| Horgheim, Celina |
From Rape to Romance: Sexual Consent Negotiation in Romantic Retellings of the Myth of Persephone |
2023 |
myth, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, gender, Rachel Alexander, Ophelia Silk, feminism |
| Horpestad, Amalie Fogtmann |
Beyond Romance: Generic Innovation in Lucinda Riley’s The Seven Sisters Series |
2025 |
Lucinda Riley, genre definitions, family |
| Horst, Lauren |
Exemplum J. R. Ward, Dark Lover (2005) |
2024 |
J. R. Ward, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance |
| Horst, Lauren |
The Romance Novel |
2024 |
romance scholarship, genre definitions |
| Hotz-Davies, Ingrid; Kirchhofer, Anton; Leppänen, Sirpa |
Internet Fictions |
2009 |
|
| Houel, Annik |
L’amant Harlequin |
1990 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Houel, Annik |
Les chemins de la passion |
1992 |
sex/sexuality, psychology |
| Houel, Annik |
Le roman d’amour et sa lectrice: une si longue passion: l’exemple Harlequin |
1997 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers, love, marriage, history, family, France, feminism, sex/sexuality, happy ending, fashion/clothing, gender, family |
| 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 |
| Rader, Kara; Hovick, Shelly R.; Bigsby, Elisabeth |
“Are You Clean?” Encouraging STI Communication in Casual Encounters through Narrative Messages in Romance Novels |
2021 |
sex/sexuality, health/medical, psychology, readers |
| Howlett, Peter; Morgan, Mary S. |
How Well Do Facts Travel? The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge |
2011 |
|
| 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 |
| Huang, Yu-ting; Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca |
Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Space and Race |
2019 |
|
| Hubbard, Rita Cooper |
Relationship Styles In Popular Romance Fiction: A Fantasy Theme Analysis Of Harlequin Romances, 1950-1979 |
1981 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, feminism |
| Hubbard, Rita C. |
The Changing-Unchanging Heroines and Heroes of Harlequin Romances, 1950-1979 |
1983 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, authors, Elizabeth Hoy, Roumelia Lane, Elizabeth Hunter |
| Hubbard, Rita C. |
Relationship Styles in Popular Romance Novels, 1950-1983 |
1985 |
Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway, gender, Roumelia Lane, Elizabeth Hunter, Elaine Raco Chase, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Hubbard, Rita C. |
Magic and Transformation: Relationships in Popular Romance Novels, 1950 to the 1980s |
1992 |
Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway, gender, Roumelia Lane, Elizabeth Hunter, Elaine Raco Chase, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Hubert, Karen M. |
Teaching and Writing Popular Fiction: Horror, Adventure, Mystery and Romance in the American Classroom |
1976 |
teaching romance |
| Bissessar, Ann Marie; Huggins, Camille |
Gender and Domestic Violence in the Caribbean |
2021 |
|
| Hughes, Helen Muriel |
Changes in Historical Romance, 1890s to the 1980s: The Development of the Genre from Stanley Weyman to Georgette Heyer and her Successors |
1988 |
historical romance, Georgette Heyer |
| Hughes, Helen |
The Historical Romance |
1993 |
historical romance, history, Georgette Heyer, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Stanley Weyman, Rafael Sabatini, Jeffrey Farnol, Barbara Cartland, social/economic class, UK, national identity, gender, A. E. W. Mason, Baroness Orczy, readers, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Mira Stables, Rowena Tenet |
| Hughes, Bill |
‘Two kinds of romance': Generic Hybridity and Epistemological Uncertainty in Contemporary Paranormal Romance |
2013 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, Alyxandra Harvey, Julie Kagawa, science/technology |
| Hughes, Bill |
Demon Lovers: Embracing the Monster in Paranormal Romance |
2014 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, gothic romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), sex/sexuality, Alyxandra Harvey, science/technology, gender, Maggie Stiefvater, animals, Julie Kagawa, rural romance, settings, death, Daniel Waters |
| George, Sam; Hughes, Bill |
In the company of wolves: Werewolves, wolves and wild children |
2020 |
|
| George, Sam; Hughes, Bill |
Introduction: from preternatural pastoral to paranormal romance |
2020 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, animals |
| Hughes, Bill |
“Two kinds of romance”: generic hybridity and epistemological uncertainty in contemporary paranormal romance |
2020 |
YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Julie Kagawa, Alyxandra Harvey, science/technology |
| Hughes, Bill |
Genre Mutation in Young Adult Gothic: The Dialectics of Dystopia and Romance in Holly Black's The Coldest Girl in Coldtown |
2021 |
YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, gothic romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, capitalism/business, Holly Black |
| Hughes, Bill |
Generic Hybridity and the Critique of Instrumentalism in the Enchanted Landscapes of Dark Fairy Romance |
2025 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Julie Kagawa |
| Huguley, Piper |
Her Bodyguard: Sandra Kitt’s The Color of Love as a foundational text for BWWM romance |
2022 |
Sandra Kitt, race/ethnicity, African American romance, police officers/police forces |
| Huguley, Piper |
In Search of the Black Historical Hottie: The Sad Situation of the Black Hero in Historical Romance |
2022 |
historical romance, race/ethnicity, gender, Piper Huguley, happy ending, wealth/prosperity |
| Ivanski, Chantelle; Humphries, Stacey; van Dalen-Oskam, Karina; Mar, Raymond A. |
Do We Judge Fiction by the Author’s Gender? |
2022 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender |
| Willinsky, John; Hunniford, R. Mark |
Reading the Romance Younger: The Mirrors and Fears of a Preparatory Literature |
1993 |
Canada, YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, readers, gender |
| Hunter, Kathryn M. |
Desert Dreams: Valentino, Lawrence, and Sheik Fantasy in 1920s Australia |
2026 |
sheikh romance, E. M. Hull, Australia, history, war/armed forces, film/movies |
