animals

LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

Maggie Stiefvater

Cook, Nancy (2009) " Home on the Range: Montana Romances and Geographies of Hope " All Our Stories Are Here: Critical Perspectives on Montana Literature 55-77

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settings

United States of America

rural romance

Tami Hoag

work

community

Franck, Kaja (2020) " Growing Pains of the Teenage Werewolf: Young Adult Literature and the Metaphorical Wolf " In the company of wolves: Werewolves, wolves and wild children 163-177 DOI:10.7765/9781526129048.00020

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George, Sam Hughes, Bill (2020) " Introduction: from preternatural pastoral to paranormal romance " In the company of wolves: Werewolves, wolves and wild children 1-17 DOI:10.7765/9781526129048.00007

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Hughes, Bill (2014) Demon Lovers: Embracing the Monster in Paranormal Romance :1-23

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trash/literary and or intellectual quality

YA/teenage romance

gothic romance

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

Topic

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

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

Melman, Billie (1988) Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties: Flappers and Nymphs Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan

Topic

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

pornography

romances in magazines and newspapers

social/economic class

work

community

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

Topic

sheikh romance

paratext

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Sharon Kendrick

metaphor/symbolism

Nobert, Margo (1983) Le titre comme séduction dans le roman Harlequin: une lecture sociosémiotique Études littéraires 16.3:379–398

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O'Mahony, Lauren (2014) Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks?: Romance, Ethics and Human-Dog Relationships in a Rural Australian Novel Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

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Pierini, Francesca (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:

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Italy

national identity

Schell, Heather (2007) The Big Bad Wolf: Masculinity and Genetics in Popular Culture Literature and Medicine 26.1:109-125

Topic

health/medical

gender

evolutionary psychology

Schell, Heather (2011) " The Love Life of a Fact " How Well Do Facts Travel? The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge 429-453

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gender

evolutionary psychology

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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