fashion/clothing

history

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

socialism and/or communism

Chelton, Mary K. (1991) Unrestricted Body Parts and Predictable Bliss: The Audience Appeal of Formula Romances Library Journal 116.12:44-49

Topic

libraries/librarians

Chow, Karen (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

Topic

Crusie Smith, Jennifer (1997) Romancing Reality: The Power of Romance to Reinforce and Re-vision the Real Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:81-93

Topic

marriage

Jennifer Crusie

evolutionary psychology

Batsleer, Janet Davies, Tony O'Rourke, Rebecca Weedon, Chris (1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen

Topic

Delamoir, Jeanette (2003) Marie Bjelke Petersen's 'virile story': Jewelled Nights, gender instability, and the bush Hecate 29.1:115-131

Topic

cross-dressing

Marie Bjelke Petersen

Australia

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Fletcher, Lisa (2004) " “Mere Costumery”? Georgette Heyer’s Cross-Dressing Novels " Masquerades: Disguise in Literature in English from the Middle Ages to the Present 196-212

Topic

Fletcher, Lisa (2008) Historical Romance Fiction: Heterosexuality and Performativity Burlington: Ashgate

Topic

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

Topic

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

film/movies

George, Laura J. (2021) " Judith Taverner as dandy-in-training in Georgette Heyer’s Regency Buck " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 53-72 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.9

Topic

Greer, Germaine (1970) The Female Eunuch London: MacGibbon & Kee

Topic

romances in magazines and newspapers

Hagemann, Susanne (1996) " Gendering Places: Georgette Heyer's Cultural Topography " Scotland to Slovenia: European Identities and Transcultural Communication. Proceedings of the Fourth International Scottish Studies Symposium 187-199

Topic

Hassencahl, Fran (1980) Persecutors, Victims and Rescuers in Harlequin Romances Paper presented at the combined Annual Meeting of the Midwest Popular Culture Association and the Midwest American Culture Association (Kalamazoo, MI, October 23-25, 1980). :

Topic

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Hinnant, Charles H. (2003) " Desire and the Marketplace: A Reading of Kathleen Woodiwiss's The Flame and the Flower " Doubled Plots: Romance and History 147-164

Topic

Kathleen Woodiwiss

capitalism/business

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

sheikh romance

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

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

YA/teenage romance

feminism

disability

work

libraries/librarians

Jagodzinski, Mallory (2010) Of Bustles and Breeches: Cross-dressing Romance Novel Heroines and the Performance of Gender Ideology Master of Arts, Bowling Green State University

Topic

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

Topic

Islam

Spain

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

Jensen, Margaret Ann (1984) Love's $weet Return: The Harlequin Story Toronto: The Women's Educational Press

Joannou, Maroula (2012) Women's Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity: The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice, 1938-1962 Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

war/armed forces

Daphne du Maurier

Johnson, Naomi R. (2010) Consuming Desires: Consumption, Romance, and Sexuality in Best-Selling Teen Romance Novels Women's Studies in Communication 33.1:54-73

Topic

Johnson, Naomi Ruth (2007) Consuming Desires: A Feminist Analysis of Bestselling Teen Romance Novels PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Topic

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

Topic

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

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

Topic

Berta Ruck

history

Lamy, Odile (1997) La représentation du couple à travers les pages couvertures des romans Harlequin Cahiers de la recherche en éducation 4.2:269–297

Topic

paratext

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

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

history

metafiction

Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith

McAlister, Jodi (2016) “You and I are humans, and there is something complicated between us”: Untamed and queering the heterosexual historical romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.2:

Topic

McNamara, Sallie (2000) " Georgette Heyer: The Historical Romance and the Consumption of the Erotic, 1918-1939 " All the World and Her Husband: Women in Twentieth-Century Consumer Culture 82-96

Topic

Moudileno, Lydie (2002) Pas de romance sans finance: la construction du couple moderne dans les romans sentimentaux de l'Afrique de l'Ouest Sites: The Journal of Twentieth-Century/Contemporary French Studies revue d'études français 6.1:67-78

Topic

Núñez Puente, Sonia (2008) La novela rosa como mascarada de la muerte de lo social: Concha Linares Becerra y María Mercedes Ortoll Asparkía: Investigació feminista 19:105-122

Topic

Concha Linares-Becerra

María Mercedes Ortoll

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Spain

Batsleer, Janet Davies, Tony O'Rourke, Rebecca Weedon, Chris (1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen

Topic

Palmer, Paulina (1998) " Girl Meets Girl: Changing Approaches to the Lesbian Romance " Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film 189-204

Topic

Pecora, Norma (1999) " Identity by Design: The Corporate Construction of Teen Romance Novels " Growing Up Girls: Popular Culture and the Construction of Identity 49-86

Topic

YA/teenage romance

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

food, drink

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Radway, Janice A. (1982) " The Aesthetic in Mass Culture: Reading the "Popular" Literary Text " The Structure of the Literary Process Studies dedicated to the Memory of Felix Vodička 397-429 DOI:10.1075/llsee.8.19rad

Topic

gothic romance

Robinson, Lillian S. (1978) Sex, Class, and Culture Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press

Topic

computer/video/digital games

Rollins, Shannon Marie (2019) Crafting women’s narratives: the material impact of twenty-first century romance fiction on contemporary steampunk dress PhD, University of Edinburgh

Topic

Russ, Joanna (1973) Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic Journal of Popular Culture 6.4:666-691

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

Salter, Anastasia (2020) Plundered Hearts: Infocom, Romance, and the History of Feminist Game Design Feminist Media Histories 6.1:66-92

Topic

pirates and outlaws

romances in magazines and newspapers

feminism

Sanders, Lise Shapiro (2018) " Making the Modern Girl: Fantasy, Consumption, and Desire in Romance Weeklies of the 1920s " Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period 87-102 DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474412537.003.0008

Topic

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

work

Snitow, Ann Barr (1979) Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women is Different Radical History Review 20:141-161

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

Talbot, Mary M. (1995) Fictions at Work: Language and Social Practice in Fiction London and New York: Longman

Topic

romances in magazines and newspapers

YA/teenage romance

feminism

Taylor, Jessica (2020) Garçon Manqué: A Queer Rereading (of) The Sheik Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

E. M. Hull

Radclyffe Hall

Thurlow, Michelle (2010) “A Whisper of Satin”: The Infant Dress Leitmotif The Journal of Mennonite Writing (CMW) 2.4:

Topic

Christian romance

Beverly Lewis

music

Ty, Eleanor (1994) " Desire and Temptation: Dialogism and the Carnivalesque in Category Romances " A Dialogue of Voices: Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin 97-113

Topic

metafiction