| Hunter, Christyna M. |
Cataloging Category Romance Fiction and Librarian and Patron Views on Romance Fiction in Public Libraries |
2021 |
libraries/librarians, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Davisson, Amber; Hunting, Kyra |
From private pleasure to erotic spectacle: Adapting Bridgerton to female audience desires |
2023 |
Julia Quinn, film/movies, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, pornography, race/ethnicity |
| Huntwork, Mary M. |
Why Girls Flock to Sweet Valley High |
1990 |
YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, readers |
| Huq, Maimuna |
From Piety to Romance: Islam-Oriented Texts in Bangladesh |
1999 |
Islam, religion/spirituality, Bangladesh |
| Hurley, Frances K. |
In the Words of Girls: The Reading of Adolescent Romance Fiction |
1999 |
YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, readers, gender |
| Hurst, Rochelle |
The Barrister’s Bedmate: Harlequin Mills & Boon and the Bridget Jones Debate |
2009 |
chick lit, feminism, Helen Fielding, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Hutter, Verena |
Fire, Savannah, and Passion: The New Africa Novel and the Construction of White Femininity |
2023 |
Africa, Germany, history, historical romance, race/ethnicity, Patricia Mennen, Leah Bach, gender |
| Hutton-Jarvis, C. A. |
The educational potential of romantic fiction |
1998 |
readers, teaching romance |
| Hyejin, O |
원본 없는 판타지 : 페미니스트 시각으로 읽는 한국 현대문화사 |
2020 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers, Korea |
| Hyland, Rachel |
Heyer Society: Essays on the Literary Genius of Georgette Heyer |
2018 |
Georgette Heyer |
| Ibarrola-Armendariz, Aitor; Ortiz de Urbina Arruabarrena, Jon |
On the move: Glancing Backwards To Build a Future in English Studies |
2016 |
|
| Ibrahim, Musa |
Trans-Indian Ocean Cultural Flows: The Influence of Hindi Cinema on Hausa Popular Fictions |
2025 |
Nigeria, film/movies |
| Iché, Virginie; Sorlin, Sandrine |
The Rhetoric of Literary Communication: From Classical English Novels to Contemporary Digital Fiction |
2022 |
|
| Hashim, Ruzy Suliza; Idrus, Mohd Muzhafar |
Unblessed Be Thy Milk: Filial Obedience, Repentance, and Forgiveness in Malay Popular Fiction |
2024 |
Malaysia, family, Fauziah Ashari, Rissa Ahdiya, Sophilea, Islam |
| Iesué, Renata |
Romance and Reality: Popular Writing by Nigerian Women |
1990 |
Nigeria |
| Illouz, Eva |
Hard-Core Romance: Fifty Shades of Grey, Best-Sellers, and Society |
2014 |
Fifty Shades, BDSM |
| Kuortti, Joel; Ilmonen, Kaisa; Valovirta, Elina; Korkka, Janne |
Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary' |
2019 |
|
| Imperitura, Lorenzo |
The Forgotten Queer Utopia: Queer utopianism, Queer identities, and Queer communities in Irene Clyde’s Beatrice the Sixteenth |
2024 |
Irene Clyde, 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, gender |
| Inge, M. Thomas; Hall, Dennis |
The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture: Volume Four (Pulps and Dime Novels through Young Adult Fiction) |
2002 |
|
| Ingram, Toni |
Romantasy and the quest for cliteracy |
2026 |
sex/sexuality, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Rebecca Yarros, Sarah J. Maas, A.K. Mulford |
| Ingram, Toni |
Romantasy, Virginity and Other Fictions |
2026 |
sex/sexuality, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Jennifer L. Armentrout, Sarah J. Maas, A.K. Mulford |
| Patai, Daphne; Ingram, Angela |
Fantasy and Identity: The Double Life of a Victorian Sexual Radical |
1993 |
gender, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Irene Clyde, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Ingram, Angela; Patai, Daphne |
Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939 |
1993 |
|
| Waldschmidt, Anne; Berressem, Hanjo; Ingwersen, Moritz |
Culture - Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies |
2017 |
|
| Suárez Coalla, Paquita; Rivera Valdés, Sonia; Íñigo, Ainoa |
Repercusión de la lectura y otras formas de arte en nuestra vida y nuestra obra: Memorias del VII coloquio de LART, Centro Español de Manhattan, Nueva York, 26-28 de octubre de 2016 |
2018 |
|
| Innocenti, Daniela C. |
L'amore tradotto. Harlequin vs Harmony e l’evoluzione di un romanzo rosa intraduzione: da Plain Jane MacAllister a Il tempo ritrovato |
2012 |
translation, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Italy, Joan Elliott Pickart |
| Intan, Tania |
Formula Romance Dalam Perfect Romance Karya Indah Hanaco: Kajian Sastra Feminis |
2020 |
Indah Hanaco, genre definitions, feminism, family, Indonesia |
| Interracial Books for Children Bulletin, |
Romance Series for Young Readers: A Report to Educators and Parents in Concert with the National Education Association |
1981 |
YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender, race/ethnicity, feminism, social/economic class, disability, work, readers, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, libraries/librarians, United States of America, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, family, fashion/clothing, teaching romance |
| Iqbal, Kundan |
The impact of romance novels on women's sexual and reproductive health |
2014 |
readers, sex/sexuality, health/medical |
| Burge, Amy; McAlister, Jodi; Ireland, Charlotte |
“Prince Charming with an Erection”: The Sensational Pleasures of the Bonkbuster |
2024 |
bonkbuster, Jilly Cooper, Jackie Collins, Shirley Conran, Judith Krantz |
| Hogan, Patrick Colm; Irish, Bradley J.; Hogan, Lalita Pandit |
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion |
2022 |
|
| Irons, Glenwood |
Gender, Language, and Myth: Essays on Popular Narrative |
1992 |
|
| Irvine, Janice M. |
Sexual Cultures and the Construction of Adolescent Identities |
1994 |
|
| Irwanto, Debora; Djundjung, Jenny M. |
Angel’s Redemption in Francine Rivers’ Redeeming Love |
2013 |
Francine Rivers, Christian romance |
| Jakobi, Stefanie; Isac, Ashly |
“To all the brown kids, queer kids, fat kids”: exploring intersectionality in South-Asian-Irish young adult fiction through Adiba Jaigirdar’s contemporary novels |
2025 |
Adiba Jaigirdar, Ireland, YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, race/ethnicity, fat, fatness, Islam |
| Ivanski, Chantelle |
