Romance Scholarship DB

(2014) Demon Lovers: Embracing the Monster in Paranormal Romance :1-23

Topic

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance

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

Alyxandra Harvey

science/technology

Maggie Stiefvater

Bettinotti, Julia

Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène

Gagnon, Jocelyn

Noizet, Pascale

Provost, Christiane

(1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Provost, Christiane

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Gagnon, Jocelyn

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Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène

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Magenya, Sheena Gimase

(2020) Reading between the lines: A review of Dark Juices and Afrodisiacs: Erotic Diaries Vol 1 Agenda 34.3:137-144 DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2020.1782756

Topic

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

Magenya, Sheena Gimase

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Derbyshire, Val

(2016) Why Read Mills & Boon Romances? : WroCAH

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

romance and, or as, activism

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Derbyshire, Val

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McAlister, Jodi

(2020) The Consummate Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Anglophone Popular Literatures Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan