fashion/clothing

Rita, pen name of Mrs. Eliza Margaret Humphreys

Ouida

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Margaret Baillie-Saunders

Joan Butler, pen name of R. W. Alexander

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

(1978) Sex, Class, and Culture Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press

Topic

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

(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

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

race/ethnicity

feminism

disability

work

libraries/librarians

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

(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

Jensen, Margaret Ann

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

(1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen

Topic

(1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen

Topic

(1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen

Topic

(1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen

Topic

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

Topic

libraries/librarians

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

(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

Watson, Daphne

(1995) Their Own Worst Enemies: Women Writers of Women's Fiction London: Pluto Press

Topic

Daphne du Maurier

Mary Stewart

(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

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

Houel, Annik

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

Topic

(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

(1998) Popular Fiction and the Feminine Masquerade European Journal of English Studies 2.3:343-358 DOI: 10.1080/13825579808574422

Topic

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

Topic

Backman, Nelina Esther

(1999) Evangelism Embarrassed: Christian Literature in a post-Christian Culture PhD, Brown University

Topic

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

(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

food, drink

race/ethnicity

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

(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

(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

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

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

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

Topic

(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

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

Topic

(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

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

Allen, Amanda Kirstin

(2010) The Girls’ Guide to Power: Romancing the Cold War PhD, University of Alberta

Topic

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

Topic

(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

(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

Thurlow, Michelle

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

Topic

Christian romance

Beverly Lewis

(2011) Does This Book Make Me Look Fat? Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.2:

Topic

(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

Islam

Spain

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

Suzanne Brockmann

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

(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

paratext

food, drink

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

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

Daphne du Maurier

(2012) Jennifer Crusie's Literary Lingerie Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

Topic

(2012) "One Ring to Bind Them: Ring Symbolism in Popular Romance Fiction " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 99-107

Topic

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

(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

(2013) "Corsets of Steel: Steampunk's Reimagining of Victorian Femininity " Steaming Into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology 43-63

Topic

(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)

settings

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Fragero Guerra, Carmen

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

Topic

film/movies

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

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

(2016) Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

virginity

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)

Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith

metafiction

(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

romances in magazines and newspapers

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

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

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

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