, Iker

(2005) La novela rosa de ambientación vasca e ideología franquista durante la Guerra Civil española Revista Internacional de Estudios Vascos 50.1:79-103

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

Grossmann, Francis

Gymnich, Marion

Siepmann, Dirk

(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

Grover, Mary

(2023) Steel City Readers: Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield, 1925-1955 Liverpool: Liverpool University Press

Topic

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

libraries/librarians

Sophie Cole

Topic

Hague, Euan

(2014) "Mass Market Romance Fiction and the Representation of Scotland in the United States " The Modern Scottish Diaspora: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives 171-190

Topic

Scotland

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

(2018) History Ever After: Fabricated Historical Chronotopes in Romance Genre Fiction 2018 IASPR conference :

Topic

Harders, Robin

(2012) "Borderlands of Desire: Captivity, Romance, and the Revolutionary Power of Love " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 133-152

Topic

(1998) Brave New Causes: Women in British Postwar Fictions London: Leicester University Press

Topic

Hendricks, Margo

(2022) Against Odds: Beverly Jenkins’ Indigo and Black Historical Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

Topic

Beverly Jenkins

Herendeen, Ann

(2012) The Upper-Class Bisexual Top as Romantic Hero: (Pre)dominant in the Social Structure and in the Bedroom Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.1:

Topic

Ann Herendeen

wealth/prosperity

(2006) Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France: Love Stories Oxford: Oxford University Press

Hoorenman, Johanna

(2020) "Public Conflicts and Private Treaties in Kathleen Eagle’s Fire and Rain " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 97-111

Topic

Kathleen Eagle

Native American romance

Hopkins, Lisa

(2018) "Georgette Heyer: What Austen Left Out " After Austen: Reinventions, Rewritings, Revisitings 61-79 DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-95894-1_4

Topic

(1997) Le roman d’amour et sa lectrice: une si longue passion: l’exemple Harlequin Paris: L’Harmattan

Topic

(1993) The Historical Romance London and New York: Routledge

Topic

Georgette Heyer

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Mira Stables

Rowena Tenet

Hutter, Verena

(2023) " Fire, Savannah, and Passion: The New Africa Novel and the Construction of White Femininity " Gender and German Colonialism: Intimacies, Accountabilities, Intersections DOI:10.4324/9781003378990-12

Topic

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

Topic

happy ending

Jagodzinski, Mallory

(2015) Love is (Color) Blind: Historical Romance Fiction and Interracial Relationships in the Twenty-First Century PhD, Bowling Green State University

Topic

Kamblé, Jayashree

(2023) The origins of U.S. mass-market category romance novels: Black editors and writers in the early 1980s The Journal of American Culture 46.3:252-265 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13488

Topic

Publishing

Vivian Stephens

Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington

work

Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku

(2024) French Interwar Popular Romance and Ideals of Femininity: A Literary and Historical Study of Magali Master of Arts, University of Nebraska

Topic

France

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

Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert

fairytales/folktales

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

Topic

Berta Ruck

Keegan, Faye Jessica

(2016) Soft metafiction(s) : Mary Stewart and the self-reflective middlebrow PhD, University of Newcastle, UK

Topic

Mary Stewart

romantic suspense

(2018) Probable Impossibilities: Historical Romance Readers Talk Back Style: A Quarterly Journal of Aesthetics, Poetics, Stylistics, and Literary Criticism 52.1-2:127-132 DOI: 10.1353/sty.2018.0021

Topic

Diana Gabaldon

Kerr, Ashley Elizabeth

(2019) Indigenous Lovers and Villainous Scientists: Rewriting Nineteenth-Century Ideas of Race in Argentine Romance Novels Chasqui 48.1:293-310

Topic

(2015) "The Perfect Man: Fatherhood, Masculinity and Romance in Popular Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain " Love and Romance in Britain, 1918-1970 41–60 DOI:10.1057/9781137328632_3

Topic

(2018) History's Been Hijacked: How To Combat White Supremacy Through Popular Literature Researching the Romance, conference held at Bowling Green State University, on 13 April :

Topic

Fletcher, Lisa

Gaby, Rosemary

Kloester, Jennifer

(2011) Pedagogy Report: Embedding Popular Romance Studies in Undergraduate English Units: Teaching Georgette Heyer’s Sylvester Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.2:

Topic

Kloester, Jennifer V.

