Anne Stuart

(2026) Between Whispers and Screams: Loudness Standard Deviation as a Proxy for Explicit Content Detection in US Romance Novels Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for the Digital Humanities :368–380 DOI: 10.18653/v1/2026.nlp4dh-1.33

Topic

romantic suspense

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Krentz, Jayne Ann

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

Topic

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

metaphor/symbolism

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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

Elizabeth Lowell

war/armed forces

Doreen Owens Malek

Penelope Williamson

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Suzanne Simmons Guntrum

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Toscano, Angela

(2012) A Parody of Love: the Narrative Uses of Rape in Popular Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

Topic

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Catherine Coulter

Patricia Gaffney

(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

fairytales/folktales

metaphor/symbolism

Caroline Anderson

Elizabeth Ashton

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Jennifer Crusie

Polly Forrester

Marcia King-Gamble

Margaret Malcolm

Emilie Richards

Fay Robinson/Carmel Parsons Thomaston

Deborah Simmons

Michelle Styles

Claire Thornton

ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change