India

historical romance

race/ethnicity

Bagchi, Jayeeta (2000) Looking for Reality in Romance Social Scientist 28.3/4:30-39

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

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Daud, Kathrina Mohd (2021) " In response to Harlequin: Global legacy, local agency " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 529-545 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-24

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Fanetti, Susan (2022) New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

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Diana Gabaldon

LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors

China

Ganapathy, Subha (2002) Who Is Afraid of Romance Novels?: Women Readers, Patriarchy and Popular Culture PhD thesis, Mother Teresa Women’s University

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trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Hapgood, Lynne (2005) Margins of Desire: The Suburbs in Fiction and Culture, 1880-1925 Manchester: Manchester University Press

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Publishing

emotions

romances in magazines and newspapers

Jones, Amanda (2019) Madness, Monks and Mutiny: Neo-Victorianism in the Work of Victoria Holt Neo-Victorian Studies 12.1:1-27

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Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Kamble, Jayashree (2007) " Female Enfranchisement and the Popular Romance: Employing an Indian Perspective " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 148-173

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Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Kamble, Jayashree (2008) Uncovering and Recovering the Popular Romance Novel PhD, University of Minnesota

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Kapila, Shuchi (2010) Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule Columbus: Ohio State University Press

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

Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra (2020) " India, Heat, Dust, and Tea? Alienness and Marketability in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Nicole C. Vosseler " Diasporic Inquiries into South Asian Women’s Narratives: Alien Domiciles 39-51

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trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra (2021) " Romance Novels in Postcolonial India: From Mills & Boon to Pageturn’s Red Romance Series " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 223-241

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Omissi, Dominic (1995) The Mills and Boon memsahibs: women's romantic Indian fiction 1877-1947 PhD, University of Lancaster

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settings

Palewska, Marie (2011) " Féeries orientales : l’Inde chez Delly " L’Œuvre de Delly 139-162

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Delly

Parameswaran, Radhika (1999) Western Romance Fiction as English-Language Media in Postcolonial India Journal of Communication 49.3:84-105

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libraries/librarians

sex/sexuality

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

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

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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

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national identity

sex/sexuality

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

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national identity

Pradhan, Anil (2021) The literary field of queer cultural production in contemporary India: considering popular queer texts via Bourdieu Runas: Journal of Education & Culture 2.4:

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