Kirtley, William M. Kirtley, Patricia M. (2021) How About a Little Romance?: An Analysis of Romance Novels National Social Science Proceedings 75.1:76-95 Topic genre definitions
Turner, Ellen Wadsö Lecaros, Cecilia (2022) The desert-governess romance: Regency England meets exotic Arabia Lund Journal of English Studies 4:1-24 DOI: 10.48148/ljes.v4i.24863 Topic sheikh romance historical romance settings Marguerite Kaye Laura Martin Lynne Graham Kate Hewitt E. M. Hull work genre definitions Harlequin Mills & Boon paratext
Long, Veronica Lee (2022) Individuation and the Romance Novel PhD thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute Topic gender myth psychology love readers Jane Austen
Sheehan, Sarah E. (2022) The “Popular Romance Canon”: An Academic Librarian’s Response Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/BHSR3256 Topic romance scholarship libraries/librarians
Basu, Soumi Sinha Ray (2019) The Allure and the Shame of Popular Fiction: An Analysis of Mills & Boon Romances Asian Quarterly: An International Journal of Contemporary Issues 16.4:24- Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon
Pupipat, Apisak Rungkaew, Titirut Meeparp, Lampoon (2022) Judging a Book by its Back Cover: Spoken/Informal Register as Found in Happily-Ever-After Women’s Novel Blurbs Journal of Studies in the English Language 17.2:1–31 Topic linguistics paratext