Judging a Book by Its Author's Gender |
2019 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender |
| Ivanski, Chantelle; Humphries, Stacey; van Dalen-Oskam, Karina; Mar, Raymond A. |
Do We Judge Fiction by the Author’s Gender? |
2022 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender |
| Ivanski, Chantelle; Maslej, Marta M.; Mar, Raymond A. |
Empirical Approaches to Studying Emotion in Literature: The Case of Gender |
2022 |
science/technology, emotions, gender, readers, authors, romance scholarship |
| Iwai, Gaku |
Wartime Ideology in 'The Thimble': A Comparative Study of Popular Wartime Romance and the Anti-romance of D. H. Lawrence |
2015 |
war/armed forces, Berta Ruck, gender, UK, national identity |
| Iwicka, Renata |
Manifestations of Male Image in the World's Cultures |
2021 |
|
| Iyer, Nalini |
Young Love: Model Minorities, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary South Asian YA Novels |
2023 |
YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, race/ethnicity, Sandhya Menon, Syed Masood, Sabina Khan, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Izharuddin, Alicia |
Sweet Surrender: The Ethno-Religious Spaces of Malay Romance |
2020 |
Malaysia, religion/spirituality |
| Izharuddin, Alicia |
Counterpublics of care: making space for mediated intimacy and romantic self-making in Malaysia |
2021 |
readers, Malaysia, gender, emotions, marriage, Islam, love |
| Izharuddin, Alicia |
Reading the Digital Muslim Romance |
2021 |
Muslim romance, Malaysia, readers, religion/spirituality, Islam, gender |
| Izharuddin, Alicia |
“Redha tu Ikhlas”: The Social–Textual Significance of Islamic Virtue in Malay Forced Marriage Narratives |
2021 |
marriage, Malaysia, Islam, Fauziah Ashari, readers, religion/spirituality, Muslim romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, gender |
| Izharuddin, Alicia |
The Work of Romance: Creating Moral Worth in Malay Women's Writing |
2026 |
Malaysia, authors, readers, Islam, gender, love, Publishing |
| Jackson, Stevi |
Women and Heterosexual Love: Complicity, Resistance and Change |
1995 |
love, feminism, emotions, psychology, readers |
| Jackson, Nicole M. |
Finding Queer Black Women in Romance. Finding Bits and Pieces of Me. |
2022 |
Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson/Brandy Bush, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, African American romance, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Alyssa Cole, Ann Allen Shockley |
| Jackson, Nicole M. |
Freedom’s Epilogue: Love as Freedom in Alyssa Cole’s Historical Novellas |
2022 |
Alyssa Cole, historical romance, history, race/ethnicity, African American romance, United States of America, emotions, love, family, community, marriage, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, happy ending |
| Jackson, Nicole M. |
Love in Black and Black: A Brief History of Black Romance |
2026 |
African American romance, Publishing, race/ethnicity, United States of America |
| Jackson, Elaine |
Riding the tosh horse: women writers of popular romance between the wars |
2005 |
E. M. Hull, Berta Ruck, Marguerite Jervis/Oliver Sandys |
| Jackson, Elaine |
Sievier’s Monthly (1909): Pseudonyms and Readership in Early Twentieth Century Popular Fiction |
2008 |
Marguerite Jervis/Oliver Sandys, Publishing, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) |
| Jackson, Cia |
Harlequin Romance: The Power of Parody and Subversion |
2017 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Schell, Heather; Clayburn, Justina; Duong, Amy; Farooqui, Javaria; Ficke, Sarah; Hammonds, Krista; Hebert, Shelby; Jacobs, Jenni; Kamblé, Jayashree; Lucken, Melissa Ford; Manganelli, Kim; McStotts, Jennie; Newns, Lucinda; Noone, Kristin; Ramos-García, María T.; Ridge, Kelsey; Schifman, Cassie; Schroyer, Precie; Smith, Jennifer; Smith, Josefine; Tillman, Kacy Dowd; Walden, Sarah; Wen, Huike; Wilson, Casey Alane |
Defining the Trope in Romance Fiction |
2026 |
genre definitions |
| Jacquot, Clémence; Goossens, Vannina; Novakova, Iva |
Étude contrastive des motifs spécifiques aux romans sentimentaux et aux romans Harlequin |
2020 |
linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Jagodzinski, Mallory |
Of Bustles and Breeches: Cross-dressing Romance Novel Heroines and the Performance of Gender Ideology |
2010 |
cross-dressing, gender, Celeste Bradley, Eloisa James, Pam Rosenthal, fashion/clothing, sex/sexuality |
| Jagodzinski, Mallory |
Love is (Color) Blind: Historical Romance Fiction and Interracial Relationships in the Twenty-First Century |
2015 |
Theresa Romain, Meredith Duran, Courtney Milan, race/ethnicity, historical romance, gender, disability, United States of America, history, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Jakobi, Stefanie; Isac, Ashly |
“To all the brown kids, queer kids, fat kids”: exploring intersectionality in South-Asian-Irish young adult fiction through Adiba Jaigirdar’s contemporary novels |
2025 |
Adiba Jaigirdar, Ireland, YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, race/ethnicity, fat, fatness, Islam |
| Jalksjö Greksa, Olivia |
Relational Equality in M/M and Heterosexual Romance: A Reader Response Analysis |
2026 |
LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, readers, Rachel Reid, Ana Huang, gender |
| Gale, Jody; James, Eloisa |
The Official Essex Sisters Companion Guide |
2016 |
|
| James, Edward; Mendlesohn, Farah |
The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature |
2012 |
|
| Thomas, Glen; James, Bridie |
The Romance Industry: A Study of Reading and Writing Romance |
2006 |
authors, readers |
| Jan, Jariah Mohd; Ujum, Diana Abu |
Negotiating Conflicts amongst Muslim Female Characters in Malay Romance Novels: A Narratological Perspective |
2022 |
Malaysia, Muslim romance, gender |
| Jandl, Ingeborg; Knaller, Susanne; Schönfellner, Sabine; Tockner, Gudrun |
Writing Emotions: Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature |
2017 |
|
| Konle, Leonard; Jannidis, Fotis |
Modeling Plots of Narrative Texts as Temporal Graphs |
2022 |
linguistics |
| Jansen, Annie |
Rethinking romance: An argument for adding the genre to the popular shelf |
2020 |
