United States of America

Beidler, Peter G. (1991) The Contemporary Indian Romance: A Review Essay American Indian Culture and Research Journal 15.4:97-101

Topic

Bell, Carole V. (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

Topic

fat, fatness

Bettinotti, Julia Savoie, Chantal (1997) " Du bon sauvage au beau sauvage : un roman d’amour "politically correct" " Les hauts et les bas de l'imaginaire western dans la culture médiatique 95–106

Topic

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

Topic

Canada

Ana Seymour

Kristin Hannah

Bhasin, Neeta (2018) Romancing the 'Illegal' Immigrant Journal of Literature and Art Studies 8.10:1459-1474

Topic

Serena Bell

Bly, Mary (2012) " On Popular Romance, J. R. Ward, and the Limits of Genre Study " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 60-72

Topic

J. R. Ward

fashion/clothing

Suzanne Brockmann

Bruyère, Claire (1990) " La place du roman sentimental dans les pratiques culturelles de ses lectrices dans les États-Unis d’aujourd’hui " Le roman sentimental: actes du colloque des 14-15-16 mars 1989 à la Faculté des lettres de Limoges, volume 1 303-315

Topic

Bruyère, Claire (1992) " Pour le meilleur et pour le pire : critères d’évaluation des romans d’amour contemporains (romances) aux États-Unis " Actes du colloque "Les mauvais genres" organisé au Centre culturel canadien de Paris les 23, 24 et 25 novembre 1989 109-116

Topic

Burge, Amy (2023) " Romantic Love across Borders: Marriage Migration in Popular Romance Fiction " Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities: What's Love Got To Do With It? 39-49 DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-26055-1_4

Topic

Helen Hoang

Brigitte Bautista

Burley, Stephanie (2000) Shadows and Silhouettes: The Racial Politics of Category Romance Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 5.13-14:324-343

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

Christian-Smith, Linda K. (1990) Becoming a Woman Through Romance London: Routledge

Topic

Christian-Smith, Linda K. (1993) " Voices of Resistance: Young Women Readers of Romance Fiction " Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schools 169-189

Topic

Clawson, Laura (2005) Cowboys and Schoolteachers: Gender in Romance Novels, Secular and Christian Sociological Perspectives 48.4:461-479

Topic

sociology

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

Topic

rural romance

Tami Hoag

community

animals

Dandridge, Rita B. (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

Dandridge, Rita B. (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

wealth/prosperity

Dandridge, Rita B. (2022) Vivian Lorraine Stephens: Romance Pioneer Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

Topic

Vivian Stephens

Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington

Amii Lorin

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

disability

Sandra Kitt

ageism

Darbyshire, Peter (2000) Romancing the World: Harlequin Romances, the Capitalist Dream, and the Conquest of Europe and Asia Studies in Popular Culture 23.1:1-10

Topic

socialism and/or communism

Darbyshire, Peter (2002) The Politics of Love: Harlequin Romances and the Christian Right Journal of Popular Culture 35.4:75-87

Topic

capitalism/business

de Jesús, Melinda L. (2001) "Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowd?": Reading Interracial Romance in Contemporary Asian American Young Adult Fiction LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 12.3:313–334

Topic

Haemi Balgassi

Kate Emberg

Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Reyes, Daisy Verduzco Speer, Annika C. Denes, Amanda (2021) White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey Sexuality & Culture ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

Dudovitz, Resa L. (1990) The Myth of Superwoman: Women's Bestsellers in France and the United States New York: Routledge

Topic

France

Topic

libraries/librarians

Fenske, Emma K. (2022) Romancing the New Evangelical Woman Master of Arts, Baylor University

Topic

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 (2021) American Quaker Romances: Building the Myth of the White Christian Nation Valencia: Universitat de València

Topic

Foss, Kimberly Kay (1997) An Analysis to Determine if Popular Romance Novels, Read by Today’s High School Students, Reflect the Characteristics and Roles of Women in Current Society M.S. in Education with Emphasis in Library Science, University of Wyoming

