Romance Scholarship DB

Pérez-Gil, María del Mar

(2018) Exoticism, Ethnocentrism, and Englishness in Popular Romance Fiction: Constructing the European Other Journal of Popular Culture 51.4:940-955 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12710

Topic

national identity

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Blackburn, Kate G.

(2018) The Language of Romance: An Open Vocabulary Analysis of the Highest Rated Words Used in Romance Novels Journal of Language and Social Psychology 37.6:680-691 DOI: 10.1177/0261927X18793976

Topic

Blackburn, Kate G.

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Hardie, Ryan

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Olivarez, Omar

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(2013) "Evangelical Love Stories: The Triumphs and Temptations of Romantic Fiction " Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture: Pop Goes the Gospel. Volume 2: Literature, Music, Popular Art, and Merchandise 1–20

Topic

Christian romance

religion/spirituality

Woods, Robert H.

(2013) Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture: Pop Goes the Gospel. Volume 2: Literature, Music, Popular Art, and Merchandise Santa Barbara: Praeger

Woods, Robert H.

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Neal, Lynn S.

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McAlister, Jodi

(2018) “Feelings Like the Women in Books”: Declarations of Love in Australian Romance Novels, 1859–1891 Emotions: History, Culture, Society 2.1:91-112 DOI: 10.1163/2208522X-02010005

Topic

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

national identity