(2004) Georgette Heyer: writing the Regency. History in fiction from Regency Buck to Lady of Quality 1935-1972 PhD, University of Melbourne

Topic

(1994) "Preface (to the third edition) " Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (3rd edition) xi-xvi

Topic

genre definitions

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

Luneau, Marie-Pier

Warren, Jean-Philippe

(2024) Love Stories Now and Then: A History of Les romans d'amour : Baraka

Topic

Canada

Philippe Aubert de Gaspé Jr.

Joseph Doutre

Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau

Albertine Laperle-Bernier

dime novels

Marie-Claude Bussières-Tremblay

YA/teenage romance

chick lit

Micheline Perron

Raymond Plante

Bertrand Gauthier

(2024) Georgette Heyer, history, and historical fiction. Voprosy literatury 1:198-203 DOI: 10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-198-203

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)

(2016) ""I'm Not the Only Lesbian Who Wears a Skirt": Lesbian Romance Fiction and Identity in Post-World War II America " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 71-88

Topic

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

Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith

(2016) "Between Pleasure and Pain: The Textual Politics of the Hymen " Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen 45-64

Topic

(2017) "Love in Australian Romance Novels " The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia 194-222

Topic

(2018) The literary text as historical artifact: The colonial couple in Australian romantic fiction by women, 1838-1860 Lilith: A Feminist History Journal 24:38-51

Topic

Australia

love

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

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

national identity

McAlister, Jodi

(2018) “Feelings Like the Women in Books”: Declarations of Love in Australian Romance Novels, 1859–1891 Emotions: History, Culture, Society 2.1:91-112 DOI: 10.1163/2208522X-02010005

Topic

(2020) The Consummate Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Anglophone Popular Literatures Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

Moody-Freeman, Julie E.

(2016) "Scripting Black Love in the 1990s: Pleasure, Respectability, and Responsibility in an Era of HIV/AIDS " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 111-127

Topic

Brenda Jackson

Arnold-Forster, Agnes

Moulds, Alison

(2018) Medical women in popular fiction The BMJ Opinion September 26, 2018:

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

Murias, Rosana

(2021) "In Grey and Pink: The Image of the Bride through the Spanish Postwar Novela Rosa " The Bride in the Cultural Imagination: Screen, Stage, and Literary Productions 17-34 DOI:10.5771/9781793616142-17

Topic

Carlota O'Neill/Laura de Noves

(1984) Fantasy and Reconciliation: Contemporary Formulas of Women’s Romance Fiction Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press

Novak, Julia

(2014) Nell Gwyn in Contemporary Romance Novels: Biography and the Dictates of 'Genre Literature' Contemporary Women's Writing 8.3:373–390 DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpu007

Topic

O'Brien, Lee

(2022) Telling Gaps and Domestic Tyranny: Georgette Heyer’s Regency Romances Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

Topic

(1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen

Topic

(2016) Medieval heresy in Croatian historical romances: a case study of Marija Jurić Zagorka’s Plameni inkvizitori Neohelicon 43.2:559–576 DOI: 10.1007/s11059-016-0346-9

Topic

Marija Jurić Zagorka

Croatia

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

(2020) Types and Tropes: History and Moral Agency in Evangelical Inspirational Fiction Christianity & Literature 69.1:73-90

Topic

Christian romance

Francine Rivers

settings

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Pérez-Gil, María del Mar

(2020) "Britannia’s Daughters: Popular Romance Fiction and the Ideology of National Superiority (1950s–1970s) " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 13-24

