Romance Scholarship DB

Farooqui, Javaria

(2024) Buildings, books, and memories: Analysing the culture of reading anglophone romance in Pakistan Journal of Postcolonial Writing 60.6:763-777 DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2024.2433024

Topic

historical romance

social/economic class

Smith, Josefine

Kollman, Kathleen W. Taylor

(2025) Still Reading Romance: Identity and Engagement with Popular Romance Fiction : Rowman & Littlefield

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Smith, Josefine

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Datta, Sreepurna

(2025) ""A holiday that could be whatever anyone wanted it to be": The Indian American Holiday Season in Sonya Lalli's A Holly Jolly Diwali " Under the Mistletoe: Essays on Holiday Romance in Popular Culture

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Datta, Sreepurna

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(2025) Under the Mistletoe: Essays on Holiday Romance in Popular Culture : McFarland

Faber, Liz W.

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Johnson, Jacqueline Elizabeth

(2024) Labors of Love: Black Women, Cultural Production, and the Romance Genre PhD, University of Southern California

Topic

Rebekah Weatherspoon

Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson/Brandy Bush

African American romance

capitalism/business

wealth/prosperity

Johnson, Jacqueline Elizabeth

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Imperitura, Lorenzo

(2024) The Forgotten Queer Utopia: Queer utopianism, Queer identities, and Queer communities in Irene Clyde’s Beatrice the Sixteenth Master’s thesis, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Universitetet i Tromsø

Topic

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

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

science fiction/futuristic romance

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance