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14.2:161-179
DOI: 10.1386/jptv_00158_1
(2002)
The Aesthetics of Ageing: Critical Approaches to Literary Representations of the Ageing Process
Lleida:
Universitat de Lleida
(2018)
The Gothic Romance Wave: A Critical History of the Mass Market Novels, 1960-1993
Jefferson, North Carolina:
McFarland & Company
(1986)
'Reine ou esclave .... ': conflicting images of women in the contemporary 'romantic novel' in France
PhD,
University of London, Birkbeck
Topic
(1987)
"Putting People First" or the contemporary romantic novel, critical discourse and ideology
La Chouette
18:38-46
(1987)
That's Romance
Socialist Review
July:
(1994)
Love, Ideology and Reality: the popular romantic novel and the reader
Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies
3:357-368
(1998)
Category Romances: Translation, Realism and Myth
The Translator
4.1:1-24
DOI: 10.1080/13556509.1998.10799004
(1998)
Love and the Novel: The Poetics and Politics of Romantic Fiction
Houndmills, Basingstoke:
Macmillan
(1996)
Romance Fiction and the Avon Ladies
The Acquisitions Librarian
8.16:119-131
DOI: 10.1300/J101v08n16_12
Topic
(2025)
“Stop Acting Like a Diva”: Responses to Sexual Violence in Young Adult Romance Novels
SSM - Qualitative Research in Health
9:
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmqr.2025.100671
(1999)
Languages of Sentiment: Cultural constructions of emotional substrates
Amsterdam:
John Benjamins Publishing Company
(2026)
Getting Her Off: Looking at Women Authors in Romance Compared to Other Fiction Genres
Honors thesis,
Eastern Kentucky University
Topic
(2000)
A History of Women’s Writing in Italy
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press
(2017)
Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013
New York:
Peter Lang