Romance Scholarship DB

Petrović, Janja

(2023) Breaking the stereotype – romance novel today Masters thesis, University of Zagreb

Topic

genre definitions

Christina Lauren

Petrović, Janja

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Phipps, Catherine

(2023) Sex, race and power: colonial and interracial sexuality in the French Empire in Morocco, 1912-1956 DPhil, University of Oxford

Topic

Bharathi, L. Divya

(2023) Nicholas Charles Sparks’s The Notebook: A Novel Of Love Or Romance? Journal of Namibian Studies 35, special issue 1:3749-3755

Topic

Nicholas Sparks

genre definitions

Muthuraman, K.

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Bharathi, L. Divya

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(2020) Girl, woman, spinster—‘desire, fear, ridicule’: the feminine and the failed in twentieth-century Australian women’s writing PhD, University of New South Wales

Topic

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

national identity

Alexi, Sarah

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(2006) Dystopian Romance: True Crime and the Female Reader The Journal of Popular Culture 39.6:928-953 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2006.00328.x

Topic

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Browder, Laura

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