Allan, Jonathan (2026) "Men’s Dress in Popular Romance Novels " The Intellect Handbook of Men’s Fashion 538-550 Topic fashion/clothing gender
Allan, Jonathan A. (2022) ‘Impossibly erotic things’: On men’s underwear in Brief Encounters by Suzanne Forster Critical Studies in Men's Fashion 9.2:207-222 DOI: 10.1386/csmf_00060_1 Topic fashion/clothing Harlequin Mills & Boon Suzanne Forster sex/sexuality gender
Allen, Amanda K. (2009) The Cinderella-Makers: Postwar Adolescent Girl Fiction as Commodity Tales Lion and the Unicorn 33.3:282-299 DOI: 10.1353/uni.0.0479 Topic YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance Betty Cavanna Mary Stolz fashion/clothing fairytales/folktales capitalism/business social/economic class
Allen, Amanda Kirstin (2010) The Girls’ Guide to Power: Romancing the Cold War PhD, University of Alberta Topic YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance Publishing psychology fashion/clothing paratext readers Betty Cavanna Mary Stolz Maureen Daly
Anderson, Rachel (1974) The Purple Heart Throbs: The Sub-Literature of Love London: Hodder and Stoughton Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) trash/literary and or intellectual quality religion/spirituality Charlotte M. Yonge Christian romance Ruth Lamb Rhoda Broughton Rita, pen name of Mrs. Eliza Margaret Humphreys Ouida Mary Elizabeth Braddon Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi Margaret Baillie-Saunders Evelyn Everett-Green Elinor Glyn Florence Barclay Ethel M. Dell Marie Corelli Berta Ruck Kathlyn Rhodes Robert Hitchens E. M. Hull sheikh romance Elizabeth Hoy Violet Winspear Jennifer Ames Ruby M. Ayres Netta Muskett Annie S. Swan Margaret Pedler Maysie Greig Gilbert Frankau Joan Butler, pen name of R. W. Alexander Denise Robins Ursula Bloom Sophie Cole medical romance Lucilla Andrews Kate Norway/Olive Norton Julia Davis settings food, drink fashion/clothing
Arimbi, Diah Ariani (2017) "Women in Indonesian Popular Fiction: Romance, Beauty, and Identity Politics in Metropop Novels " Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions 247-271 Topic Indonesia settings languages gender fashion/clothing marriage
Backman, Nelina Esther (1999) Evangelism Embarrassed: Christian Literature in a post-Christian Culture PhD, Brown University Topic Christian romance history sex/sexuality fashion/clothing race/ethnicity wealth/prosperity religion/spirituality
Batsleer, Janet Davies, Tony O'Rourke, Rebecca Weedon, Chris (1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen Topic genre definitions gender capitalism/business feminism Florence Barclay E. M. Hull history Barbara Cartland Catherine Cookson social/economic class race/ethnicity UK sex/sexuality fashion/clothing
Belsey, Catherine (1998) Popular Fiction and the Feminine Masquerade European Journal of English Studies 2.3:343-358 DOI: 10.1080/13825579808574422 Topic gender Marion Smith Collins fashion/clothing metafiction Harlequin Mills & Boon Shakespeare Daphne du Maurier marriage
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 gender United States of America war/armed forces sex/sexuality LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors Suzanne Brockmann
Brown, Sonya C. (2011) Does This Book Make Me Look Fat? Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.2: Topic readers health/medical fashion/clothing food, drink Susan Donovan Cathie Linz Eloisa James paratext Jennifer Crusie fat, fatness
Burge, Amy (2012) Desiring the east: a comparative study of Middle English romance and modern popular sheikh romance PhD, University of York Topic sheikh romance war/armed forces religion/spirituality race/ethnicity gender fashion/clothing
Burge, Amy (2012) "Do Knights Still Rescue Damsels in Distress?: Reimagining the Medieval in the Mills & Boon Historical Romance " The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction 95-114 Topic history Harlequin Mills & Boon paratext social/economic class religion/spirituality food, drink fashion/clothing sex/sexuality rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse war/armed forces gender
Burge, Amy (2014) ‘For you are a man and she is a maid’: Performing masculinity in Orientalist medieval and modern popular romance fiction Journal of European Popular Culture 5.2:89-103 DOI: 10.1386/jepc.5.2.89_1 Topic sheikh romance Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) gender Harlequin Mills & Boon settings fashion/clothing
Burge, Amy (2016) Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) sheikh romance history gender race/ethnicity sex/sexuality settings UK fashion/clothing Harlequin Mills & Boon virginity rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Byatt, A. S. (1969) "An Honourable Escape: Georgette Heyer " Passions of the Mind: Selected Writings Topic Georgette Heyer A. S. Byatt Baroness Orczy Jane Austen social/economic class fashion/clothing history
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 gender history United States of America Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Laura Jean Libbey sex/sexuality work fashion/clothing social/economic class 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 trash/literary and or intellectual quality sex/sexuality fashion/clothing
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 DOI: 10.1080/014177899339063 Topic sex/sexuality E. M. Hull health/medical history fashion/clothing
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 readers fashion/clothing trash/literary and or intellectual quality marriage Jennifer Crusie sex/sexuality evolutionary psychology
Batsleer, Janet Davies, Tony O'Rourke, Rebecca Weedon, Chris (1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen Topic genre definitions gender capitalism/business feminism Florence Barclay E. M. Hull history Barbara Cartland Catherine Cookson social/economic class race/ethnicity UK sex/sexuality fashion/clothing
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 LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors trash/literary and or intellectual quality Publishing settings fashion/clothing film/movies religion/spirituality gender social/economic class 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 historical romance Georgette Heyer fashion/clothing cross-dressing gender
