gothic romance

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

Charlotte Brontë

Daphne du Maurier

Claudette Nicole

Bayer-Berenbaum, Linda

(1982) The Gothic Imagination: Expansion in Gothic Literature and Art Rutherford, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Topic

Bettinotti, Julia

(1994) "Crime et châtiment dans l'oeuvre de Delly: une lecture "gothique" " Crime et châtiment dans le roman populaire de langue française du XIXe siècle: actes du colloque international de mai 1992 à Limoges 411-???

Topic

Delly

Bettinotti, Julia

(1995) "Crime et châtiment dans l’oeuvre de Delly: une lecture ‘gothique’ " Guimauve et fleurs d’oranger: Delly 137-156

Topic

Delly

Bowman, Barbara

(1983) "Victoria Holt's Gothic Romances: A Structuralist Inquiry " The Female Gothic 69-81

Topic

Cannatella, Bonnie M.

(1988) The "Demon lover" : female psychology and the alter ego in the romance and gothic novel of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Masters, University of New Orleans

Topic

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

Cawelti, John

(1978) Romance: The Once and Future Queen The Wilson Quarterly 2.3:102-109

Topic

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Cordell, Sigrid

(2013) Loving in Plain Sight: Amish Romance Novels as Evangelical Gothic Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies 1.2:1-16 DOI: 10.18061/1811/57706

Topic

Beverly Lewis

Christian romance

religion/spirituality

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

Twilight

Crusie Smith, Jennifer

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

Ellis, Kate

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

Topic

feminism

virginity

(1984) Words of Love: A Complete Guide to Romance Fiction New York and London: Garland Publishing

Topic

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

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

(2020) "Georgette Heyer " The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic 373-389 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-33136-8_23

Topic

(2020) "The Gothic Romance " The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic 357-372 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-33136-8_22

Topic

social/economic class

Catherine Cookson

Christine Marion Fraser

Georgette Heyer

Hirst, Holly

(2021) "Georgette Heyer and redefining the Gothic romance " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 105-118 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.12

Topic

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

Topic

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

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

(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

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

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

India

Keegan, Faye Jessica

(2016) Soft metafiction(s) : Mary Stewart and the self-reflective middlebrow PhD, University of Newcastle, UK

Topic

Mary Stewart

romantic suspense

(1996) Singularities: the interaction of feminism(s) and two strands of popular American fiction, 1968-89 PhD, James Cook University of North Queensland

Topic

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

feminism

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

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

feminism

family

Kramer, Kyra

(2011) Raising Veils and other Bold Acts: The Heroine's Agency in Female Gothic Novels Studies in Gothic Fiction 1.2:23-36

Topic

romantic suspense

gender

Elizabeth Lowell

Lutz, Deborah

(2007) "The Haunted Space of the Mind: The Revival of the Gothic Romance in the Twenty-First Century " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 81-92

Topic

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

Topic

Publishing

African American romance

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

Avon

Ellora's Cave

BDSM

paratext

Modleski, Tania

(1980) Popular Feminine Narratives: A Study of Romances, Gothics, and Soap Operas PhD, Stanford University

Topic

psychology

Modleski, Tania

(1982) Loving with a Vengeance: Mass‐Produced Fantasies for Women Hamden, Connecticut: Archon

Topic

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 DOI: 10.1007/s10583-018-9343-0

Topic

Mussell, Kay

(1981) Women’s Gothic and Romantic Fiction: A Reference Guide Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press

Topic

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

Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Augusta Jane Evans

E. D. E. N. Southworth

Margaret Mitchell

Daphne du Maurier

Mary Stewart

Rosemary Rogers

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Grace Livingston Hill

(1982) "Preface " Twentieth Century Romance and Gothic Writers v-ix

Topic

Publishing

Mussell, Kay

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

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

(1983) ""But Why Do They Read Those Things?": The Female Audience and the Gothic Novel " The Female Gothic 57-68

Topic

readers

Mussell, Kay Johnson

(1973) The World of Modern Gothic Fiction: American Women and Their Social Myths PhD, University of Iowa

Topic

Nilson, Maria

(2016) Kärlek, passion och begär – om romance Lund: BTJ förlag

Topic

(2018) The Gothic Romance Wave: A Critical History of the Mass Market Novels, 1960-1993 Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Topic

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

historical romance

Radway, Janice

(1981) The Utopian Impulse in Popular Literature: Gothic Romances and "Feminist" Protest American Quarterly 33.2:140-162 DOI: 10.2307/2712313

Topic

readers

(1982) "The Aesthetic in Mass Culture: Reading the "Popular" Literary Text " The Structure of the Literary Process Studies dedicated to the Memory of Felix Vodička 397-429 DOI:10.1075/llsee.8.19rad

Topic

Ramos-García, María Teresa

fashion/clothing

(2022) "Definiciones transatlánticas de la raza blanca en las novelas góticas de Louise Bergstrom en Canarias (1971-1972) " 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 127-147

Topic

Louise Bergstrom

Ramos-García, María Teresa

race/ethnicity

(2022) "Transatlantic definitions of Whiteness in Louise Bergstrom’s Gothic romances in the Canary Islands (1971-1972) " 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 313-331

Topic

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

Topic

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

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

Topic

Publishing

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

work

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

African American romance

religion/spirituality

Judaism

Pauline Hopkins

Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton

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

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

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

Tracy West/Joyce McGill/Chassie West

Ruggiero, Josephine A.

Weston, Louise C.

(1977) Sex-Role Characterization of Women in "Modern Gothic Novels" The Pacific Sociological Review 20.2:279-300 DOI: 10.2307/1388936

Topic

social/economic class

work

readers

Weston, Louise C.

Ruggiero, Josephine A.

(1978) Male-Female Relationships in Best-Selling "Modern Gothic" Novels Sex Roles 4.5:647-655 DOI: 10.1007/BF00287330

Topic

Sánchez-Palencia Carazo, Carolina

Ruggiero, Josephine A.

Weston, Louise C.

(1983) Conflicting Images of Women in Romance Novels International Journal of Women's Studies 6.1:18-25

Topic

(1973) Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic Journal of Popular Culture 6.4:666-691 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1973.00666.x

Topic

(1994) El discurso femenino de la novela rosa en lengua inglesa la mujer como protagonista, autora y lectora del género PhD, Universidad de Sevilla

Topic

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

(2018) Vampires and Witches Go to School: Contemporary Young Adult Fiction, Gender, and the Gothic Children's Literature in Education 49:6–18 DOI: 10.1007/s10583-018-9343-0

Topic

Sullivan, Ashleigh Taylor

(2022) "From Darcy to Dickheads: Why Do Women Love the Bad Boy? " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 31-44

Topic

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

Therrien, Kathleen M.

(2015) ""One Would Die Rather Than Speak ... about Such Subjects": Exploring Class, Gender, and Hegemony in Anya Seton's Dragonwyck " Teaching Tainted Lit: Popular American Fiction in Today's Classroom 51-76

Topic

teaching romance

Anya Seton