| Witherspoon, Steve |
Women Running from Houses: How Gothic Romance Paperbacks of the 1960s and 1970s Adapted a Romantic-era Visual Language of Women in Danger |
2025 |
paratext, gothic romance |
| Stevens, Alyssa; Roulstone, Sariah; Baker, Matthew J.; Bergeson, Susanna; Housley, Yulin; Wood, Taylor |
Book Descriptions Across Genres: A Content Analysis of “Contemporary Romance” and “Mystery and Thriller” Descriptions |
2025 |
paratext, Publishing |
| Panizza, Letizia; Wood, Sharon |
A History of Women’s Writing in Italy |
2000 |
|
| Wood, Christine V. |
Tender Heroes and Twilight Lovers: Re-Reading the Romance in Mass-Market Pulp Novels, 1950–1965 |
2014 |
LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, gender, United States of America, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Paula Christian, Ann Bannon, Randy Salem, sex/sexuality |
| Wood, Andrea |
Radicalizing Romance: Subculture, Sex, and Media at the Margins |
2008 |
LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, m/m romance, lesbian romance, comics/manga, race/ethnicity, pornography, sex/sexuality |
| Wood, Andrea |
Making the Invisible Visible: Lesbian Romance Comics for Women |
2015 |
sex/sexuality, comics/manga, lesbian romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Wood, Andrea |
His Baby Daddy is an Alien?!: Mpreg Fantasies and Queer Reproductive Intimacies in Contemporary M/M Science Fiction Romance |
2022 |
m/m romance, science fiction/futuristic romance, family, health/medical, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Lyn Gala, Lexi Ander, gender |
| Woodruff, Juliette |
A spate of words, full of sound & fury, signifying nothing: or, How to read in Harlequin |
1985 |
gothic romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, historical romance, Barbara Cartland, Georgette Heyer, marriage |
| Woods, Robert H. |
Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture: Pop Goes the Gospel. Volume 2: Literature, Music, Popular Art, and Merchandise |
2013 |
|
| Worpole, Ken |
Reading by Numbers: Contemporary Publishing & Popular Fiction |
1984 |
Publishing, UK, Harlequin Mills & Boon, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, feminism, romances in magazines and newspapers |
| Wright, Laura Bell |
The Appeal of Vampire Romance: Why Do Readers Like These Stories? |
2003 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, readers |
| Wu, Yan; Mallan, Kerry; McGillis, Roderick |
(Re)Imagining the World: Children’s Literature’s Response to Changing Times |
2013 |
|
| Wu, Huei-Hsia; Walsh, Anthony |
Romance Novels and Female Sexuality: Vicarious Participation? |
2005 |
sociology, sex/sexuality, readers |
| Wu, Huei-Hsia |
Gender, Romance Novels and Plastic Sexuality in the United States: A Focus on Female College Students |
2006 |
sex/sexuality, readers, gender, psychology |
| Wu, Huei-Hsia |
Reading Romance Novels and Female Sexuality among American Heterosexual and Lesbian College Students |
2007 |
readers, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality, gender, psychology |
| Hohne, Karen; Wussow, Helen |
A Dialogue of Voices: Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin |
1994 |
|
| Wyatt, Neal; Olsen, Georgine; Ramsdell, Kristin; Saricks, Joyce; Welch, Lynne |
Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101 |
2007 |
libraries/librarians, historical romance, romantic suspense, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, genre definitions |
| Hua, Shaoqi; Xiao, Chengli |
What shapes a parasocial relationship in RVGs? The effects of avatar images, avatar identification, and romantic jealousy among potential, casual, and core players |
2023 |
computer/video/digital games |
| Porter, J. D.; Eimannsberger, Angelina; English, James; Hathaway, May; Yakoob, Ashna |
Genre Juggernaut: Measuring “Romance” |
2023 |
genre definitions, readers |