Fletcher, Lisa (2008) Historical Romance Fiction: Heterosexuality and Performativity Burlington: Ashgate Topic love sex/sexuality Georgette Heyer historical romance linguistics fashion/clothing A. S. Byatt
Fragero Guerra, Carmen (2014) "Soñar la vida": La narrativa de Carmen de Icaza (1936-1960) PhD, Universidad de Córdoba Topic Carmen de Icaza Luisa-María Linares history Spain fascism/right-wing authoritarianism social/economic class fashion/clothing 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 Georgette Heyer historical romance fashion/clothing cross-dressing gender
Greer, Germaine (1970) The Female Eunuch London: MacGibbon & Kee Topic fashion/clothing romances in magazines and newspapers Georgette Heyer Barbara Cartland Lucy Walker sex/sexuality
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 Georgette Heyer settings gender fashion/clothing
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 Harlequin Mills & Boon gender psychology work fashion/clothing sex/sexuality family
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 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse fashion/clothing
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 Harlequin Mills & Boon sheikh romance United States of America authors Islam Susan Mallery Sandra Marton fashion/clothing Maisey Yates settings Lynne Raye Harris Violet Winspear Jane Porter
Houel, Annik (1997) Le roman d’amour et sa lectrice: une si longue passion: l’exemple Harlequin Paris: L’Harmattan Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon readers love marriage history family France feminism sex/sexuality happy ending fashion/clothing gender family
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/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance trash/literary and or intellectual quality gender race/ethnicity feminism social/economic class disability work readers LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors libraries/librarians United States of America Harlequin Mills & Boon Publishing family fashion/clothing teaching romance
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 cross-dressing gender Celeste Bradley Eloisa James Pam Rosenthal fashion/clothing sex/sexuality
Jarmakani, Amira (2011) Desiring the Big Bad Blade: Racing the Sheikh in Desert Romances American Quarterly 63.4:895-928 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2011.0061 Topic sheikh romance race/ethnicity sex/sexuality paratext fashion/clothing United States of America readers Islam Spain religion/spirituality
Jensen, Margaret Ann (1984) Love's $weet Return: The Harlequin Story Toronto: The Women's Educational Press Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon metafiction readers Publishing virginity sex/sexuality paratext work authors gender happy ending settings race/ethnicity social/economic class rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse food, drink fashion/clothing love marriage feminism
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 UK war/armed forces Daphne du Maurier Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Kathleen Winsor Georgette Heyer cross-dressing fashion/clothing
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 DOI: 10.1080/07491401003669984 Topic YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance Publishing capitalism/business fashion/clothing gender sex/sexuality
Johnson, Naomi Ruth (2007) Consuming Desires: A Feminist Analysis of Bestselling Teen Romance Novels PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Topic YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance capitalism/business fashion/clothing gender sex/sexuality Publishing
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 India readers gender feminism marriage Linda Howard Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb Kim Lawrence Lisa Kleypas fashion/clothing sex/sexuality virginity
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 DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2010.509147 Topic Berta Ruck gender history trash/literary and or intellectual quality family community fashion/clothing sex/sexuality war/armed forces LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
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 DOI: 10.7202/1017331ar Topic paratext Harlequin Mills & Boon fashion/clothing settings metaphor/symbolism sex/sexuality emotions
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 LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors fashion/clothing United States of America gender Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) history metafiction Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith lesbian romance Valerie Taylor Ann Bannon Rita Mae Brown
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 Anna Cowan gender historical romance Georgette Heyer readers cross-dressing fashion/clothing LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
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 Georgette Heyer gender sex/sexuality historical romance fashion/clothing cross-dressing settings
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 DOI: 10.1080/10260210290021789 Topic Africa settings love sex/sexuality gender fashion/clothing wealth/prosperity
Nally, Claire (2019) Steampunk: Gender, Subculture and the Neo-Victorian London: Bloomsbury Topic steampunk Kate McAlister Gail Carriger fashion/clothing
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 gender fashion/clothing Spain fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Batsleer, Janet Davies, Tony O'Rourke, Rebecca Weedon, Chris (1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen Topic genre definitions gender capitalism/business feminism Florence Barclay E. M. Hull history Barbara Cartland Catherine Cookson social/economic class race/ethnicity UK sex/sexuality fashion/clothing
Palmer, Paulina (1998) "Girl Meets Girl: Changing Approaches to the Lesbian Romance " Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film 189-204 Topic lesbian romance Isabel Miller Michelle Martin Deborah Powell LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors marriage gender fairytales/folktales Jane Austen romantic suspense fashion/clothing
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/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance fashion/clothing sex/sexuality rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse food, drink LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors race/ethnicity
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 Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert fashion/clothing
Raub, Patricia (1994) Yesterday's Stories: Popular Women's Novels of the Twenties and Thirties Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Temple Bailey Kathleen Thompson Norris E. M. Hull Gene Stratton-Porter Viña Delmar sex/sexuality marriage family work Dorothy Canfield United States of America history Faith Baldwin fashion/clothing Daphne du Maurier Margaret Mitchell gender
Robinson, Lillian S. (1978) Sex, Class, and Culture Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press Topic historical romance history Jane Austen Georgette Heyer fashion/clothing sex/sexuality social/economic class gender trash/literary and or intellectual quality
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 steampunk fashion/clothing gender Gail Carriger feminism race/ethnicity Adrienne Kress
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 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1973.00666.x Topic gothic romance genre definitions settings Phyllis A. Whitney Margaret Summerton Helen Arvonen Susan Howatch Anne Maybury Dorothy Eden food, drink fashion/clothing sex/sexuality gender
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 Georgette Heyer gender history fashion/clothing
Salter, Anastasia (2020) Plundered Hearts: Infocom, Romance, and the History of Feminist Game Design Feminist Media Histories 6.1:66-92 DOI: 10.1525/fmh.2020.6.1.66 Topic computer/video/digital games pirates and outlaws fashion/clothing 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 romances in magazines and newspapers gender social/economic class fashion/clothing work Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) readers
Snitow, Ann Barr (1979) Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women is Different Radical History Review 20:141-161 DOI: 10.1215/01636545-1979-20-141 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon readers gender virginity fashion/clothing food, drink sex/sexuality religion/spirituality settings work pornography Anne Mather
Taddeo, Julie Anne (2013) "Corsets of Steel: Steampunk's Reimagining of Victorian Femininity " Steaming Into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology 43-63 Topic fashion/clothing steampunk feminism gender history
Talbot, Mary M. (1995) Fictions at Work: Language and Social Practice in Fiction London and New York: Longman Topic readers Harlequin Mills & Boon sex/sexuality gender Kate Walker fashion/clothing linguistics metafiction social/economic class romances in magazines and newspapers YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance feminism
Taylor, Jessica (2020) Garçon Manqué: A Queer Rereading (of) The Sheik Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/VBEX3804 Topic E. M. Hull Radclyffe Hall gender LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors sex/sexuality readers fashion/clothing race/ethnicity
Thurlow, Michelle (2010) “A Whisper of Satin”: The Infant Dress Leitmotif The Journal of Mennonite Writing (CMW) 2.4: Topic Christian romance Beverly Lewis religion/spirituality gender fashion/clothing 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 readers metafiction Harlequin Mills & Boon gender metaphor/symbolism sex/sexuality fashion/clothing disability
Vargová, Veronika (2025) Happily Ever After, Differently: Reimagining Autism and Intimacy in Popular Romance Novels PhD, Masaryk University Topic Helen Hoang Chloe Liese neurodiversity disability romance and, or as, activism family community genre definitions Publishing sex/sexuality fashion/clothing food, drink LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Vivanco, Laura (2012) Jennifer Crusie's Literary Lingerie Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2: Topic Jennifer Crusie sex/sexuality fashion/clothing metaphor/symbolism
Vivanco, Laura (2012) "One Ring to Bind Them: Ring Symbolism in Popular Romance Fiction " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 99-107 Topic fashion/clothing marriage Lisa Kleypas Jennifer Crusie Loretta Chase Melissa McClone Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle Jessica Hart Dorie Graham Roslyn Hardy Holcomb Margot Early Laura Abbot sex/sexuality metaphor/symbolism
Warnaar, Karin (2023) Dresses and Drapery: The Material Essie Summers Scope: Contemporary Research Topics art & design 25:91-96 DOI: 10.34074/scop.1025005 Topic Essie Summers fashion/clothing Harlequin Mills & Boon New Zealand
Watson, Daphne (1995) Their Own Worst Enemies: Women Writers of Women's Fiction London: Pluto Press Topic Daphne du Maurier Mary Stewart Harlequin Mills & Boon fairytales/folktales gender Charlotte Brontë BDSM social/economic class food, drink fashion/clothing work
Batsleer, Janet Davies, Tony O'Rourke, Rebecca Weedon, Chris (1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen Topic genre definitions gender capitalism/business feminism Florence Barclay E. M. Hull history Barbara Cartland Catherine Cookson social/economic class race/ethnicity UK sex/sexuality fashion/clothing
Wendell, Sarah (2012) ""You call me a bitch like that's a bad thing": Romance Criticism and Redefining the Word "Bitch" " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 178-194 Topic readers gender feminism fashion/clothing authors
White, Bonnie (2022) Freedom, Sincerity, and the Modern Woman in the Interwar Romances of Berta Ruck Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/JYCA1921 Topic Berta Ruck history gender UK cross-dressing LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors sex/sexuality fashion/clothing emotions