libraries/librarians, Helen Hoang, Jasmine Guillory, Sonali Dev, race/ethnicity, Uzma Jalaluddin |
| Janzen, Moira J. |
Georgette Heyer's Regency romances: serious literature or popular fiction? |
1994 |
Georgette Heyer, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Jarc, Klara |
Ljubezenski roman v Sloveniji: knjižnična izposoja, bralci in produkcija |
2019 |
libraries/librarians, Slovenia, Publishing, readers |
| Jarmakani, Amira |
“The Sheik Who Loved Me”: Romancing the War on Terror |
2010 |
sheikh romance, United States of America, war/armed forces, feminism, capitalism/business, race/ethnicity, Islam, gender, metaphor/symbolism |
| Jarmakani, Amira |
Desiring the Big Bad Blade: Racing the Sheikh in Desert Romances |
2011 |
sheikh romance, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, paratext, fashion/clothing, United States of America, readers, Islam, Spain, religion/spirituality |
| Jarmakani, Amira |
An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror |
2015 |
sheikh romance, war/armed forces, United States of America, race/ethnicity, Islam, E. M. Hull, gender, marriage, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Jarmakani, Amira |
On Eligible Princes: The medieval modernity of sheikh romance |
2020 |
sheikh romance |
| Jarmakani, Amira |
Desert Is Just Another Word for Freedom |
2021 |
sheikh romance |
| Jarmakani, Amira |
Explorations of the "desert passion industry" |
2021 |
sheikh romance, E. M. Hull, settings, race/ethnicity, Linda Conrad, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, gender, war/armed forces |
| Jarvis, Christine A. |
Desirable Reading: The Relationship between Women Students' Lives and their Reading Practices |
2003 |
readers, teaching romance, gender, Islam, sex/sexuality, UK |
| Jarvis, Christine |
Romancing the Curriculum: Empowerment through Popular Culture |
1995 |
teaching romance, readers |
| Jarvis, Christine |
Love Changes Everything: The Transformative Potential of Popular Romantic Fiction |
1999 |
teaching romance, readers, feminism, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, sex/sexuality, marriage, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, social/economic class, wealth/prosperity, race/ethnicity, Charlotte Brontë, China, UK |
| Jarvis, Christine |
Hungry Heroines: The Exploration of a "Generative Theme" in Romantic Fiction |
2000 |
|
| Jarvis, Christine |
Using Fiction for Transformation |
2006 |
teaching romance, feminism, gender, readers |
| Bettinotti, Julia; Jeannesson, Gaëlle; Truel, Marie-Françoise |
Séries, suites et redites en culture médiatique |
2002 |
sheikh romance, E. M. Hull, Johanna Lindsey, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Jeffers, Asha; Bryan, Catherine |
The Daughters of Immigrants: A Multidisciplinary Study |
2023 |
|
| Jeffery, Ella; van Loon, Julienne |
TEXT Vol. 29, Special Issue 75: Trope Actually – Popular Romance |
2025 |
|
| Jenkins, Beverly |
A Short History of African American Romance |
2022 |
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Frances Watkins Harper, romances in magazines and newspapers, African American romance, Publishing, Beverly Jenkins |
| Clark, Beverly Lyon; Bernier, Karen Gennari; Henneberry-Nassau, Michelle; Jenks, Lauren Beth; Moorman, Angie J.; Rhoades, Marah Bianca |
Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves |
1996 |
readers, feminism, sex/sexuality, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, teaching romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, race/ethnicity, capitalism/business |
| Jennings, Kathleen |
Heyer … in space! The influence of Georgette Heyer on science fiction |
2021 |
Georgette Heyer, war/armed forces, Patricia Wrede, Tessa Dare |
| Jensen, Margaret Ann |
Women and Romantic Fiction: A Case Study of Harlequin Enterprises, Romances, and Readers |
1980 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers, capitalism/business, social/economic class, work |
| Jensen, Margaret Ann |
Love's $weet Return: The Harlequin Story |
1984 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, metafiction, readers, Publishing, virginity, sex/sexuality, paratext, work, authors, gender, happy ending, settings, race/ethnicity, social/economic class, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, food, drink, fashion/clothing, love, marriage, feminism |
| Brooker, Will; Jermyn, Deborah |
The Audience Studies Reader |
2002 |
|
| Brickman, Barbara Jane; Jermyn, Deborah; Trost, Theodore Louis |
Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture |
2020 |
|
| Jimenez- Cuadros, Laura Katherin; Rivas- Robledo, Pablo |
Bridgerton and the Philosophy of Good Sex |
2026 |
sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Julia Quinn, philosophy |
| Joannou, Maroula |
Women's Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity: The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice, 1938-1962 |
2012 |
UK, war/armed forces, Daphne du Maurier, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Kathleen Winsor, Georgette Heyer, cross-dressing, fashion/clothing |
| Jocks, Yvonne Annette |
Adventure and Virtue: Alternating Emphasis in the Popular Romance Tradition |
1988 |
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) |
| Ahmed, Iman; Brose, Michael-Zane; Dengs, Lara; Elfering, Lucie; John, Elena; Kalcker, Mira; Kronenberg, Alice; Küllenberg, Charmaine; Le Donne, Laura; Nazik, Alican; Neisen, Lena; Özdal, Öznur Zeynep; Schneemann, Hanna; Steven, Antonia; Bøglund Strand, Julie |
A “Messy Complexity”? On Coming-Out, Identity Formation, and Community in Queer YA Romance Novels |
2025 |
YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, community, Becky Albertalli, Kacen Callender, Casey McQuiston |
| Johnson, Valerie B. |
What a Canon Wants: Robin Hood, Romance Novels, and Carrie Lofty’s What a Scoundrel Wants |
2018 |
Carrie Lofty, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), historical romance, pirates and outlaws |
| Chow, Jeremy; Johnson, Shelby |
Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century |
2025 |
LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, history |
| Johnson, Natasha |
Computing the Formal and Institutional Boundaries of Contemporary Genre and Literary Fiction |