Topic

Foster, Guy Mark (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

Frantz Lyons, Sarah Selinger, Eric Murphy (2016) " Strange Stirrings, Strange Yearnings: The Flame and the Flower, Sweet Savage Love, and the Lost Diversities of Blockbuster Historical Romance " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 89-110

Topic

Frenier, Mariam Darce (1988) Good-bye Heathcliff: Changing Heroes, Heroines, Roles, and Values in Women’s Category Romances New York: Greenwood Press

Topic

Gandolfo, Anita (2007) Faith and Fiction: Christian Literature in America Today Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers

Topic

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

Topic

pirates and outlaws

Gardner, Jeanne (2011) 'True-To-Life': Romance Comics and Teen-Age Desire, 1947-1954 Forum for World Literature Studies 3.1:118-128

Topic

comics/manga

Gardner, Jeanne (2012) " Girls Who Sinned in Secret and Paid in Public: Romance Comics, 1949-1954 " Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns 92-102

Topic

comics/manga

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

Topic

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

Gleason, William A. (2016) " Postbellum, Pre-Harlequin: American Romance Publishing in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 57-70

Topic

romances in magazines and newspapers

Lucille Hollis

Charlotte M. Brame

paratext

Golubov, Nattie (2022) " The geopolitics of love: patriotism, homeland and the domestication of violent masculinities in US paramilitary romance fiction " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-27

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

linguistics

Hall, Glinda F. (2009) The Creators of Women’s Popular Romance Fiction: The Authors Who Gave Women a Genre of Their Own Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press

Topic

Hall, Glinda Fountain (2008) Inverting the Southern Belle: Romance Writers Redefine Gender Myths Journal of Popular Culture 41.1:37-55

Topic

Hallock, Jennifer (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

Hedrick, Tace (2015) Chica Lit: Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press

Topic

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

Topic

Beverly Jenkins

Topic

libraries/librarians

Holden, Stacy E. Tabol, Charity (2015) In Sickness and In Health: Representations of PTSD in Post-9/11 Romance Novels albeit 2.1:

Topic

Holden, Stacy E. (2015) Love in the Desert: Images of Arab-American Reconciliation in Contemporary Sheikh Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

Topic

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

Evangeline Parsons Yazzie

Hoorenman, Johanna (2022) " Remembering love: Parsons-Yazzie's historical romance novel and the (re)writing of Navajo history " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-21

Topic

Interracial Books for Children Bulletin, (1981) Romance Series for Young Readers: A Report to Educators and Parents in Concert with the National Education Association New York: The Council on Interracial Books for Children

Topic

disability

libraries/librarians

Jackson, Nicole M. (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

Jarmakani, Amira (2010) “The Sheik Who Loved Me”: Romancing the War on Terror Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 35.4:993-1017

Topic

Jarmakani, Amira (2011) Desiring the Big Bad Blade: Racing the Sheikh in Desert Romances American Quarterly 63.4:895-928

Topic

Islam

Spain

Jarmakani, Amira (2015) An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror New York: New York University Press

Topic

Kamble, Jayashree (2012) " Patriotism, Passion, and PTSD: The Critique of War in Popular Romance Fiction " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 153-163

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 FORTHCOMING:FORTHCOMING

Topic

Vivian Stephens

Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington

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

Kamitsuka, Margaret D. (2020) Prolife Christian Romance Novels: A Sign that the Abortion-as-Murder Center Is Not Holding? Christianity & Literature 69.1:36-52

Topic

Francine Rivers

Klarich, Morgan L. (2012) Multiculturalism, Sex, and Powerful Women: The New Romance Novel as the Voice of Neofeminism? MA thesis, Dartmouth College

Topic

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Künne, Regina (2015) Eternally Yours - Challenge and Response: Contemporary US American Romance Novels by Jayne Ann Krentz and Barbara Delinsky Zürich: Lit Verlag

