family

fat, fatness

Arnold-Forster, Agnes

(2021) Racing Pulses: Gender, Professionalism and Health Care in Medical Romance Fiction History Workshop Journal 91.1:157–181 DOI: 10.1093/hwj/dbab011

Topic

medical romance

romance and, or as, activism

authors

Hilda Pressley, pseudonym of Hilda Nickson

Elizabeth Gilzean

Alex Stuart

(2014) Conflicting Images of Womanhood in the Novels of Alice Ogando Cincinnati Romance Review 38:245-259

Topic

Alice Ogando writing as Mary Love

Portugal

(2000) Looking for Reality in Romance Social Scientist 28.3/4:30-39

Topic

(2011) Blood Ties: The Vampire Lover in the Popular Romance The Journal of American Culture 34.2:141-148 DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-734X.2011.00770.x

Topic

emotions

Barrett-Fox, Rebecca

(2007) "Hope, Faith and Toughness: An Analysis of the Christian Hero " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 93-102

Topic

Barta, Orsolya

(2024) Surprise Babies, Bad Mothers & Happily Ever Afters: Pregnancy Narratives and the Concept of Motherhood In Eight Contemporary Romance Novels Masters thesis, University of Uppsala

Topic

Bettinotti, Julia

(1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal

Topic

(1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal

Topic

(2018) Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972–2017 Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

capitalism/business

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

YA/teenage romance

Broad, Katherine R.

(2013) "“The Dandelion in the Spring”: Utopia as Romance in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games Trilogy " Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers 117–130 DOI:10.4324/9780203084939

Topic

(2020) Houses of Genre Fiction: The Shared Estrangement of Postwar American Culture PhD, Brandeis University

Topic

settings

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Helen Hoang

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

(2015) Blossoming Dahlia: Chinese Women Novelists in Colonial Indonesia Southeast Asian Studies 4.3:533-564

Topic

Indonesia

(2019) ‘Daddy, I’m falling for a monster’: Women, Sex, and Sacrifice in Contemporary Paranormal Romance Gothic Studies 21.1:10-27 DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2019.0004

Topic

Chelton, Mary K.

(2018) Searching for Birth Parents or Adopted Children: Finding without Seeking in Romance Novels Reference & User Services Quarterly 57.4:266-273 DOI: 10.5860/rusq.57.4.6704

Topic

Cheyne, Ria

(2013) Disability Studies Reads the Romance Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 7.1:37–52 DOI: 10.3828/jlcds.2013.3

Topic

(2019) Disability, Literature, Genre: Representation and Affect in Contemporary Fiction Liverpool: Liverpool University Press

Topic

(1999) Accommodation and Resistance in Religious Fiction: Family Structures and Gender Roles Sociology of Religion 60.4:439–455 DOI: 10.2307/3712025

Topic

(2005) Cowboys and Schoolteachers: Gender in Romance Novels, Secular and Christian Sociological Perspectives 48.4:461-479 DOI: 10.1525/sop.2005.48.4.461

Topic

sociology

Conley, Willow M.

Grinnell, Natalie

(2023) The Queer Temporality of Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 34.3:171-199

Topic

Gail Carriger

(2009) The Texas Billionaire's Pregnant Bride: An Evolutionary Interpretation of Romance Fiction Titles Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology 3.4:386-401 DOI: 10.1037/h0099308

Topic

evolutionary psychology

Crusie Smith, Jennifer

(1998) "The Romantic Suspense Mystery " Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage, Volume 2 1183-1197

Crusie Smith, Jennifer

(1999) "This Is Not Your Mother's Cinderella: The Romance Novel as Feminist Fairy Tale " Romantic Conventions 51-61

Topic

Dandridge, Rita B.

(2016) "Love Prevailed Despite What American History Said: Agape and Eros in Beverly Jenkins's Night Song and Through the Storm " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 151-166

Topic

wealth/prosperity

Darbyshire, Peter

(2002) The Politics of Love: Harlequin Romances and the Christian Right Journal of Popular Culture 35.4:75-87 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.2002.3504_75.x

Topic

(1995) Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances Nursing Inquiry 2.4:203-210 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.1995.tb00147.x

Topic

Downey, Kristin

(2005) Irony, Ideology, and Resistance: The Amazing Double Life of Harlequin Presents PhD, McMaster University

Topic

(2019) The Valentine Wars PhD, University of Newcastle, Australia

Topic

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

(2022) "The single-mother and the law: romance novels making room for female voices in patriarchal spaces " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-31

Topic

(1995) Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances Nursing Inquiry 2.4:203-210 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.1995.tb00147.x

Topic

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 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4320839

Topic

(2016) Superhero, Sleeping Beauty, or Devil? The Making of Orphan Myths and Public Administration Public Voices 14.2:67-84

Topic

emotions

Ehnenn, Jill

(1998) Desperately Seeking Susan Among the Trash: Reinscription, Subversion and Visibility in the Lesbian Romance Novel Atlantis 23.1:120-127

Topic

lesbian romance

Ellis, Kate

(1987) "Gimme Shelter: Feminism, Fantasy, and Women's Popular Fiction " American Media and Mass Culture: Left Perspectives 216-230

Topic

gothic romance

virginity

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

English Studies Group, 1978–9, The

(1980) "Recent Developments in English Studies at the Centre " Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 1972-79 227-262 DOI:10.4324/9780203381182

Topic

capitalism/business

Fenske, Emma K.

(2022) Romancing the New Evangelical Woman Master of Arts, Baylor University

Topic

(2022) "House, home and husband in historical romance fiction " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-11

Topic

(2009) The Texas Billionaire's Pregnant Bride: An Evolutionary Interpretation of Romance Fiction Titles Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology 3.4:386-401 DOI: 10.1037/h0099308

Topic

evolutionary psychology

Fletcher, Lisa

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

Topic

Anne Gracie

(1991) The Alienated Reader: Women and Romantic Literature in the Twentieth Century Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf

Frantz, Sarah S. G.

(2009) "I’ve tried my entire life to be a good man': Suzanne Brockmann’s Sam Starrett, Ideal Romance Hero " Women Constructing Men: Female Novelists and their Male Characters, 1750-2000 227-247

Topic

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

Bettinotti, Julia

(1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal

Topic

(2008) 'Fit Only for the Scrap Heap': Rebuilding Returned Soldier Manhood in Australia After 1945 Gender & History 20.1:48-67 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0424.2007.00501.x

Topic

(2022) "Women Policing Whiteness: Deviance and Surveillance in Contemporary Police Procedural Romance " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 167-186

Topic

romantic suspense

Gómez Calderón, María José

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

Topic

(1995) Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances Nursing Inquiry 2.4:203-210 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.1995.tb00147.x

Topic

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:

Topic

(2024) "More schlongs, more cats " Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent

Topic

Steffanie Holmes, pen name of Steff Green

happy ending

Conley, Willow M.

Grinnell, Natalie

(2023) The Queer Temporality of Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 34.3:171-199

Topic

Gail Carriger

(2024) "Unblessed Be Thy Milk: Filial Obedience, Repentance, and Forgiveness in Malay Popular Fiction " The Asian Family in Literature and Film: Challenges and Contestations-South Asia, Southeast Asia and Asian Diaspora, Volume II 139-160 DOI:10.1007/978-981-97-2227-3_7

Topic

(1980) Persecutors, Victims and Rescuers in Harlequin Romances Paper presented at the combined Annual Meeting of the Midwest Popular Culture Association and the Midwest American Culture Association (Kalamazoo, MI, October 23-25, 1980). :

Topic

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

(2010) Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity Stanford, California: Stanford University Press