2025 |
genre definitions |
| Johnson, Naomi Ruth |
Consuming Desires: A Feminist Analysis of Bestselling Teen Romance Novels |
2007 |
YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, capitalism/business, fashion/clothing, gender, sex/sexuality, Publishing |
| Johnson, Naomi R. |
Consuming Desires: Consumption, Romance, and Sexuality in Best-Selling Teen Romance Novels |
2010 |
YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, Publishing, capitalism/business, fashion/clothing, gender, sex/sexuality |
| Bogaert, Anthony F.; Hernder, Jessie E.; Johnson, Jessica R. |
Who “Feels Sexy” in the Google Books Corpus? Text‑Mining Evidence for Gender Differences in Object of Desire Self‑Consciousness |
2026 |
sex/sexuality, linguistics |
| Johnson, Jacqueline Elizabeth |
Labors of Love: Black Women, Cultural Production, and the Romance Genre |
2024 |
Rebekah Weatherspoon, Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson/Brandy Bush, African American romance, race/ethnicity, capitalism/business, wealth/prosperity, work |
| Johnson, Jacqueline E. |
Lusting out loud: racialized aurality, podcast intimacy, and the uses of thirst |
2024 |
race/ethnicity, happy ending, sex/sexuality |
| Johnson, Heather |
Yorkshire English in Georgette Heyer's The Unknown Ajax |
2017 |
languages, Georgette Heyer, historical romance, linguistics |
| Johnson, Emily D. |
Exploring His/Her Library: Reading and Books in Russian Romance |
2020 |
Russia, metafiction, authors, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Galina Kulikova, Natal’ia Mironova, Publishing, socialism and/or communism, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, race/ethnicity, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Schurman, Lydia Cushman; Johnson, Deidre |
Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America |
2002 |
|
| Allen, Margaret; Blackburn, Jean; Johnson, Carol; King, Margaret; Mackinnon, Alison |
All Her Labours: Embroidering the Framework |
1984 |
|
| Johnson, Brian |
Weird Bedfellows: H. P. Lovecraft, m/m Romance, and the New Queer Families of Jordan L. Hawk's Whyborne & Griffin Series |
2022 |
Jordan L. Hawk, m/m romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Piatti-Farnell, Lorna; Johnson-Hunt, Nancy |
Vampires and Desire: Blood, Sex, and Ritual in Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy Fiction |
2023 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance |
| Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E. |
"I Am Not a Bimbo": Persona, Promotion, and the Fabulous Fabio |
1999 |
Fabio Lanzoni, also known as Fabio, paratext |
| Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E. |
Leading Us into Temptation: The Language of Sex and the Power of Love |
1999 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, linguistics, gender, virginity, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Abra Taylor, Candace Schuler, Lori Foster, Jennifer Crusie |
| Kaler, Anne K.; Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E. |
Romantic Conventions |
1999 |
|
| Johnson-Woods, Toni |
Pulp: A Collector's Book of Australian Pulp Fiction Covers |
2004 |
paratext |
| Johnson-Woods, Toni |
'Adventures of a Squatter': A Colonial Male Romance |
2010 |
LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, romances in magazines and newspapers, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), m/m romance, Australia |
| Johnson-Woods, Toni; Sarwal, Amit |
Sold by the Millions: Australia's Bestsellers |
2012 |
|
| Fasick, Adele M.; Johnston, Margaret; Osler, Ruth |
Lands of Pleasure: Essays on Lillian H. Smith and the Development of Children's Libraries |
1990 |
|
| Harris, Alana; Jones, Timothy Willem |
Love and Romance in Britain, 1918-1970 |
2015 |
|
| Jones, Cerys |
Romance Readers and the Politics of Literary Taste in Twentieth Century Britain |
2026 |
readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, UK, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Harman, Sarah; Jones, Bethan |
Fifty shades of ghey: Snark fandom and the figure of the anti-fan |
2013 |
Fifty Shades, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, BDSM |
| Jones, Bethan |
Sight Loss and the Tethered Self in 21st Century Novels |
2026 |
disability, Eric Lindstrom, Lucy May Lennox |
| Jones, Ann Rosalind |
Mills & Boon meets feminism |
1986 |
feminism, Harlequin Mills & Boon, work, social/economic class, gender, sex/sexuality |
| Jones, Amanda |
Madness, Monks and Mutiny: Neo-Victorianism in the Work of Victoria Holt |
2019 |
Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, gothic romance, romantic suspense, feminism, Charlotte Brontë, gender, marriage, family, Wilkie Collins, health/medical, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, India |
| Suleiman, Michael W.; Joseph, Suad; Cainkar, Louise |
Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal |
2021 |
|
| Jossart, Deborah A. |
Transforming the fairytale: a diachronic study of utopias of popular romance |
2004 |
fairytales/folktales |
| Joyal, Amanda |
From Victorian literature to the romance novel: Disability and the courtship plot |
2012 |
disability, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Charlotte Brontë, Dinah Craik, gender, Teresa Medeiros, Brenda Novak, Catherine Anderson, Erin McCarthy |
| Juhasz, Suzanne |
Texts to Grow On: Reading Women’s Romance Fiction |
1988 |
genre definitions, psychology, readers, gender, love |
| Juhasz, Suzanne |
Reading from the Heart: Women, Literature, and the Search for True Love |
1994 |
readers, psychology, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Louisa May Alcott, Gloria Naylor, Isabel Miller, Valerie Taylor, lesbian romance |
| Juhasz, Suzanne |
Lesbian Romance Fiction and the Plotting of Desire: Narrative Theory, Lesbian Identity, and Reading Practice |
1998 |
lesbian romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Sarah Aldridge, readers, gender, psychology, work, love, sex/sexuality, family |
| Jumelais, Yann |
De Delly à Dailey : les obstacles dans le roman sentimental |
1990 |
Delly, Janet Dailey, genre definitions |
| Jurilla, Patricia May Bantug |
Tagalog bestsellers and the history of the book in the Philippines |