| Nagasaki, Hiroko; Yamane, So; Kawasaki, Yutaka |
Currents of Metamorphosis across the Indian Ocean |
2025 |
|
| Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria; Rodríguez-Gil, María E.; Pérez-Guerra, Javier |
New Horizons in Prescriptivism Research |
2024 |
linguistics |
| Ya’u, Mohammed Sani; Rashid, Sabariah Md; Ali, Afida Mohamad; Singh, Hardev Kaur Jujar |
Semantic Extensions of Hausa Visual and Auditory Perception Verbs gani and ji in Romance Fiction |
2023 |
linguistics |
| Yeung, Jessica Siu-yin |
Hong Kong Literature and the Taiwanese Encounter: Literary Magazines, Popular Literature and Shih Shu-Ching’s Hong Kong Stories |
2023 |
romances in magazines and newspapers, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Taiwan, China |
| York, Chris; York, Rafiel |
Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns |
2012 |
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| York, Chris; York, Rafiel |
Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns |
2012 |
|
| Patthey-Chavez, G. Genevieve; Clare, Lindsay; Youmans, Madeleine |
Watery Passion: The Struggle between Hegemony and Sexual Liberation in Erotic Fiction for Women |
1996 |
metaphor/symbolism, erotic romance, gender, sex/sexuality, linguistics, Shirlee Busbee, Julie Garwood, Roberta Gellis, Johanna Lindsey, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Bertrice Small, Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown, Elizabeth Lowell, Emma Merritt, Fayrene Preston, Kasey Stuart, Linda Turner, virginity, food, drink, war/armed forces, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, work |
| Young, Whitney A. |
Monsters in My Bed: Accounting for the Popularity of Young Adult Paranormal Romances |
2013 |
YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, gender, Twilight |
| Young, Helen |
The Middle Ages in Popular Culture: Medievalism and Genre |
2015 |
|
| Young, Erin S. |
Corporate Heroines and Utopian Individualism: A Study of the Romance Novel in Global Capitalism |
2010 |
work, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, capitalism/business, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Elizabeth Lowell, Katherine Stone, Laurell K. Hamilton, Charlaine Harris, Kelley Armstrong, Carrie Vaughn, race/ethnicity, national identity |
| Young, Erin S. |
Escaping the “Time Bind”: Negotiations of Love and Work in Jayne Ann Krentz's “Corporate Romances” |
2010 |
Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, work, capitalism/business, family, gender, marriage, race/ethnicity, food, drink, romantic suspense |
| Young, Erin S. |
Flexible Heroines, Flexible Narratives: The Werewolf Romances of Kelley Armstrong and Carrie Vaughn |
2011 |
Kelley Armstrong, Carrie Vaughn, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, capitalism/business, wealth/prosperity, sex/sexuality, family, health/medical, gender, food, drink, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Young, Erin S. |
Saving China: The Transformative Power of Whiteness in Elizabeth Lowell's Jade Island and Katherine Stone's Pearl Moon |
2016 |
race/ethnicity, China, Elizabeth Lowell, Katherine Stone, capitalism/business, national identity, work, family, love, United States of America, wealth/prosperity, settings, romantic suspense |
| Young, Erin S. |
Race, ethnicity, and whiteness |
2021 |
race/ethnicity, Mary Balogh |
| Young, Beth Rapp |
But are they any good? Women readers, formula fiction, and the sacralization of the literary canon |
1995 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle |
| Young, Beth Rapp |
Accidental Authors, Random Readers, and the Art of Popular Romance |
1997 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, romance scholarship, authors, readers |
| Garciano, Shylyn G.; Cuevas, Gloria Con-ui; Geraldizo-Pabriga, Maria Gemma; Macabodbod, Saira Jay J.; Yu, Jaciah Mae B.; Pinote, Ma. Jezan A. |