Topic

Judaism

Germany

Ludwig Philippson

Salomon Formstecher

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

Topic

Interracial Books for Children Bulletin,

Topic

(2020) Formula Romance Dalam Perfect Romance Karya Indah Hanaco: Kajian Sastra Feminis Alayasastra 16.2:301-316 DOI: 10.36567/aly.v16i2.634

Topic

(1981) Romance Series for Young Readers: A Report to Educators and Parents in Concert with the National Education Association New York: The Council on Interracial Books for Children

Topic

YA/teenage romance

disability

libraries/librarians

(2022) Freedom’s Epilogue: Love as Freedom in Alyssa Cole’s Historical Novellas Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/ZYOB2141

Topic

African American romance

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

happy ending

Jones, Amanda

(2019) Madness, Monks and Mutiny: Neo-Victorianism in the Work of Victoria Holt Neo-Victorian Studies 12.1:1-27 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3470919

Topic

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

India

Juhasz, Suzanne

(1998) Lesbian Romance Fiction and the Plotting of Desire: Narrative Theory, Lesbian Identity, and Reading Practice Tulsa Studies In Women's Literature 17.1:65-82 DOI: 10.2307/464325

Topic

lesbian romance

(2020) When Wuxia Met Romance: The Pleasures and Politics of Transculturalism in Sherry Thomas’s My Beautiful Enemy Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/AWFD7941

Topic

Kamitsuka, Margaret D.

(2020) Prolife Christian Romance Novels: A Sign that the Abortion-as-Murder Center Is Not Holding? Christianity & Literature 69.1:36-52

Topic

health/medical

Francine Rivers

Kanerick, Caroline

(2010) ‘A Jazzed and Patchwork Modern’: ‘future’ girls and modern masculinities in the early popular romances of Berta Ruck Women's History Review 19.5:685-702 DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2010.509147

Topic

Berta Ruck

history

Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz

Kelso, Sylvia

(1997) Stitching Time: Feminism(s) and Thirty Years of Gothic Romance Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:164-179

Topic

gothic romance

King, Laura

(2015) "The Perfect Man: Fatherhood, Masculinity and Romance in Popular Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain " Love and Romance in Britain, 1918-1970 41–60 DOI:10.1057/9781137328632_3

Topic

(2017) "For the Sake of Hearth and Home: Gender Schematicity in the Romance Novel " Discourses on Gender and Sexual Inequality: The Legacy of Sandra L. Bem 115-128 DOI:10.1108/S1529-212620170000023006

Topic

(2011) Virtuous Vampires and Voluptuous Vamps: Romance Conventions Reconsidered in Stephenie Meyer’s ‘‘Twilight’’ Series Children's Literature in Education 42.2:165-179 DOI: 10.1007/s10583-010-9125-9

Topic

Twilight

(2001) Family Myths in Romantic Fiction Psychological Reports 88.1:29-41 DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2001.88.1.29

Topic

(2001) Gender Roles, Romantic Fiction and Family Therapy Psycoloquy 12.24:

Topic

psychology

Vivanco, Laura

Kramer, Kyra

(2010) There Are Six Bodies in This Relationship: An Anthropological Approach to the Romance Genre Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1:

Topic

Kutzer, M. Daphne

(1986) "I Won't Grow up"—Yet: Teen Formula Romance Children's Literature Association Quarterly 11.2:90-95 DOI: 10.1353/chq.0.0557

Topic

(2024) "God loves you nearly as much as I do": Toward a Poetics of Natality in Maureen Bronson's Delta Pearl, a 1989 Harlequin Historical Romance. Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 55.1:27–39

Topic

(1992) Social Change and Romantic Ideology: The Impact of the Publishing Industry, Family Organization, and Gender Roles on the Reception and Interpretation of Romance Fiction in Taiwan, 1960-1990 PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Topic

(2000) Visions and Versions of Parenthood in British and American Series Romances Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions 6:18-29

Topic

Litton, Joyce A.

(1994) "From Seventeenth Summer to Miss Teen Sweet Valley: Female and Male Sex Roles in Teen Romances, 1942-91 " Images of the Child 19-34

Topic

(2008) « Tant d’amour à donner »: Le biographique, l’œuvre, et la figure de l’auteur Harlequin COnTEXTES 3: DOI: 10.4000/contextes.2413

Topic

authors

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

Warren, Jean-Philippe

(2022) Une littérature qui refuse de se laisser parler d’amour ? Les romans québécois et l’expression de la passion avant 1960 Captures 7.1: DOI: 10.7202/1091535ar

Topic

Warren, Jean-Philippe

(2024) Love Stories Now and Then: A History of Les romans d'amour : Baraka

Topic

Canada

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

Philippe Aubert de Gaspé Jr.

Joseph Doutre

metafiction

Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau

Albertine Laperle-Bernier

dime novels

Marie-Claude Bussières-Tremblay

YA/teenage romance

chick lit

Micheline Perron

Raymond Plante

Bertrand Gauthier

(2001) Feminist Popular Fiction Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave

Topic

Malinowska, Anna

(2017) Paternal Structures of the Romance Romanica Silesiana 12:40-52

Topic

Manzano Badía, Benjamín

(2000) "Carmen de Icaza, una apología pequeño-burguesa y conservadora de la familia " Mujeres novelistas en el panorama literario del siglo XX: I Congreso de narrativa española (en lengua castellana). 107-121

Topic

Carmen de Icaza

wealth/prosperity

capitalism/business

Margolis, Harriet

(1997) A Childe in Love, Or Is It Just Fantasy? The Values of Women's Genres Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:121-144

Topic

(2008) LaVyrle Spencer Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-17

Topic

(1990) Scenes from Love and Marriage: Mills and Boon and the Popular Publishing Industry in Britain, 1908-1950 Twentieth Century British History 1.3:264-288 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/1.3.264

Topic

Publishing

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

McAleer, Joseph

(1992) Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain, 1914-1950 Oxford: Clarendon Press

Topic

Publishing

libraries/librarians

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

McAleer, Joseph

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

Topic

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

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

McCafferty, Kate

(1994) Palimpsest of Desire: The Re-Emergence of the American Captivity Narrative as Pulp Romance Journal of Popular Culture 27.4:43-56 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1994.2704_43.x

Topic

historical romance

Native American romance

(2009) Out of Wedlock: The Consummation and Consumption of Marriage in Contemporary Romance Fiction Genders 50:

Topic

(1988) Confessions of a Harlequin Reader: Romance and the Myth of Male Mothers Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory 12. 1-2:1-37

Topic

psychology

(1998) "Mills & Boon’s Temptations: Sex and the Single Couple in the 1990s " Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film 141-156

Topic

(2021) Her Heart Lies at the Feet of the Mother: Transformations of the Romance Plot in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret African Journal of Gender and Religion 27.2:1-21

Topic

(2001) Family Myths in Romantic Fiction Psychological Reports 88.1:29-41 DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2001.88.1.29

Topic

(2001) Gender Roles, Romantic Fiction and Family Therapy Psycoloquy 12.24:

Topic

psychology

(1995) Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances Nursing Inquiry 2.4:203-210 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.1995.tb00147.x

Topic

Muhomah, Catherine

(2002) What do women want?: Versions of masculinity in Kenyan romantic fiction English Studies in Africa 45.2:77-90

Topic

(1989) Japanese Harlequin Romances as Transcultural Woman's Fiction The Journal of Asian Studies 48.1:50-70 DOI: 10.2307/2057664

Topic

food, drink

Mulvey, Alexandra Hazel

(2023) Gender and Sex Stereotypes in Sports Romance Fiction Masters thesis, Macquarie University

Topic

sport

(1984) Fantasy and Reconciliation: Contemporary Formulas of Women’s Romance Fiction Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press

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

Mussell, Kay J.