2006 |
Philippines, Publishing, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) |
| Jurilla, Patricia May Bantug |
Tagalog Bestsellers of the Twentieth Century: A History of the Book in the Philippines |
2008 |
Philippines |
| Jussawalla, Feroza; Omran, Doaa |
Muslim Women’s Writing from across South and Southeast Asia |
2022 |
|
| K., Nikohl; Lennard, John |
A Reader's Companion to A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold, Compiled and Presented to Her by Members of the Official LMB Mailing-List to Celebrate the Silver Anniversary of Shards of Honor 1986–2011 |
2011 |
Lois McMaster Bujold, Georgette Heyer, science fiction/futuristic romance |
| Kahn, Laurie |
Love Between the Covers |
2015 |
authors, Jennifer Crusie, Eloisa James, Beverly Jenkins, Radclyffe/Len Barot |
| Ahmed, Iman; Brose, Michael-Zane; Dengs, Lara; Elfering, Lucie; John, Elena; Kalcker, Mira; Kronenberg, Alice; Küllenberg, Charmaine; Le Donne, Laura; Nazik, Alican; Neisen, Lena; Özdal, Öznur Zeynep; Schneemann, Hanna; Steven, Antonia; Bøglund Strand, Julie |
A “Messy Complexity”? On Coming-Out, Identity Formation, and Community in Queer YA Romance Novels |
2025 |
YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, community, Becky Albertalli, Kacen Callender, Casey McQuiston |
| Kaler, Anne K. |
Conventions of Captivity in Romance Novels |
1999 |
sheikh romance, religion/spirituality, settings, E. M. Hull, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Kaler, Anne K. |
Hero, Heroine, or HERA: A New Name for an Old Problem |
1999 |
linguistics |
| Kaler, Anne K. |
Introduction: Conventions of the Romance Genre |
1999 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Kaler, Anne K.; Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E. |
Romantic Conventions |
1999 |
|
| Rapp, Adrian; Dodgen, Lynda; Kaler, Anne K. |
A Romance Writer Gets Away with Murder |
2000 |
Sandra Brown, romantic suspense, death |
| Kaler, Anne K. |
Dysfunctional Detectives and Romantic P.I.s: Impediments to the Happy Marriage of Mystery and Romance |
2000 |
romantic suspense, gender |
| Kalisch, Philip A.; Kalisch, Beatrice J. |
The Changing Image of the Nurse |
1987 |
medical romance, Mary Roberts Rinehart, work |
| Kalisch, Philip A.; Kalisch, Beatrice J. |
The Changing Image of the Nurse |
1987 |
medical romance, Mary Roberts Rinehart, work |
| Kraaykamp, Gerbert; Kalmijn, Matthijs |
Een stille liefde. Over de lezeressen van romantische lectuur |
1995 |
readers, social/economic class, Netherlands |
| Kamble, Jayashree |
Female Enfranchisement and the Popular Romance: Employing an Indian Perspective |
2007 |
India, readers, gender, feminism, marriage, Linda Howard, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Kim Lawrence, Lisa Kleypas, fashion/clothing, sex/sexuality, virginity |
| Kamble, Jayashree |
Uncovering and Recovering the Popular Romance Novel |
2008 |
capitalism/business, war/armed forces, sex/sexuality, paratext, readers, India, historical romance, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, happy ending, Stephanie Laurens |
| Kamble, Jayashree |
Patriotism, Passion, and PTSD: The Critique of War in Popular Romance Fiction |
2012 |
war/armed forces, United States of America, national identity, disability, Linda Howard, marriage, Gaelen Foley, Suzanne Brockmann, Sherrilyn Kenyon |
| Kamblé, Jayashree |
Making Meaning in Popular Romance Fiction: An Epistemology |
2014 |
war/armed forces, capitalism/business, gender, race/ethnicity, Lisa Kleypas, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, genre definitions, Suzanne Brockmann, Gaelen Foley, Diana Gabaldon, Linda Howard, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Johanna Lindsey, Anne Mather, Lindsay McKenna, Judith McNaught, historical romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Julia Quinn, Nalini Singh, Violet Winspear, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Kamblé, Jayashree |
Branding a Genre: A Brief Transatlantic History of Romance Novel Cover Art |
2016 |
paratext, Harlequin Mills & Boon, historical romance, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Kamble, Jayashree |
From Barbarized to Disneyfied: Viewing 1990s New York City Through Eve Dallas, J.D. Robb’s Futuristic Homicide Detective |
2017 |
Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, science fiction/futuristic romance, capitalism/business, romantic suspense |
| Kamblé, Jayashree |
When Wuxia Met Romance: The Pleasures and Politics of Transculturalism in Sherry Thomas’s My Beautiful Enemy |
2020 |
Sherry Thomas, China, war/armed forces, race/ethnicity, historical romance, UK, gender, national identity, family |
| Kamblé, Jayashree; Selinger, Eric Murphy; Teo, Hsu-Ming |
Introduction |
2021 |
romance scholarship |
| Kamblé, Jayashree |
Romance in the media |
2021 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, genre definitions, paratext, sex/sexuality |
| Kamblé, Jayashree; Selinger, Eric Murphy; Teo, Hsu-Ming |
The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction |
2021 |
romance scholarship |
| Kamblé, Jayashree |
Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation |
2023 |
gender, sex/sexuality, work, national identity, race/ethnicity, Susan Napier, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Karen Marie Moning, Lisa Kleypas, Beverly Jenkins, Linda Howard, Kresley Cole, Joanna Bourne, Sherry Thomas, Alyssa Cole, metafiction, social/economic class, community, emotions |
| Kamblé, Jayashree |
Romancing the University: BIPOC Scholars in Romance Novels in the 1980s and Now |
2023 |
race/ethnicity, Sandra Kitt, Barbara Stephens, Adriana Herrera, Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson/Brandy Bush, Talia Hibbert, African American romance, work, romance and, or as, activism |
| Kamblé, Jayashree |
The origins of U.S. mass-market category romance novels: Black editors and writers in the early 1980s |
2023 |
race/ethnicity, Publishing, Vivian Stephens (also wrote as Angela Vivian with co-author Angela Dew), United States of America, social/economic class, work, Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington, Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku, Sandra Kitt, Barbara Stephens, Valerie Flournoy, history, sex/sexuality, Rochelle Alers, Donna Hill |
