paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

death

police officers/police forces

authors

Ali, Kecia (2023) The End of the World as We Know It: Climate Catastrophe in Nalini Singh's Paranormal Romance Fiction The Journal of the Core Curriculum: An Annual Literary and Academic Anthology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston University 32:81-86

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Nalini Singh

environmentalism/climate change

Anzaldúa, Saraliza (2015) Teratophilia: An Inquiry into Monster Erotica and the Feminine Psyche , National Taiwan University

Topic

Bailie, Helen T. (2011) Blood Ties: The Vampire Lover in the Popular Romance The Journal of American Culture 34.2:141-148

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emotions

family

Lynch, Katherine E. Sternglantz, Ruth E. Barot, Len (2012) Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.1:

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

lesbian romance

Radclyffe Hall

Béres, Laura (2001) Romance, suffering and hope, reflective practice with abused women PhD, University of Toronto

Topic

psychology

Michele Hauf

V. C. Andrews

Béres, Laura (2002) Negotiating Images: Popular Culture, Imagination, and Hope in Clinical Social Work Practice Affilia 17.4:429–447

Topic

psychology

Michele Hauf

Billekens, Franciska (2019) Never Mind Me When There’s You: The Submission Of The Heroine In Young Adult Supernatural Romance Fiction BA, Utrecht University

Topic

Bontly, Susan W. Sheridan, Carol J. (1996) Enchanted Journeys Beyond the Imagination: An Annotated Bibliography of Fantasy, Futuristic, Supernatural, and Time Travel Romances Beavercreek, Ohio: Blue Diamond Publications

Topic

Booth, Sandra (1997) Paradox in Popular Romances of the 1990s: The Paranormal versus Feminist Humor Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:94-106

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rom-com romance

Booth, Sandra Marie (1996) Remaking the "Angel" and "Monster": ethical shifts in the contemporary popular romance MA, Laurentian University

Topic

contemporary romance

Borgia, Danielle N. (2014) Twilight: The Glamorization of Abuse, Codependency, and White Privilege The Journal of Popular Culture 47.1:153-173

Topic

Linz, Cathie Bouricius, Ann Byrnes, Carole (1995) Exploring the World of Romance Novels Public Libraries 34.3:144–151

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paratext

Bradford, Clare (2013) " Monsters: Monstrous Identities in Young Adult Romance " (Re)Imagining the World: Children’s Literature’s Response to Changing Times 115-125

Topic

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

family

Burke, Nicola (2020) Mills and Fur: Feminism and Femininity in the Supernatural Romance PhD, Western Sydney University

Topic

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

Maggie Stiefvater

Linz, Cathie Bouricius, Ann Byrnes, Carole (1995) Exploring the World of Romance Novels Public Libraries 34.3:144–151

Topic

paratext

Calhoun-French, Diane M. (1999) " Time-Travel and Related Phenomena in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction " Romantic Conventions 100-112

Topic

Constance O'Day Flannery

Jo Ann Simon

Heather Graham

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Carpan, Carolyn (2004) Rocked by Romance: A Guide to Teen Romance Fiction Westport, Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited

Topic

Christian romance

Chaplin, Sue (2019) ‘Daddy, I’m falling for a monster’: Women, Sex, and Sacrifice in Contemporary Paranormal Romance Gothic Studies 21.1:10-27

Topic

Crawford, Joseph (2014) The Twilight of the Gothic? Vampire Fiction and the Rise of the Paranormal Romance, 1991-2012 Cardiff: University of Wales Press

Topic

Crawford, Joseph (2021) " Old-World Heroes and New-World Heroines in Post-Millennial Anglophone Romance Media " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 29-54

Topic

sheikh romance

Deffenbacher, Kristina (2014) Rape Myths' Twilight and Women's Paranormal Revenge in Romantic and Urban Fantasy Fiction Journal of Popular Culture 47.5:923-936

Topic

Dennis, Lesley Erin (2012) Pornography and Rape Myths in Paranormal Romance Novels Master of Arts, Morehead State University