(1975) Beautiful and Damned: The Sexual Woman in Gothic Fiction Journal of Popular Culture 9.1:84-89 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1975.0901_84.x

Topic

(2000) Romancing God: Reading Evangelical Romance Novels PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Topic

authors

(2019) Female Agency in the Harlequin Romance Formula: developments within the timeframe of second wave feminism Bachelor’s thesis, Utrecht University

Topic

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

virginity

health/medical

Bettinotti, Julia

(1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal

Topic

(2022) Telling Gaps and Domestic Tyranny: Georgette Heyer’s Regency Romances Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/QSNM1860

Topic

Parameswaran, Radhika

(2002) Reading Fictions of Romance: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in Postcolonial India Journal of Communication 52.4:832-851 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2002.tb02576.x

Topic

India

(2009) Out of Wedlock: The Consummation and Consumption of Marriage in Contemporary Romance Fiction Genders 50:

Topic

(1991) Les femmes dans le roman sentimental moderne L'Homme et la société 99-100:115-125 DOI: 10.3406/homso.1991.2542

Topic

France

Delly

(1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal

Topic

(1997) Reading Romance Novels in Postcolonial India Gender & Society 11.4:434-452 DOI: 10.1177/089124397011004004

Topic

Annie Vivanti/Annie Vivanti Chartres

Raineri, Rosalia

(2019) Verde bianco e rosa. Il romanzo 'femminile' e l'educazione sentimentale delle italiane (1911-1946) PhD, Università degli Studi di Palermo

Topic

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

linguistics

Regis, Pamela

(2021) "The evolution of the American romance novel " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 51-71 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-2

Topic

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

romance scholarship

Charles Brockden Brown

Sukey Vickery

Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Lydia Maria Child

E. D. E. N. Southworth

Louisa May Alcott

Frances Watkins Harper

Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton

Jean Webster

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Viña Delmar

Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith

Rempel, Valerie Gale

(2003) “The soft white strong hand of God”: Gender and the expression of evangelical piety in the religious fiction of Grace Livingston Hill, 1897–1948 PhD, Vanderbilt University

Topic

Grace Livingston Hill

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

Topic

Romera Pintor, Angela Magdalena

Roces, Mina

(2012) Women's Movements and the Filipina 1986-2008 Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press

Topic

(2019) L’enfance dans l’œuvre de Delly Le Rocambole 86-87:169-202

Topic

Delly

Rosanowski, Annika

(2019) Can She Have It All? Pregnancy Narratives in Contemporary Category Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 8:

Topic

Ross, Marlon B.

(2013) “What’s Love But a Second Hand Emotion?”: Man-on-Man Passion in the Contemporary Black Gay Romance Novel Callaloo 36.3:669-687 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2013.0159

Topic

African American romance

(2018) Full-Blooded Desi Romance: Contemporary English-Language Romance Novels in India Journal of Popular Culture 51.3:754-775 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12652

Topic

Ryden, Wendy

(2007) Bourgeois Realism or Working Class Kitsch?: The Aesthetics of Class in Composition Open Words: Access and English Studies 1.2:4-23

Topic

(2013) "Bringing the Mid-West to the Middle-East: An Analysis of a Harlequin Romance in English and Turkish " The Silk Road of Adaptation: Transformations across Disciplines and Cultures 160-171

Topic

translation

Schell, Heather

(2020) After “I Do”: Turkish Harlequin Readers Re-Imagine the Happy Ending Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/KCOO7755

Topic

Turkey

(2007) ""I find some Hindu practices like burning widows, utterly bizarre": Representations of Sati and Questions of Choice in Veils of Silk " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 129-147

Topic

death

Selinger, Eric Murphy

(2012) Nothing But Good Times Ahead: A Special Forum on Jennifer Crusie (Editor’s Introduction) Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