| Kamblé, Jayashree |
Love in Victorian London: Immigrant Histories and Intersecting Diversities in K. J. Charles’s Sins of the Cities |
2024 |
K. J. Charles, race/ethnicity, historical romance, UK |
| Kamblé, Jayashree |
The Women Who Changed the American Mass-Market Romance Genre: BIPOC Editors, Authors, and Category Romance Novels from 1980 to 1988 |
2025 |
Publishing, race/ethnicity, Vivian Stephens (also wrote as Angela Vivian with co-author Angela Dew), United States of America, Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington, Barbara Stephens, Frances Flores, Marisa de Zavala/Ana Lisa de Leon/Rachel Scott/Celina Rios Mullan, community, settings, Jean Hager, Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku, Sandra Kitt, Valerie Flournoy, work, Rochelle Alers, food, drink |
| Schell, Heather; Clayburn, Justina; Duong, Amy; Farooqui, Javaria; Ficke, Sarah; Hammonds, Krista; Hebert, Shelby; Jacobs, Jenni; Kamblé, Jayashree; Lucken, Melissa Ford; Manganelli, Kim; McStotts, Jennie; Newns, Lucinda; Noone, Kristin; Ramos-García, María T.; Ridge, Kelsey; Schifman, Cassie; Schroyer, Precie; Smith, Jennifer; Smith, Josefine; Tillman, Kacy Dowd; Walden, Sarah; Wen, Huike; Wilson, Casey Alane |
Defining the Trope in Romance Fiction |
2026 |
genre definitions |
| Kamblé, Jayashree |
Race, religion, and the politics of desire in Talia Hibbert’s A Girl Like Her and Take a Hint, Dani Brown |
2026 |
Talia Hibbert, race/ethnicity, feminism, UK, fat, fatness, work, emotions, religion/spirituality, Islam, sex/sexuality |
| Kamblé, Jayashree |
Recolouring the romcom: humor, respectability, and race in a 1986 American category romance novel |
2026 |
humour, Tracy West/Joyce McGill/Chassie West, race/ethnicity, African American romance, rom-com romance, metafiction |
| Kamitsuka, Margaret D. |
Prolife Christian Romance Novels: A Sign that the Abortion-as-Murder Center Is Not Holding? |
2020 |
Christian romance, religion/spirituality, health/medical, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Francine Rivers, family, United States of America |
| Kamrath, Kelly |
French Interwar Popular Romance and Ideals of Femininity: A Literary and Historical Study of Magali |
2024 |
France, history, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), gender, Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert, fairytales/folktales |
| Kanerick, Caroline |
‘A Jazzed and Patchwork Modern’: ‘future’ girls and modern masculinities in the early popular romances of Berta Ruck |
2010 |
Berta Ruck, gender, history, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, family, community, fashion/clothing, sex/sexuality, war/armed forces, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Kania, Richard R. E. |
Pirates and Piracy in American Popular Culture |
2014 |
pirates and outlaws, historical romance, Daphne du Maurier |
| Kapell, Matthew; Becker, Suzanne |
Patriarchy, the Christian Romance Novel, and the 'Ecosystem of Sex' |
2005 |
Christian romance, sex/sexuality, feminism, religion/spirituality, Janette Oke, Francine Rivers, readers, Jane Almquist |
| Kapila, Shuchi |
Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule |
2010 |
India, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Flora Annie Steel, Maud Diver, Bithia Mary Croker, Alice Perrin |
| Kaplan, Deborah |
"Why would any woman want to read such stories?": The Distinctions Between Genre Romances and Slash Fictions |
2012 |
fanfiction, genre definitions, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Suzanne Brockmann, gender |
| Kapstein, Helen |
Petrofeminism: Love in the Age of Oil |
2021 |
ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change, Nigeria, feminism, Chimamanda Adichie, Myne Whitman, metafiction, Balaraba Ramat Yakubu, work, capitalism/business |
| Karamat, Yashfa; Nawaz, Rukhma; Firdos, Zainab |
Negotiating Reality and Fantasy through Magical Realism in Suleikha Snyder’s Big Bad Wolf |
2025 |
Suleikha Snyder, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, United States of America |
| Karaminas, Vicki; Geczy, Adam; Gibson, Pamela Church |
Fashionable Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies, and Lumbersexuals |
2022 |
|
| Barbour, Catherine; Kardak, Karunika |
Women’s Historical Fiction Across the Globe |
2025 |
|
| Helgason, Jon; Kärrholm, Sara; Steiner, Ann |
Hype: Bestsellers and Literary Cultures |
2014 |
|
| Coote, Lesley; Kaufman, Alexander L. |
Robin Hood and the Outlaw/ed Literary Canon |
2018 |
|
| Kaufman, Alexander L.; Vlagopoulos, Penny |
Food and Feast in Modern Outlaw Tales |
2019 |
|
| Kaveney, Roz |
Dark fantasy and paranormal romance |
2012 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Charlaine Harris, Laurell K. Hamilton, Twilight |
| Nagasaki, Hiroko; Yamane, So; Kawasaki, Yutaka |
Currents of Metamorphosis across the Indian Ocean |
2025 |
|
| Kaye, Sharon |
Feminist Sex?: It's in His Kiss |
2026 |
sex/sexuality, Julia Quinn, feminism |
| Kaye, Marilyn Janice |
The nature of didacticism as related to romance and sexuality in young adult novels 1965-1978 |
1983 |
YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance |
| Kebadze, Nino |
Fictions of Surrender: Romance and Exemplarity in Post-War Spanish Women's Narratives |
2007 |
Luisa-María Linares, Concha Linares-Becerra, Carmen de Icaza, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, gender |
| Kebadze, Nino |
Romance and Exemplarity in Post-War Spanish Women's Narratives |
2009 |
Luisa-María Linares, Concha Linares-Becerra, Carmen de Icaza, María Mercedes Ortoll, gender, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Spain |
| Keegan, Faye Jessica |
Soft metafiction(s) : Mary Stewart and the self-reflective middlebrow |
2016 |
Mary Stewart, romantic suspense, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, national identity, history, metafiction, fairytales/folktales, gothic romance, UK |
| Keegan, Faye |
‘Snob Value’: Gender and Literary Value in Mary Stewart |
2017 |
Mary Stewart, romantic suspense, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender, authors |
| Keeler, Janet K. |
