rural romance

Fowler, Bridget

(1979) "True to Me Always": An Analysis of Women's Magazine Fiction The British Journal of Sociology 30.1:91-119 DOI: 10.2307/589503

Topic

romances in magazines and newspapers

social/economic class

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

wealth/prosperity

medical romance

Williamson, Margaret

(1986) "The Greek romance " The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction 23-45

Topic

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

Xenophon of Ephesus

Achilles Tatius

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

United States of America

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Native American romance

wealth/prosperity

Montague, Holly W.

(1994) "From Interlude in Arcady to Daphnis and Chloe: Two Thousand Years of Erotic Fantasy " The Search for the Ancient Novel 391-401

Topic

Achilles Tatius

social/economic class

metaphor/symbolism

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

(1997) Protestant Evangelical Literary Culture and Contemporary Society Westport: Greenwood Press

Topic

Christian romance

religion/spirituality

historical romance

Lurlene McDaniel

(1999) The Romance Fiction of Mills & Boon 1909-1990s London: UCL Press

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

war/armed forces

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

(2009) "Home on the Range: Montana Romances and Geographies of Hope " All Our Stories Are Here: Critical Perspectives on Montana Literature 55-77

Topic

United States of America

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

lesbian romance

(2010) Chasing the Bonnet: The Premise and Popularity of Writing Amish Women The Journal of Mennonite Writing (CMW) 2.4:

Topic

Christian romance

Haynes, Roslynn

(2010) Marie Bjelke Petersen’s Romances: Fulfilling the Contract, Subverting the Spirit Southerly 70.2:41-63

Topic

Marie Bjelke Petersen

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

Christian romance

religion/spirituality

(2011) "Women, Akubras and Ereaders: Romance Fiction and Australian Publishing " The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing 67-87

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

(2011) "Women, Akubras and Ereaders: Romance Fiction and Australian Publishing " The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing 67-87

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

(2011) "Women, Akubras and Ereaders: Romance Fiction and Australian Publishing " The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing 67-87

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Weaver-Zercher, Valerie

(2012) Tracing the Backstory of Amish Romance Novels Mennonite Quarterly Review 86.4:409-435

Topic

Christian romance

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

religion/spirituality

Helen Reimensnyder Martin

Cora Gottschalk Welty

Ruth Lininger Dobson

Joseph W. Yoder

Clara Bernice Miller

Weaver-Zercher, Valerie

(2013) Thrill of the Chaste: the Allure of Amish Romance Novels Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press

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

Topic

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance

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

Alyxandra Harvey

science/technology

Maggie Stiefvater

O'Mahony, Lauren

(2014) Australian rural romance as feminist romance? Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:285-298 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.3.3.285_1

Topic

Rachael Treasure

Nicole Alexander

O'Mahony, Lauren

(2014) Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks?: Romance, Ethics and Human-Dog Relationships in a Rural Australian Novel Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

Topic

Rachael Treasure

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

Miller, Jessica

(2015) Passionate Virtue: Conceptions of Medical Professionalism in Popular Romance Fiction Literature and Medicine 33.1:70-90 DOI: 10.1353/lm.2015.0010

Topic

medical romance

Harlequin Mills & Boon

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Mirmohamadi, Kylie

(2015) Love on the Land: Australian Rural Romance in Place English Studies 96.2:204-224 DOI: 10.1080/0013838X.2014.983786

Topic

genre definitions

(2016) The Genre of Islands: Popular Fiction and Performative Geographies Island Studies Journal 11.2:637-650

Topic

(2016) The Genre of Islands: Popular Fiction and Performative Geographies Island Studies Journal 11.2:637-650

Topic

(2016) "Imperial Affairs: The British Empire and the Romantic Novel, 1890-1939 " New Directions in Popular Fiction: Genre, Distribution, Reproduction 87-110 DOI:10.1057/978-1-137-52346-4_5

McAlister, Jodi

(2017) "Love in Australian Romance Novels " The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia 194-222

Topic

national identity

genre definitions

O'Mahony, Lauren

(2017) Death and the Australian Rural Romance Novel TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses 45:

Topic

McAlister, Jodi

(2017) "Love in Australian Romance Novels " The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia 194-222

Topic

national identity

genre definitions

(2019) "Succulent Texts: Desire, Outlaws, and Consumption in Popular Romance " Food and Feast in Modern Outlaw Tales 167-187 DOI:10.4324/9780429061301-9

Topic

pirates and outlaws

historical romance

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

religion/spirituality

Williams, Elizabeth W.

(2019) "Queering Settler Romance: The Reparative Eugenic Landscape in Nora Strange's Kenyan Novels " Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Space and Race 190-204

Topic

Nora K. Strange

science/technology

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Lancashire, Anne

(2020) Venetia: Georgette Heyer’s Pastoral Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/YUAX4643

Topic

Georgette Heyer

Pérez-Gil, María del Mar

(2022) Mass Tourism, Ecocriticism, and Mills & Boon Romances (1970s-1980s) Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism 26.4:383-396 DOI: 10.1080/14688417.2023.2202190

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

Elizabeth Hunter

Violet Winspear

Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt

ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change

Cuthbert van der Veer, Kate

(2023) Cover story: developing methodologies for the analysis of book titles and book covers PhD, University of Queensland

Topic

(2026) How to Judge a Book by its Cover: New Analytical Tools for the Book Covers and Titles Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Topic