Romance Scholarship DB

(2021) "The evolution of the American romance novel " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 51-71 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-2

Topic

United States of America

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

romance scholarship

Charles Brockden Brown

Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Lydia Maria Child

E. D. E. N. Southworth

Louisa May Alcott

Frances Watkins Harper

Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

(2021) "History of English romance novels, 1621-1975 " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 27-50 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-1

Topic

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

Harlequin Mills & Boon

historical romance

(2018) What is Australian Popular Fiction? Australian Literary Studies 33.4:1-11 DOI: 10.20314/als.4e3df0ec9c

Topic

national identity

(1995) Love Brought to Book: A Bio-Bibliography of 20th Century Australian Romance Novels Melbourne: National Centre for Australian Studies

Topic

Deller, Ruth A.

Smith, Clarissa

(2013) Reading the BDSM romance: Reader responses to Fifty Shades Sexualities 16.8:932–950 DOI: 10.1177/1363460713508882

Topic

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Deller, Ruth A.

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Kamblé, Jayashree

Selinger, Eric Murphy

(2021) "Introduction " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 1-23 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-25

Topic

romance scholarship

Rayner, Samantha J.

(2021) Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction : UCL Press

Topic

Georgette Heyer

Rayner, Samantha J.

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(2020) Asexual Romance in an Allosexual World: How Ace-Spectrum Characters (and Authors) Create Space for Romantic Love Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/HAEQ8192

Topic

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors