comics/manga | Romance Scholarship DB

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

Topic

YA/teenage romance

United States of America

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

YA/teenage romance

United States of America

Gardner, Jeanne Emerson (2012) ""Dreams May End, But Love Never Does": Marriage and Materialism in American Romance Comics, 1947-1954 " Comic Books and American Cultural History: An Anthology 94-109

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

Topic

YA/teenage romance

United States of America

Hayton, Christopher J. Hayton, Sheila (2012) "The Girls in White: Nurse Images in Early Cold War Era Romance and War Comics " Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns 129-145

Topic

medical romance

war/armed forces

Hayton, Christopher J. Hayton, Sheila (2012) "The Girls in White: Nurse Images in Early Cold War Era Romance and War Comics " Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns 129-145

Topic

medical romance

war/armed forces

Nolan, Michelle (2008) Love on the Racks: a History of American Romance Comics Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Topic

Pagliassotti, Dru (2010) "Better than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction " Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre 59-83

Topic

LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors

Paizis, George (2006) "Category Romance in the Era of Globalization: The Story of Harlequin " The Global Literary Field 126-151

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Ramsdell, Kristin (2018) Encyclopedia of Romance Fiction Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood

Topic

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

Christian romance

Charlotte Brontë

Barbara Cartland

Daphne du Maurier

science fiction/futuristic romance

Margaret Mitchell

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Georgette Heyer

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

historical romance

romance scholarship

LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors

libraries/librarians

romantic suspense

Samuel Richardson

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Patricia Veryan

Phyllis A. Whitney

Kathleen Winsor

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Tatum, Charles (1980) Lágrimas, risas y amor: Mexico's Most Popular Romance Comic Book Journal of Popular Culture 14.3:413-423

Topic

Wood, Andrea (2008) Radicalizing Romance: Subculture, Sex, and Media at the Margins PhD, University of Florida

Topic

LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors

lesbian romance

Wood, Andrea (2015) Making the Invisible Visible: Lesbian Romance Comics for Women Feminist Studies 41.2:293-334

Topic

lesbian romance

LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors