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

Topic

Beverly Lewis

Christian romance

religion/spirituality

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

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

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

Topic

genre definitions

trash/literary quality

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

Topic

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

Topic

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

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

Topic

trash/literary quality

YA/teenage romance

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

Jones, Amanda (2019) Madness, Monks and Mutiny: Neo-Victorianism in the Work of Victoria Holt Neo-Victorian Studies 12.1:1-27

Topic

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

trash/literary quality

Kelso, Sylvia (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

settings

Evelyn Rogers

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

Topic

Publishing

African American romance

LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors

Avon

Ellora's Cave

BDSM

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

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

film/movies

readers

romance scholarship

Mussell, Kay (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

Topic

Mussell, Kay J. (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

Paige, Lori A. (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

Topic

readers

genre definitions

Radway, Janice A. (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

fashion/clothing

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

Topic

LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors

Christian romance

race/ethnicity

romance scholarship

Romney, Rebecca (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

LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors

YA/teenage romance

African American romance

religion/spirituality

Judaism

Pauline Hopkins

Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton

Kathleen Thompson Norris

romances in magazines/romance magazines

Elizabeth Carfrae

Frances Shelley Wees

Lilian Warren as Rosalind Brett/Kathryn Blair/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

Topic

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

Topic

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

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

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

Sánchez-Palencia Carazo, Carolina (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

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

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

erotic romance