Romance In The Round: A Content Analysis Of YA Novels About Fat Girls Looking For Love |
2025 |
YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, fat, fatness, race/ethnicity, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Adiba Jaigirdar, Rebekah Weatherspoon |
| Keen, Suzanne |
Probable Impossibilities: Historical Romance Readers Talk Back |
2018 |
Diana Gabaldon, readers, history |
| Kelly, Patricia P. |
Transitional Novels for Readers of Teen Romances |
1991 |
YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance |
| Kelly, Brendan D. |
Medical Romance |
2007 |
medical romance |
| Kelly, Brendan D. |
Medical romance: love never dies |
2016 |
medical romance |
| Kelman, Suanne |
Heroine addiction |
1995 |
Georgette Heyer, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Jennifer Crusie, Margaret Moore, Susanna Kearsley |
| Kelso, Sylvia |
Singularities: the interaction of feminism(s) and two strands of popular American fiction, 1968-89 |
1996 |
gothic romance, Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz, Phyllis A. Whitney, feminism |
| Kelso, Sylvia |
Stitching Time: Feminism(s) and Thirty Years of Gothic Romance |
1997 |
gothic romance, Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz, feminism, family |
| Kemppinen, Anne-Mari Katriina |
Translating for popular literature with special reference to Harlequin books and their Finnish translations |
1988 |
translation, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Finland |
| Kemppinen, Anne |
Translation for Popular Literature with Special Reference to Harlequin Books and their Finnish Translation |
1989 |
translation, Finland, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Kendal, Evie |
The use of free indirect discourse in J. R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series |
2019 |
J. R. Ward, close reading, linguistics, genre definitions, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, readers |
| Kendra, April |
Silver Forks, Stereotypes, and Regency Romance |
2007 |
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), historical romance |
| Keran, Molly |
The Genre of Rape: Women’s Popular Literature and Contemporary Representations of Sexual Violence |
2024 |
rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Alyssa Cole, Courtney Milan, Lorraine Heath, historical romance, Lisa Kleypas, Julia Quinn, Margaret Mallory, gender, race/ethnicity, social/economic class, sex/sexuality, health/medical |
| Keran, Molly |
Generic Guarantees |
2025 |
Colleen Hoover, Jennifer Crusie, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, genre definitions |
| Kerr, Ashley Elizabeth |
Indigenous Lovers and Villainous Scientists: Rewriting Nineteenth-Century Ideas of Race in Argentine Romance Novels |
2019 |
history, race/ethnicity, Argentina, science/technology, national identity, historical romance |
| Khuankaew, Sasinee |
Femininity and masculinity in three selected twentieth-century Thai romance fictions |
2015 |
gender, Thailand, Buddhism, marriage, sex/sexuality, feminism, religion/spirituality |
| Khuankaew, Sasinee |
Femininity and Masculinity in Twenty-First Century Thai Romantic Fictions |
2017 |
gender, Thailand, sex/sexuality, Buddhism |
| Khumwongdee, Yanisa |
Reading and Rewriting Fat Romance: A Study of Twenty-First Century Thai and US Fat Romance Novels |
2021 |
fat, fatness, gender, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Tristanty, Anggie Ayu Isra; Khusyairi, Johny Alfian |
Mass-produced romance: BookTok society and the homogenisation of literary culture |
2025 |
readers, Publishing |
| Kies, Bridget |
Saying “I Don’t”: Queer Romance in the Post–Marriage Equality World |
2024 |
marriage, happy ending, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, film/movies, Alexis Hall |
| Kilian, G. Charles |
Gender, Genre, and Pleasure: Eroticism and Its Limits in French and Francophone Literature (1950–2010) |
2025 |
genre definitions, pornography, feminism |
| Killeen, Jarlath |
Nora Roberts: the Power of Love |
2018 |
Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, love |
| Killing, Peter |
Harlequin Enterprises Limited: Case Material of the Western School of Business Administration |
1978 |
Publishing |
| Lin, Pei-yin; Kim, Su Yun |
East Asian Transwar Popular Culture: Literature and Film from Taiwan and Korea |
2019 |
Taiwan, Korea, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) |
| Kinard, Amanda Marette |
Forbidden Pleasures: The Romance and Its Readers |
1999 |
sex/sexuality, social/economic class, virginity, readers, capitalism/business, wealth/prosperity |
| Kinder, John M.; Murray, Jennifer M. |
They Are Dead and Yet They Live: Civil War Memories in a Polarized America |
2026 |
|
| Kindleysides, Alicia |
Broken Hearts: Writing The Representation of Trauma and Trauma Recovery in a Post-Trauma Romance Novel |
2024 |
health/medical, psychology, A. K. Leigh/Alicia Leigh/Alicia Kindleysides, genre definitions, feminism, romance and, or as, activism, myth, genre definitions |
| Allen, Margaret; Blackburn, Jean; Johnson, Carol; King, Margaret; Mackinnon, Alison |
All Her Labours: Embroidering the Framework |
1984 |
|
| King, Laura |
The Perfect Man: Fatherhood, Masculinity and Romance in Popular Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain |
2015 |
family, gender, marriage, history, UK |
| Towheed, Shafquat; King, Edmund G. C. |
Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives |
2015 |
|
| Kingston, Elizabeth |
History's Been Hijacked: How To Combat White Supremacy Through Popular Literature |
2018 |
historical romance, race/ethnicity, history, Elizabeth Kingston, Publishing, UK, social/economic class |
| Kinsale, Laura |
The Androgynous Reader: Point of View in the Romance |
1992 |
readers, gender, psychology, happy ending, feminism, paratext |
| Hotz-Davies, Ingrid; Kirchhofer, Anton; Leppänen, Sirpa |
Internet Fictions |
2009 |
|
| Kirkham, Pat; Thoms, David |
War Culture: Social Change and Changing Experience in World War Two Britain |
1995 |
|
| Kirkland, Catherine Elisabeth |
For The Love Of It: Women Writers And The Popular Romance |
1984 |
authors, work, Publishing, feminism, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |