(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

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paratext

Harlequin Mills & Boon

fashion/clothing

(1998) Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction Manchester: Manchester University Press

Topic

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

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

Smith, Janet S. (Shibamoto)

(1999) " From Hiren to Happî-endo: Romantic Expression in the Japanese Love Story " Languages of Sentiment: Cultural constructions of emotional substrates 131-150 DOI:10.1075/aicr.18.08shi

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Hijazo-Gascón, Alberto

(2009) "Cross-Cultural Differences in Conceptualization and their Application in L2 Instruction " Pragmatics Applied to Language Teaching and Learning 42-59

Topic

(2010) “The Sheik Who Loved Me”: Romancing the War on Terror Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 35.4:993-1017 DOI: 10.1086/651044

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sheikh romance

United States of America

(2010) A Little Extra Bite: Dis/Ability and Romance in Tanya Huff and Charlaine Harris’s Vampire Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1:

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disability

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

(2011) For Love and Money: The Literary Art of the Harlequin Mills & Boon Romance Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Fay Robinson/Carmel Parsons Thomaston

ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change

Motte, Warren

(2012) A Walk on the Sheikh Side Formes Poétiques Contemporaines 9:119-134

Topic

sheikh romance

paratext

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Sharon Kendrick

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

animals

metaphor/symbolism

Schwab, Sandra

(2012) “It Is Only with One’s Heart That One Can See Clearly”: The Loss of Sight in Teresa Medeiros’s The Bride and the Beast and Yours until Dawn Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 6.3:275-289 DOI: 10.3828/jlcds.2012.23

Topic

(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

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Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

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

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

López-Maestre, María D.

(2015) 'Man the hunter': A critical reading of hunt-based conceptual metaphors of love and sexual desire Journal of Literary Semantics 44.2:89-113 DOI: 10.1515/jls-2015-0009

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Pokrywka, Rafał

(2015) Temperaturen des Begehrens als konventionelle Metaphern im Hard-Core-Liebesroman 36:159-174 DOI: 10.14746/sgp.2015.36.12

Topic

(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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rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

(2018) The concept of LOVE and its conceptualization in modern English romance novels Science and Education a New Dimension 151:54-57 DOI: 10.31174/SEND-Ph2018-151VI44-12

Topic

(2018) The concept of LOVE and its conceptualization in modern English romance novels Science and Education a New Dimension 151:54-57 DOI: 10.31174/SEND-Ph2018-151VI44-12

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love

metaphor/symbolism

linguistics

Fresno-Calleja, Paloma

(2019) Chick-Lit Pasifika-Style or How to B(l)end the Formula: Lani Young’s Scarlet Series Contemporary Women's Writing 13.2:203–221 DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpaa003

Topic

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Allan, Jonathan A.

(2020) Mourning and Sentimental Heroism in Maureen Child's Lost in Sensation The Journal of Popular Culture 53.5:1160-1178 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12956

Topic

(2020) The Kitchen and Beyond: The Romantic Chronotope in Pakistani Popular Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/HNAW1562

Topic

romances in magazines and newspapers

(2020) Olive Skin, Chocolate Eyes: The Legacy of The Sheik on Descriptive Patterns of the Italian Romantic Hero in Harlequin Short Contemporaries Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/ZQZO7017

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Italy

national identity

Harlequin Mills & Boon

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

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religion/spirituality

romance and, or as, activism

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

sex/sexuality

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

Suleikha Snyder

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

community

happy ending

Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina

(2021) "Nora Roberts’s Boonsboro Empire: Boosting Business through Romance, Invigorating Romance with Affective Capitalism " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 97-119

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Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

(2022) "Paisaje sociocultural y lingüístico de la isla de Madeira: Visiones anglocéntricas en una muestra de seis novelas rosa " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 65-83

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Portugal

Harlequin Mills & Boon

(2022) "The sociocultural and linguistic landscape of Madeira: Anglocentric visions in a sample of six romance novels " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 257-274

Topic

Portugal

Harlequin Mills & Boon

settings

metaphor/symbolism

linguistics

Selinger, Eric Murphy

(2022) "Disaggregating attraction: asexuality and genre critique in Alex Beecroft's Blue Steel Chain " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-29

Topic

Alex Beecroft

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

sex/sexuality

religion/spirituality

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Christian romance

food, drink

metaphor/symbolism

Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús

(2022) "Canarian culture and identity and their representation in the novels of the FFI2014-53962-P corpus " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 275-296

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national identity

Spain

metaphor/symbolism

Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús

(2022) "La cultura y la identidad canarias y su representación en las novelas del corpus FFI2014-53962-P " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 85-107

Topic

(2023) "Romantic Love across Borders: Marriage Migration in Popular Romance Fiction " Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities: What's Love Got To Do With It? 39-49 DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-26055-1_4

Topic

Helen Hoang

Brigitte Bautista

United States of America