national identity

Alisa Klever/Tatiana Vedenska

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

Topic

Cassiday, Julie A. (2020) A World Without Safe Words: Fifty Shades of Russian Grey Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

Russia

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

sex/sexuality

Dalziell, Tanya (2021) "Australia's Long Relationship with Romance " The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature 365-373

Topic

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Downey, Kristin (2005) Irony, Ideology, and Resistance: The Amazing Double Life of Harlequin Presents PhD, McMaster University

Topic

Fletcher, Lisa Driscoll, Beth Wilkins, Kim (2018) What is Australian Popular Fiction? Australian Literary Studies 33.4:1-11

Topic

settings

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

Topic

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

Edmondson, Belinda (2007) The Black Romance Women's Studies Quarterly 35.1/2:191-211

Topic

African American romance

sex/sexuality

romance and, or as, activism

Frances Watkins Harper

Egan, Jesi (2016) Cultural Futurity and the Politics of Recovery: Mary Renault's Ambivalent Romances MFS Modern Fiction Studies 62.3:462-80

Topic

Mary Renault

LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors

emotions

modernism

Escolar, Marisa (2015) Marry the Allies? Luciana Peverelli’s ‘True’ Romanzo Rosa in ‘Liberated’ Rome Italian Studies 70.2:228-248

Topic

Luciana Peverelli

Italy

sex/sexuality

Evans, Julie (1993) Beatrice Grimshaw and Australia - White Women in the Pacific Olive Pink Society Bulletin 5.1:34-39

Topic

Oceania

feminism

Fletcher, Lisa Driscoll, Beth Wilkins, Kim (2018) What is Australian Popular Fiction? Australian Literary Studies 33.4:1-11

Topic

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

settings

Frederick, Rhonda (2013) Making Jamaican Love: Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain and Romance-ified Diaspora Identities Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal Of Criticism 17.3:63-84

Topic

Fresno-Calleja, Paloma (2020) Chick-Lit Pasifika-Style or How to B(l)end the Formula: Lani Young’s Scarlet Series Contemporary Women's Writing ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

Garton, Stephen (2008) 'Fit Only for the Scrap Heap': Rebuilding Returned Soldier Manhood in Australia After 1945 Gender & History 20.1:48-67

Topic

romances in magazines/romance magazines

disability

work

family

Gelder, Ken Weaver, Rachael (2010) Louise Mack and Colonial Pseudo Literature Southerly 70.2:82-95

Topic

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

Louise Mack

metafiction

Gifford, James (2017) "Mary Stewart’s Greek Novels: Hellenism, Orientalism and the Cultural Politics of Pulp Presentation " Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 99-118

Topic

González Cruz, María Isabel (2016) "Discourse Types and Functions in Popular Romance Fiction Novels ("Work in Progress") " On the move: Glancing Backwards To Build a Future in English Studies 265-271

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

romance and, or as, activism

marriage

Holmes, Diana (2010) The Comfortable Reader: Romantic Bestsellers and Critical Disdain French Cultural Studies 21.4:287-296

Topic

France

Iwai, Gaku (2015) Wartime Ideology in 'The Thimble': A Comparative Study of Popular Wartime Romance and the Anti-romance of D. H. Lawrence Études Lawrenciennes 46:

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 (2020) When Wuxia Met Romance: The Pleasures and Politics of Transculturalism in Sherry Thomas’s My Beautiful Enemy Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

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

Topic

Mary Stewart

romantic suspense

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

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

McAlister, Jodi Teo, Hsu-Ming (2017) "Love in Australian Romance Novels " The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia 194-222

Topic

McAlister, Jodi (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

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

love

history

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

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

Topic

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

Nilson, Maria (2017) Kärlek i kyligt klimat: Om nordisk romance Tidskrift för Nordisk litteratur 76:22-31

Topic

O'Mahony, Lauren (2021) "Australian romance fiction " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 72-96 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-3

