Romance Scholarship DB

(2012) Desiring the east: a comparative study of Middle English romance and modern popular sheikh romance PhD, University of York

Topic

war/armed forces

religion/spirituality

fashion/clothing

(2014) ‘For you are a man and she is a maid’: Performing masculinity in Orientalist medieval and modern popular romance fiction Journal of European Popular Culture 5.2:89-103 DOI: 10.1386/jepc.5.2.89_1

Topic

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

Harlequin Mills & Boon

fashion/clothing

(2012) "Do Knights Still Rescue Damsels in Distress?: Reimagining the Medieval in the Mills & Boon Historical Romance " The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction 95-114

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

social/economic class

religion/spirituality

fashion/clothing

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

war/armed forces

Cooper, Katherine

(2012) The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Short, Emma

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Cooper, Katherine

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(1994) 'A World of Caribbean Romance': Reformulating the Legend of Love (or: 'Can a Caress Be Culturally Specific?') Caribbean Studies 27.3/4:346–366

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

social/economic class

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Valerie Belgrave

Bryce, Jane

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Brunt, Rosalind

(1984) "A Career in Love: The Romantic World of Barbara Cartland " Popular Fiction and Social Change 127-156 DOI:10.1007/978-1-349-15856-0_6

Topic

Barbara Cartland

social/economic class

religion/spirituality

Pawling, Christopher

(1984) Popular Fiction and Social Change New York: St. Martin’s