Topic

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

fairytales/folktales

historical romance

community

Šmídová, Monika Markéta

(2024) “Oh, my friend, those weren’t angels”: Trauma, Recovery and Folklore in The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal and Spectred Isle by KJ Charles Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13: DOI: 10.70138/QXRQ7362

Topic

K. J. Charles

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

Topic

(2015) Vencer a Medusa: el modelo de mujer angelical en la primera novela rosa de Carmen de Icaza. Feminidad y tradicionalismo Verba Hispanica 23.1:247-260 DOI: 10.4312/vh.23.1.247-260

Topic

Carmen de Icaza

Soler Gallo, Miguel

(2017) "El juego amoroso en la novela rosa española femenina de los años cuarenta " O jogo do mundo: ensaios sobre o imaginário lúdico 433-454

Topic

(1999) "'Never Love a Cowboy': Romance Fiction and Fantasy Families " Writing and Fantasy 223-235

Topic

(1995) Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances Nursing Inquiry 2.4:203-210 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.1995.tb00147.x

Topic

Tatlock, Lynne

(2012) German Writing, American Reading: Women and the Import of Fiction, 1866-1917 Columbus: Ohio State University Press

Topic

Germany

Wilhelmine Heimburg/Bertha Behrens

E. Marlitt/Eugenie John

Fanny Lewald

Wilhelmine von Hillern

Claire von Glümer

Ursula Zöge von Manteuffel

E. Werner/Elisabeth Bürstenbinder

Nataly von Eschstruth

metafiction

Moritz von Reichenbach/Valeska von Reiswitz, Gräfin von Bethusy-Huc

Charlotte Brontë

E. Juncker

Golo Raimund/Bertha [Heyn] Frederich

(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 DOI: 10.1177/1367877911399204

Topic

Teo, Hsu-Ming

(2007) "Orientalism and Mass Market Romance Novels in the Twentieth Century " Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual 241-262

Topic

(2014) “We have to learn to love imperially”: Love in Late Colonial and Federation Australian Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

Teo, Hsu-Ming

(2020) Cultural Authenticity, the Family, and East Asian American Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/RVXO4126

Thomas, Glen

(2007) "The Best Australian Romance Novelist: Emma Darcy " Beautiful Things in Popular Culture 64–78

Topic

(2005) Rereading Fifties Teen Romance: Reflections on Janet Lambert The Lion and the Unicorn 29.3:373-396 DOI: 10.1353/uni.2005.0047

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

Topic

(2014) Fifty Shades of “Mommy Porn”: A Post-GFC Renegotiation of Paternal Law Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.1:

Topic

(2012) "The Power of Three: Nora Roberts and Serial Magic " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 229-239

Topic

(2019) "No Ordinary Love: The Romantic Formula of Stepsibling Erotica " Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary' 161–180 DOI:10.1163/9789004406742_010

Topic

NA romance

erotic romance

van Buuren, Johanna Maria

(2005) De taal van het hart : retorica en receptie van de hedendaagse streekroman PhD, University of Groningen

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Netherlands

Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús

(2018) Cultural symbols, myth and identity in four 20th-century English popular romance fiction novels set in Tenerife Anuario de Estudios Atlánticos 64:1-16

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settings

Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús

(2020) "“And they Drive on the Wrong Side of the Road”: The Anglo-centric Vision of the Canary Islands in Mills & Boon Romance Novels (1955–1987) " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 25-39

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Vivanco, Laura

Kramer, Kyra

(2010) There Are Six Bodies in This Relationship: An Anthropological Approach to the Romance Genre Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1:

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Vivanco, Laura

(2024) Feeling Judged: Reflections on Pornography and Romance from a Minotaur Milking Farm Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13: DOI: 10.70138/DZWB7360

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pornography

(1995) The Heroine is Being Beaten: Freud, Sadomasochism, and Reading the Romance Style: A Quarterly Journal of Aesthetics, Poetics, Stylistics, and Literary Criticism 29.3:459-473

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Kathleen Woodiwiss