happy ending

Cruz-Bibb, Rosanna (2022) Patriarchy, Feminism, and The Space Between: The Production and Consumption of Feminism in Romance Novels PhD thesis, University of Georgia

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Duvezin-Caubet, Caroline (2020) Gaily Ever After: Neo-Victorian M/M Genre Romance for the Twenty-First Century Neo-Victorian Studies 13.1:242-269

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Fanetti, Susan (2022) " Introduction—Popular Romance in the 21st Century: Time to Claim Its Due " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 1-13

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Fletcher, Lisa (2014) Writing the Happy Ever After: An Interview with Anne Gracie Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

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Anne Gracie

Golubov, Nattie (2019) La promesa utópica del final feliz Encuentros2050 32:8-11

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genre definitions

Golubov, Nattie (2022) " La promesa de felicidad: la novela rosa y el placer de la lectura afectiva " El placer de la lectura: cuerpos, afectos, textos 65-94

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readers

emotions

Goris, An (2013) Happily Ever After ... And After: Serialization and the Popular Romance Novel Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present) 12.1:

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Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Hamilton, Cristen (2013) Vindicating the Historical Romance Plaza: Dialogues in Language and Literature 3.2:140-156

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

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Huguley, Piper (2022) " In Search of the Black Historical Hottie: The Sad Situation of the Black Hero in Historical Romance " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 159-170

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Jackson, Nicole M. (2022) Freedom’s Epilogue: Love as Freedom in Alyssa Cole’s Historical Novellas Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

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African American romance

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

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

Kinsale, Laura (1992) " The Androgynous Reader: Point of View in the Romance " Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance 31-44

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Krentz, Jayne Ann (1992) Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press

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

Laura Kinsale

psychology

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

feminism

Daphne Clair

Suzanne Simmons Guntrum

Diana Palmer

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Schell, Heather Larsen, Katherine (2019) How the Story Ends: Gender, Sexuality, and Nation in the Happy Ending Writing from Below 4.2:

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Sonali Dev

Radclyffe/Len Barot

gender

Mayfield, Kerrita K. (2014) Liminal eRoticism: Emerging Forms of Gender Identity and Performance in e-Romances and Their Feminist Electronic Communities Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education 14.1:53-70

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paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

BDSM

m/m romance

McAleer, Joseph (1999) Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills & Boon Oxford: Oxford University Press

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Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Publishing

Betty Beaty

Elizabeth Carfrae

Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest

Sophie Cole

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Iris Danbury

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

romances in magazines and newspapers

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

libraries/librarians

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Denise Robins

Sara Seale

Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton

Ireland

McAlister, Jodi (2021) " Erotic romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 212-228 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-9

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

romance and, or as, activism

Michelson, Anna (2021) The politics of happily-ever-after: romance genre fiction as aesthetic public sphere American Journal of Cultural Sociology 9:177–210

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sociology

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

romance and, or as, activism

Michelson, Anna (2022) Redefining the Romance: Classification and Community in a Popular Fiction Genre PhD thesis, Northwestern University

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genre definitions

sociology

authors

sex/sexuality

African American romance

Native American romance

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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India

O'Brien, Lee (2022) Telling Gaps and Domestic Tyranny: Georgette Heyer’s Regency Romances Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

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marriage

Paizis, George (1998) Love and the Novel: The Poetics and Politics of Romantic Fiction Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan

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Publishing

Pierini, Francesca (2022) Romance and Metagenre: A Response to Burkhard Niederhoff Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 31:100-111

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romance scholarship

E. M. Forster

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

Pyrhönen, Heta (2017) " Love under Threat: The Emotional Valences of the Twilight Saga " Writing Emotions: Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature 347-362

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Ramos-García, María T. (2021) " Paranormal romance and urban fantasy " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 141-167 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-6

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genre definitions

YA/teenage romance

Roach, Catherine M. (2010) Getting a Good Man to Love: Popular Romance Fiction and the Problem of Patriarchy Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1:

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love

Roach, Catherine M. (2016) Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press

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authors

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

Santaulària, Isabel (2002) " The Fallacy of Eternal Love: Romance, Vampires and the Deconstruction of Love in Linda Lael Miller's Forever and the Night and For All Eternity " The Aesthetics of Ageing: Critical Approaches to Literary Representations of the Ageing Process 111-126

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Schell, Heather Larsen, Katherine (2019) How the Story Ends: Gender, Sexuality, and Nation in the Happy Ending Writing from Below 4.2:

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Sonali Dev

Radclyffe/Len Barot

gender

Schell, Heather (2020) After “I Do”: Turkish Harlequin Readers Re-Imagine the Happy Ending Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

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Turkey

Schwab, Sandra Martina (2013) Of Dragons, Knights, and Virgin Maidens: Dragonslaying and Gender Roles from Richard Johnson to Modern Popular Fiction Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier

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Seidel, Kathleen Gilles (1992) " Judge Me by the Joy I Bring " Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance 159-179

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Selinger, Eric Murphy Vivanco, Laura (2021) " Romance and/as religion " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 485-510 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-22

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Tidwell, Christy (2016) " “A Little Wildness”: Negotiating Relationships between Human and Nonhuman in Historical Romance " Creatural Fictions: Human-Animal Relationships in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature 151-171 DOI:10.1007/978-1-137-51811-8_8

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family

sex/sexuality

Toscano, Angela (2019) " The Idolatry of the Real: Form, Formula, and Happy Endings in Romance Literature " Iconoclasm: The Breaking and Making of Images 173-192 DOI:10.2307/j.ctvnb7s6p.13

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Valeo, Christina A. (2012) Crusie and the Con Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

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Vivanco, Laura (2020) Faith, Love, Hope and Popular Romance Fiction Online:

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romance and, or as, activism

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

sex/sexuality

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

Suleikha Snyder

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

community

Selinger, Eric Murphy Vivanco, Laura (2021) " Romance and/as religion " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 485-510 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-22

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