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Alberto, Maria (2022) " Original Slash, Romance, and C.S. Pacat’s Captive Prince " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 216-232 Topic C. S. Pacat fanfiction Publishing LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors sex/sexuality rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse race/ethnicity
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Driscoll, Catherine (2006) " One True Pairing: The Romance of Pornography and the Pornography of Romance " Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays 79–96 Topic fanfiction pornography sex/sexuality gender
Flegel, Monica Roth, Jenny (2010) Annihilating love and heterosexuality without women: Romance, generic difference, and queer politics in "Supernatural" fan fiction Transformative Works and Cultures 4: Topic fanfiction LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Goşa, Codruţa (2014) " From Fantastic Twilight to Fifty Shades Fanfiction: Not Another Cinderella Story... " Reading the Fantastic Imagination: The Avatars of a Literary Genre 57-76 Topic Fifty Shades Twilight fairytales/folktales fanfiction
Kaplan, Deborah (2012) " "Why would any woman want to read such stories?": The Distinctions Between Genre Romances and Slash Fictions " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 121-132 Topic fanfiction genre definitions LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors Suzanne Brockmann gender
Kustritz, Anne (2003) Slashing the Romance Narrative The Journal of American Culture 26.3:371-384 Topic fanfiction gender emotions sex/sexuality
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 J. R. Ward paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance gender
McAlister, Jodi (2021) " Erotic romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 212-228 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-9 Topic erotic romance genre definitions Fifty Shades sex/sexuality Sylvia Day happy ending Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) John Cleland Publishing fanfiction Alisha Rai Harlequin Mills & Boon
McGurl, Mark (2021) Unspeakable Conventionality: The Perversity of the Kindle American Literary History 33.2:394–415 Topic Publishing capitalism/business trash/literary and or intellectual quality readers sex/sexuality BDSM Fifty Shades erotic romance LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors genre definitions fanfiction
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Morrissey, Katherine (2008) Fanning the Flames of Romance: An Exploration of Fan Fiction and the Romance Novel MA thesis, Georgetown University Topic fanfiction
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Morrissey, Katherine (2016) Romance Networks: Aspiration & Desire in Today’s Digital Culture PhD, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Topic fanfiction Publishing readers genre definitions Fifty Shades Twilight sex/sexuality love pornography Harlequin Mills & Boon erotic romance
Nielsen, Inge (2000) Caught in the Web of Love: Intercepting the Young Adult Reception of Qiongyao's Romances On-Line Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 53.3-4:235-253 Topic Taiwan YA/teenage romance readers Qiongyao/Qiong Yao film/movies translation fanfiction
Pagliassotti, Dru (2010) " Better than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction " Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre 59-83 Topic m/m romance fanfiction comics/manga readers LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
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Flegel, Monica Roth, Jenny (2010) Annihilating love and heterosexuality without women: Romance, generic difference, and queer politics in "Supernatural" fan fiction Transformative Works and Cultures 4: Topic fanfiction LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Russ, Joanna (1985) " Pornography By Women For Women, With Love " Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts: Femininst Essays 79–99 DOI:10.2307/j.ctt20p58d6.10 Topic fanfiction m/m romance pornography readers gender sex/sexuality rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse science fiction/futuristic romance
Salmon, Catherine (2005) " Crossing the Abyss: Erotica and the Intersection of Evolutionary Psychology and Literary Studies " The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative 244-257 DOI:10.2307/j.ctvw1d5h1.19 Topic evolutionary psychology sex/sexuality feminism pornography fanfiction
Seifrit, Rachel Joy (2021) Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: Sexuality and Gender Exploration in Contemporary Slash Fanfiction M.A. English, Kutztown University Topic LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors fanfiction gender sex/sexuality
Violi, Patrizia (2020) Breve storia della letteratura rosa Perugia: Graphe.it Edizioni Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Carolina Invernizio Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi Publishing Harlequin Mills & Boon romances in magazines and newspapers Fifty Shades fanfiction