Topic

Emrys, A. B. (1994) Magic Regencies: How Fantasy Forms a Hybrid Popular Culture Review 5.1:85-93

Topic

Feng, Jin (2009) "Addicted to Beauty": Consuming and Producing Web-based Chinese Danmei Fiction at Jinjiang Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 21.2:1-41

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China

m/m romance

authors

socialism and/or communism

Feng, Jin (2011) Men Conquer the World and Women Save Mankind: Rewriting Patriarchal Traditions through Web-based Matriarchal Romances Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.2:

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China

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

Topic

Frantz, Sarah S. G. (2008) "Suzanne Brockmann" Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-19

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Suzanne Brockmann

Islam

Fresno-Calleja, Paloma (2022) Repurposing Fantasy Island: Lani Wendt Young’s Telesā Series and the Politics of Postcolonial Romance Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

Lani Wendt Young

settings

romance and, or as, activism

Gagne-Hawes, Genevieve (2006) Anatomy of a Romance: Questioning genre conventions in the novels of Nora Roberts Modern Mask 1.2:

Topic

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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animals

Gómez Calderón, María José (2007) Romancing the Dark Ages: The Viking Hero in Sentimental Narrative Boletín Millares Carlo 26:287-297

Topic

Grinnell, Natalie (2022) The Challenge to Dominance Theory in Patricia Brigg's and Carrie Vaughn's Paranormal Romance Novels Femspec 22.2:40-65

Topic

Patricia Briggs

Carrie Vaughn

Hague, Euan Stenhouse, David (2007) " A Very Interesting Place: Representing Scotland in American Romance Novels " The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature 354-361

Topic

Hague, Euan (2014) " Mass Market Romance Fiction and the Representation of Scotland in the United States " The Modern Scottish Diaspora: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives 171-190

Topic

Scotland

linguistics

history

Hains, Maryellen (1989) Beauty and the Beast: 20th Century Romance? Merveilles & contes 3.1:75–83

Topic

Robin McKinley

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Heiss, Karin (2020) " Snow White of the (Un)Dead Reading the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter Series as Tales of Female Desire " And Thereby Hangs a Tale: A Critical Anatomy of (Popular) Tales 141-159 DOI:10.25593/978-3-96147-343-4

Topic

Laurell K. Hamilton

Herb, Annika (2021) (Para)normalizing Rape Culture: Possession as Rape in Young Adult Paranormal Romance Girlhood Studies 14.1:68–84

Topic

Hobson, Amanda (2015) " Brothers under Covers: Race and the Paranormal Romance Novel " Race in the Vampire Narrative 23–43 DOI:10.1163/9789463002929_004

Topic

Kerrelyn Sparks

Hughes, Bill (2013) ‘Two kinds of romance': Generic Hybridity and Epistemological Uncertainty in Contemporary Paranormal Romance :

Topic

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

Topic

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

Topic

animals

Hughes, Bill (2021) " Genre Mutation in Young Adult Gothic: The Dialectics of Dystopia and Romance in Holly Black's The Coldest Girl in Coldtown " Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves/Monstrous Others

Topic

capitalism/business

Holly Black

Patai, Daphne Ingram, Angela (1993) " Fantasy and Identity: The Double Life of a Victorian Sexual Radical " Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939 265-302

Topic

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

Irene Clyde

Johnson, Brian (2022) " Weird Bedfellows: H. P. Lovecraft, m/m Romance, and the New Queer Families of Jordan L. Hawk's Whyborne & Griffin Series " Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming DOI:10.4324/9780367713065-20

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Jordan L. Hawk

m/m romance

Kamblé, Jayashree (2014) Making Meaning in Popular Romance Fiction: An Epistemology New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Kaveney, Roz (2012) " Dark fantasy and paranormal romance " The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature 214-223 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521429597.020

Topic

Charlaine Harris

Laurell K. Hamilton

Kendal, Evie (2019) The use of free indirect discourse in J. R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique 38:20-43

Topic

Klaber, Lara (2014) Taming the Perfect Beast: the Monster as Romantic Hero in Contemporary Fiction Master of Arts, Cleveland State University

Topic

Kollman, Kathleen W. Taylor (2018) Contemporary Paranormal Romance: Theories and Development of the Genre’s Feminism (Or Lack Thereof) Researching the Romance, conference held at Bowling Green State University, on 14 April :

Topic

Leavenworth, Maria Lindgren (2009) Lover Revamped: Sexualities and Romance in the Black Dagger Brotherhood and Slash Fan Fiction Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 50.3:442-462

Topic

fanfiction

Lee, Linda J. (2008) Guilty Pleasures: Reading Romance Novels as Reworked Fairy Tales Marvels & Tales 22.1:52-66

Topic

Christine Feehan

Lennard, John (2007) Of Modern Dragons and other essays on Genre Fiction Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks

Topic

science fiction/futuristic romance

Lennard, John (2010) Of Sex and Faerie: Further essays on Genre Fiction Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks

Topic

Leonzini, Alexandra (2018) " “All the Better to Eat You With”: The Eroticization of the Werewolf and the Rise of Monster Porn in the Digital Age " Exploring the Fantastic: Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture 269-294

Topic

pornography

Linz, Cathie Bouricius, Ann Byrnes, Carole (1995) Exploring the World of Romance Novels Public Libraries 34.3:144–151

Topic

paratext

Lowery, Karalyne (2018) The Militarized Shapeshifter: Authorized Violence and Military Connections as an Antidote to Monstrosity University of Toronto Quarterly 87.1:196-213

Topic

Lynch, Katherine E. Sternglantz, Ruth E. Barot, Len (2012) Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.1:

Topic

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

lesbian romance

Radclyffe Hall

Markert, John (2016) Publishing Romance: The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Topic

African American romance

Avon

Ellora's Cave

BDSM

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

Topic

happy ending

BDSM

m/m romance

McLennon, Leigh (2014) Defining Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance: Crossing Boundaries of Genre, Media, Self and Other in New Supernatural Worlds Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media 23:

Topic

McLennon, Leigh (2017) Contemporary vampire genre fiction: ethical feeding and the posthuman vampire in urban fantasy and paranormal romance PhD, University of Melbourne

Topic

Miller, Kathleen (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:

Topic

disability

Smith, Michelle J. Moruzi, Kristine (2018) Vampires and Witches Go to School: Contemporary Young Adult Fiction, Gender, and the Gothic Children's Literature in Education 49:6–18

Topic

Mukherjea, Ananya (2011) My Vampire Boyfriend: Postfeminism, “Perfect” Masculinity, and the Contemporary Appeal of Paranormal Romance Studies in Popular Culture 33.2:1-20

Topic

Mussell, Kay (1997) Where's Love Gone? Transformations in Romance Fiction and Scholarship Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:3-14

Topic

Nakagawa, Chiho (2011) Safe Sex with Defanged Vampires: New Vampire Heroes in Twilight and the Southern Vampire Mysteries Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1:

Topic

Charlaine Harris

virginity

metafiction

Ndalianis, Angela (2012) The Horror Sensorium: Media and the Senses Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Topic

Laurell K. Hamilton

Charlaine Harris

Christine Feehan

Nilson, Maria (2017) Nådens tuttar : Om skönheter, odjur och den frälsande kvinnokroppen i modern romance HumaNetten 39:110-123

Topic

Fifty Shades

Wyatt, Neal Olsen, Georgine Ramsdell, Kristin Saricks, Joyce Welch, Lynne (2007) Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101 Reference & User Services Quarterly 47.2:120-126

Topic

Patai, Daphne Ingram, Angela (1993) " Fantasy and Identity: The Double Life of a Victorian Sexual Radical " Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939 265-302

Topic

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

Irene Clyde

Peaty, Gwyneth (2015) " Rock Hard: Gargoyles in Contemporary Gothic Romance " New Directions in 21st Century Gothic: The Gothic Compass 54-70 DOI:10.4324/9781315749419