Topic

Barbara Delinsky

Schell, Heather Larsen, Katherine (2019) How the Story Ends: Gender, Sexuality, and Nation in the Happy Ending Writing from Below 4.2:

Topic

happy ending

Sonali Dev

Radclyffe/Len Barot

Linke, Gabriele (1997) Contemporary Mass Market Romances as National and International Culture: A Comparative Study of Mills & Boon and Harlequin Romances Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:195-213

Topic

national identity

Linke, Gabriele (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

Topic

Lowery, Karalyne (2018) The Militarized Shapeshifter: Authorized Violence and Military Connections as an Antidote to Monstrosity University of Toronto Quarterly 87.1:196-213

Topic

Mäkelä, Veera (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

Markert, John (1985) Romance Publishing and the Production of Culture Poetics 14.1-2:69-93

Topic

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Markert, John (2021) " Publishing the romance novel " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 352-370 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-16

Topic

Kathleen Woodiwiss

contemporary romance

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

Topic

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

Matelski, Elizabeth (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

fashion/clothing

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

Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith

McCafferty, Kate (1994) Palimpsest of Desire: The Re-Emergence of the American Captivity Narrative as Pulp Romance Journal of Popular Culture 27.4:43-56

Topic

Michelson, Anna (2021) The politics of happily-ever-after: romance genre fiction as aesthetic public sphere American Journal of Cultural Sociology 9:177–210

Topic

sociology

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

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

Mussell, Kay (1981) Women’s Gothic and Romantic Fiction: A Reference Guide Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press

Topic

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

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Augusta Jane Evans

E. D. E. N. Southworth

Margaret Mitchell

Daphne du Maurier

Mary Stewart

Phyllis A. Whitney

Rosemary Rogers

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Grace Livingston Hill

film/movies

romance scholarship

Mussell, Kay (1982) " Preface " Twentieth Century Romance and Gothic Writers v-ix

Topic

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

Mussell, Kay (1997) Paradoxa Interview with Janet Dailey Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:214-218

Topic

Janet Dailey

disability

Mussell, Kay Tuñón, Johanna (1999) North American Romance Writers Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press

Topic

Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown

Judith Ivory/Judy Cuevas

Sharon and Tom Curtis

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

Eileen Dreyer/Kathleen Korbel

Kathleen Eagle

Patricia Gaffney

Jennifer Greene/Jeanne Grant/Jessica Massey/Alison Hart

Maggie Osborne/Margaret St. George

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Jennifer Crusie

Mussell, Kay J. (1975) Beautiful and Damned: The Sexual Woman in Gothic Fiction Journal of Popular Culture 9.1:84-89

Topic

Nakagawa, Chiho (2011) Safe Sex with Defanged Vampires: New Vampire Heroes in Twilight and the Southern Vampire Mysteries Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1:

Topic

Charlaine Harris

Twilight

virginity

Neal, Lynn S. (2000) Romancing God: Reading Evangelical Romance Novels PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Topic

Neal, Lynn S. (2006) Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press

Topic

Grace Livingston Hill

Osborne, Gwendolyn E. (2004) " "Women Who Look Like Me": Cultural Identity and Reader Responses to African American Romance Novels " Race/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers 61-68

Topic

love

paratext

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

Topic

Francine Rivers

Peaty, Gwyneth (2015) " Rock Hard: Gargoyles in Contemporary Gothic Romance " New Directions in 21st Century Gothic: The Gothic Compass 54-70 DOI:10.4324/9781315749419

Topic

Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada (2020) " Business-like Lords and Gentlemanly Businessmen: The Romance Hero in Lisa Kleypas's Wallflowers Series " Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture 194-208

Topic

Lisa Kleypas

capitalism/business

national identity

Postma, Kathlene (1999) American Women Readers Encounter Turkey in the Shadow of Popular Romance Journal of American Studies of Turkey 9:71-82