Topic

Kay Thorpe

Greece

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

feminism

Pérez-Gil, María del Mar

(2022) Mass Tourism, Ecocriticism, and Mills & Boon Romances (1970s-1980s) Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism 26.4:383-396 DOI: 10.1080/14688417.2023.2202190

Topic

settings

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt

Kay Thorpe

Iris Danbury

ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change

Philips, Deborah

Haywood, Ian

(1998) Brave New Causes: Women in British Postwar Fictions London: Leicester University Press

Topic

Leonard Noel Barker writing as L. Noel

Phipps, Catherine

(2023) Sex, race and power: colonial and interracial sexuality in the French Empire in Morocco, 1912-1956 DPhil, University of Oxford

Topic

(2023) "‘The Machine for Showing Desire’: Desert Romance Fiction and Knowing Sexual Desire " Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past: Methods of Knowing DOI:10.4324/9781003252801-4

Topic

Pierini, Francesca

(2020) “He Looks like He’s Stepped out of a Painting:” The Idealization and Appropriation of Italian Timelessness through the Experience of Romantic Love Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

(2018) “She is a Jade”: A Georgian Gaming Woman Re-imagined in Georgette Heyer’s Faro’s Daughter Crossings 9:122-131

Topic

(2024) "‘I Get to Exist as a Black Person in the World’: Bridgerton as Speculative Romance and Alternate History on Screen " History and Speculative Fiction 123-149 DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-42235-5_7

Topic

(2018) Courting convivencia: Hispano-Arab identity and Spanish women’s Orientalism in the Franco regime’s years of “unbearable solitude” (1946–1950) Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 19.3:339-364 DOI: 10.1080/14636204.2018.1493891

Topic

María Adela Durango

Ana Marcela García

María del Pilar Carré

Randell, Karen

Weedon, Alexis

(2020) "Atlantic Liners, It Girls and Old Europe in Elinor Glyn’s Romantic Adventures " Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture 19-37

Topic

Elinor Glyn

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

wealth/prosperity

Raub, Patricia

(1992) Issues of Passion and Power in E. M. Hull's The Sheik Women's Studies 21:119-128 DOI: 10.1080/00497878.1992.9978930

Topic

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

Elinor Glyn

Reed, Eleanor

(2018) Domestic Culture in Woman's Weekly, 1918-1958 PhD, University of Roehampton

Topic

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

Riseman, Noah

(2020) Intimatopias and the queering of Australian war fiction Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 34.6:940-954 DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2020.1827371

Topic

Robinson, Lillian S.

(1978) Sex, Class, and Culture Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press

Topic

Russo, Stephanie

(2022) "These old shades: Georgette Heyer’s unruly eighteenth century " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love 48-?? DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-4

Topic

Sanders, Lise Shapiro

(2006) Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920 Columbus: Ohio State University Press

Topic

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

Publishing

work

Saxena, Vandana

(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

Topic

Selinger, Eric Murphy

Vivanco, Laura

(2021) "Romance and/as religion " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 485-510 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-22

Topic

(2016) ""He Filled My Heart with Doubt": The Southern Belle's Love and Duty in the Civil War " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 41-55

Topic

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

Augusta Jane Evans

death

(1998) Popular Vikings: Constructions of Viking Identity in Twentieth Century Britain PhD, University of York

Topic

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

Shumway, David R.

(1999) Romance in the Romance: Love and Marriage in Turn-of-the-Century Best Sellers Journal of Narrative Theory 29.1:110-134

Topic

Topic

Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de

Silva, Erotilde Honório

(2010) A vida em cor de rosa: o romance sentimental e a ditadura militar no Brasil Famecos 17.2:41-48 DOI: 10.15448/1980-3729.2010.2.7541

Topic

SylviaVisconti/Mercedes Ballesteros Gaibrois

Soler Gallo, Miguel

(2017) El ideal de masculinidad en la novela romántica falangista: análisis de Una mujer de veinte años de Mercedes Ballesteros Tonos digital: Revista de estudios filológicos 33:

Topic

Elena Puerto/Mercedes Formica

Soler Gallo, Miguel

(2017) "El juego amoroso en la novela rosa española femenina de los años cuarenta " O jogo do mundo: ensaios sobre o imaginário lúdico 433-454

Topic

love

Stollenwerk, Katie Elisabeth

(2020) Love in the Ton: Georgette Heyer’s Legacy in Regency Romance World-Building Nursing Clio :

Topic

(2020) “I’m a Nurse, Not a Woman”: The Historical Significance of the UWM Nurse Romance Novel Collection Master of Arts, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Topic

libraries/librarians

Marguerite Mooers Marshall

Ethel Hamill/Jean Francis Webb

Rose Dana/William Edward Daniel Ross

Rubie Saunders

Sutherland, Kathryn

(2021) "‘Where History says little, Fiction may say much’ (Anna Barbauld): the historical novel in women’s hands in the mid-twentieth century " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 17-35 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.7

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

Taddeo, Julie Anne

(2013) "Corsets of Steel: Steampunk's Reimagining of Victorian Femininity " Steaming Into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology 43-63

Topic

(2012) German Writing, American Reading: Women and the Import of Fiction, 1866-1917 Columbus: Ohio State University Press

Topic

Germany

Wilhelmine Heimburg/Bertha Behrens

E. Marlitt/Eugenie John

Fanny Lewald

Wilhelmine von Hillern

Claire von Glümer

Ursula Zöge von Manteuffel

E. Werner/Elisabeth Bürstenbinder

Nataly von Eschstruth

Moritz von Reichenbach/Valeska von Reiswitz, Gräfin von Bethusy-Huc

Charlotte Brontë

E. Juncker

Golo Raimund/Bertha [Heyn] Frederich

(2018) "Flexible Nations: Canadian Romance Writers, American Romance, and the Romance of Canada " Reading between the Borderlines: Cultural Production and Consumption across the 49th Parallel 199-221 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv941x2b.12

Topic

Mary Gaunt, with John Ridgwell Essex

(2003) "The Romance of White Nations: Imperialism, Popular Culture and National Histories " After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation 279-292 DOI:10.1215/9780822384397-018

Topic

Native American romance

(2004) Romancing the Raj: Interracial Relations in Anglo-Indian Romance Novels History of Intellectual Culture 4.1:

Topic

India

national identity

(2007) "Orientalism and Mass Market Romance Novels in the Twentieth Century " Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual 241-262

Topic

(2010) Historicizing The Sheik: Comparisons of the British Novel and the American Film Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1:

Topic

film/movies

(2012) ""Bertrice teaches you about history, and you don't even mind!": History and Revisionist Historiography in Bertrice Small's The Kadin " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 21-32

Topic

(2012) Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press

Topic

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

(2016) "Imperial Affairs: The British Empire and the Romantic Novel, 1890-1939 " New Directions in Popular Fiction: Genre, Distribution, Reproduction 87-110 DOI:10.1057/978-1-137-52346-4_5

McAlister, Jodi

(2017) "Love in Australian Romance Novels " The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia 194-222

Topic

(2020) Cultural Authenticity, the Family, and East Asian American Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

(2022) "Transported for life, transported by love: love and the Australian convict romance novel " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-15

Topic

Fresno-Calleja, Paloma

Topic

(2024) "The Australian Convict Prostitute Romance: Narrating Social and Sexual Justice for “Damned Whores” " Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History DOI:10.4324/9781003493792-2

Topic

(2024) "When a Jew Loves a Nazi: Problems with Repurposing the Holocaust for Reparative Romance " Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History DOI:10.4324/9781003493792-9

Topic

(2017) Daphne Du Maurier's Mary Anne: Rewriting the Regency Romance as Feminist History University of Toronto Quarterly: A Canadian Journal of the Humanities 86.4:54-77

Topic

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

Daphne du Maurier

Uszkurat, Carol Ann

(1993) "Mid Twentieth Century Lesbian Romance: Reception and Redress " Outwrite: Lesbianism and Popular Culture 26-47

Topic

lesbian romance

Publishing