Topic

Ramos-García, María T. (2020) " Representations of Otherness in Paranormal Romance: Race and Wealth in Nalini Singh and J. R. Ward " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 127-144

Topic

Nalini Singh

capitalism/business

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

Topic

happy ending

Ramsdell, Kristin (1999) Romance Fiction: A Guide to the Genre Englewood, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited

Topic

Christian romance

romance scholarship

Wyatt, Neal Olsen, Georgine Ramsdell, Kristin Saricks, Joyce Welch, Lynne (2007) Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101 Reference & User Services Quarterly 47.2:120-126

Topic

Ramsdell, Kristin (2018) Encyclopedia of Romance Fiction Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood

Topic

science fiction/futuristic romance

Elinor Glyn

Margaret Mitchell

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Georgette Heyer

E. M. Hull

romance scholarship

Samuel Richardson

Rattanamathuwong, Bancha (2023) Time Is on Our Side?: Homo Economicus in Time-Travel Romance Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

Rholetter, Wylene (2008) Nora Roberts Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-35

Topic

Romney, Rebecca (2021) The Romance Novel in English: A Survey in Rare Books, 1769-1999 : Type Punch Matrix

Topic

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

work

African American romance

Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton

Judaism

Pauline Hopkins

Kathleen Thompson Norris

romances in magazines and newspapers

Elizabeth Carfrae

Frances Shelley Wees

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Alice Lent Covert

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton

Della Field, pseudonym of Fanny Howe

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

science fiction/futuristic romance

Marisa de Zavala/Ana Lisa de Leon/Rachel Scott/Celina Rios Mullan

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Tracy West/Joyce McGill/Chassie West

Russell, Shannon (2014) Dangerous Young Men: Themes of Female Sexuality and Masculinity in Paranormal Romance Novels for Young Adults Masters, University of Ottawa

Topic

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

Topic

Wyatt, Neal Olsen, Georgine Ramsdell, Kristin Saricks, Joyce Welch, Lynne (2007) Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101 Reference & User Services Quarterly 47.2:120-126

Topic

Schalk, Sami (2016) Happily Ever After for Whom? Blackness and Disability in Romance Narratives Journal of Popular Culture 49.6:1241–1260

Topic

disability

African American romance

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

Topic

animals

health/medical

evolutionary psychology

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

Topic

evolutionary psychology

Seifert, Christine (2015) Virginity in Young Adult Literature after Twilight Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield

Topic

Şerban, Andreea (2012) " Romancing the Paranormal: A Case Study of J.R. Ward’s The Black Dagger Brotherhood " Romance: The History of a Genre 89-110

Topic

Topic

Slušná, Zuzana (2014) Paranormal and Religious as Part of Pop Cultural Consumerism European Journal of Science and Theology 10.1:99-110

Topic

Šmídová, Monika Markéta (2021) Five Thousand for Justice: The Use of English Folklore in the Novels of KJ Charles Masters, Masaryk University

Topic

K. J. Charles

Smith, Michelle J. Moruzi, Kristine (2018) Vampires and Witches Go to School: Contemporary Young Adult Fiction, Gender, and the Gothic Children's Literature in Education 49:6–18

Topic

Hague, Euan Stenhouse, David (2007) " A Very Interesting Place: Representing Scotland in American Romance Novels " The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature 354-361

Topic

Lynch, Katherine E. Sternglantz, Ruth E. Barot, Len (2012) Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.1:

Topic

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

lesbian romance

Radclyffe Hall

Søndberg Spaabæk, Anne Sofie (2022) The “Infernal” Value of the Gothic: A Reading of Gothicness and Romanceness in Cassandra Clare’s The Infernal Devices Masters, Aalborg University

Topic

Cassandra Clare

Tang, Yang (2014) Between Fantasy and Reality: Time-Travel Romance and Media Fandom in Chinese Cyberspace MA thesis, Simon Fraser University

Topic

China

Taylor, Anthea (2012) ‘The urge towards love is an urge towards (un)death’: Romance, masochistic desire and postfeminism in the Twilight novels International Journal of Cultural Studies 15.1:31-46

Topic