Topic

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

Rosa Praed

Marie Bjelke Petersen

Oklopčić, Biljana (2016) Medieval heresy in Croatian historical romances: a case study of Marija Jurić Zagorka’s Plameni inkvizitori Neohelicon 43.2:559–576

Topic

Marija Jurić Zagorka

historical romance

Croatia

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

history

readers

Parameswaran, Radhika (2002) Reading Fictions of Romance: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in Postcolonial India Journal of Communication 52.4:832-851

Topic

Parameswaran, Radhika E. (1994) "Romance Reading in the Third World: A Postcolonial Intersection of Gender, Ethnicity, and Sexuality " Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (77th, Atlanta, Georgia, August 10-13, 1994). Part IV: International Media 71-102

Topic

Parameswaran, Radhika E. (1997) Public Images, Private Pleasures: Romance Reading at the Intersection of Gender, Class, and National Identities in Urban India PhD, University of Iowa

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

historical romance

social class

Pérez-Gil, María del Mar (2018) Exoticism, Ethnocentrism, and Englishness in Popular Romance Fiction: Constructing the European Other Journal of Popular Culture 51.4:940-955

Topic

Pérez-Gil, María del Mar (2019) Representations of Nation and Spanish Masculinity in Popular Romance Novels: The Alpha Male as “Other” The Journal of Men’s Studies 27.2:169-182

Topic

Spain

Lilian Warren as Rosalind Brett/Kathryn Blair/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

Spain

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

feminism

Pierini, Francesca (2020) Olive Skin, Chocolate Eyes: The Legacy of The Sheik on Descriptive Patterns of the Italian Romantic Hero in Harlequin Short Contemporaries Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

Italy

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

Topic

Greece

Turkey

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

Demetra Vaka

Potter, Jane (2005) Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918 Oxford: Clarendon Press

Topic

Mary Ward/Mrs. Humphry Ward

Ruby M. Ayres

Berta Ruck

Potter, Jane (2015) "‘Khaki and Kisses’: Reading the Romance Novel in the Great War " Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives 29-44 DOI:10.1057/9781137302717_2

Topic

Potter, Jane Elizabeth (1998) Boys in khaki, girls in print: women's literary responses to the great war, 1914-1918 D.Phil, University of Oxford

Topic

Annie Vivanti/Annie Vivanti Chartres

Raineri, Rosalia (2019) Verde bianco e rosa. Il romanzo 'femminile' e l'educazione sentimentale delle italiane (1911-1946) PhD, Università degli Studi di Palermo

Topic

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

linguistics

family

Regan, Lisa (2017) Women and the 'War Machine' in the Desert Romances of E. M. Hull and Rosita Forbes Women's Writing 24.1:109-122

Topic

E. M. Hull

Rudisill, Kristen (2018) Full-Blooded Desi Romance: Contemporary English-Language Romance Novels in India Journal of Popular Culture 51.3:754-775

Topic

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

family

Saxena, Vandana (2021) Afterlives of Colonialism: Nostalgia, Reader’s Response and the Case of Noel Barber’s Tanamera The Journal of Commonwealth Literature ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

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

Smith, Faith (1999) "Beautiful Indians, Troublesome Negroes, and Nice White Men: Caribbean Romances and the Invention of Trinidad " Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation 163-182

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

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

Nataly von Eschstruth

Golo Raimund/Bertha [Heyn] Frederich

Taylor, Jessica (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

historical romance

history

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

E. M. Hull

sheikh romance

Native American romance

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

Topic

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

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

Topic

Therrien, Kathleen M. (1997) Trembling at Her Own Response: Resistance and Reconciliation in Mass-Market Romance Novels PhD, University of Delaware

Topic

Julie Garwood

Susan Wiggs

romances in magazines/romance magazines

Tokley, Anne-Marie (2008) Where is my Happy Ending and Why am I Looking for it? The Romance Myth in Contemporary Popular Australian Women’s Fiction PhD, Griffith University

Topic