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Teo, Hsu-Ming Selinger, Eric Murphy Kamblé, Jayashree (2020) The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction London: Routledge

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

Topic

genre definitions

precursors of modern romance

trash/literary quality

historical romance

Georgette Heyer

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Woodruff, Juliette (1985) A spate of words, full of sound & fury, signifying nothing: or, How to read in Harlequin Journal of Popular Culture 19.2:25-32

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

historical romance

Barbara Cartland

Georgette Heyer

Weston, Louise C. Ruggiero, Josephine A. (1978) Male-Female Relationships in Best-Selling "Modern Gothic" Novels Sex Roles 4.5:647-655

Topic

romantic suspense

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Phyllis A. Whitney

Weibel, Kathryn (1977) Mirror Mirror: Images of Women Reflected in Popular Culture Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Timson, Beth S. (1983) The Drug Store Novel: Popular Romantic Fiction and the Mainstream Tradition Studies in Popular Culture 6:88-96

Topic

United States of America

Thurston, Carol (1987) The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels for Women and the Quest for a New Sexual Identity Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press

Topic

United States of America

historical romance

Harlequin Mills & Boon

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Rosemary Rogers

LaVyrle Spencer

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Russ, Joanna (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

Topic

genre definitions

Phyllis A. Whitney

Margaret Summerton

fashion/clothing

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

historical romance

Ruggiero, Josephine A. Weston, Louise C. (1977) Sex-Role Characterization of Women in "Modern Gothic Novels" The Pacific Sociological Review 20.2:279-300

Topic

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Phyllis A. Whitney

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