Romance Scholarship DB

(2011) From Romance to Roberts and Back Again: genre, authorship and the construction of textual identity in contemporary popular romance novels PhD, University of Leuven

Topic

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

authors

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

genre definitions

paratext

Harlequin Mills & Boon

romantic suspense

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Driscoll, Beth

Fletcher, Lisa

Wilkins, Kim

(2011) "Women, Akubras and Ereaders: Romance Fiction and Australian Publishing " The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing 67-87

Topic

Australia

Publishing

rural romance

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Stinson, Emmett

Mannion, Aaron

(2016) The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing

Mannion, Aaron

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Stinson, Emmett

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Wilt, Judith

(2014) Women Writers and the Hero of Romance Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

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

Wilt, Judith

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Regan, Lisa

(2017) Women and the 'War Machine' in the Desert Romances of E. M. Hull and Rosita Forbes Women's Writing 24.1:109-122 DOI: 10.1080/09699082.2016.1233773

Topic

Regan, Lisa

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Shumway, David R.

Mannion, Aaron

Stinson, Emmett

Wilt, Judith

Regan, Lisa