Topic

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

Greece

Turkey

national identity

Demetra Vaka

Radway, Janice (1981) The Utopian Impulse in Popular Literature: Gothic Romances and "Feminist" Protest American Quarterly 33.2:140-162

Topic

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

genre definitions

Ramos-García, María T. (2020) " Representations of Otherness in Paranormal Romance: Race and Wealth in Nalini Singh and J. R. Ward " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 127-144

Topic

Nalini Singh

J. R. Ward

capitalism/business

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

marriage

Raub, Patricia (1992) Issues of Passion and Power in E. M. Hull's The Sheik Women's Studies 21:119-128

Topic

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

Elinor Glyn

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

Reep, Diana (1982) The Rescue And Romance: Popular Novels Before World War I Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press

Topic

Regis, Pamela (2016) " Pamela Crosses the Atlantic; or, Pamela Andrews's Story Inaugurates the American Romance Novel " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 25-40

Topic

Samuel Richardson

Regis, Pamela (2021) " The evolution of the American romance novel " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 51-71 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-2

Topic

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

romance scholarship

Charles Brockden Brown

Sukey Vickery

Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Lydia Maria Child

E. D. E. N. Southworth

Louisa May Alcott

Frances Watkins Harper

Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton

Jean Webster

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Viña Delmar

Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith

Reyes, Daisy Verduzco Speer, Annika C. Denes, Amanda (2021) White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey Sexuality & Culture ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

Sanconie, Maïca (2010) « Tout un monde d’évasion » : adapter les romans sentimentaux pour un lectorat français Meta 55.4:732–751

Topic

Topic

Schell, Heather Larsen, Katherine (2019) How the Story Ends: Gender, Sexuality, and Nation in the Happy Ending Writing from Below 4.2:

Topic

happy ending

Sonali Dev

Radclyffe/Len Barot

Selinger, Eric Murphy (2015) An Interview with Susan Elizabeth Phillips Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

Topic

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

romance scholarship

Topic

Serafine, Amelia (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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Silliman, Daniel (2016) Fictions of Belief: Reading Evangelical Novels in A Secular Age PhD, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Topic

Janette Oke

Beverly Lewis

Silliman, Daniel (2021) Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Topic

Janette Oke

Beverly Lewis

Smith, William Clay Kinchen (2002) Revising Captivity Narratives PhD, University of Florida

Topic

Reyes, Daisy Verduzco Speer, Annika C. Denes, Amanda (2021) White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey Sexuality & Culture ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

Stoneley, Peter (1999) " 'Never Love a Cowboy': Romance Fiction and Fantasy Families " Writing and Fantasy 223-235

Topic

Holden, Stacy E. Tabol, Charity (2015) In Sickness and In Health: Representations of PTSD in Post-9/11 Romance Novels albeit 2.1:

Topic

Tatlock, Lynne (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

Teo, Hsu-Ming (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

Mary Gaunt, with John Ridgwell Essex

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

Topic

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

Topic

film/movies

Teo, Hsu-Ming (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)

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

Thurston, Carol (1987) The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels for Women and the Quest for a New Sexual Identity Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press

Topic

erotic romance

pornography

Timson, Beth S. (1983) The Drug Store Novel: Popular Romantic Fiction and the Mainstream Tradition Studies in Popular Culture 6:88-96

Topic

Jane Austen

Martha Finley

Mussell, Kay Tuñón, Johanna (1999) North American Romance Writers Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press

Topic

Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown

Judith Ivory/Judy Cuevas

Sharon and Tom Curtis

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

Eileen Dreyer/Kathleen Korbel

Kathleen Eagle

Patricia Gaffney

Jennifer Greene/Jeanne Grant/Jessica Massey/Alison Hart

Maggie Osborne/Margaret St. George

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Jennifer Crusie

van Lent, Peter (1996) " “Her Beautiful Savage”: The Current Sexual Image of the Native American Male " Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture 211-227

Topic