Romance-Themed Novels: Influenced on Relationship Satisfaction |
2023 |
readers, psychology |
| Yulianti, Fiki Indah |
Digital Wattpad Culture In Indonesia: Youth, Romance, And The Changing Practices Of Reading And Writing |
2025 |
Indonesia, readers, YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, authors, Islam |
| Zachik-Smith, Susie |
Romance by the book: a morphological analysis of the popular romance |
1993 |
genre definitions, readers, psychology, fairytales/folktales |
| Zaini, Ahmad Zuhdi |
Personality structure of the main character Reid Buchanan in Susan Mallery's Sizzling |
2024 |
psychology, Susan Mallery |
| Zakreski, Patricia |
Tell Me Lies: Lying, Storytelling, and the Romance Novel as Feminist Fiction |
2012 |
Jennifer Crusie, feminism, gender, metafiction |
| O’Neill, Maria; Zamorano Llena, Carmen |
The Aesthetics of Ageing: Critical Approaches to Literary Representations of the Ageing Process |
2002 |
|
| Del Grosso Destreri, Luigi; Brodesco, Alberto; Giovanetti, Silvia; Zanatta, Sara |
Una galassia rosa: Ricerche sulla letteratura femminile di consumo |
2009 |
|
| Soubeyroux, Marie-Hélène; Zapata, Mónica |
Miradas sobre una obra polifacética: Homenaje a Jean Louis Guereña |
2016 |
|
| Zaragoza Ninet, Gora; Martínez Sierra, Juan José; Cerezo Merchán, Beatriz; Richart Marset, Mabel |
Traducción, género y censura en la literatura y en los medios de comunicación |
2018 |
|
| Kuznets, Lois; Zarin, Eve |
Sweet Dreams for Sleeping Beauties: Pre-Teen Romances |
1982 |
YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance |
| Zeiger, Melissa F. |
"Less Than Perfect": Negotiating Breast Cancer in Popular Romance Novels |
2013 |
health/medical, feminism |
| Coste, Didier; Zéraffa, Michel |
Le récit amoureux: Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle |
1984 |
|
| Zhaboriuk, I. A.; Rukshtel, Yu. A. |
The Artistic Detail in the Novel "The Reluctant Widow" by G. Heyer |
2021 |
Georgette Heyer, linguistics |
| Zhang, Chunjie; Krimmer, Elisabeth |
Gender and German Colonialism: Intimacies, Accountabilities, Intersections |
2023 |
|
| Zhou, Yanyan; Paul, Bryant; Sherman, Ryland |
Still a Hetero-Gendered World: A Content Analysis of Gender Stereotypes and Romantic Ideals in Chinese Boy Love Stories |
2018 |
m/m romance, gender, China, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Zibrak, Arielle |
Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures |
2021 |
readers, sex/sexuality, historical romance, gender, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Susan Warner, E. D. E. N. Southworth, Rosemary Rogers, Jill Marie Landis, fairytales/folktales, feminism |
| Zidle, Abby |
From Bodice-Ripper to Baby-Sitter: The New Hero in Mass-Market Romance |
1999 |
gender, emotions, psychology, readers, sex/sexuality, wealth/prosperity |
| Zille, Tom |
Georgette Heyer and the language of the historical novel |
2021 |
Georgette Heyer, linguistics, history, historical romance |
| Zimmermann, Hans Dieter |
Schema-Literatur: ästhetische Norm und literarisches System |
1979 |
genre definitions, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, dime novels, Germany |
| Zwar, Jan; Lawson, Airlie |
Success Story - International Rights Sales of Australian- Authored Books: Case Studies |
2021 |
Publishing, Australia, Kylie Scott |
| [Sigroha], Suman |
Gendered Migrations and Literary Narratives: Writing Communities in South Asian Diaspora |
2018 |
authors, work, family, gender, Publishing |
| Γραφανάκη, Ρωξάνη |
Γυναίκες και ροζ λογοτεχνία: η περίπτωση των εκδόσεων Άρλεκιν |
2019 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism, capitalism/business, gender, sex/sexuality |
| Στάμου, Εύα |
Η επέλαση της ροζ λογοτεχνίας. Δοκίμιο για την Ευδοκίμηση μιας Μορφής Αφηγηματικού Λόγου |
2014 |
|
| 尾崎, 俊介 |
ハーレクイン対フェミニズム － フォーミュラ・ロマンス批評史をめぐる一考察 － |
2005 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism |