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Chick Lit Academic Bibliography

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Laura V:

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==A-C==

;Adams, L. 2004. : "Chick Lit and Chick Flicks: Secret Power or Flat Formula?" '' The Horn Book Magazine.'' 80:669-680.[http://www.hbook.com/magazine/articles/2004/nov04_adams.asp]

;Akass, Kim, and Janet McCabe, 2004. : “Ms. Parker and the Vicious Circle: Female Narrative and Humour in ''Sex and the City'',” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 177-198.

;Alb, Anemona Filip. 2008.: "Protean Femininities: Shifting Stereotypes in 'Chick Lit'." ''Gender Studies'' 1, no. 7: 39-48.

;Arosteguy, Katie O'Donnell. 2009. : "The Clothes Do Make the Women: The Politics of Fashioning Femininity in Contemporary American Chick Lit." ''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 70, no. 11: 4284. [http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Spring2009/k_arosteguy_040109.pdf. ]

;Arosteguy, Katie. 2010. : "The Politics of Race, Class, and Sexuality in Contemporary American Mommy Lit." ''Women's Studies'' 39, no. 5: 409-429.

;Arthurs, Jane. : “''Sex and the City'' and Consumer Culture: Remediating Postfeminist Drama.” ''Feminist Media Studies'' 3.1 (2003): 83-98.

;Balducci, Federica. 2011. : ''A Different Shade of Pink: Literary Thresholds and Cultural Intersections in Italian Chick Lit''. A thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Italian. [http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/1929]

;Balducci, Federica. 2011. : “When chick lit meets romanzo rosa: Intertextual narratives in Stefania Bertola’s romantic fiction,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2011/12/when-chick-lit-meets-romanzo-rosa-intertextual-narratives-in-stefania-bertola%E2%80%99s-romantic-fiction-by-federica-balducci/]

;Baloria, Nitasha. 2014. : "To Be or Not To Be a 'Wife': Theme of Marriage in the Works of Marian Keyes," ''Research Scholar: An International Refereed e-Journal of Literary Explorations'' 2.1.[http://researchscholar.co.in/downloads/56-nitasha-baloria.pdf]

;Baloria, Nitasha. 2014. : "Is Chick Lit a Fluff or a Product of Jane Austen’s Style?," ''European Academic Research'' 2.7. [http://euacademic.org/UploadArticle/984.pdf]

;Benstock, Shari. : "Afterword: The New Woman's Fiction." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 253-???.

;Boyd, Elizabeth B. : "Ya Yas, Grits, and Sweet Potato Queens: Contemporary Southern Belles and the Prescriptions That Guide Them." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 159-172.

;Burns, Amy, 2011. : "'Tell me all about your new man': (Re)Constructing Masculinity in Contemporary Chick Texts." ''Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network'' 4.1. [http://journalhosting.org/meccsa-pgn/index.php/netknow/issue/current/showToc Links to abstract and pdf]

;Burns, Amy, 2012. : "The Postfeminist Flâneuse: The Literary Value of Contemporary Chick Lit." ''Graduate Journal of Social Science'' 9.3.[http://gjss.org/images/stories/volumes/9/3/Burns.pdf]

;Butler, Pamela and Jigna Desai. : “Manolos, Marriage, and Mantras: Chick-Lit Criticism and Transnational Feminism.” ''Meridians'' 8.2 (2008): 1-31. [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/meridians/v008/8.2.butler.html Abstract]

;Campbell, P. 2006. : "The Sand in the Oyster The Lit of Chick Lit." '' The Horn Book Magazine.'' 82 (4):487-491.[http://www.hbook.com/magazine/articles/2006/jul06_campbell.asp]

;Cano López, Marina. : "Looking Back in Desire; or How Jane Austen Rewrites Chick Lit in Alexandra Potter’s ''Me and Mr. Darcy''." ''Persuasions'' 31.1 (2010).[http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol31no1/cano-lopez.html]

;Carvalho, Charmaine. : "Chick Lit in India: Possibilities for a Feminine Aesthetic in Popular Fiction." ''Estetyka i Krytyka The Polish Journal of Aesthetics'' 41 (2016): 13-32. [http://estetykaikrytyka.pl/art/41/eik_41_1.pdf]

;Caselli, Carolyn Ann. 2006.: ''Chick Lit : postmodern literature for the everywoman.'' Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, Northridge.

;Chen, Eva. : "Shanghai(ed) Babies: Geopolitics, Biopolitics and the Global Chick Lit." ''Feminist Media Studies'' (advanced release 6 Oct. 2011). [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14680777.2011.597102 Abstract]

;Chen Eva Yin-i. : "Neoliberal Self-Governance and Popular Postfeminism in Contemporary Anglo-American Chick Lit", ''Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies'' 36.1 (2010): 243-275.[http://www.concentric-literature.url.tw/issues/Transnational%20Taiwan/11.pdf]

;Craddock, Louise. : "Bridget Jones's Little Red Dress: Chicklit, Mass-market Popular Romance and Feminism." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 43-51. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

==D-F==

;Davis-Kahl, Stephanie. : "The Case for Chick Lit in Academic Libraries." ''Collection Building'' 27.1 (2008): 18-21. [http://works.bepress.com/stephanie_davis_kahl/1 Abstract and link to pdf]

;Dorney, Kate. : "Shop Boys and Girls! Interpellating Readers as Consumers in Chicklit and Ladlit." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 12-22. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Dunn, Hannah. 2005.: ''Making the personal political: reflexivity as neo-feminist activism in Brit-art and Chick-lit.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of Colorado.

;Ebert, Teresa L. 2009. : ''The task of cultural critique.'' Urbana: University of Illinois Press. [Chapter-Chick lit: "not your mother's romance novels"] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OEYGxoLGApYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA97#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Ehriander, Helene, 2015. : "Chick Lit in Historical Settings by Frida Skybäck", ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/chick-lit-in-historical-settings-by-frida-skybackby-helene-ehriander/]

;Farr, Cecilia Konchar. 2009. : "It Was Chick Lit All Along: The Gendering of a Genre." In ''You've Come a Long Way, Baby: Women, Politics, and Popular Culture'', 201-214. Lexington, KY: UP of Kentucky, 2009.

;Ferriss, Suzanne and Mallory Young. : "Introduction." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 1-16.

;Ferriss, Suzanne and Mallory Young. : “Chicks, Girls and Choice: Redefining Feminism.” ''Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue'' 6 (2006): 87-97. [http://www.junctures.org/issues.php?issue=06&title=Language&colour=rgb(73,47,146)]

;Ferris, Suzanne. : "Narrative and Cinematic Doubleness: ''Pride and Prejudice'' and ''Bridget Jones's Diary''." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 71-84.

;Ferris, Suzanne. : "Working Girls: The Precariat of Chick Lit", in Cupcakes, Pinterest and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early Twenty-First Century, ed. Elana Levine (University of Illinois, 2015): 177-???.

;Fest, Kerstin. 2009. : "Angels in the House or Girl Power: Working Women in Nineteenth-Century Novels and Contemporary Chick Lit." ''Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal'' 38, no. 1: 43-62.

;Frater, Lara. 2009. : "Fat heroines in chick-lit: gateway to acceptance in the mainstream?" in Rothblum, Esther D., and Sondra Solovay. ''The Fat Studies Reader.'' New York: New York University Press. 235-240. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XtLWPWNO8gUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA235#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Frenkel, Ronit, 2019. : “Pleasure as Genre: Popular Fiction, South African Chick-Lit and Nthikeng Mohlele’s Pleasure.” ''Feminist Theory'', (February 2019). [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1464700119831537#articleCitationDownloadContainer Abstract]

==G-I==

;Gamble, Sarah. : "When Romantic Heroines Turn Bad: The Rise of the ‘Anti-Chicklit’ Novel." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/gamble.html]

;Gehrmann, Susanne. : “Emerging Afro-Parisian ‘Chick-Lit’ by Lauren Ekué and Léonora Miano.” ''Feminist Theory'', Feb. 2019. [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1464700119831539#articleCitationDownloadContainer Abstract]

;Gennaro, Stephen. : “Sex and the City: Perpetual Adolescence Gendered Feminine?” ''Nebula'' 4.1 (2007). 1 August 2009.[http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/Gennaro.pdf]

;Genz, Stéphanie, and Benjamin A. Brabon. 2009. : ''Postfeminism: cultural texts and theories.'' Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Chapter - Girl power and chick lit, on pages 76-90.] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yUGpvXJe9NAC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA76#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Gerhard, Jane. : “''Sex and the City'': Carrie Bradshaw’s Queer Postfeminism.” ''Feminist Media Studies'' 5.1 (2005): 37-49.

;Ghosh, Srijani. : "''Res Emptito Ergo Sum'': Fashion and Commodity Fetishism in Sophie Kinsella’s ''Confessions of a Shopaholic''." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 46.2 (2013): 378-393. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.12031/abstract Excerpt]

;Gill, Rosalind. : "Lad lit as mediated intimacy: A postfeminist tale of female power, male vulnerability and toast." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/gill.html]

;Gill, Rosalind and Elena Herdieckerhoff. : "Rewriting the Romance: New Femininities in Chick Lit?" ''Feminist Media Studies'' 6.4 (2006): 487-504. [Abstract and pdf available from [http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/2514 LSE Research Online]]

;Gormley, Sarah. : "Introduction." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/gormley.html]

;Gorton, Kristyn. : "'Kiss My Tiara': Chicklit and Female Empowerment." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 23-28. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Gruslytė, Monika, Aurelija Taujanskaitė, and Erika Žemaitytė. : "The tradition of consciousness-raising fiction in contemporary popular fiction Chick lit." ''Straipsnis leidinyje: Jaunųjų mokslininkų darbai'' 39.1 (2013): 125-129. [http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:J.04~2013~ISSN_1648-8776.N_1_39.PG_125-129 Abstract and link to pdf.] [http://vddb.library.lt/fedora/get/LT-eLABa-0001:J.04~2013~ISSN_1648-8776.N_1_39.PG_125-129/DS.002.1.01.ARTIC Pdf]

;Guerrero, Lisa A. : "'Sistahs Are Doin' It For Themselves': Chick Lit in Black and White." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 87-102.

;Gunne, Sorcha. : 'World-Literature, World-Systems, and Irish Chick Lit', ''Globalizing Literary Genres: Literature, History, Modernity'', Ed. Jernej Habjan and Fabienne Imlinger (2016). [https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315708621/chapters/10.4324/9781315708621-25 Abstract] [https://www.academia.edu/37300753/World-Literature_World-Systems_and_Irish_Chick_Lit?email_work_card=title pdf (in pre-print version)]

;Gunne, Sorcha. : ‘Gender, Genre and Modernity: Popular Romance Fiction in Ireland’, ''Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction'', Ed. L Harte. Oxford: Oxford University Press [in press]. [[https://www.academia.edu/37300918/Gender_Genre_and_Modernity_Popular_Romance_Fiction_in_Ireland pre-print version]]

;Gymnich, Marion, and Kathrin Ruhl. 2010. : "Revisiting the Classical Romance: Pride and Prejudice, Bridget Jone's Diary and Bride and Prejudice." In ''Gendered (Re)Visions: Constructions of Gender in Audiovisual Media'', 23-44. Göttingen, Germany: V&R, 2010. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VWcRp0Xy41IC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA23#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Hale, Elizabeth. : "Long-Suffering Professional Females: The Case of Nanny Lit." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 103-118.

;Harzewski, Stephanie. 2004. : "'Chick Lit' and the Urban Code Heroine: Interview Symposium with Caren Lissner, Melissa Senate, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, and Jennifer Weiner." In ''Voces de América/American Voices: Entrevistas a escritores americanos/Interviews with American Writers,''. Cádiz, Spain: Aduana Vieja, 2004. 689-719.

;Harzewski, Stephanie. : "Tradition and Displacement in the New Novel of Manners." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 29–46.

;Harzewski, Stephanie. : "The new novel of manners: Chick lit and postfeminist sexual politics" (January 1, 2006). Dissertations available from ProQuest. Paper AAI3225468. [Abstract http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI3225468]

;Harzewski, Stephanie. : ''Chick Lit and Postfeminism.'' Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011.

;Hedrick, Tace. : ''Chica Lit: Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century''. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2015. [https://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=36578 Details and excerpt]

;Henry, Astrid. : “Orgasms and Empowerment. ''Sex and the City'' and the Third Wave Feminism.” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 65-82.

;Hewett, Heather. : "You Are Not Alone: The Personal, the Political and the 'New' Mommy Lit." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 119-140.

;Horrocks, Clare. : "Tart Noir: Chicklit with Criminal Balls." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 59-64. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]



;Hurst, Rochelle. : “The Barrister’s Bedmate: Harlequin Mills & Boon and the Bridget Jones Debate.” ''Australian Feminist Studies'' 24.62 (2009): 453-468. [Feminist critique of Harlequin Mills & Boons (especially a selection by [[Emma Darcy]]) and comparison with Helen Fielding's ''Bridget Jones'' novels. For a discussion of why many aspects of this essay's methodology are troubling, from an academic perspective, see [http://www.readreactreview.com/2010/02/10/feminist-critique-of-romance-ur-doin-it-wrong/ this article by Jessica at ''Read React Review'']].

;Hurt, Erin. 2009. : "Trading Cultural Baggage for Gucci Luggage: The Ambivalent Latinidad of Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's "The Dirty Girls Social Club.." ''MELUS'' 34, no. 3: 133-153.

;Hurt, Erin (ed.) 2018. : ''Theorizing Ethnicity and Nationality in the Chick Lit Genre''. Routledge. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=unx0DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Isbister, Georgina C. : "Chick Lit: A Postfeminist Fairy Tale." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/isbister.html]

==J-L==

;Jermyn, Deborah. : “In Love with Sarah Jessica Parker: Celebrating Female Fandom and Friendship in ''Sex and the City''.” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 201-217.

;Jermyn, Deborah. : ''Sex and the City''. Detroit: Wayne State Press, 2009.

;Johnson, Joanna Webb. : "Chick Lit Jnr.: More Than Glitz and Glamour for Teens and Tweens." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 141-158.

;Kaminski, Melissa J. and Robert G. Magee. : "Does This Book Make Me Look Fat?: The Effect of Protagonist Body Weight and Body Esteem on Female Readers' Body Esteem." ''Body Image'' (2012). [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2012.10.009 Abstract]

;Kent, Paula Rachel. 2007. : '' Think pink and high heels: women and beauty as represented in chick lit novels.'' Thesis (M.A.) Stephenville, Tex: Tarleton State University. [http://gradworks.umi.com/14/55/1455093.html Abstract]

;Kiernan, Anna. : "No Satisfaction: ''Sex and the City'', ''Run Catch Kiss'', and the Conflict of Desires in Chick Lit's New Heroines." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 207-218.

;Knowles, Joanne. : "Editorial." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 3-4. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Knowles, Joanne. : "Material Girls: Location and Economics in Chicklit Fiction, Or, How Singletons Finance Their Jimmy Choo Collections." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 37-42. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Knowles, Joanne. 2008. : "'Our foes are almost as many as our readers': debating the worth of women's reading and writing--the case of chick-lit." ''Popular Narrative Media'' 1.2 (2008): 217-231.

;Kohli, Joy. : ''Governing Women’s Sexuality in “Sex and the City”: Pleasure, Relationships And Reproduction''. Ann Arbor: Proquest, 2008.

;Konchar Farr, Cecilia. : "It Was Chick Lit All Along: The Gendering of a Genre." ''You've Come A Long Way Baby: Women, Politics, and Popular Culture''. Ed. Lilly J. Goren. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. 201-214. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=G132LEhM4ucC&lpg=PA208&pg=PA201#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Leffler, Yvonne. : "Chick Lit as Healing and Self-Help Manual?" ''Culture, Health, and Religion at the Millennium: Sweden Unparadised'', Ed. Marie Demker, Yvonne Leffler and Ola Sigurdson. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 155-182. [http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9781137472236.0008 Excerpt]

;Lenz, Christian. : ''Geographies of Love: The Cultural Spaces of Romance in Chick- and Ladlit''. PhD thesis, TU Dortmund University, 2014. Verlag 2016. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rrgADAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Lerman, Amy S. : “Jane Green and the Contemporary ‘Singleton’: Why Women Can Laugh at their Bachelorette Predicaments.” ''The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference''. Ed. Leslie Fife. 1285-1298.

;Lim, Megan S.C., Margaret E. Hellard and Danielle Horyniak. : "Safe Sex in Chick Lit: a ‘Novel’ Analysis of Sexual Health References in Popular Women’s Fiction. ''Sexual Health''. Online first, 27 July 2018. [https://doi.org/10.1071/SH18017 Abstract]

==M-O==

;Mabry, A. Rochelle. : "About a Girl: Female Subjectivity and Sexuality in Contemporary 'Chick' Culture." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 191-206.

;Markle, Gail. : “Can Women Have Sex Like a Man? Sexual Scripts in Sex and the City.” ''Sexuality and Culture'' 12 (2008): 45-57.

;Mathew, Imogen Louise. : "‘The Pretty and the Political Didn’t Seem to Blend Well’: Anita Heiss’s Chick Lit and the Destabilisation of a Genre", ''JASAL: Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature'' 15.3 (2015). [https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/JASAL/article/view/10575 Abstract and pdf].

;Mathew, Imogen. : "Educating the Reader in Anita Heiss’s Chick Lit." ''Contemporary Women's Writing'' (2016). First published online: July 31, 2016. [http://cww.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/07/31/cww.vpw019.extract# Excerpt]

;Mazza, Cris. : "Who's Laughing Now? A Short History of Chick Lit and the Perversion of a Genre." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 17-28.

;Mazza, Cris. 2000. : "Editing Postfeminist Fiction: Finding the Chic in Lit." ''Symplokē: A Journal for the Intermingling of Literary, Cultural and Theoretical Scholarship'' 8, no. 1-2: 101-112.

;Merck, Mandy. : “Sexuality in the City.” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 48-62.

;Missler, Heike. : ''The Cultural Politics of Chick Lit: Popular Fiction, Postfeminism and Representation''. New York: Routledge, 2017. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mVtuDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Moody, Nickianne. : "Empathy and Irony in the Soundtrack to Chicklit." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 52-58. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Morrison, Amanda Maria. 2010. : "Chicanas and 'Chick Lit': Contested Latinidad in the Novels of Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 43, no. 2: 309-329.

;Nelson, Ashley. : “Sister Carrie meets Carrie Bradshaw: Exploring Progress, Politics and the Single Woman in ''Sex and the City'' and Beyond.” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 83-95.

;Newns, Lucinda, 2017. : "Renegotiating romantic genres: Textual resistance and Muslim chick lit." ''Journal of Commonwealth Literature''. Online first. 1-17. [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0021989416686156 Abstract]

;Oberoi, Sonia Vashista, 2017. : "Indian Chick Lit: A Genre for ''Desi'' Girls." ''International Journal of English and Literature'' (IJEL) 7.2: 127-132.[https://www.academia.edu/34615388/INDIAN_CHICK_LIT_A_GENRE_FOR_DESI_GIRLS?email_work_card=title]

;Ommundsen, Wenche. 2008. : "From China with Love: Chick Lit and the New Crossover Fiction." In ''China Fictions-English Language: Literary Essays in Diaspora, Memory, Story,''. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi. 327-345

;Ommundsen, Wenche. 2011. : "Sex and the Global City: Chick Lit with a Difference." ''Contemporary Women's Writing'' 5.2: 107-124. [http://cww.oxfordjournals.org/content/5/2/107.extract Abstract]

;Oria, Beatriz, 2012. : “’Just Say Yes’: the Romanticisation of Love in ''Sex and the City'',” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2012/10/just-say-yes-the-romanticisation-of-love-in-sex-and-the-city-by-beatriz-oria/]

==P-R==

;Pérez-Serrano, Elena. : "Chick Lit and Marian Keyes: The ideological background of the genre." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/perezserrano.html]

;Perez-Serrano, Elena. 2009. : "Growing Old Before Old Age: Ageing in the Fiction of Marian Keyes." ''Educational Gerontology'' 35, no. 2: 135-145.

;Regules, Anne E. 2006. : ''Working women re-working the romance: chick-lit from Kate Chopin to Jennifer Weiner and Sex and the City.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of Texas at San Antonio.

;Ross, Sharon Marie. : “Talking Sex: Comparison Shopping through Female Conversation in HBO’s ''Sex and the City''.” ''The Sitcom Reader: America Viewed and Skewed''. Eds. Mary M. Dalton and Laura Linder. New York: State University of NY Press, 2005. 111-122.

;Rowntree, Margaret, Nicole Moulding and Lia Bryant, 2012. : "Feminine Sexualities in Chick Lit." ''Australian Feminist Studies'', Volume 27, Issue 72: 121-137. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08164649.2012.648259 Abstract]

;Ryan, Mary, 2009. : ‘What a Way to Make a Living: Irish Chick Lit and the Working World.’ ''MP: An Online Feminist Journal'' 2.5: 27-41.[http://academinist.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Chick_Ryan.pdf]

;Ryan, Mary, 2010. : "Trivial or Commendable? : Women's Writing, Popular Culture, and Chick Lit." ''452F Journal of Comparative Literature'' 3 (July 2010): 70-84.[http://www.452f.com/en/mary-ryan.html]

;Ryan, Mary, 2010. : "Stepping Out from the Margins: Ireland, Morality, and Representing the ‘Other’ in Irish Chick Lit." ''Nebula: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship'' 7.3: 137-149.[http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/Ryan.pdf]

;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : “The Bodies of Chick Lit: Positive Representations of the Female Body in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction.” ''Inquire: A Journal of Comparative Literature'' 1.1 [http://inquire.streetmag.org/articles/13]

;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : “Then and Now: Memories of a Patriarchal Ireland in the Work of Marian Keyes.” ''452°F Journal of Comparative Literature'' 4: 110-130.[http://www.452f.com/en/ryan.html]

;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : "Ending the Silence: Representing Women’s Reproductive Lives in Irish Chick Lit." ''Nebula: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship'' 8.1: 209-224.[http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/Ryan3.pdf]

;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : ‘Amongst Women: Male Romance Authors and Irish Chick Lit Author, Andrew O’Connor’, ''The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture'' 1.2: 209-225. [http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=11989/ Abstract]

==S-U==

;Santaemilia, J. 2008. : The translation of sex-related language: The danger(s) of self-censorship(s). ''TTR: Traduction, Terminologie et Redaction'' 21, (2): 221-252

;Sellei, Nora. : "Bridget Jones and Hungarian Chick Lit." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 173-188.

;Smith, Caroline J. 2005. : "Living the Life of a Domestic Goddess: Chick Lit's Response to Domestic-Advice Manuals." ''Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal'' 34, no. 8: 671-699.

;Smith, Caroline J. 2007. : "The Girls' Guide to Creating Community: Analyzing Reading Communities in Chick Lit." In ''Narratives of Community: Women's Short Story Sequences,''. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2007. 352-371.

;Smith, Caroline J. : ''Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit''. New York: Routledge, 2008. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XDACykiKvL8C&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Smyczyńska, Katarzyna. : "Commitment Phobia and Emotional Fuckwittage: Postmillennial Constructions of Male 'Other' in Chicklit Novels." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 29-36. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Smyczyńska, Katarzyna. : ''The World According to Bridget Jones: Discourses of Identity in Chicklit Fictions''. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2007.

;Spencer, Lynda Gichanda, 2014. : "Writing Women in Uganda and South Africa: Emerging Writers from Post-Repressive Regimes." PhD Thesis, Stellenbosch University, April 2014. [http://scholar.sun.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10019.1/86251/spencer_writing_2014.pdf PDF] [See Chapter 3, which "explores how Goretti Kyomuhendo, Zukiswa Wanner and Angela Makholwa and Cynthia Jele embrace chick lit as a form of writing that allows them to reflect on the lived realities of women."]

;Tangney, ShaunAnne. 2008. : "Chick Lit Matters: From Femme Covert to Fendi, Feminine Fiction Provides Feminist Critique." In ''Honoring Human Herstory: A Celebration of Women's Heritage,''. Minot, ND: Minot State University, 2008. 49-63.

;Taylor, Anthea. 2011. : ''Single Women in Popular Culture: The Limits of Postfeminism.''New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [See in particular Chapter 3: "Spinsters and Singletons: ''Bridget Jones's Diary'' and its Cultural Reverberations"]

;Thoma, Pamela. : "Romancing the Self and Negotiating Consumer Citizenship in Asian American Labor Lit." ''Contemporary Women's Writing'' 2013. [http://cww.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/03/26/cww.vps036.extract# Excerpt]

;Umminger, Alison. : "Supersizing Bridget Jones: What's Really Eating the Women in Chick Lit." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 239-252.

==V-Z==

;Van Slooten, Jessica Lyn. : "Fashionably Indebted: Conspicuous Consumption, Fashion, and Romance in Sophie Kinsella's ''Shopaholic'' Trilogy." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 219-238.

;Veseljević Jerković, Selma. : "Mad about the Boy: The Phenomenon of Fictional Autobiography." ''Društvene i humanističke studije'' 4.2(8): 89-102. [http://www.dhs.ff.untz.ba/index.php/home/article/view/268 Abstract] [http://www.dhs.ff.untz.ba/index.php/home/article/download/268/204 pdf]

;Wells, Juliette. : "Mother of Chick Lit? Women Writers, Readers, and Literary History." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 47-70.

;Whelehan, Imelda. : ''Overloaded: Popular Culture and the Future of Feminism''. London: The Women’s Press Ltd., 2000. [Looks at various aspects of popular culture: men's magazines (''Loaded'', ''Maxim'', ''GQ''); TV shows (''Ally McBeal'', ''Sex in the City'', ''Men Behaving Badly'') and novels (''Bridget Jones' Diary'').]

;Whelehan, Imelda. : ''Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary: A Reader’s Guide''. New York: Continuum, 2002. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SN8iV7A7ZqkC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Whelehan, Imelda. : "Sex and the Single Girl: Helen Fielding, Erica Jong and Helen Gurley Brown." ''Essays and Studies 2004: Contemporary British Women Writers.'' Ed. Emma Parker. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2004.

;Whelehan, Imelda. : "High Anxiety: Feminism, Chicklit And Women In The Noughties." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 5-11. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Whelehan, Imelda. : "Teening Chick Lit?" ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/whehelan.html]

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==P==
;Pagliassotti, Dru, 2010. : 'Better than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction', ''Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre'', Ed. Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry & Dru Pagliassotti (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 59-83. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9vn7hjM2v4QC&lpg=PA79&pg=PA59#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt.]

;Pagliassotti, Dru, 2013. : "Love and the Machine: Technology and Human Relationships in Steampunk Romance and Erotica," in ''Steaming Into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology'', ed. Julie Anne Taddeo and Cynthia J. Miller (Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow), pp. 65-87. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bYmIZNOHInoC&lpg=PA43&ots=EllchlFAGD&pg=PA65#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Paige, Lori A., 2018. : ''The Gothic Romance Wave: A Critical History of the Mass Market Novels, 1960-1993''. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2018. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-YBvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Paizis, George, 1987. : '"Putting People First" or the contemporary romantic novel, critical discourse and ideology', ''La Chouette'', no 18, March: 38-46. [''[http://www.bbk.ac.uk/llc/forstudents/fs_fr/fr_lc La Chouette]'' is published by the Department of French, School of Languages, Linguistics and Culture, Birkbeck College, University of London] **

;Paizis, George, 1987. : 'That's Romance', ''Socialist Review'', July: 24. **

;Paizis, George, 1994-95. : 'Love, Ideology and Reality: the popular romantic novel and the reader', ''Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies'', 3: 357-68. **

;Paizis, George, 1998. : 'Category Romances - Translation, Realism and Myth', ''The Translator'', 4: 1-24. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13556509.1998.10799004 Abstract]

;Paizis, George, 1998. : ''Love and the Novel: The Poetics and Politics of Romantic Fiction'' (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan). [http://www.powells.com/biblio?show=HARDCOVER:NEW:0312215479:104.50#synopses_and_reviews Some details]

;Paizis, George, 2006. : "Category Romance in the Era of Globalization: The Story of Harlequin." ''The Global Literary Field.'' (Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars)pp. 126-151.

;Palmer, Paulina, 1998. : ‘Girl Meets Girl: Changing Approaches to the Lesbian Romance,’ in ''Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film'', ed. Lynne Pearce & Gina Wisker (London: Pluto), pp. 189-204.

;Parameswaran Radhika, 1999. : 'Western Romance Fiction as English-Language Media in Postcolonial India', ''Journal of Communication'', 49.3: 84-105. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&se=gglsc&d=96458480 Abstract]

;Parameswaran, Radhika, 2002. : 'Reading Fictions of Romance: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in Postcolonial India', ''Journal of Communication'', 52.4: 832-851. [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2002.tb02576.x?journalCode=jcom Abstract] [https://www.academia.edu/8410501/Reading_Fictions_of_Romance_Gender_Sexuality_and_Nationalism_in_Postcolonial_India?email_work_card=title pdf]

;Parnell, Claire, 2018. : ‘Models of Publishing and Opportunities for Change: Representations in Harlequin, Montlake and Self-Published Romance Novels.’ ''Australian Literary Studies'' 33.4.[https://www.australianliterarystudies.com.au/articles/models-of-publishing-and-opportunities-for-change-representations-in-harlequin-montlake-and-self-published-romance-novels]

;Pattee, Amy S., 2011. : ''Reading the Adolescent Romance: Sweet Valley High and the Popular Young Adult Romance Novel'' (New York: Routledge). [http://books.google.com/books?id=FC_LKiA94xUC&printsec=frontcover&cd=1&source=gbs_ViewAPI#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [http://jprstudies.org/2011/12/review-reading-the-adolescent-romance-sweet-valley-high-and-the-popular-young-adult-romance-novel-by-amy-s-pattee/ Review]

;Patterson, Janet, 1981. : 'Consuming Passion', ''Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly'', 11: 19-33. Reprinted in ''Fireworks: The Best of Fireweed'', Ed. Makeda Silvera (Toronto: The Women’s Press, 1986), pp. 69-82.**

;Patthey Chavez, GG, and L. Clare, M. Youmans,1996. : 'Watery passion: The struggle between hegemony and sexual liberation in erotic fiction for women.' ''Discourse and Society.'' 7.1: 77-106.

;Peabody, Rebecca, 2016. : 'Kara Walker: American Romance in Black and White', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 131-150. [This article can also be found, in slightly expanded form, in chapter 3, "American Romance in Black and White," of Peabody's ''Consuming Stories: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race'' (Oakland, California: California UP, 2016), pages 84-109. An [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3LIlDQAAQBAJ&lpg=PR1&pg=PA84#v=onepage&q&f=false excerpt is available online].]

;Pearce, Lynne, 2004. : "Popular Romance and Its Readers." in ''A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary.'' ed. Corinne Saunders, (Malden, MA: Blackwell) pp. 521-538.

;Pearce, Lynne, 2007. : '' Romance Writing.'' (Cambridge: Polity Press). Historical treatment looking at romance broadly. Does touch on popular romance, but it is not the whole focus of the book. [http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/id/Romance_Writing/9780745630052 Abstract]

;Pearce, Lynne, 2011. : "Romance and Repetition: Testing the Limits of Love." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%e2%80%9cromance-and-repetition-testing-the-limits-of-love%e2%80%9d-by-lynne-pearce/]

;Peaty, Gwyneth, 2015. : "Rock Hard: Gargoyles in Contemporary Gothic Romance." ''New Directions in 21st Century Gothic: The Gothic Compass''. Ed. Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Donna Lee Brien. New York, NY: Routledge. 54-70. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=lang_en&id=uGahCAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA54&ots=liW5yulIi4&sig=X4X_-HQpus8StmIP28xi2w0qZSk#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Pecora, Norma, 1999. : "Identity by design : the corporate construction of teen romance novels, " in ''Growing Up Girls: Popular Culture and the Construction of Identity.'' Ed. Mazzarella, Sharon R., and Norma Odom Pecora (New York: P. Lang), pp 49-86. ** [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=34675586 Excerpt]

;Pérez Casal, Inmaculada, 2016. : “Love in Times of Crisis: An Approach to Contemporary Romance Novels in Spain.” ''Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research'' 4.2: 62-70.[https://www.ucm.es/data/cont/docs/119-2017-01-02-JACLR%204.2.6.pdf]

;Pérez Casal, Inmaculada, 2018. : “Mass-market romance and the question of genre: N. Sparks, E. L. James and D. Gabaldon.” ''Oceánide'' 10. [http://oceanide.netne.net/articulos/art10-6.pdf]

;Pérez Casal, Inmaculada, 2018. : "The Romance Novel as ''Bildungsroman'' in the Works of Rosamunde Pilcher and Lisa Kleypas". ''Taking Stock to Look Ahead: Celebrating Forty Years of English Studies in Spain''. Ed. María Ferrández San Miguel and Claus-Peter Neumann. Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2018. 139-144.[https://aedean.org/wp-content/uploads/Celebrating-Forty-Years-of-English-Studies-in-Spain.pdf#page=139]

;Pérez‐Gil, María del Mar, 2018. : "Exoticism, Ethnocentrism, and Englishness in Popular Romance Fiction: Constructing the European Other". ''Journal of Popular Culture''. Published online first 19 July 2018. [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jpcu.12710?af=R Excerpt] [Focuses on the Spanish "Other" in the English imagination.]

;Pérez-Gil, María del Mar, 2018. : "Representations of Nation and Spanish Masculinity in Popular Romance Novels: The Alpha Male as “Other”", ''The Journal of Men’s Studies''. Online First September 23, 2018. [https://doi.org/10.1177/1060826518801531 Abstract]

;Pettigrew Brackett, Kim, 2000. : “Facework Strategies among Romance Fiction Readers.” ''Social Science Journal'' 37.3: 347-360.

;Philadelphoff-Puren, Nina, 2005. : "Contextualising Consent: The Problem of Rape and Romance." ''Australian Feminist Studies'' 20.46: 31-42.

;Philadelphoff-Puren, Nina, 2004. : "The Mark of Refusal: Sexual Violence and the Politics of Recontextualization." ''Feminist Theory'' 5.3: 243–256. [http://fty.sagepub.com/content/5/3/243.abstract Abstract]

See also Puren, below.

;Philips, Deborah, 1985. : 'Marketing Moonshine', ''Women's Review'' 2 (December): 16-17. **

;Philips, Deborah, 1990. : 'Mills and Boon: The Marketing of Moonshine,' in ''Consumption, Identity, and Style: Marketing, Meanings, and the Packaging of Pleasure'', ed. Alan Tomlinson (London: Routledge), pp. 139-52. [http://books.google.com/books?id=PvAfLS2QnMwC&pg=RA1-PA139&lpg=RA1-PA139&dq=Deborah+philips+%22marketing+of+moonshine%22&source=web&ots=j6M_s4okbY&sig=zPi4ByZJjzoFXEuJHOq3fUN1UrM Excerpt here.]

;Philips, Deborah, 2000. : 'Shopping for Men: The Single Woman Narrative', ''Women: a Cultural Review'', 11.3: 238-251. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/search/article?title=philips+shopping+for+men&title_type=tka&year_from=1998&year_to=2005&database=1&pageSize=20&index=1 Abstract]

;Philips, Deborah. 2012. : "The Empire of Romance: Love in a Postcolonial Climate." In ''End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945,'' Ed. Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz. 114-133. Manchester, England: Manchester UP, 2012.

;Philips, Deborah. Forthcoming. : "Fifty Shades of Romance." ''International Journal of Cultural Studies''. [https://cris.brighton.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/5900241/palma_50_shades.pdf Manuscript version]

;Philips, Deborah. Forthcoming. : "In defence of reading trash: feminists reading the romance." ''European Journal of Cultural Studies''. [https://cris.brighton.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/506061/In+defence+of+reading+trash+%283%29.pdf Manuscript version]

;Popova, Milena, 2018. : "Rewriting the Romance: Emotion Work and Consent in Arranged Marriage Fanfiction". ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 7. [http://jprstudies.org/2018/07/rewriting-the-romance-emotion-work-and-consent-in-arranged-marriage-fanfictionby-milena-popova/]

;Postma, Kathlene, 1999. : 'American Women Readers Encounter Turkey in the Shadow of Popular Romance', ''Journal of American Studies of Turkey'', 9: 71-82. [http://www.os-ar.com/modules.php?name=Encyclopedia&op=content&tid=501722 Online, unpaginated version.] [The novel under discussion, 'Demetra Vaka's In the Shadow of Islam, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1911', is discussed in the context of the conventions of the romance novel, though it subverts them.]

;Potter, Jane, 1997. : '"A great purifier": The Great War in Women's Romances and Memoirs 1914-1918', ''Women's Fiction and The Great War'', ed. Suzanne Raitt and Trudi Tate (Oxford: Oxford UP), pp. 85-106. [http://books.google.com/books?id=-ikIQ4Zn_XkC&lpg=PP1&ots=PujRPYZru6&dq=&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [The romance authors discussed are Berta Ruck and Ruby M. Ayres.]

;Potter, Jane, 2005. : ''Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918'' (Oxford: Oxford UP). [[http://books.google.com/books?id=VMvwcIQdBZUC&lpg=PP1&ots=rVjglQJVbV&dq=&pg=PA88#v=onepage&q&f=false Chapter 3] is titled "'Putting Things in Their Right Places': The War in Romance Novels" and it considers "only a fraction of the hundreds of 'light fiction' books published between 1914 and 1918: ''My Heart's Right There'' (1914) by Florence Barclay, ''Khaki and Kisses'' (1915) by Berta Ruck, ''Richard Chatterton V. C.'' (1915) by Ruby M. Ayres, ''A Girl Munition Worker'' (1917) by Bessie Marchant, ''Before the Wind'' (1918) by Janet Laing, and ''Good Old Anna'' (1915) by Marie Belloc Lowndes" ([http://books.google.com/books?id=VMvwcIQdBZUC&lpg=PP1&ots=rVjglQJVbV&dq=&pg=PA90#v=onepage&q&f=false 90]).] [http://books.google.com/books?id=VMvwcIQdBZUC&lpg=PP1&ots=rVjglQJVbV&dq=&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Potter, Jane, 2015. : "‘Khaki and Kisses’: Reading the Romance Novel in the Great War." ''Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives''. Ed. Shafquat Towheed and Edmund G. C. King. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 29-44. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jZyhCgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PT45#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Powley, Tammy, 2015. : "Romance Fiction in Florida: The Crisscross of Jane Austen and Angela Hunt." ''Women of Florida Fiction: Essays on 12 Sunshine State Writers''. Ed. Tammy Powley and April Van Camp. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. 123-132. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=lang_en&id=Fvm2BQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA123#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Press, Andrea L., 1986. : 'New Views on the Mass Production of Women's Culture', ''Communication Research'' 13.1: 139-149. [Review essay on Radway's ''Reading the Romance'', Modleski's ''Loving with a Vengeance'' and two books on soap operas.] [http://crx.sagepub.com/content/13/1/139.extract Excerpt].

;Priest, Hannah. 2018. : “Sparkly Vampires and Shimmering Aliens: The Paranormal Romance of Stephenie Meyer.” ''Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction,'' edited by Bernice M. Murphy and Stephen Matterson, Edinburgh University Press, 2018, pp. 182–192

;Proctor, Candice, 2007. : 'The Romance Genre Blues or Why We Don't Get No Respect.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 12-19.

;Puente, Sonia Núñez. 2008.: "The romance novel and popular culture during the early Franco regime in Spain: towards the construction of other discourses of femininity." ''Journal of Gender Studies'' 17, no. 3: 225-236.

;Purdie, Susan, 1992. : 'Janice Radway, Reading the Romance', in ''Reading into Cultural Studies'' ed. Martin Barker and Anne Beezer, (London: Routledge), pp. 148-64.

;Puren, Nina, 1995. : 'Hymeneal Acts: Interrogating the Hegemony of Rape and Romance', ''Australian Feminist Law Journal'' 5: 15-26. [Mentions [[Charlotte Lamb]]'s ''The Sex War'', London: Mills and Boon, 1988.]

;Puri, Jyoti, 1997. : ‘Reading Romance Novels in Postcolonial India’, ''Gender & Society'', 11.4: 434-452. [http://gas.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/4/434?ck=nck Abstract]

==Q==

;Quilliam, Susan, 2011. : ' “He seized her in his manly arms and bent his lips to hers…”. The surprising impact that romantic novels have on our work', ''Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care'' 37.3: 179-181. [http://jfprhc.bmj.com/content/37/3/179.extract Excerpt] [http://press.psprings.co.uk/JFPRH/july/JFPRH1100152.pdf PDF]

==R==

;Rabine, Leslie, 1985. : ''Reading the Romantic Heroine: Text, History, Ideology'', (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press).** [This is described in Williams and Freedman as a "study of the romantic quest from Tristan and Isolde to the Harlequin novel" (145). A chapter each is devoted to the Tristan/Isolde legend, Prévost's ''Manon Lescaut'', Stendhal's ''The Red and the Black'', Charlotte Brontë's ''Shirley'', Alain-Fournier's ''Big Meaulnes'' and Harlequin romances.]

;Rabine, Leslie W., 1985. : ‘Romance in the Age of Electronics: Harlequin Enterprises’, ''Feminist Studies'' 11.1: 39-60. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/3180131 Excerpt]

;Radford, Jean, 1992. : "A Certain Latitude: Romance as Genre." in ''Gender, Language, and Myth: Essays and Popular Narrative.'' ed. Glenwood Irons, (Toronto: U of Toronto P), pp. 3-19.

;Radhika, P., 2004-2005. : "Narratives of Fractured Conjugality: Women’s Romance Novels in Kannada, 1950s-1960s." ''Journal of Karnataka Studies'' 2.1.[http://journalofkarnatakastudies.org/JKS/articles-pdf/JKS%20200411%20to%20200504%20Article%20%284%29.pdf PDF] [As might be deduced from the title, not all of the novels under discussion are "romances" with happy endings: "As is characteristic of all romance novels, the formation of a couple as constituent of romantic love also figures in the post-50s women‘s novels. However, in contrast to the earlier women‘s novels, what is dramatised in the novels of Indira, Triveni, Vani and Anupama is that they significantly articulate the fracturing of the conjugal space and, except for the novels of Anupama (which I will discuss later), have tragic endings." (9)]

;Radhika, P., 2014. : "Inaugurating a (Feminine) Public: Women’s Romances in Kannada, 1950s–1960s." ''Indian Journal of Gender Studies'' 21.1 (2014): 85-110. [http://ijg.sagepub.com/content/21/1/85.short Abstract]

;Radick, Caryn, 2016. : "Romance Writers’ Use of Archives." ''Archivaria, the Journal of the Association of Canadian Archivists'' 81: 45-73. [http://journals.sfu.ca/archivar/index.php/archivaria/article/view/13558 Abstract]

;Radner, Hilary, 1995. : ''Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure'' (New York: Routledge). [See Chapter 3, 'A Dream of Thee,' pages 67-104, which has two sections: 'The Erotic Gag: Reading the Category Romance' and 'Alibis and Cover Stories: Pornography, History, Race, and the Category Romance'.] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LFBy0zINhtkC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA67#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Radway, Janice, 1981. : 'The Utopian Impulse in Popular Literature: Gothic Romances and "Feminist" Protest', ''American Quarterly,'' 33.2 (Summer, 1981): 140-162. [First page available [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0678(198122)33%3A2%3C140%3ATUIIPL%3E2.0.CO;2-2 here]]

;Radway, Janice A, 1982. : 'The Aesthetic in Mass Culture: Reading and the 'Popular' Literary Text', ''Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, Festschrift in Honor of Felix Vodicka'', Ed. Peter Steiner and Ronald Vroon (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, B.V.), pp. 397-429. [Excerpt available from [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TdksXiP6WwQC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA397#v=onepage&q&f=false here]]. [Takes gothic romances as examples.]

;Radway, Janice A., 1983. : ‘Women Read the Romance: The Interaction of Text and Context’, ''Feminist Studies'', 9.1: 53-78. [First page available [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0046-3663(198321)9%3A1%3C53%3AWRTRTI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7 here]] [Rptd. in Ostrov Weisser, ''Women and Romance'', pp. 323-341. **]

;Radway, Janice A., 1984. : 'Interpretive Communities And Variable Literacies: The Functions Of Romance Reading', ''Daedalus'', 113.3:49-73.

;Radway, Janice A., 1991. : ''Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press). First published in 1984. The 1991 edition contains a new introduction by the author.

;Radway, Janice, 1994. : 'Romance and the Work of Fantasy: Struggles over Feminine Sexuality and Subjectivity at Century's End', in ''Viewing, Reading, Listening: Audiences and Cultural Reception'', ed. Jon Cruz and Justin Lewis (Colorado: Westview Press), pp. 213-31. Reprinted in ''Feminism and Cultural Studies'', ed. Morag Shiach (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 395-???. **

;Rani, Mohd. Zariat Abdul, 2012. : "Islam, Romance and Popular Taste in Indonesia." ''Indonesia and the Malay World: '' 40.116 (2012): 59-73. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13639811.2011.648998 Abstract]

;Rani, Mohd Zariat Abdul, 2014. : "The conflict of love and Islam: the main ingredients in the popular Islamic novels of Malaysia." ''South East Asia Research'' 22.3: 417-433. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ip/sear/2014/00000022/00000003/art00008 Abstract] [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ip/sear/2014/00000022/00000003/art00008?crawler=true]

;Rapp, Adrian, Dodgen, Lynda, and Anne K. Kaler, 2000. : "A Romance Writer Gets Away with Murder." ''Clues: A Journal of Detection'' 21.1: 17-21.

;[[Alicia Rasley|Rasley, Alicia]], 1999. :'Paradox in Balance: Some Feminist Themes in Romance', originally published in ''North American Romance Writers'', see above.[http://www.sff.net/people/alicia/artparadox.htm]

;Raub, Patricia, 1992. : "Issues of Passion and Power in E. M. Hull's ''The Sheik''." ''Women's Studies'', 21: 119-128.

;[[Diana Reep|Reep, Diana]], 1982: ''[[The Rescue And Romance: Popular Novels Before World War I]]'', Bowling Green Sate University Popular Press.

;Reeves, Anne R., 2004. : 'Rosa: Fiction as Therapy,' ''Adolescents Talk About Reading: Exploring Resistance to and Engagement with Text''. International Reading Association. 107-156. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FoByTSK_vb8C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA107#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [This chapter of the book explores reading for "escape" through the experiences of Rosa, who "was especially expert in reading romance novels and proud of her expertise" (107) and whose reading allowed her to "dwell on her own troubles, but at a distance made safe by the intervening presence of the story with the happy ending" (115).]

;Regan, Lisa. 2017. : "Women and the 'War Machine' in the Desert Romances of E. M. Hull and Rosita Forbes." ''Women's Writing'', vol. 24, no. 1, Feb. 2017, pp. 109-122. DOI: 10.1080/09699082.2016.1233773 [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09699082.2016.1233773?journalCode=rwow20 Abstract]

;Regis, Pamela, 1997. : 'Complicating Romances and Their Readers: Barrier and Point of Ritual Death in Nora Roberts's Category Fiction.' ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2:145-154.

;Regis, Pamela, 2003. : ''A Natural History of the Romance Novel'' (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press). [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=juPQyVJrsFAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0 Excerpt] [The book is the subject of a Roundtable section in the [http://jprstudies.org/issues/issue-3-2/ ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 (2013)].]

;Regis, Pamela, 2011. : "Female genre fiction in the twentieth century." ''The Cambridge History of the American Novel''. Ed. Leonard Cassuto, Clare Virginia Eby and Benjamin Reiss. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 847-60. [The chapter includes "a definition of the romance novel, some categories to advance its literary analysis, and a first effort to place it in literary history, especially in foundational relation to the sentimental literature of the nineteenth century" (848). It also includes analysis of "seven twentieth-century American romances" (848), among which are [[Kathleen Woodiwiss]]'s ''The Flame and the Flower'', [[Jennifer Crusie]]'s ''Bet Me'', [[Beverly Jenkins]]'s ''Indigo'', [[Ann Herendeen]]'s ''Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander'', and [[Nora Roberts]]' ''Irish Thoroughbred''.] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4ZEPkIzETb0C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA848#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt.]

;Regis, Pamela, 2011. : “What Do Critics Owe the Romance? Keynote Address at the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%E2%80%9Cwhat-do-critics-owe-the-romance-keynote-address-at-the-second-annual-conference-of-the-international-association-for-the-study-of-popular-romance%E2%80%9D-by-pamela-regis/] [There is [http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%E2%80%9Cmatricide-in-romance-scholarship-response-to-pamela-regis%E2%80%99-keynote-address-at-the-second-annual-conference-of-the-international-association-for-the-study-of-popular-romance%E2%80%9D/ a response by An Goris] in the same issue of ''JPRS''].

;Regis, Pamela, 2013. : 'Ten Years After ''A Natural History of the Romance Novel'': Thinking Back, Looking Forward', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/ten-years-after-a-natural-history-of-the-romance-novel-thinking-back-looking-forward-by-pamela-regis/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Regis_ThinkingBack.pdf as a pdf].]

;Regis, Pamela, 2016. : '''Pamela'' Crosses the Atlantic; or, Pamela Andrews's Story Inaugurates the American Romance Novel', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp.25-40. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eAckDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT9&ots=aa7Bfg37EE&lr&pg=PT38#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Reid Boyd, Elizabeth, 2014. : 'Romancing feminism: From women’s studies to women’s fiction.' ''Australasian Journal of Popular Culture'' 3.3: 263-272. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/ajpc/2014/00000003/00000003/art00002 Abstract] [https://www.academia.edu/9400026/Romancing_Feminism_From_Womens_Studies_to_Womens_Fiction Text]

;Rholetter, Wylene, 2008. : '[[Nora Roberts]]', ''Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice'' 2.2/3. [Formerly at [http://www.teachingamericanlit.com/files/Microsoft_Word_-_TALTP-RobertsNora.pdf]. This link no longer works but a pdf of the entire issue can be downloaded from [http://www.cpcc.edu/taltp/archives/spring-summer-2008-2-2-3/spring_summer_2008_merged.pdf/at_download/file]].

;Ricker-Wilson, Carol, 1999. : ‘Busting Textual Bodices: Gender, Reading, and the Popular Romance’, ''English Journal'', 88:3: 57-64. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/821580 Excerpt]

;Rix, Robert W., 2009. : '“Love in the Clouds”: [[Barbara Cartland]]’s Religious Romances', ''The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture'' 21.2. [http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/c935l2276u264262/ Excerpt] [http://web.archive.org/web/20091119103047/http://www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc/art21%282%29-LoveClouds.html Archived version]

;Roach, Catherine, 2010. : 'Getting a Good Man to Love: Popular Romance Fiction and the Problem of Patriarchy', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 1.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2010/08/getting-a-good-man-to-love-popular-romance-fiction-and-the-problem-of-patriarchy-by-catherine-roach/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/JPRS1.1_Roach_GettingGoodMantoLove.pdf as a pdf].]

;Roach, Catherine, 2014. : '“Going Native”: Aca-Fandom and Deep Participant Observation in Popular Romance Studies', ''Mosaic'' 47.2: 33-49. [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/mosaic/v047/47.2.roach.html Abstract and excerpt]

;Roach, Catherine M., 2016. : 'Love as the Practice of Bondage: Popular Romance Narratives and the Conundrum of Erotic Love', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 369-387.

;Roach, Catherine M., 2016. : ''Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture'' (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press).[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gmSjCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth, 2002. : 'Meet Jessica and Elizabeth from Sweet Valley: Who Are the Female Role Models in Popular Romance Novels for Children?', Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (New Orleans, LA, April 1-5, 2002). 21 pgs. ERIC document ED470819.

;Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth, 2010. : "Twenty-five years and counting of Sweet Valley: Jessica and Elizabeth in romance novels for young children?" ''Journal of Research in Childhood Education'' 24.2:123-139. [[http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a920286976~db=all~jumptype=rss Abstract] and [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-245951985.html excerpt].]

;Robinson, Lillian S., 1978. : 'Reading Trash', in ''Sex, Class, and Culture''. Ed. Lillian S. Robinson (Bloomington: Indiana University Press), pp. 200-222. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=090OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA200&lpg=PA200&dq=&source=bl&ots=n_LIlJbPtt&sig=HeERqJr9uAX6Oj7OGEBuJrgNfcg&hl=en&ei=NprSSfPVKdvN-Qa6kvy1BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA200,M1 Excerpt from a later edition] ["Most of this essay will be focused on a contrast between the works of [[Jane Austen]] and those of [[Georgette Heyer]]" (202)]

;[http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=101551297 Romantic Conventions], 1999. : Anne K. Kaler and Rosemary E. Johnson-Kurek, eds. (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press). [Preview of parts of this available [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ja_Ia-oZo4wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=&f=false via Google Books].]

;Rosanowski, Annika, 2019. : "Can She Have It All? Pregnancy Narratives in Contemporary Category Romance", ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 8 (2019). [http://jprstudies.org/2019/03/can-she-have-it-all-pregnancy-narratives-in-contemporary-category-romanceby-annika-rosanowski/]

;Rose, Suzanna, 1985. : "Is Romance Dysfunctional?." ''International Journal of Women's Studies'', 8.3: 250-265. ["Argues that among the forces that shape desire in women and men are the depictions of relationships and sexual expression in popular fiction. [...] It is contended that by encompassing primarily the courtship phase of relationships, the scripts provide little guidance relevant to maintaining long-term relationships."] [http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1986-17217-001 Abstract][http://myweb.fiu.edu/srose/wp-content/uploads/sites/127/2014/08/1985-Rose-IsRomanceDysfunctional-1.pdf pdf]

;Ross, Catherine Sheldrick. 2009. : "Reader on Top: Public Libraries, Pleasure Reading, and Models of Reading." ''Library Trends'' 57.4: 632-656. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lib/summary/v057/57.4.ross.html Abstract.] [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Catherine_Ross3/publication/236705306_Reader_on_Top_Public_Libraries_Pleasure_Reading_and_Models_of_Reading/links/0c960528e844b446cf000000/Reader-on-Top-Public-Libraries-Pleasure-Reading-and-Models-of-Reading&hl=en&sa=X&scisig=AAGBfm1BzGHzUwyFEy2rBdDKyEKkBvmKMQ&nossl=1&oi=scholaralrt Unpaginated version.]

;Ross, Marlon B., 2013. : " 'What’s Love But a Second Hand Emotion?': Man-on-Man Passion in the Contemporary Black Gay Romance Novel." ''Callaloo'' 36.3 (2013): 669-687. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/callaloo/v036/36.3.ross.html Excerpt]. [There's a short summary [http://www.vivanco.me.uk/blog/post/black-gay-romance here].]

;Rudisill, Kristen, 2018. : “Full-Blooded Desi Romance: Contemporary English-Language Romance Novels in India.” ''Journal of Popular Culture''. vol. 51, no. 3, June 2018, pp. 754-775. Online First. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.12652/full Excerpt]

;Ruggiero, Josephine A. and Louise C. Weston. : 'Sex-Role Characterization of Women in "Modern Gothic Novels"', ''Pacific Sociological Review'' 20: 279-300. **

;Ruggiero, Josephine A. and Weston, Louise C., 1983. : 'Conflicting Images Of Women In Romance Novels', ''International Journal of Women's Studies'', 6.1:18-25.

;Russ, Joanna, 1973. : 'Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic', ''Journal of Popular Culture'', 6.4: 666-691.

;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : ‘Amongst Women: Male Romance Authors and Irish Chick Lit Author, Andrew O’Connor’, ''The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture'' 1.2: 209-225. [http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=11989/ Abstract]

;Ryder, Mary Ellen, 1999. : 'Smoke and mirrors: Event patterns in the discourse structure of a romance novel', ''Journal of Pragmatics'', 31.8: 1067-1080. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VCW-3X6BRT2-6&_user=10&_coverDate=08%2F31%2F1999&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=04a8b80871ea922fecd7d9ba3a6b26c9 Abstract] ** [Analysis focuses on "the climax of a novel by [[Barbara Cartland]]."]

==S==

;Sales, Roger, 1999. : "The Loathsome Lord and the Disdainful Dame: Byron, Cartland and the Regency Romance." in ''Byromania: Portraits of the Artist in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Culture.'' ed. Frances Wilson, (Basingstoke, England; New York, NY: Macmillan; St. Martin's) pp. 166-183.

;Salmon, Catherine and Donald Symons, 2003. : ''Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution and Female Sexuality'' (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press). ** [http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300093544 Abstract] ["The stark contrasts between romance novels and pornography underscore how different female and male erotic fantasies are. These differences reflect human evolutionary history [...]. The authors focus particular attention on slash fiction [...] [and] argue that—despite some differences—slash fiction has much in common with romance novels."]

;Salmon, Catherine, 2012. : "The Pop Culture of Sex: An Evolutionary Window on the Worlds of Pornography and Romance." ''Review of General Psychology'' 16.2: 152-60. [http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/gpr/16/2/152/ Abstract]

;Salmon, Catherine, 2016. : "What Do Romance Novels, Pro Wrestling, and Mack Bolan Have in Common?: Consilience and the Pop Culture of Storytelling." ''Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences''. Ed. Joseph Carroll, Dan P. McAdams and Edward O. Wilson. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016. 167-182. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tUUnDAAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA167#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;[[Barbara Samuel|Samuel, Barbara]], 1997. : "The Art of Romance Novels." ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 78-80.

;Sanders, Lise Shapiro, 2006. : ''Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920''. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.[https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/6327/Sanders_T-S_Final.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y] [See Chapters 3 and 4 on "The Failures of the Romance: Boredom and the Production of Consuming Desires" and "Imagining Alternatives to the Romance: Absorption and Distraction as Modes of Reading."]

;Sanders, Lise Shapiro, 2018. : "Making the Modern Girl: Fantasy, Consumption, and Desire in Romance Weeklies of the 1920s". ''Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period''. Ed. Catherine Clay, Maria DiCenzo, Barbara Green, and Fiona Hackney. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TIJ8DwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PT181#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Santaulària, Isabel, 2002. : "The Fallacy of Eternal Love: Romance, Vampires and the Deconstruction of Love in [[Linda Lael Miller]]'s ''Forever and the Night'' and ''For All Eternity''." in ''The Aesthetics of Ageing: Critical Approaches to Literary Representations of the Ageing Process.'' Ed. Maria O’Neill and Carmen Zamorano Llena (Lleida, Spain: Universitat de Lleida), pp. 111-126.

;Schalk, Sami, 2016. : "Happily Ever After for Whom? Blackness and Disability in Romance Narratives." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 49.6: 1241–1260. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.12491/abstract Excerpt]

;Schell, Heather, 2007. : "The Big Bad Wolf: Masculinity and Genetics in Popular Culture." ''Literature and Medicine'' 26.1: 109-125. ([[Christine Feehan]] is the author addressed in this article). [http://www.academia.edu/166481/The_Big_Bad_Wolf_Masculinity_and_Genetic_in_Popular_Culture]

;Schell, Heather, 2010. : "The Love Life of a Fact." ''How Well Do "Facts" Travel?: The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge''. Ed. Peter Howlett and Mary S. Morgan. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP). ** [It's Chapter 16 and an unofficial version is available [http://gwu.academia.edu/HeatherSchell/Papers/181725/The-Love-Life-of-a-Fact here].]

;Schell, Heather, 2013. : "Bringing the Mid-West to the Middle-East: An Analysis of a Harlequin Romance in English and Turkish, in ''The Silk Road of Adaptation: Transformations across Disciplines and Cultures'', ed. Laurence Raw (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars), pp. 160-171. [http://www.academia.edu/5070456/Bringing_the_Mid-West_to_the_Middle_East_An_Analysis_of_a_Harlequin_Romance_in_English_and_Turkish]

;Schell, Heather, 2014. : "Love’s Laborers Lost: Radway, Romance Writers, and Recuperating Our Past." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2.[http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/loves-laborers-lost-radway-romance-writers-and-recuperating-our-pastby-heather-schell/]

;Schiffman, Leon G. and Steven P. Schnaars, 1981. : "The Consumption of Historical Romance Novels: Consumer Aesthetics in Popular Literature." Symbolic Consumer Behavior. (Association for Consumer Research), pp. 46-51.[http://www.acrwebsite.org/volumes/display.asp?id=12226]

;Schwab, Sandra, 2012. : '“It Is Only with One’s Heart That One Can See Clearly”: The Loss of Sight in Teresa Medeiros’s ''The Bride and the Beast'' and ''Yours until Dawn''', ''Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies'' 6.3: 275-289. [http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/2215905617t20842/?p=bd59abac917a43e0bcd2bcdaa775970b&pi=2 Abstract and Excerpt]

;Scott, Alison M. 2002. : 'Romance in the Stacks; or, Popular Romance Fiction Imperiled', in ''Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America'', ed. Lydia Cushman Schurman and Deidre Johnson, Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture, 75 (Westport, CT: Greenwood),pp. 213-224.

;Seale,Maura, 2007. : '"I find some Hindu practices, like burning widows, utterly bizarre": Representation of Sati and Questions of Choice in ''Veils of Silk''.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 129-147. [http://mauraseale.googlepages.com/veils_final_version.doc Unpaginated version]

;[[Kathleen Gilles Seidel | Seidel, Kathleen Gilles]], 1997. : "Half-Risen Venus", ''Paradoxa'' 3.1-2: 250-252. [This is a review of Paul Grescoe's ''Merchants of Venus: Inside Harlequin and the Empire of Romance''.]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2007. : 'Rereading the Romance', ''Contemporary Literature'', 48.2: 307-324.[http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/contemporary_literature/v048/48.2selinger.html] [This is a review article, critiquing earlier works on the romance genre (such as those by Radway and Modleski) and giving more favourable opinions about the newer works under review: Juliet Flesch's ''From Australia with Love: A History of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels''; ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels'', edited by Sally Goade; Deborah Lutz's ''The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative''; Lynn S. Neal's ''Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction''; Pamela Regis's ''A Natural History of the Romance Novel''.]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy and Sarah S. G. Frantz, 2012. : 'Introduction: New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction,' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 1-19. [Includes a brief history of the study of popular romance fiction.] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OSAgWRwoU5YC&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2012. : 'How to Read a Romance Novel (and Fall in Love with Popular Romance),' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 33-46. [Includes analysis of Laura Kinsale's ''Flowers from the Storm''.]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2012. : 'Nothing But Good Times Ahead: A Special Forum on Jennifer Crusie (Editor’s Introduction)', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.2 (2012).[http://jprstudies.org/2012/04/nothing-but-good-times-ahead-a-special-forum-on-jennifer-crusie-editors-introduction/].

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2013. : 'Rebooting the Romance: The Impact of ''A Natural History of the Romance Novel''', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/rebooting-the-romance-the-impact-of-a-natural-history-of-the-romance-novel-by-eric-murphy-selinger/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Selinger_RegisRebooting.pdf as a pdf].]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2014. : 'My Metatextual Romance: Thinking With (and About) ''Jaane Tu Ya Janne Na''', ''Mosaic'' 47.2: 51-66. [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/mosaic/v047/47.2.selinger.html Abstract and excerpt] ["Scholars of popular romance fiction have begun to credit the genre with political and aesthetic self-consciousness, a “metatextual turn” that parallels changes in the academic reception of Hindi popular cinema"]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2015. : 'Editor’s Note: Issue 5.1', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/editors-note-issue-5-1/]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2015. : 'An Interview with Susan Elizabeth Phillips', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/an-interview-with-susan-elizabeth-phillipsby-eric-murphy-selinger/]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy and William A. Gleason, 2016. : "Introduction: Love as the Practice of Freedom?" ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 1-21. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eAckDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT9&ots=aa7Bfg37EE&lr&pg=PT15#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2016. : 'When I Paint My Masterpiece: Bob Dylan, Ekphrasis, and the Art of Susan Elizabeth Phillips', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 297-319.

;Sequeiros, Paula, 2018. : '“Holding the Dream”: Women’s Favorite Reading Matter in a Portuguese Prison', ''Qualitative Sociology Review'' 14.1: 110-128.[Available as a pdf [http://www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/Volume44/QSR_14_1_Sequeiros.pdf from the journal] and also [http://eprints.rclis.org/32292/1/QSR_14_1_leit%20prisao.pdf here].]

;Sewell Matter, Laura, 2007. : “Pursuing the Great Bad Novelist”, ''The Georgia Review'' 61.3 (2007): 444-459. [About Charles Garvice.]

;Serafine, Amelia, 2016. : '"He Filled My Heart with Doubt": The Southern Belle's Love and Duty in the Civil War', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 41-55.

;Serisier, Tanya. 2015. : "On Not Reading Fifty Shades: Feminism and the Fantasy of Romantic Immunity." In ''Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets and Readers,'' 117-132. Jefferson, NC: McFarland,

;Shachar, Hila. 2011. : "A Post-Feminist Romance: Love, Gender and Intertextuality in Stephenie Meyer's Saga." In ''Theorizing Twilight: Critical Essays on What's at Stake in a Post-Vampire World'' 147-161. Eds. Maggie Parke and Natalie Wilson. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011.

;Shapiro, Joan, & Lee Kroeger, 1991. : ‘Is Life a Romantic Novel? The Relationship Between Attitudes About Intimate Relationships and the Popular Media’, ''American Journal of Family Therapy'', 19.3: 226-236. ** [http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a779552378 Abstract]

;Sheehan, Sarah E. and Jen Stevens, 2015. : "Creating a Popular Romance Collection in an Academic Library", ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1. [http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/creating-a-popular-romance-collection-in-an-academic-libraryby-sarah-e-sheehan-and-jen-stevens/]

;Shore, Z. Lesley, 2000. : 'Essay Review', ''Educational Studies'' 31.2: 132-145. [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/S15326993ES3102_4 Abstract], includes the sentence: "The ubiquitous, aggressively marketed series romances that a girl reads in adolescence are read not as mere fantasy or entertainment but as a road map for life. This compelling romantic ideology channels girls narrowly toward heterosexuality and marriage." For similar ideas, expressed at greater length, see Shore's dissertation.]

;Shumway, David R., 1999. : “Romance in the Romance: Love and Marriage in Turn-of-the-Century Best Sellers.” ''Journal of Narrative Theory'' 29.1: 110-134. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/30224546?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Excerpt]

;Sinner, Carsten, 2012. : "Fictional orality in romance novels: Between linguistic reality and editorial requirements." ''The Translation of Fictive Dialogue''. Ed. Jenny Brumme and Anna Espunya. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 119–136.

;Smith, Janet S. Shibamoto. 1999. : "From Hiren to Happi-endo: Romantic Expression in the Japanese Love Story." In ''Languages of Sentiment: Cultural Constructions of Emotional Substrates,'' 131-150. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Benjamins. [[http://benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=AiCR%2018 Extensive excerpt available from Benjamins' website] (click on the "Google Preview" button).]

;Shibamoto Smith, Janet S., 2004. : 'Language and Gender in the (Hetero)Romance: "Reading" the Ideal Hero/ine through Lovers' Dialogue in Japanese Romance Fiction', in ''Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People'', ed. Shigeko Okamoto and Janet S. Shibamoto Smith (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 113-130. ** [http://linguistlist.org/issues/16/16-1676.html Review]

;Shibamoto-Smith, Janet S., 2005. : ‘Translating True Love: Japanese Romantic Fiction, Harlequin-Style’ in ''Gender, Sex and Translation: The Manipulation of Identities'', ed. José Santaemilia (Manchester: St. Jerome Publishing), pp. 97-116. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0EgeCwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA97&ots=_VBVDxRknz&lr=lang_en&pg=PA97#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Shibamoto Smith, Janet S., 2008. : "Changing Lovestyles: Fictional Representations of Contemporary Japanese Men in Love." ''Positions'' 16.2: 359-87. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/positions/summary/v016/16.2.shibamoto-smith.html First Page]

;Simon, Jenni M., 2018. : ''Consuming Agency and Desire in Romance: Stories of Love, Laughter, and Empowerment''. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Q6k7DwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR5&ots=hhP2EqTrMr&sig=r8KErwV2-FueFcFirRZx2xZ9jCQ#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Slušná, Zuzana, 2014. : "Paranormal and Religious as Part of Pop Cultural Consumerism." ''European Journal of Science and Theology'' 10.1: 99-110. [http://www.ejst.tuiasi.ro/Files/48/11_Slusna.pdf]

;Slušná, Zuzana, 2015. : "Postfeminism, Post-romantic and New Patterns of Feminity [sic] in Popular Culture." ''European Journal of Science and Theology'' 11.6: 229-238.[http://www.ejst.tuiasi.ro/Files/55/23_Slusna.pdf]

;Smith, Faith, 1999. :"Beautiful Indians, Troublesome Negroes, and Nice White Men: Caribbean Romances and the Invention of Trinidad." in ''Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation.'' ed. Belinda Edmondson (Charlottesville, VA: UP of Virginia) pp. 163-182. [http://books.google.com/books?id=MxpIIwPyc-sC&lpg=PP1&dq=&pg=PA163#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Snitow, Ann Barr, 1979. : ‘Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women is Different’, ''Radical History Review'' 20 (Spring/Summer 1979):141-61. [http://rhr.dukejournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/1979/20/141?ssource=mfc&rss=1 Excerpt] Republished in ''Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality'' 1983., ed. Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell & Sharon Thompson (New York: Monthly Review Press), pp. 245-263. Excerpt published in "Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader", ed. Mary Eagleton. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MO9xIC7umwwC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA192#v=onepage&q=&f=false of which an excerpt is available online.] [scroll down the page to reach the beginning of the excerpt.] Republished in Ostrov Weisser, ''Women and Romance'' (see above), pp. 307-322.

;Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. 2010. : ''Reading [[Nora Roberts]].'' Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iZb2St4N1oAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false Excerpt]

;Sommer, Doris, 1991. : ''Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America''. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press). [The following two quotes may give an impression of the contents: "Romantic novels go hand in hand with patriotic history in Latin America. The books fueled a desire for domestic happiness that runs over into dreams of national prosperity; and nation-building projects invested private passions with public purpose" ([http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BWAXcZaAEyQC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q&f=false 7]) and "the lovers must imagine their ideal relationship through an alternative society. Once they project that ideal as an image that looks like a wedding portrait, their union [...] becomes the mediating principle that urges the narrative forward like a promise" ([http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BWAXcZaAEyQC&pg=PA18#v=onepage&q&f=false 18]). [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BWAXcZaAEyQC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt].]

;Sonnet, Esther, 1999. : "'Erotic Fiction by Women for Women’: The Pleasures of Post-Feminist Heterosexuality." ''Sexualities,''2.2:167-187. [From the [http://sexualities.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/2/2/167 abstract] [https://www.academia.edu/929962/Erotic_Fiction_by_Women_for_Women_The_Pleasures_of_Post-Feminist_Heterosexuality pdf]: "This article addresses the material construction of female heterosexuality through examination of the mass marketing of women’s pornography - ‘erotic fiction for women by women’ as exemplified by Virgin Publishing’s Black Lace imprint."]

;Sonnet, Esther, 2000. : "What the Woman Reads: Categorising Contemporary Popular Erotica for Women." ''Consuming for Pleasure: Selected Essays on Popular Fiction''. Ed. Julia Hallam and Nickianne Moody. Liverpool: Liverpool John Moores UP and the Association for Research in Popular Fictions. pp. 246-267. [https://www.academia.edu/4305268/What_the_Woman_Reads_Categorising_Contemporary_Popular_Erotica_for_Women pdf] [This article could be considered an expanded version of the previous one, which puts the Black Lace erotica in the context of other fiction for women with sexual content, including romance "bodice-rippers," and discusses the ways in which these texts are classified/assigned to particular genres/subgenres.]

;Sonnet, Esther, 2002. : "'"Just a book", she said ...': Refiguring Ethnography for the Female Readers of Sexual Fiction." ''The Audience Studies Reader''. Ed. Will Brooker & Deborah Jermyn. London: Routledge. pp. 254-273.[https://www.academia.edu/4304721/Just_a_book_she_said..._Reconfiguring_Ethnography_for_the_Female_Readers_of_Sexual_Fiction pdf]

;Spehner, Norbert, 1997. : 'L'Amour, toujours l'amour ...: The Popular Love Story and Romance: A Basic Checklist of Secondary Sources', ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 253-268.

;Spender, Dale, 1986. : "Male Romance." ''Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen'' (London: Pandora), pp. 152-169. [As the title of Spender's book indicates, this is not about modern romance fiction but Spender does mention Harlequin/Mills & Boon and discusses how "romance" has (a) become associated with women and (b) acquired a very low literary status. The title of this chapter reflects a subsidiary definition of "romance" as "picturesque falsehood": "we have in the containment of women, a male romance, a 'picturesque falsehood' constructed in male interest" (162). Some quotes from the chapter can be found [http://teachmetonight.blogspot.com/2011/06/sex-and-sentimentality-on-women-writers.html here].]

;Spigel, Lynn. 1985. : "Detours in the Search for Tomorrow: Tania Modleski's Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women." ''Camera Obscura: A Journal of Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies'' 13-14: 215-234.

;Spillman, K. Elizabeth, 2012. : 'The "Managing Female" in the Novels of Georgette Heyer,' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 84-98.

;Stacey, Jackie & Lynne Pearce, 1995. : 'The Heart of the Matter: Feminists Revisit Romance', in ''Romance Revisited'', ed. Lynne Pearce & Jackie Stacey (New York: New York University Press), pp. 11-45.

;Stafford, Jane. 2016. : "Romance in the Backblocks in New Zealand Popular Fiction, 1930–1950: Mary Scott's Barbara Stories." ''Popular Fiction and Spatiality: Reading Genre Settings,'' Lisa (ed. and introd.) Fletcher, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 63-78

;Stern, Barbara B, 1991. : 'Two Pornographies: A Feminist View of Sex in Advertising', in ''Advances in Consumer Research Volume'' 18. ed. Rebecca H. Holman and Michael R. Solomon (Provo, UT: Association for Consumer Research), pp. 384-391. [http://www.acrwebsite.org/volumes/display.asp?id=7190 Unpaginated version from the Association for Consumer Research's website.]

;Stern, Stephanie C., Brianne Robbins, Jessica E. Black and Jennifer L. Barnes, 2018. : "What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs About Relationships." ''Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts''. Advance online publication. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/aca0000189 Abstract]

;Stieg, Margaret F., 1985. : 'Indian Romances: Tracts for the Times', ''Journal of Popular Culture'', 18.4: 2-15. ['the Indian Romance, flourished between 1890 and 1930. It was a romantic novel set in India, featuring Anglo-Indians (English expatriates living in India) as the leading characters.' (1985: 2)] [http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119508803/abstract Excerpt]

;Still, Julie, 2005. : 'Reading Between the Lines: Librarians as Authors of Fiction', ''LIBRES'' 15.1.[http://libres.curtin.edu.au/libres15n1/Still_2005_02_16.htm] [Discusses Jayne Ann Krentz: "while she does not discuss library issues specifically, the importance of information -- having it, getting it, evaluating it, managing it, using it, and profiting from it, is a clear and present theme in her works"]

;Stoneley, Peter, 1999. : '"Never Love a Cowboy": Romance Fiction and Fantasy Families', ''Writing and Fantasy'', ed. Ceri Sullivan and Barbara White (London: Longman), pp. 223-235. [He argues that since "all desire is fantastical by its very nature" (223), romance is no more unrealistic than many other forms of fiction. He detects an "apparent incommensurability between sexual desire and family values" (226) in Silhouette's "Western Lovers" romances.]

;Stotesbury, John A, 1994. : "Language and Mindstyle in Anglophone Popular Romantic Fiction under Apartheid." ''Logos'' 14: 18-32.

;Stotesbury, John A., 2004 : 'Genre and Islam in Recent Anglophone Romantic Fiction', in ''Refracting the Canon in Contemporary British Literature and Film'', ed. Christian Gutleben & Susana Onega, Postmodern Studies, 35 (Amsterdam: Rodopi), pp. 69-82. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/rodopi/pms/2004/00000035/00000001/art00004 Abstract] **

;Stout, Diana, 2008. : '[[Karen Robards]]', ''Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice'' 2.2/3. [Formerly at [http://www.teachingamericanlit.com/files/Microsoft_Word_-_TALTP-RobardsKaren_not_using.pdf]. Unfortunately this essay appears to have been omitted from a pdf of the entire issue which can be downloaded from [http://www.cpcc.edu/taltp/archives/spring-summer-2008-2-2-3/spring_summer_2008_merged.pdf/at_download/file]].

;Stowers, Eva, 2007. : 'City of Fantasy: Romance Novels in Las Vegas.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 198-205.

;Struve, Laura, 2011. : "Sisters of Sorts: Reading Romantic Fiction and the Bonds Among Female Readers." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 44.6: 1289–1306. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-5931.2011.00901.x/abstract Excerpt][https://www.academia.edu/11965485/Sisters_of_Sorts_Reading_Romantic_Fiction_and_the_Bonds_Among_Female_Readers pdf]

;Sucatre, Conrad V., 2005 : ''Old School Romance'' (Vintage Romance Publishing).** [I have not been able to identify a place of publication, and clearly this is not an academic publisher. The author says that the book is about 'the romance writing industry as it existed prior to 1950. At my fingertips were the books and biographies of such authors as Faith Baldwin, Emilie Loring, Kathleen Norris, Temple Bailey, Elsa Barker and many others. I assembled all these facts into my book'.[http://www.geocities.com/heathpublishing/]]

;Suman [Sigroha], 2018. : "Gendered Migrations and Literary Narratives: Writing Communities in South Asian Diaspora." ''Millennial Asia'' 9.1: 93-108.[http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0976399617753755] [On "educated skilled women from South Asia who migrate as ‘trailing spouses’" and turn to romance-writing as an alternative, portable career.]

;Suwanban, Pauline, 2018. : "From Exhalation to Transformation: The Female Body in the Orientalist Romance". ''Dandelion: Postgraduate Arts Journal & Research Network'' 9.1 [https://dandelionjournal.org/article/doi/10.16995/ddl.686/ Abstract and link to pdf]

;Swaffield, Audrey-Claire, 1981. : "Paperbacks Promoting Passion! What Is Harlequin Really Presenting?." ''Canadian Woman Studies/Les Cahiers de la Femme'' 3.2: 4-6.

Chick Lit Academic Bibliography

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[[category:Romance Scholarship]][[category:Romance Resources]]

==A-C==

;Adams, L. 2004. : "Chick Lit and Chick Flicks: Secret Power or Flat Formula?" '' The Horn Book Magazine.'' 80:669-680.[http://www.hbook.com/magazine/articles/2004/nov04_adams.asp]

;Akass, Kim, and Janet McCabe, 2004. : “Ms. Parker and the Vicious Circle: Female Narrative and Humour in ''Sex and the City'',” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 177-198.

;Alb, Anemona Filip. 2008.: "Protean Femininities: Shifting Stereotypes in 'Chick Lit'." ''Gender Studies'' 1, no. 7: 39-48.

;Arosteguy, Katie O'Donnell. 2009. : "The Clothes Do Make the Women: The Politics of Fashioning Femininity in Contemporary American Chick Lit." ''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 70, no. 11: 4284. [http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Spring2009/k_arosteguy_040109.pdf. ]

;Arosteguy, Katie. 2010. : "The Politics of Race, Class, and Sexuality in Contemporary American Mommy Lit." ''Women's Studies'' 39, no. 5: 409-429.

;Arthurs, Jane. : “''Sex and the City'' and Consumer Culture: Remediating Postfeminist Drama.” ''Feminist Media Studies'' 3.1 (2003): 83-98.

;Balducci, Federica. 2011. : ''A Different Shade of Pink: Literary Thresholds and Cultural Intersections in Italian Chick Lit''. A thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Italian. [http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/1929]

;Balducci, Federica. 2011. : “When chick lit meets romanzo rosa: Intertextual narratives in Stefania Bertola’s romantic fiction,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2011/12/when-chick-lit-meets-romanzo-rosa-intertextual-narratives-in-stefania-bertola%E2%80%99s-romantic-fiction-by-federica-balducci/]

;Baloria, Nitasha. 2014. : "To Be or Not To Be a 'Wife': Theme of Marriage in the Works of Marian Keyes," ''Research Scholar: An International Refereed e-Journal of Literary Explorations'' 2.1.[http://researchscholar.co.in/downloads/56-nitasha-baloria.pdf]

;Baloria, Nitasha. 2014. : "Is Chick Lit a Fluff or a Product of Jane Austen’s Style?," ''European Academic Research'' 2.7. [http://euacademic.org/UploadArticle/984.pdf]

;Benstock, Shari. : "Afterword: The New Woman's Fiction." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 253-???.

;Boyd, Elizabeth B. : "Ya Yas, Grits, and Sweet Potato Queens: Contemporary Southern Belles and the Prescriptions That Guide Them." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 159-172.

;Burns, Amy, 2011. : "'Tell me all about your new man': (Re)Constructing Masculinity in Contemporary Chick Texts." ''Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network'' 4.1. [http://journalhosting.org/meccsa-pgn/index.php/netknow/issue/current/showToc Links to abstract and pdf]

;Burns, Amy, 2012. : "The Postfeminist Flâneuse: The Literary Value of Contemporary Chick Lit." ''Graduate Journal of Social Science'' 9.3.[http://gjss.org/images/stories/volumes/9/3/Burns.pdf]

;Butler, Pamela and Jigna Desai. : “Manolos, Marriage, and Mantras: Chick-Lit Criticism and Transnational Feminism.” ''Meridians'' 8.2 (2008): 1-31. [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/meridians/v008/8.2.butler.html Abstract]

;Campbell, P. 2006. : "The Sand in the Oyster The Lit of Chick Lit." '' The Horn Book Magazine.'' 82 (4):487-491.[http://www.hbook.com/magazine/articles/2006/jul06_campbell.asp]

;Cano López, Marina. : "Looking Back in Desire; or How Jane Austen Rewrites Chick Lit in Alexandra Potter’s ''Me and Mr. Darcy''." ''Persuasions'' 31.1 (2010).[http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol31no1/cano-lopez.html]

;Carvalho, Charmaine. : "Chick Lit in India: Possibilities for a Feminine Aesthetic in Popular Fiction." ''Estetyka i Krytyka The Polish Journal of Aesthetics'' 41 (2016): 13-32. [http://estetykaikrytyka.pl/art/41/eik_41_1.pdf]

;Caselli, Carolyn Ann. 2006.: ''Chick Lit : postmodern literature for the everywoman.'' Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, Northridge.

;Chen, Eva. : "Shanghai(ed) Babies: Geopolitics, Biopolitics and the Global Chick Lit." ''Feminist Media Studies'' (advanced release 6 Oct. 2011). [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14680777.2011.597102 Abstract]

;Chen Eva Yin-i. : "Neoliberal Self-Governance and Popular Postfeminism in Contemporary Anglo-American Chick Lit", ''Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies'' 36.1 (2010): 243-275.[http://www.concentric-literature.url.tw/issues/Transnational%20Taiwan/11.pdf]

;Craddock, Louise. : "Bridget Jones's Little Red Dress: Chicklit, Mass-market Popular Romance and Feminism." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 43-51. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

==D-F==

;Davis-Kahl, Stephanie. : "The Case for Chick Lit in Academic Libraries." ''Collection Building'' 27.1 (2008): 18-21. [http://works.bepress.com/stephanie_davis_kahl/1 Abstract and link to pdf]

;Dorney, Kate. : "Shop Boys and Girls! Interpellating Readers as Consumers in Chicklit and Ladlit." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 12-22. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Dunn, Hannah. 2005.: ''Making the personal political: reflexivity as neo-feminist activism in Brit-art and Chick-lit.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of Colorado.

;Ebert, Teresa L. 2009. : ''The task of cultural critique.'' Urbana: University of Illinois Press. [Chapter-Chick lit: "not your mother's romance novels"] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OEYGxoLGApYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA97#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Ehriander, Helene, 2015. : "Chick Lit in Historical Settings by Frida Skybäck", ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/chick-lit-in-historical-settings-by-frida-skybackby-helene-ehriander/]

;Farr, Cecilia Konchar. 2009. : "It Was Chick Lit All Along: The Gendering of a Genre." In ''You've Come a Long Way, Baby: Women, Politics, and Popular Culture'', 201-214. Lexington, KY: UP of Kentucky, 2009.

;Ferriss, Suzanne and Mallory Young. : "Introduction." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 1-16.

;Ferriss, Suzanne and Mallory Young. : “Chicks, Girls and Choice: Redefining Feminism.” ''Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue'' 6 (2006): 87-97. [http://www.junctures.org/issues.php?issue=06&title=Language&colour=rgb(73,47,146)]

;Ferris, Suzanne. : "Narrative and Cinematic Doubleness: ''Pride and Prejudice'' and ''Bridget Jones's Diary''." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 71-84.

;Ferris, Suzanne. : "Working Girls: The Precariat of Chick Lit", in Cupcakes, Pinterest and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early Twenty-First Century, ed. Elana Levine (University of Illinois, 2015): 177-???.

;Fest, Kerstin. 2009. : "Angels in the House or Girl Power: Working Women in Nineteenth-Century Novels and Contemporary Chick Lit." ''Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal'' 38, no. 1: 43-62.

;Frater, Lara. 2009. : "Fat heroines in chick-lit: gateway to acceptance in the mainstream?" in Rothblum, Esther D., and Sondra Solovay. ''The Fat Studies Reader.'' New York: New York University Press. 235-240. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XtLWPWNO8gUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA235#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Frenkel, Ronit, 2019. : “Pleasure as Genre: Popular Fiction, South African Chick-Lit and Nthikeng Mohlele’s Pleasure.” ''Feminist Theory'', (February 2019). [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1464700119831537#articleCitationDownloadContainer Abstract]

==G-I==

;Gamble, Sarah. : "When Romantic Heroines Turn Bad: The Rise of the ‘Anti-Chicklit’ Novel." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/gamble.html]

;Gehrmann, Susanne. : “Emerging Afro-Parisian ‘Chick-Lit’ by Lauren Ekué and Léonora Miano.” ''Feminist Theory'', Feb. 2019. [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1464700119831539#articleCitationDownloadContainer Abstract]

;Gennaro, Stephen. : “Sex and the City: Perpetual Adolescence Gendered Feminine?” ''Nebula'' 4.1 (2007). 1 August 2009.[http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/Gennaro.pdf]

;Genz, Stéphanie, and Benjamin A. Brabon. 2009. : ''Postfeminism: cultural texts and theories.'' Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Chapter - Girl power and chick lit, on pages 76-90.] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yUGpvXJe9NAC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA76#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Gerhard, Jane. : “''Sex and the City'': Carrie Bradshaw’s Queer Postfeminism.” ''Feminist Media Studies'' 5.1 (2005): 37-49.

;Ghosh, Srijani. : "''Res Emptito Ergo Sum'': Fashion and Commodity Fetishism in Sophie Kinsella’s ''Confessions of a Shopaholic''." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 46.2 (2013): 378-393. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.12031/abstract Excerpt]

;Gill, Rosalind. : "Lad lit as mediated intimacy: A postfeminist tale of female power, male vulnerability and toast." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/gill.html]

;Gill, Rosalind and Elena Herdieckerhoff. : "Rewriting the Romance: New Femininities in Chick Lit?" ''Feminist Media Studies'' 6.4 (2006): 487-504. [Abstract and pdf available from [http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/2514 LSE Research Online]]

;Gormley, Sarah. : "Introduction." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/gormley.html]

;Gorton, Kristyn. : "'Kiss My Tiara': Chicklit and Female Empowerment." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 23-28. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Gruslytė, Monika, Aurelija Taujanskaitė, and Erika Žemaitytė. : "The tradition of consciousness-raising fiction in contemporary popular fiction Chick lit." ''Straipsnis leidinyje: Jaunųjų mokslininkų darbai'' 39.1 (2013): 125-129. [http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:J.04~2013~ISSN_1648-8776.N_1_39.PG_125-129 Abstract and link to pdf.] [http://vddb.library.lt/fedora/get/LT-eLABa-0001:J.04~2013~ISSN_1648-8776.N_1_39.PG_125-129/DS.002.1.01.ARTIC Pdf]

;Guerrero, Lisa A. : "'Sistahs Are Doin' It For Themselves': Chick Lit in Black and White." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 87-102.

;Gunne, Sorcha. : 'World-Literature, World-Systems, and Irish Chick Lit', ''Globalizing Literary Genres: Literature, History, Modernity'', Ed. Jernej Habjan and Fabienne Imlinger (2016). [https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315708621/chapters/10.4324/9781315708621-25 Abstract] [https://www.academia.edu/37300753/World-Literature_World-Systems_and_Irish_Chick_Lit?email_work_card=title pdf (in pre-print version)]

;Gunne, Sorcha. : ‘Gender, Genre and Modernity: Popular Romance Fiction in Ireland’, ''Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction'', Ed. L Harte. Oxford: Oxford University Press [in press]. [[https://www.academia.edu/37300918/Gender_Genre_and_Modernity_Popular_Romance_Fiction_in_Ireland pre-print version]]

;Gymnich, Marion, and Kathrin Ruhl. 2010. : "Revisiting the Classical Romance: Pride and Prejudice, Bridget Jone's Diary and Bride and Prejudice." In ''Gendered (Re)Visions: Constructions of Gender in Audiovisual Media'', 23-44. Göttingen, Germany: V&R, 2010. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VWcRp0Xy41IC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA23#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Hale, Elizabeth. : "Long-Suffering Professional Females: The Case of Nanny Lit." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 103-118.

;Harzewski, Stephanie. 2004. : "'Chick Lit' and the Urban Code Heroine: Interview Symposium with Caren Lissner, Melissa Senate, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, and Jennifer Weiner." In ''Voces de América/American Voices: Entrevistas a escritores americanos/Interviews with American Writers,''. Cádiz, Spain: Aduana Vieja, 2004. 689-719.

;Harzewski, Stephanie. : "Tradition and Displacement in the New Novel of Manners." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 29–46.

;Harzewski, Stephanie. : "The new novel of manners: Chick lit and postfeminist sexual politics" (January 1, 2006). Dissertations available from ProQuest. Paper AAI3225468. [Abstract http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI3225468]

;Harzewski, Stephanie. : ''Chick Lit and Postfeminism.'' Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011.

;Hedrick, Tace. : ''Chica Lit: Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century''. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2015. [https://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=36578 Details and excerpt]

;Henry, Astrid. : “Orgasms and Empowerment. ''Sex and the City'' and the Third Wave Feminism.” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 65-82.

;Hewett, Heather. : "You Are Not Alone: The Personal, the Political and the 'New' Mommy Lit." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 119-140.

;Horrocks, Clare. : "Tart Noir: Chicklit with Criminal Balls." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 59-64. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]



;Hurst, Rochelle. : “The Barrister’s Bedmate: Harlequin Mills & Boon and the Bridget Jones Debate.” ''Australian Feminist Studies'' 24.62 (2009): 453-468. [Feminist critique of Harlequin Mills & Boons (especially a selection by [[Emma Darcy]]) and comparison with Helen Fielding's ''Bridget Jones'' novels. For a discussion of why many aspects of this essay's methodology are troubling, from an academic perspective, see [http://www.readreactreview.com/2010/02/10/feminist-critique-of-romance-ur-doin-it-wrong/ this article by Jessica at ''Read React Review'']].

;Hurt, Erin. 2009. : "Trading Cultural Baggage for Gucci Luggage: The Ambivalent Latinidad of Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's "The Dirty Girls Social Club.." ''MELUS'' 34, no. 3: 133-153.

;Hurt, Erin (ed.) 2018. : ''Theorizing Ethnicity and Nationality in the Chick Lit Genre''. Routledge. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=unx0DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Isbister, Georgina C. : "Chick Lit: A Postfeminist Fairy Tale." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/isbister.html]

==J-L==

;Jermyn, Deborah. : “In Love with Sarah Jessica Parker: Celebrating Female Fandom and Friendship in ''Sex and the City''.” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 201-217.

;Jermyn, Deborah. : ''Sex and the City''. Detroit: Wayne State Press, 2009.

;Johnson, Joanna Webb. : "Chick Lit Jnr.: More Than Glitz and Glamour for Teens and Tweens." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 141-158.

;Kaminski, Melissa J. and Robert G. Magee. : "Does This Book Make Me Look Fat?: The Effect of Protagonist Body Weight and Body Esteem on Female Readers' Body Esteem." ''Body Image'' (2012). [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2012.10.009 Abstract]

;Kent, Paula Rachel. 2007. : '' Think pink and high heels: women and beauty as represented in chick lit novels.'' Thesis (M.A.) Stephenville, Tex: Tarleton State University. [http://gradworks.umi.com/14/55/1455093.html Abstract]

;Kiernan, Anna. : "No Satisfaction: ''Sex and the City'', ''Run Catch Kiss'', and the Conflict of Desires in Chick Lit's New Heroines." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 207-218.

;Knowles, Joanne. : "Editorial." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 3-4. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Knowles, Joanne. : "Material Girls: Location and Economics in Chicklit Fiction, Or, How Singletons Finance Their Jimmy Choo Collections." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 37-42. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Knowles, Joanne. 2008. : "'Our foes are almost as many as our readers': debating the worth of women's reading and writing--the case of chick-lit." ''Popular Narrative Media'' 1.2 (2008): 217-231.

;Kohli, Joy. : ''Governing Women’s Sexuality in “Sex and the City”: Pleasure, Relationships And Reproduction''. Ann Arbor: Proquest, 2008.

;Konchar Farr, Cecilia. : "It Was Chick Lit All Along: The Gendering of a Genre." ''You've Come A Long Way Baby: Women, Politics, and Popular Culture''. Ed. Lilly J. Goren. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. 201-214. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=G132LEhM4ucC&lpg=PA208&pg=PA201#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Leffler, Yvonne. : "Chick Lit as Healing and Self-Help Manual?" ''Culture, Health, and Religion at the Millennium: Sweden Unparadised'', Ed. Marie Demker, Yvonne Leffler and Ola Sigurdson. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 155-182. [http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9781137472236.0008 Excerpt]

;Lenz, Christian. : ''Geographies of Love: The Cultural Spaces of Romance in Chick- and Ladlit''. PhD thesis, TU Dortmund University, 2014. Verlag 2016. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rrgADAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Lerman, Amy S. : “Jane Green and the Contemporary ‘Singleton’: Why Women Can Laugh at their Bachelorette Predicaments.” ''The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference''. Ed. Leslie Fife. 1285-1298.

;Lim, Megan S.C., Margaret E. Hellard and Danielle Horyniak. : "Safe Sex in Chick Lit: a ‘Novel’ Analysis of Sexual Health References in Popular Women’s Fiction. ''Sexual Health''. Online first, 27 July 2018. [https://doi.org/10.1071/SH18017 Abstract]

==M-O==

;Mabry, A. Rochelle. : "About a Girl: Female Subjectivity and Sexuality in Contemporary 'Chick' Culture." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 191-206.

;Markle, Gail. : “Can Women Have Sex Like a Man? Sexual Scripts in Sex and the City.” ''Sexuality and Culture'' 12 (2008): 45-57.

;Mathew, Imogen Louise. : "‘The Pretty and the Political Didn’t Seem to Blend Well’: Anita Heiss’s Chick Lit and the Destabilisation of a Genre", ''JASAL: Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature'' 15.3 (2015). [https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/JASAL/article/view/10575 Abstract and pdf].

;Mathew, Imogen. : "Educating the Reader in Anita Heiss’s Chick Lit." ''Contemporary Women's Writing'' (2016). First published online: July 31, 2016. [http://cww.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/07/31/cww.vpw019.extract# Excerpt]

;Mazza, Cris. : "Who's Laughing Now? A Short History of Chick Lit and the Perversion of a Genre." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 17-28.

;Mazza, Cris. 2000. : "Editing Postfeminist Fiction: Finding the Chic in Lit." ''Symplokē: A Journal for the Intermingling of Literary, Cultural and Theoretical Scholarship'' 8, no. 1-2: 101-112.

;Merck, Mandy. : “Sexuality in the City.” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 48-62.

;Missler, Heike. : ''The Cultural Politics of Chick Lit: Popular Fiction, Postfeminism and Representation''. New York: Routledge, 2017. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mVtuDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Moody, Nickianne. : "Empathy and Irony in the Soundtrack to Chicklit." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 52-58. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Morrison, Amanda Maria. 2010. : "Chicanas and 'Chick Lit': Contested Latinidad in the Novels of Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 43, no. 2: 309-329.

;Nelson, Ashley. : “Sister Carrie meets Carrie Bradshaw: Exploring Progress, Politics and the Single Woman in ''Sex and the City'' and Beyond.” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 83-95.

;Newns, Lucinda, 2017. : "Renegotiating romantic genres: Textual resistance and Muslim chick lit." ''Journal of Commonwealth Literature''. Online first. 1-17. [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0021989416686156 Abstract]

;Ommundsen, Wenche. 2008. : "From China with Love: Chick Lit and the New Crossover Fiction." In ''China Fictions-English Language: Literary Essays in Diaspora, Memory, Story,''. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi. 327-345

;Ommundsen, Wenche. 2011. : "Sex and the Global City: Chick Lit with a Difference." ''Contemporary Women's Writing'' 5.2: 107-124. [http://cww.oxfordjournals.org/content/5/2/107.extract Abstract]

;Oria, Beatriz, 2012. : “’Just Say Yes’: the Romanticisation of Love in ''Sex and the City'',” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2012/10/just-say-yes-the-romanticisation-of-love-in-sex-and-the-city-by-beatriz-oria/]

==P-R==

;Pérez-Serrano, Elena. : "Chick Lit and Marian Keyes: The ideological background of the genre." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/perezserrano.html]

;Perez-Serrano, Elena. 2009. : "Growing Old Before Old Age: Ageing in the Fiction of Marian Keyes." ''Educational Gerontology'' 35, no. 2: 135-145.

;Regules, Anne E. 2006. : ''Working women re-working the romance: chick-lit from Kate Chopin to Jennifer Weiner and Sex and the City.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of Texas at San Antonio.

;Ross, Sharon Marie. : “Talking Sex: Comparison Shopping through Female Conversation in HBO’s ''Sex and the City''.” ''The Sitcom Reader: America Viewed and Skewed''. Eds. Mary M. Dalton and Laura Linder. New York: State University of NY Press, 2005. 111-122.

;Rowntree, Margaret, Nicole Moulding and Lia Bryant, 2012. : "Feminine Sexualities in Chick Lit." ''Australian Feminist Studies'', Volume 27, Issue 72: 121-137. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08164649.2012.648259 Abstract]

;Ryan, Mary, 2009. : ‘What a Way to Make a Living: Irish Chick Lit and the Working World.’ ''MP: An Online Feminist Journal'' 2.5: 27-41.[http://academinist.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Chick_Ryan.pdf]

;Ryan, Mary, 2010. : "Trivial or Commendable? : Women's Writing, Popular Culture, and Chick Lit." ''452F Journal of Comparative Literature'' 3 (July 2010): 70-84.[http://www.452f.com/en/mary-ryan.html]

;Ryan, Mary, 2010. : "Stepping Out from the Margins: Ireland, Morality, and Representing the ‘Other’ in Irish Chick Lit." ''Nebula: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship'' 7.3: 137-149.[http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/Ryan.pdf]

;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : “The Bodies of Chick Lit: Positive Representations of the Female Body in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction.” ''Inquire: A Journal of Comparative Literature'' 1.1 [http://inquire.streetmag.org/articles/13]

;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : “Then and Now: Memories of a Patriarchal Ireland in the Work of Marian Keyes.” ''452°F Journal of Comparative Literature'' 4: 110-130.[http://www.452f.com/en/ryan.html]

;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : "Ending the Silence: Representing Women’s Reproductive Lives in Irish Chick Lit." ''Nebula: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship'' 8.1: 209-224.[http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/Ryan3.pdf]

;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : ‘Amongst Women: Male Romance Authors and Irish Chick Lit Author, Andrew O’Connor’, ''The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture'' 1.2: 209-225. [http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=11989/ Abstract]

==S-U==

;Santaemilia, J. 2008. : The translation of sex-related language: The danger(s) of self-censorship(s). ''TTR: Traduction, Terminologie et Redaction'' 21, (2): 221-252

;Sellei, Nora. : "Bridget Jones and Hungarian Chick Lit." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 173-188.

;Smith, Caroline J. 2005. : "Living the Life of a Domestic Goddess: Chick Lit's Response to Domestic-Advice Manuals." ''Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal'' 34, no. 8: 671-699.

;Smith, Caroline J. 2007. : "The Girls' Guide to Creating Community: Analyzing Reading Communities in Chick Lit." In ''Narratives of Community: Women's Short Story Sequences,''. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2007. 352-371.

;Smith, Caroline J. : ''Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit''. New York: Routledge, 2008. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XDACykiKvL8C&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Smyczyńska, Katarzyna. : "Commitment Phobia and Emotional Fuckwittage: Postmillennial Constructions of Male 'Other' in Chicklit Novels." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 29-36. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Smyczyńska, Katarzyna. : ''The World According to Bridget Jones: Discourses of Identity in Chicklit Fictions''. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2007.

;Spencer, Lynda Gichanda, 2014. : "Writing Women in Uganda and South Africa: Emerging Writers from Post-Repressive Regimes." PhD Thesis, Stellenbosch University, April 2014. [http://scholar.sun.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10019.1/86251/spencer_writing_2014.pdf PDF] [See Chapter 3, which "explores how Goretti Kyomuhendo, Zukiswa Wanner and Angela Makholwa and Cynthia Jele embrace chick lit as a form of writing that allows them to reflect on the lived realities of women."]

;Tangney, ShaunAnne. 2008. : "Chick Lit Matters: From Femme Covert to Fendi, Feminine Fiction Provides Feminist Critique." In ''Honoring Human Herstory: A Celebration of Women's Heritage,''. Minot, ND: Minot State University, 2008. 49-63.

;Taylor, Anthea. 2011. : ''Single Women in Popular Culture: The Limits of Postfeminism.''New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [See in particular Chapter 3: "Spinsters and Singletons: ''Bridget Jones's Diary'' and its Cultural Reverberations"]

;Thoma, Pamela. : "Romancing the Self and Negotiating Consumer Citizenship in Asian American Labor Lit." ''Contemporary Women's Writing'' 2013. [http://cww.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/03/26/cww.vps036.extract# Excerpt]

;Umminger, Alison. : "Supersizing Bridget Jones: What's Really Eating the Women in Chick Lit." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 239-252.

==V-Z==

;Van Slooten, Jessica Lyn. : "Fashionably Indebted: Conspicuous Consumption, Fashion, and Romance in Sophie Kinsella's ''Shopaholic'' Trilogy." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 219-238.

;Veseljević Jerković, Selma. : "Mad about the Boy: The Phenomenon of Fictional Autobiography." ''Društvene i humanističke studije'' 4.2(8): 89-102. [http://www.dhs.ff.untz.ba/index.php/home/article/view/268 Abstract] [http://www.dhs.ff.untz.ba/index.php/home/article/download/268/204 pdf]

;Wells, Juliette. : "Mother of Chick Lit? Women Writers, Readers, and Literary History." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 47-70.

;Whelehan, Imelda. : ''Overloaded: Popular Culture and the Future of Feminism''. London: The Women’s Press Ltd., 2000. [Looks at various aspects of popular culture: men's magazines (''Loaded'', ''Maxim'', ''GQ''); TV shows (''Ally McBeal'', ''Sex in the City'', ''Men Behaving Badly'') and novels (''Bridget Jones' Diary'').]

;Whelehan, Imelda. : ''Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary: A Reader’s Guide''. New York: Continuum, 2002. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SN8iV7A7ZqkC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Whelehan, Imelda. : "Sex and the Single Girl: Helen Fielding, Erica Jong and Helen Gurley Brown." ''Essays and Studies 2004: Contemporary British Women Writers.'' Ed. Emma Parker. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2004.

;Whelehan, Imelda. : "High Anxiety: Feminism, Chicklit And Women In The Noughties." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 5-11. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Whelehan, Imelda. : "Teening Chick Lit?" ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/whehelan.html]

Chick Lit Academic Bibliography

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==A-C==

;Adams, L. 2004. : "Chick Lit and Chick Flicks: Secret Power or Flat Formula?" '' The Horn Book Magazine.'' 80:669-680.[http://www.hbook.com/magazine/articles/2004/nov04_adams.asp]

;Akass, Kim, and Janet McCabe, 2004. : “Ms. Parker and the Vicious Circle: Female Narrative and Humour in ''Sex and the City'',” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 177-198.

;Alb, Anemona Filip. 2008.: "Protean Femininities: Shifting Stereotypes in 'Chick Lit'." ''Gender Studies'' 1, no. 7: 39-48.

;Arosteguy, Katie O'Donnell. 2009. : "The Clothes Do Make the Women: The Politics of Fashioning Femininity in Contemporary American Chick Lit." ''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 70, no. 11: 4284. [http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Spring2009/k_arosteguy_040109.pdf. ]

;Arosteguy, Katie. 2010. : "The Politics of Race, Class, and Sexuality in Contemporary American Mommy Lit." ''Women's Studies'' 39, no. 5: 409-429.

;Arthurs, Jane. : “''Sex and the City'' and Consumer Culture: Remediating Postfeminist Drama.” ''Feminist Media Studies'' 3.1 (2003): 83-98.

;Balducci, Federica. 2011. : ''A Different Shade of Pink: Literary Thresholds and Cultural Intersections in Italian Chick Lit''. A thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Italian. [http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/1929]

;Balducci, Federica. 2011. : “When chick lit meets romanzo rosa: Intertextual narratives in Stefania Bertola’s romantic fiction,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2011/12/when-chick-lit-meets-romanzo-rosa-intertextual-narratives-in-stefania-bertola%E2%80%99s-romantic-fiction-by-federica-balducci/]

;Baloria, Nitasha. 2014. : "To Be or Not To Be a 'Wife': Theme of Marriage in the Works of Marian Keyes," ''Research Scholar: An International Refereed e-Journal of Literary Explorations'' 2.1.[http://researchscholar.co.in/downloads/56-nitasha-baloria.pdf]

;Baloria, Nitasha. 2014. : "Is Chick Lit a Fluff or a Product of Jane Austen’s Style?," ''European Academic Research'' 2.7. [http://euacademic.org/UploadArticle/984.pdf]

;Benstock, Shari. : "Afterword: The New Woman's Fiction." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 253-???.

;Boyd, Elizabeth B. : "Ya Yas, Grits, and Sweet Potato Queens: Contemporary Southern Belles and the Prescriptions That Guide Them." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 159-172.

;Burns, Amy, 2011. : "'Tell me all about your new man': (Re)Constructing Masculinity in Contemporary Chick Texts." ''Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network'' 4.1. [http://journalhosting.org/meccsa-pgn/index.php/netknow/issue/current/showToc Links to abstract and pdf]

;Burns, Amy, 2012. : "The Postfeminist Flâneuse: The Literary Value of Contemporary Chick Lit." ''Graduate Journal of Social Science'' 9.3.[http://gjss.org/images/stories/volumes/9/3/Burns.pdf]

;Butler, Pamela and Jigna Desai. : “Manolos, Marriage, and Mantras: Chick-Lit Criticism and Transnational Feminism.” ''Meridians'' 8.2 (2008): 1-31. [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/meridians/v008/8.2.butler.html Abstract]

;Campbell, P. 2006. : "The Sand in the Oyster The Lit of Chick Lit." '' The Horn Book Magazine.'' 82 (4):487-491.[http://www.hbook.com/magazine/articles/2006/jul06_campbell.asp]

;Cano López, Marina. : "Looking Back in Desire; or How Jane Austen Rewrites Chick Lit in Alexandra Potter’s ''Me and Mr. Darcy''." ''Persuasions'' 31.1 (2010).[http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol31no1/cano-lopez.html]

;Carvalho, Charmaine. : "Chick Lit in India: Possibilities for a Feminine Aesthetic in Popular Fiction." ''Estetyka i Krytyka The Polish Journal of Aesthetics'' 41 (2016): 13-32. [http://estetykaikrytyka.pl/art/41/eik_41_1.pdf]

;Caselli, Carolyn Ann. 2006.: ''Chick Lit : postmodern literature for the everywoman.'' Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, Northridge.

;Chen, Eva. : "Shanghai(ed) Babies: Geopolitics, Biopolitics and the Global Chick Lit." ''Feminist Media Studies'' (advanced release 6 Oct. 2011). [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14680777.2011.597102 Abstract]

;Chen Eva Yin-i. : "Neoliberal Self-Governance and Popular Postfeminism in Contemporary Anglo-American Chick Lit", ''Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies'' 36.1 (2010): 243-275.[http://www.concentric-literature.url.tw/issues/Transnational%20Taiwan/11.pdf]

;Craddock, Louise. : "Bridget Jones's Little Red Dress: Chicklit, Mass-market Popular Romance and Feminism." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 43-51. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

==D-F==

;Davis-Kahl, Stephanie. : "The Case for Chick Lit in Academic Libraries." ''Collection Building'' 27.1 (2008): 18-21. [http://works.bepress.com/stephanie_davis_kahl/1 Abstract and link to pdf]

;Dorney, Kate. : "Shop Boys and Girls! Interpellating Readers as Consumers in Chicklit and Ladlit." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 12-22. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Dunn, Hannah. 2005.: ''Making the personal political: reflexivity as neo-feminist activism in Brit-art and Chick-lit.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of Colorado.

;Ebert, Teresa L. 2009. : ''The task of cultural critique.'' Urbana: University of Illinois Press. [Chapter-Chick lit: "not your mother's romance novels"] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OEYGxoLGApYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA97#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Ehriander, Helene, 2015. : "Chick Lit in Historical Settings by Frida Skybäck", ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/chick-lit-in-historical-settings-by-frida-skybackby-helene-ehriander/]

;Farr, Cecilia Konchar. 2009. : "It Was Chick Lit All Along: The Gendering of a Genre." In ''You've Come a Long Way, Baby: Women, Politics, and Popular Culture'', 201-214. Lexington, KY: UP of Kentucky, 2009.

;Ferriss, Suzanne and Mallory Young. : "Introduction." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 1-16.

;Ferriss, Suzanne and Mallory Young. : “Chicks, Girls and Choice: Redefining Feminism.” ''Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue'' 6 (2006): 87-97. [http://www.junctures.org/issues.php?issue=06&title=Language&colour=rgb(73,47,146)]

;Ferris, Suzanne. : "Narrative and Cinematic Doubleness: ''Pride and Prejudice'' and ''Bridget Jones's Diary''." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 71-84.

;Ferris, Suzanne. : "Working Girls: The Precariat of Chick Lit", in Cupcakes, Pinterest and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early Twenty-First Century, ed. Elana Levine (University of Illinois, 2015): 177-???.

;Fest, Kerstin. 2009. : "Angels in the House or Girl Power: Working Women in Nineteenth-Century Novels and Contemporary Chick Lit." ''Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal'' 38, no. 1: 43-62.

;Frater, Lara. 2009. : "Fat heroines in chick-lit: gateway to acceptance in the mainstream?" in Rothblum, Esther D., and Sondra Solovay. ''The Fat Studies Reader.'' New York: New York University Press. 235-240. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XtLWPWNO8gUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA235#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Frenkel, Ronit, 2019. : “Pleasure as Genre: Popular Fiction, South African Chick-Lit and Nthikeng Mohlele’s Pleasure.” ''Feminist Theory'', (February 2019). [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1464700119831537#articleCitationDownloadContainer Abstract]

==G-I==

;Gamble, Sarah. : "When Romantic Heroines Turn Bad: The Rise of the ‘Anti-Chicklit’ Novel." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/gamble.html]

;Gehrmann, Susanne. : “Emerging Afro-Parisian ‘Chick-Lit’ by Lauren Ekué and Léonora Miano.” ''Feminist Theory'', Feb. 2019. [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1464700119831539#articleCitationDownloadContainer Abstract]

;Gennaro, Stephen. : “Sex and the City: Perpetual Adolescence Gendered Feminine?” ''Nebula'' 4.1 (2007). 1 August 2009.[http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/Gennaro.pdf]

;Genz, Stéphanie, and Benjamin A. Brabon. 2009. : ''Postfeminism: cultural texts and theories.'' Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Chapter - Girl power and chick lit, on pages 76-90.] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yUGpvXJe9NAC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA76#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Gerhard, Jane. : “''Sex and the City'': Carrie Bradshaw’s Queer Postfeminism.” ''Feminist Media Studies'' 5.1 (2005): 37-49.

;Ghosh, Srijani. : "''Res Emptito Ergo Sum'': Fashion and Commodity Fetishism in Sophie Kinsella’s ''Confessions of a Shopaholic''." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 46.2 (2013): 378-393. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.12031/abstract Excerpt]

;Gill, Rosalind. : "Lad lit as mediated intimacy: A postfeminist tale of female power, male vulnerability and toast." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/gill.html]

;Gill, Rosalind and Elena Herdieckerhoff. : "Rewriting the Romance: New Femininities in Chick Lit?" ''Feminist Media Studies'' 6.4 (2006): 487-504. [Abstract and pdf available from [http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/2514 LSE Research Online]]

;Gormley, Sarah. : "Introduction." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/gormley.html]

;Gorton, Kristyn. : "'Kiss My Tiara': Chicklit and Female Empowerment." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 23-28. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Gruslytė, Monika, Aurelija Taujanskaitė, and Erika Žemaitytė. : "The tradition of consciousness-raising fiction in contemporary popular fiction Chick lit." ''Straipsnis leidinyje: Jaunųjų mokslininkų darbai'' 39.1 (2013): 125-129. [http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:J.04~2013~ISSN_1648-8776.N_1_39.PG_125-129 Abstract and link to pdf.] [http://vddb.library.lt/fedora/get/LT-eLABa-0001:J.04~2013~ISSN_1648-8776.N_1_39.PG_125-129/DS.002.1.01.ARTIC Pdf]

;Guerrero, Lisa A. : "'Sistahs Are Doin' It For Themselves': Chick Lit in Black and White." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 87-102.

;Gunne, Sorcha. : 'World-Literature, World-Systems, and Irish Chick Lit', ''Globalizing Literary Genres: Literature, History, Modernity'', Ed. Jernej Habjan and Fabienne Imlinger (2016). [https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315708621/chapters/10.4324/9781315708621-25 Abstract] [https://www.academia.edu/37300753/World-Literature_World-Systems_and_Irish_Chick_Lit?email_work_card=title pdf]

;Gunne, Sorcha. : ‘Gender, Genre and Modernity: Popular Romance Fiction in Ireland’, ''Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction'', Ed. L Harte. Oxford: Oxford University Press [in press]. [[https://www.academia.edu/37300918/Gender_Genre_and_Modernity_Popular_Romance_Fiction_in_Ireland pre-print version]]

;Gymnich, Marion, and Kathrin Ruhl. 2010. : "Revisiting the Classical Romance: Pride and Prejudice, Bridget Jone's Diary and Bride and Prejudice." In ''Gendered (Re)Visions: Constructions of Gender in Audiovisual Media'', 23-44. Göttingen, Germany: V&R, 2010. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VWcRp0Xy41IC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA23#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Hale, Elizabeth. : "Long-Suffering Professional Females: The Case of Nanny Lit." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 103-118.

;Harzewski, Stephanie. 2004. : "'Chick Lit' and the Urban Code Heroine: Interview Symposium with Caren Lissner, Melissa Senate, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, and Jennifer Weiner." In ''Voces de América/American Voices: Entrevistas a escritores americanos/Interviews with American Writers,''. Cádiz, Spain: Aduana Vieja, 2004. 689-719.

;Harzewski, Stephanie. : "Tradition and Displacement in the New Novel of Manners." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 29–46.

;Harzewski, Stephanie. : "The new novel of manners: Chick lit and postfeminist sexual politics" (January 1, 2006). Dissertations available from ProQuest. Paper AAI3225468. [Abstract http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI3225468]

;Harzewski, Stephanie. : ''Chick Lit and Postfeminism.'' Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011.

;Hedrick, Tace. : ''Chica Lit: Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century''. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2015. [https://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=36578 Details and excerpt]

;Henry, Astrid. : “Orgasms and Empowerment. ''Sex and the City'' and the Third Wave Feminism.” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 65-82.

;Hewett, Heather. : "You Are Not Alone: The Personal, the Political and the 'New' Mommy Lit." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 119-140.

;Horrocks, Clare. : "Tart Noir: Chicklit with Criminal Balls." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 59-64. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]



;Hurst, Rochelle. : “The Barrister’s Bedmate: Harlequin Mills & Boon and the Bridget Jones Debate.” ''Australian Feminist Studies'' 24.62 (2009): 453-468. [Feminist critique of Harlequin Mills & Boons (especially a selection by [[Emma Darcy]]) and comparison with Helen Fielding's ''Bridget Jones'' novels. For a discussion of why many aspects of this essay's methodology are troubling, from an academic perspective, see [http://www.readreactreview.com/2010/02/10/feminist-critique-of-romance-ur-doin-it-wrong/ this article by Jessica at ''Read React Review'']].

;Hurt, Erin. 2009. : "Trading Cultural Baggage for Gucci Luggage: The Ambivalent Latinidad of Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's "The Dirty Girls Social Club.." ''MELUS'' 34, no. 3: 133-153.

;Hurt, Erin (ed.) 2018. : ''Theorizing Ethnicity and Nationality in the Chick Lit Genre''. Routledge. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=unx0DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Isbister, Georgina C. : "Chick Lit: A Postfeminist Fairy Tale." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/isbister.html]

==J-L==

;Jermyn, Deborah. : “In Love with Sarah Jessica Parker: Celebrating Female Fandom and Friendship in ''Sex and the City''.” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 201-217.

;Jermyn, Deborah. : ''Sex and the City''. Detroit: Wayne State Press, 2009.

;Johnson, Joanna Webb. : "Chick Lit Jnr.: More Than Glitz and Glamour for Teens and Tweens." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 141-158.

;Kaminski, Melissa J. and Robert G. Magee. : "Does This Book Make Me Look Fat?: The Effect of Protagonist Body Weight and Body Esteem on Female Readers' Body Esteem." ''Body Image'' (2012). [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2012.10.009 Abstract]

;Kent, Paula Rachel. 2007. : '' Think pink and high heels: women and beauty as represented in chick lit novels.'' Thesis (M.A.) Stephenville, Tex: Tarleton State University. [http://gradworks.umi.com/14/55/1455093.html Abstract]

;Kiernan, Anna. : "No Satisfaction: ''Sex and the City'', ''Run Catch Kiss'', and the Conflict of Desires in Chick Lit's New Heroines." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 207-218.

;Knowles, Joanne. : "Editorial." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 3-4. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Knowles, Joanne. : "Material Girls: Location and Economics in Chicklit Fiction, Or, How Singletons Finance Their Jimmy Choo Collections." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 37-42. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Knowles, Joanne. 2008. : "'Our foes are almost as many as our readers': debating the worth of women's reading and writing--the case of chick-lit." ''Popular Narrative Media'' 1.2 (2008): 217-231.

;Kohli, Joy. : ''Governing Women’s Sexuality in “Sex and the City”: Pleasure, Relationships And Reproduction''. Ann Arbor: Proquest, 2008.

;Konchar Farr, Cecilia. : "It Was Chick Lit All Along: The Gendering of a Genre." ''You've Come A Long Way Baby: Women, Politics, and Popular Culture''. Ed. Lilly J. Goren. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. 201-214. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=G132LEhM4ucC&lpg=PA208&pg=PA201#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Leffler, Yvonne. : "Chick Lit as Healing and Self-Help Manual?" ''Culture, Health, and Religion at the Millennium: Sweden Unparadised'', Ed. Marie Demker, Yvonne Leffler and Ola Sigurdson. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 155-182. [http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9781137472236.0008 Excerpt]

;Lenz, Christian. : ''Geographies of Love: The Cultural Spaces of Romance in Chick- and Ladlit''. PhD thesis, TU Dortmund University, 2014. Verlag 2016. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rrgADAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Lerman, Amy S. : “Jane Green and the Contemporary ‘Singleton’: Why Women Can Laugh at their Bachelorette Predicaments.” ''The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference''. Ed. Leslie Fife. 1285-1298.

;Lim, Megan S.C., Margaret E. Hellard and Danielle Horyniak. : "Safe Sex in Chick Lit: a ‘Novel’ Analysis of Sexual Health References in Popular Women’s Fiction. ''Sexual Health''. Online first, 27 July 2018. [https://doi.org/10.1071/SH18017 Abstract]

==M-O==

;Mabry, A. Rochelle. : "About a Girl: Female Subjectivity and Sexuality in Contemporary 'Chick' Culture." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 191-206.

;Markle, Gail. : “Can Women Have Sex Like a Man? Sexual Scripts in Sex and the City.” ''Sexuality and Culture'' 12 (2008): 45-57.

;Mathew, Imogen Louise. : "‘The Pretty and the Political Didn’t Seem to Blend Well’: Anita Heiss’s Chick Lit and the Destabilisation of a Genre", ''JASAL: Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature'' 15.3 (2015). [https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/JASAL/article/view/10575 Abstract and pdf].

;Mathew, Imogen. : "Educating the Reader in Anita Heiss’s Chick Lit." ''Contemporary Women's Writing'' (2016). First published online: July 31, 2016. [http://cww.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/07/31/cww.vpw019.extract# Excerpt]

;Mazza, Cris. : "Who's Laughing Now? A Short History of Chick Lit and the Perversion of a Genre." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 17-28.

;Mazza, Cris. 2000. : "Editing Postfeminist Fiction: Finding the Chic in Lit." ''Symplokē: A Journal for the Intermingling of Literary, Cultural and Theoretical Scholarship'' 8, no. 1-2: 101-112.

;Merck, Mandy. : “Sexuality in the City.” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 48-62.

;Missler, Heike. : ''The Cultural Politics of Chick Lit: Popular Fiction, Postfeminism and Representation''. New York: Routledge, 2017. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mVtuDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Moody, Nickianne. : "Empathy and Irony in the Soundtrack to Chicklit." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 52-58. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Morrison, Amanda Maria. 2010. : "Chicanas and 'Chick Lit': Contested Latinidad in the Novels of Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 43, no. 2: 309-329.

;Nelson, Ashley. : “Sister Carrie meets Carrie Bradshaw: Exploring Progress, Politics and the Single Woman in ''Sex and the City'' and Beyond.” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 83-95.

;Newns, Lucinda, 2017. : "Renegotiating romantic genres: Textual resistance and Muslim chick lit." ''Journal of Commonwealth Literature''. Online first. 1-17. [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0021989416686156 Abstract]

;Ommundsen, Wenche. 2008. : "From China with Love: Chick Lit and the New Crossover Fiction." In ''China Fictions-English Language: Literary Essays in Diaspora, Memory, Story,''. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi. 327-345

;Ommundsen, Wenche. 2011. : "Sex and the Global City: Chick Lit with a Difference." ''Contemporary Women's Writing'' 5.2: 107-124. [http://cww.oxfordjournals.org/content/5/2/107.extract Abstract]

;Oria, Beatriz, 2012. : “’Just Say Yes’: the Romanticisation of Love in ''Sex and the City'',” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2012/10/just-say-yes-the-romanticisation-of-love-in-sex-and-the-city-by-beatriz-oria/]

==P-R==

;Pérez-Serrano, Elena. : "Chick Lit and Marian Keyes: The ideological background of the genre." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/perezserrano.html]

;Perez-Serrano, Elena. 2009. : "Growing Old Before Old Age: Ageing in the Fiction of Marian Keyes." ''Educational Gerontology'' 35, no. 2: 135-145.

;Regules, Anne E. 2006. : ''Working women re-working the romance: chick-lit from Kate Chopin to Jennifer Weiner and Sex and the City.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of Texas at San Antonio.

;Ross, Sharon Marie. : “Talking Sex: Comparison Shopping through Female Conversation in HBO’s ''Sex and the City''.” ''The Sitcom Reader: America Viewed and Skewed''. Eds. Mary M. Dalton and Laura Linder. New York: State University of NY Press, 2005. 111-122.

;Rowntree, Margaret, Nicole Moulding and Lia Bryant, 2012. : "Feminine Sexualities in Chick Lit." ''Australian Feminist Studies'', Volume 27, Issue 72: 121-137. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08164649.2012.648259 Abstract]

;Ryan, Mary, 2009. : ‘What a Way to Make a Living: Irish Chick Lit and the Working World.’ ''MP: An Online Feminist Journal'' 2.5: 27-41.[http://academinist.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Chick_Ryan.pdf]

;Ryan, Mary, 2010. : "Trivial or Commendable? : Women's Writing, Popular Culture, and Chick Lit." ''452F Journal of Comparative Literature'' 3 (July 2010): 70-84.[http://www.452f.com/en/mary-ryan.html]

;Ryan, Mary, 2010. : "Stepping Out from the Margins: Ireland, Morality, and Representing the ‘Other’ in Irish Chick Lit." ''Nebula: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship'' 7.3: 137-149.[http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/Ryan.pdf]

;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : “The Bodies of Chick Lit: Positive Representations of the Female Body in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction.” ''Inquire: A Journal of Comparative Literature'' 1.1 [http://inquire.streetmag.org/articles/13]

;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : “Then and Now: Memories of a Patriarchal Ireland in the Work of Marian Keyes.” ''452°F Journal of Comparative Literature'' 4: 110-130.[http://www.452f.com/en/ryan.html]

;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : "Ending the Silence: Representing Women’s Reproductive Lives in Irish Chick Lit." ''Nebula: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship'' 8.1: 209-224.[http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/Ryan3.pdf]

;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : ‘Amongst Women: Male Romance Authors and Irish Chick Lit Author, Andrew O’Connor’, ''The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture'' 1.2: 209-225. [http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=11989/ Abstract]

==S-U==

;Santaemilia, J. 2008. : The translation of sex-related language: The danger(s) of self-censorship(s). ''TTR: Traduction, Terminologie et Redaction'' 21, (2): 221-252

;Sellei, Nora. : "Bridget Jones and Hungarian Chick Lit." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 173-188.

;Smith, Caroline J. 2005. : "Living the Life of a Domestic Goddess: Chick Lit's Response to Domestic-Advice Manuals." ''Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal'' 34, no. 8: 671-699.

;Smith, Caroline J. 2007. : "The Girls' Guide to Creating Community: Analyzing Reading Communities in Chick Lit." In ''Narratives of Community: Women's Short Story Sequences,''. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2007. 352-371.

;Smith, Caroline J. : ''Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit''. New York: Routledge, 2008. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XDACykiKvL8C&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Smyczyńska, Katarzyna. : "Commitment Phobia and Emotional Fuckwittage: Postmillennial Constructions of Male 'Other' in Chicklit Novels." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 29-36. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Smyczyńska, Katarzyna. : ''The World According to Bridget Jones: Discourses of Identity in Chicklit Fictions''. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2007.

;Spencer, Lynda Gichanda, 2014. : "Writing Women in Uganda and South Africa: Emerging Writers from Post-Repressive Regimes." PhD Thesis, Stellenbosch University, April 2014. [http://scholar.sun.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10019.1/86251/spencer_writing_2014.pdf PDF] [See Chapter 3, which "explores how Goretti Kyomuhendo, Zukiswa Wanner and Angela Makholwa and Cynthia Jele embrace chick lit as a form of writing that allows them to reflect on the lived realities of women."]

;Tangney, ShaunAnne. 2008. : "Chick Lit Matters: From Femme Covert to Fendi, Feminine Fiction Provides Feminist Critique." In ''Honoring Human Herstory: A Celebration of Women's Heritage,''. Minot, ND: Minot State University, 2008. 49-63.

;Taylor, Anthea. 2011. : ''Single Women in Popular Culture: The Limits of Postfeminism.''New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [See in particular Chapter 3: "Spinsters and Singletons: ''Bridget Jones's Diary'' and its Cultural Reverberations"]

;Thoma, Pamela. : "Romancing the Self and Negotiating Consumer Citizenship in Asian American Labor Lit." ''Contemporary Women's Writing'' 2013. [http://cww.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/03/26/cww.vps036.extract# Excerpt]

;Umminger, Alison. : "Supersizing Bridget Jones: What's Really Eating the Women in Chick Lit." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 239-252.

==V-Z==

;Van Slooten, Jessica Lyn. : "Fashionably Indebted: Conspicuous Consumption, Fashion, and Romance in Sophie Kinsella's ''Shopaholic'' Trilogy." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 219-238.

;Veseljević Jerković, Selma. : "Mad about the Boy: The Phenomenon of Fictional Autobiography." ''Društvene i humanističke studije'' 4.2(8): 89-102. [http://www.dhs.ff.untz.ba/index.php/home/article/view/268 Abstract] [http://www.dhs.ff.untz.ba/index.php/home/article/download/268/204 pdf]

;Wells, Juliette. : "Mother of Chick Lit? Women Writers, Readers, and Literary History." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 47-70.

;Whelehan, Imelda. : ''Overloaded: Popular Culture and the Future of Feminism''. London: The Women’s Press Ltd., 2000. [Looks at various aspects of popular culture: men's magazines (''Loaded'', ''Maxim'', ''GQ''); TV shows (''Ally McBeal'', ''Sex in the City'', ''Men Behaving Badly'') and novels (''Bridget Jones' Diary'').]

;Whelehan, Imelda. : ''Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary: A Reader’s Guide''. New York: Continuum, 2002. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SN8iV7A7ZqkC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Whelehan, Imelda. : "Sex and the Single Girl: Helen Fielding, Erica Jong and Helen Gurley Brown." ''Essays and Studies 2004: Contemporary British Women Writers.'' Ed. Emma Parker. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2004.

;Whelehan, Imelda. : "High Anxiety: Feminism, Chicklit And Women In The Noughties." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 5-11. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Whelehan, Imelda. : "Teening Chick Lit?" ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/whehelan.html]

Scholarship in Languages Other than English

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Dissertation Abstracts

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[[category:Romance Resources]][[category:Romance Scholarship]]
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* [[:Category:Academics Who Write Romance|Academics Who Write Romance]]
* [[Academic Online Essays (not published in academic journals or volumes)]]
* [[Autobiographies and Biographies of Romance Authors]]
* '''Bibliography'''
** [[Bibliography A-C]] - the first part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
** [[Bibliography D-G]] - the second part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
** [[Bibliography H-L]] - the third part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
** [[Bibliography M-O]] - the fourth part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
** [[Bibliography P-S]] - the fifth part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
** [[Bibliography T-Z]] - the final part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
* [[Scholarship in Languages Other than English|Bibliography of Scholarship in Languages Other than English]].
* [[Guides to the Genre]]
* '''Romance in the Media''' - lists news items/features items about romance.
** [[Romance in the Media A-I]]
** [[Romance in the Media J-Z]]
* [[Romance Resources for Academics|Romance Resources for Academics]] - lists romance-related resources which may be of interest to academics.
* [[Writers on Romance]] - lists items written about the genre by romance authors but not published in academic journals or books.

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Some of the items listed below are freely available online, but most are not. More details for many of them are available via the [http://www.proquest.com/en-US/catalogs/databases/detail/pqdt.shtml ProQuest Database] but this is accessible only by subscription.

;Abdullah-Poulos, Layla, 2016. : “Muslim Love American Style: Islamic-American Hybrid Culture and Native-Born American Black Muslim Romance.” MA thesis, SUNY Empire State College, 2016.[https://search.proquest.com/openview/6bf792f06a331a24ef39d4809d964ef9/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y Excerpt]

;Adams, Kathleen Barzun, 2003. : ''Thirty years of change : heroes, heroines, and the popular romance.'' Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity College.

;Achieng’, Okang’a Nancy, 2017. : "A Cosmopolitan National Romance: A Study of ''In Dependence'' by Sarah Ladipo Manyika." MA thesis, Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.[http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10539/23823/Title%20A%20Cosmopolitan%20National%20Romance-1.pdf?sequence=2] [About an African novel which it seems might or might not be a romance, depending on how one defines "African romance" (since the author argues that African romance is more expansive than the US definition).]

;Al-Bataineh, Afaf Badr, 1998. : "The modern Arabic novel: a literary and linguistic analysis of the genre of popular fiction, with special reference to translation from English." Ph.D., Heriot-Watt.[http://hdl.handle.net/10399/1233] [From the abstract at the "Index to Theses" website: "critical insights should enable us to form an overall picture of how the subject of my case study (Mills & Boon and its translation into Arabic) is viewed in the languages and cultures concerned: this particular genre has not been acceptable to the Western literary establishment until recently, and is not acceptable to the Arabic critical establishment even today. [...] Chapter Eight presents a detailed analysis of a Mills & Boon novel in English and its translation into Arabic."]

;Allport, Tanya, 1988. : ''Female journeys :the place of Jane Eyre and "Mills and Boon" in the search for women's existential space.'' Thesis (MA--English)--University of Auckland.

;Anderton, Gretchen E., 2009. : ''Excitement, adventure, indifference: Romance readers' perceptions of how romance reading impacts their sex lives''. Ed.D., Widener University, 2009 , 165 pages; AAT 3383833

;Araujo, Gail, 2009. : ''Living to read romance: The transformative potential of interpretive practice in romance reading.'' M.A., California State University, Fullerton. [http://gradworks.umi.com/14/78/1478345.html Abstract].

;Avila, Debbie Maria, 2005. : "The Romance Novel of the 1930s and 1940s in Spain and Portugal: The Cases of Carmen de Icaza and Alice Ogando." U of California Irvine (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 66.7:2572)

;Backman, Nelina Esther, 1999. : "Evangelism Embarrassed: Christian Literature in a post-Christian Culture." Ph.D. dissertation, Brown University, United States -- Rhode Island. Publication No. AAT 9932368. [Includes some discussion of "contemporary evangelical romance fiction."]

;Balducci, Federica. 2011. : ''A Different Shade of Pink: Literary Thresholds and Cultural Intersections in Italian Chick Lit''. A thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Italian. [http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/1929] [See the section on 'Italian popular romance: ''romanzo rosa'' and its evolution', pp. 67-83.]

;Barletta, Sandra Anne, 2008. : ''A first kiss is still a first kiss: romancing the mid-life reader and heroine : A basic renovation.'' Thesis (M.A.(Research))--Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 2008. [http://eprints.qut.edu.au/19205/ Abstract and link to pdf]. [Pages 1-29 are analysis of "a neglected demographic of reader and heroine who are marginalised within the romance genre. As well, it gives reasons why heroines need not be characterised in particular roles or situations as they age, and a rationale for why their underrepresentation as romance heroines should end." ''A Basic Renovation'' is a romance novel written by Barletta and included in the thesis which was "Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Creative Writing (romance)."]

;Barletta, Sandra A., 2014. : ''Cougars, Grannies, Evil Stepmothers, and Menopausal Hot Flashers: Roles, Representations of Age, and the Non-traditional Romance Heroine.'' PhD thesis in Creative Writing and Literary Studies, Queensland University of Technology. [http://eprints.qut.edu.au/72686/3/Sandra_Barletta_Thesis.pdf]

;Barra, Andrea Cipriano, 2014. : ''Beyond the Bodice Ripper: Innovation and Change in the Romance Novel Industry''. PhD dissertation in Sociology, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. [https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/45202/ Abstract and link to pdf]

;Benjamin, Sarah, 1999. : "The Theory of 'Identity Dissonance': Mass Communication, Romance Fiction, and the Self-Concept." M.A. dissertation, York University (Canada), Canada. Publication No. AAT MQ43370.[http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq43370.pdf]

;Beyer, Jennifer Ann Perry, 2000. : ''The romance novel revolution :a study of criticisms and readers.'' Thesis (M.A.)--Bemidji State University.

;Billekens, F.G.W., 2019. : ''Never Mind Me When There's You: The Submission Of The Heroine In YA Supernatural Romance Fiction'', Bachelor's Thesis, Utrecht University. [https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/377634 Abstract and link to pdf]

;Blanding, Cristen, 2005. : ''Interracial romance novels and the resolution of racial difference.'' Thesis (M.A.)--Bowling Green State University. [http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1131365873 Abstract and PDF]

;Böhmová, Petra, 2012. : "Contemporary American Christian Fiction: Young and Rivers." Diploma thesis, Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Education, Department of English Language and Literature. [http://is.muni.cz/th/385552/pedf_m/Petra_Bohmova-diplomova_prace.pdf] [One of the novels discussed is Francine Rivers' ''Redeeming Love''.]

;Brasileiro Neves, 2014. : "ROMANCES DE BOLSO: A novela romântica da Harlequin Books no mercado editorial brasileiro", Trabalho de pesquisa de mercado apresentado ao Departamento de Comunicação Social, da Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, como requisito para a obtenção do grau de bacharelado em Publicidade e Propaganda, Recife. [https://www.academia.edu/11331340/ROMANCES_DE_BOLSO_A_NOVELA_ROM%C3%82NTICA_DA_HARLEQUIN_BOOKS_NO_MERCADO_EDITORIAL_BRASILEIRO]

;Breeden, Amanda L., 2007. : ''Neo romance :gender renegotiation in Harlequin romance novels.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of Northern Iowa.

;Bryson, Mary, 2004. : ''Public Library Services to the Romance Reader: An Online Survey of Romance Readers''. A Master’s paper for the M.S. in L.S. degree - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. May, 2004. [http://ils.unc.edu/MSpapers/2979.pdf]

;Buckley, Julia, 2010. : "The Door To Wonderland: How Mary Stewart’s Literary Voice Influenced 20th Century Romantic Suspense." MA thesis, Elmhurst College.[http://ojsserv.dom.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/192]

;Bun, Jennifer C., 2007. : "The Effects of Romance Novel Readership on Relationship Beliefs, Romantic Ideals, and Relational Satisfaction." Honors Thesis - Boston College. [http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/communication/meta-elements/pdf/thesis07.bun.pdf Full text]

;Burge, Amy, 2012. : "Desiring the East: A Comparative Study of Middle English Romance and Modern Popular Sheikh Romance." PhD thesis, University of York. [Abstract and pdf available [http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3121/ here].]

;Burley, Stephanie Carol., 2003. : "Hearts of Darkness: The Racial Politics of Popular Romance." U of Maryland, College Park (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 64.6: 2082)

;Burnside, Mary Elizabeth, 1996. : "The novels of Mills and Boon in the post-war period." M.Phil., Hull.[http://library.hull.ac.uk/record=b1697392]

;Bywaters, Barbara Lee, 1989. :"'Re-reading Jane': Jane Austen's legacy to twentieth-century women writers'. PhD thesis. Bowling Green State University. [http://maurice.bgsu.edu/record=b1714503~S0 Details at BGSU library]. A short excerpt of this thesis seems to be available in ''Georgette Heyer: A Critical Retrospective''. Ed. Mary Fahnestock-Thomas. Saraland, AL: PrinnyWorld, 2001. 493-508.

;Capps, Stephanie Carol, 2017. :"What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs about Relationships". Master of Science thesis. University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 2017. [https://shareok.org/bitstream/handle/11244/50728/2017_Capps_Stephanie_Carol_Thesis.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y] [This seems very similar to an article with the same title published the next year. The primary author may have changed their lastname: http://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Faca0000189 ]

;Carmichael, Lynn P., 1985. "A Romantic Past: A Study of Historical Romance as a Form of Recreational Fiction in Public Libraries." M.A. thesis, South Australian Institute of Technology.

;Chappel, Deborah Kaye, 1992. : "American Romances: Narratives of Culture and Identity" Duke University, ''Dissertation Abstracts International''52 (8): 2923A-24A.

;Christian, Linda Kathryn. 1984.: "'Becoming a Woman through Romance: Adolescent Novels and the Ideology of Femininity'." U. of Wisconsin, Madison (''Dissertation Abstracts International: Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'') 45.5: 1282.

;Clawson, Laura, 1998. : "Covering genres: romance, science-fiction/fantasy, pleasure, and respectability." Thesis (B.A., Honors, American Studies, English)--Wesleyan University, 1998. Special Collections: Wesleyan (Thesis), Call Number: 1998 C617 ["my senior honors thesis at Wesleyan was about romance and sci-fi, and how academics tended to treat sci-fi as literature and romances as a cultural phenomenon to be explained." (from [http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/index.php/weblog/comments/interview-with-laura-clawson-daily-kos-contributing-editor/ an interview at Smart Bitches Trashy Books]) ]

;Close, Lisa. 2008. : ''Functional analysis of the contemporary folkloric vampire.'' Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of English, 2008. [References Nora Roberts' Circle Trilogy: see abstract in [http://primofe1.byu.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?ct=display&doc=byu_unicorn4154044&indx=2&frbg=&dum=true&vid=byu-cl&vl(13550901UI0)=any&vl(172369922UI1)=all_items&srt=rank&indx=1&dstmp=1278574032499&tab=default_tab&ct=search&scp.scps=scope%3A(simpledl)%2Cscope%3A(LEE)%2Cscope%3A(BYU)%2Cscope%3A(LAW)%2Cscope%3A(byugle)%2Cscope%3A(Unicorn_online)%2Cscope%3A(CONTENTdm)%2Cscope%3A(JUV)%2Cscope%3A(SPEC)%2Cscope%3A(INTERNET)%2Cscope%3A(SWKT)%2Cscope%3A(SLC)%2Cscope%3A(LEELRC)%2Cscope%3A(MUSIC)%2Cscope%3A(saskia)%2Cscope%3A(CONTENTdm2)&vl(freeText0)=close%20lisa&fn=search&mode=Basic&dscnt=0 Brigham Young University library's catalog].]

;Coddington, Lynn, 1997. : "Romance and Power: Writing Romance Novels as a Practice of Critical Literacy." Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, United States -- California. Publication No. AAT 9803158.

;Colemnero, Laura Elizabeth, 1999. : "The social construction of gender as represented in popular fiction, 1990-1997." Ph.D. dissertation, South Dakota State University, Publication No. AAT 9924280. [Includes analysis of [[Johanna Lindsey]]'s ''[[Gentle Rogue]]''.]

;Collier, Kathryn (Kizzi), 2018. : "My Chemical Erotic Romance: A Deeper Look into Women’s Lustful Fantasies." A Division III Project, Hampshire College.[https://dspace.hampshire.edu/bitstream/10009/1058/1/Division%20III%20Final%21%20.pdf]

;Cortesi, Taylor D., 2013. : "'Traitorous Bodies': Cartesian Dualism in Romance Novels by Susan Johnson and E. L. James." M. Lit. thesis, Texas State University - San Marcos. [https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/4554 Abstract and link to pdf].

;Davis, Mary Louise, 1986. : 'Romances and the Modern Ms.: a Study of Contemporary (Line) Romances, 1980-1984.' Ph.D. diss., University of Southern California.(''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A:The Humanities and Social Sciences)'' 47.11, p. 4108.

;Davis, Storme G. 2008. : ''Nora Roberts: descendant of Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë?'': a thesis presented to the faculty of the Graduate School, Tennessee Technological University. Thesis (M.A.)--Tennessee Technological University, 2008.

;DiVisconte, Jessica, 2009. : ''The Recession and Its Effect on the Romance Genre''. Master of Science in Publishing. Paper 16. Dyson College of Arts & Sciences, Pace University. [http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/dyson_mspublishing/16 Abstract and link to pdf.]

;Donalson, Tara A., 2005. : ''The Parody of Romance.'' MA Thesis, Graduate School of The University of Texas at Arlington. ["I look at the parallel formulas found in secular and inspirational romance fiction, searching how inspirational romance evangelizes and gives spiritual instruction to its readers."] [http://dspace.uta.edu/handle/10106/410 Abstract and link to pdf.]

;Downey, Kristin, 2005. : "Irony, Ideology, and Resistance: The Amazing Double Life of Harlequin Presents", McMaster University, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 66.10:3640.

;Dryden, Therese Michelle, 2011. : "Bachelor Dad on Her Doorstep." MPhil Thesis, University of Newcastle (Australia). [This dissertation is in two parts: the first has been published as ''Bachelor Dad on Her Doorstep'', "a Harlequin Mills & Boon Sweet Romance" under the pseudonym "Michelle Douglas" and is therefore not available online. The "accompanying exegesis discusses the conventions and constraints of the popular romance genre. It explores the challenges presented to a writer in creating and maintaining emotional intensity in a popular genre romance and the need to provide a satisfying and credible ending to that romance" and it can be downloaded from [http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/920190 here].]

;Dummer, Kathleen Ann. 1990. : ''A study of character development of main characters in young adult category romance literature.'' Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wyoming.

;Dunnion, Janne May, 1997. : ''Mapping Normalcy: Romance and the Postmodern Body'', MA thesis, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the Univesity of Toronto. ["The main focus of this thesis is an examination of the constitution of the female body within the location of popular culture, specifically Harlequin Enterprises and popular romance novels."] [http://hdl.handle.net/1807/11494 Details and link to pdf]

;Elliott, Margaret A., 1996. : 'The Librarian's Stereotyped Image in Romance Novels, 1980-1995: Has the Image Changed?', Master's Research Paper, Kent State University. ERIC Document ED401924. [http://eric.ed.gov:80/ERICWebPortal/detail?accno=ED401924 Abstract] and [http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED401924 PDF]

;English, Jessica, 2017. : “Reading the Romance: Through the Eyes of a Millenial Feminist.” Masters Thesis. Eastern Washington University. [http://dc.ewu.edu/theses/456/]

;Faust, Meredith S., 2010. : ""Love of the purest kind": Heteronormative rigidity in the homoerotic fiction of Ann Herendeen" (2010). Theses and Dissertations. Paper 41. MA thesis from DePaul University. [http://via.library.depaul.edu/etd/41 Details] and [http://via.library.depaul.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=etd PDF].

;Fekete, Maleah, 2016. : "Social Differences in Taste: Investigating Romance Reading." 2016 SURF Conference Proceedings [This is a conference paper but outlines the direction of a larger project. The student has a supervisor.][http://escholarship.org/uc/item/28f1q2d7]

;Fenty, Linda D. 1987. : "A Comparative Analysis of Female Role Models in Selected Contemporary Teen Romances." Auburn University (''Dissertation Abstracts International'') 48, no. 8: 2007A-2007A. [http://aubiecat.auburn.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=629918 Auburn University Library Catalog details].

;Fera-VanGent, Tania, 2005: 'Popular Romance Novels: Seeking out the 'Sisterhood'." M.A. diss., Brock University (Canada).[https://dr.library.brocku.ca/jspui/bitstream/10464/1379/1/Brock_Fera-VanGent_Tania_2007.pdf]

;Flesch, Juliet, 2001. : ''From Australia with love :Australian romance novels, 1950-2000. '' Thesis (Ph.D)--Dept. of History (Women's Study), University of Melbourne.

;Fletcher, Lisa, 2002. : '' I love you :historical romance fiction and heterosexuality.'' Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne.

;Funderburk, Amy, 2004. : ''Romance Collections in North Carolina Public Libraries: Are All Genres Treated Equally?'' A Master’s Paper for the M.S. in L.S. degree. - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April, 2004. [http://www.ils.unc.edu/MSpapers/2934.pdf]

;Gardner, Dora Abigail, 2019. : 'Defending the Bodice Ripper', MA thesis, Eastern Kentucky University. [https://search.proquest.com/openview/20dec25c37b36e929b647b84b6b0bd49/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y Excerpt]

;Garza, Raquel M, ???? (possibly 2011). : ''“Don’t tell me I don’t know what Love is”: A Comparative Study on Heterosexual and Homosexual Romance Novels'' Longwood University, [probably submitted as part of a Bachelor's degree in Communication Studies with a concentration in Public Relations and Organizational Communication]. [https://workstory.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/508208/FINAL_Thesis_original.doc]

;Geib, Aleta Esther. 1986. : ''Changing heroes: depictions of the male sex role in category romance novels, 1976-1983.'' Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio State University.

;Genz, Carole, 2005. : "Romance Revisited: Transformations of the Marital Love Triangle in Women’s Fictions." PhD thesis, University of Stirling, Department of English Studies.

;Gerlitz, Laura Michelle, 2019. : "Judging a Book By Its Cover: Bringing the Digital Humanities into Reader’s Advisory", MA thesis, Digital Humanities and Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta. ["This study sets out to examine recurring themes found on book wrappers published by Harlequin in their first seventeen years [1949-1968] [...]. The resulting patterns will be connected to reader’s advisory as appeal factors in successful book selection by readers."] [https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/f51462bd-47aa-48ae-8fe7-57db23a6019d/view/89cf31f4-04e7-40d8-ae68-1246d36134f9/Gerlitz_Laura_M_201903_MLISMA.pdf]

;Glennemeier, Jaelyn, 2018. : “And he was an Arab!:” Imperial Femininity and Pleasure in E. M. Hull's 1919 Desert Romance, ''The Sheik''', Honors thesis, University of Kansas. [https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/26639 Abstract and link to pdf].

;Goade, Sally Ann, 1999. : "'And With the Land, Our Spirits So Blended': Interrelated Frontier Quests of Self in Contemporary Historical Romance. A Study of Rosanne Bittner's 'Savage Destiny' series", Idaho State U, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 60.4:1132).

;Goris, An, 2011. : From Romance to Roberts and Back Again: genre, authorship and the construction of textual identity in contemporary popular romance novels." PhD thesis, University of Leuven. [https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/317472 Abstract and Index] [https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/317472/1/text+1-469.pdf Pdf]

;Gorry, April Marie, 1999. : "Leaving Home for Romance: Tourist Women's Adventures Abroad," PhD thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara.[http://anthro.vancouver.wsu.edu/media/PDF/romance.pdf] [This is an anthropology PhD but Chapter 5 (pages 195-240) presents "the results of a survey of 45 popular romance novels dating from 1977 to 1996 [...] it is principally intended to test the validity of findings generated by my field survey of romance tourism.]

;Gregor, Theresa Lynn, 2010. : ''From Captors to Captives: American Indian Responses to Popular American Narrative Forms''. Ph.D. thesis from University of Southern California. [Available from [http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll127/id/302844 here]. See the section on "''Savage Obsession'' and ''Dreamquest'': The Cultural Work of Contemporary Mass-Marketed American/Indian Romances," pages 175-186. Discusses novels by [[Cassie Edwards]] and [[Janet Wellington]].]

;Griffin, Linda Coleman, 1999. : "An Analysis of Meaning Creation through the Integration of Sociology and Literature: A Critical Ethnography of a Romance Reading Group." U of Houston, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'', 60.4: 1117.)

;Güvendi Yalçın, Elif, 2018. : "The Transformation of Romance Novels Based on the Theories of Sociologist Anthony Giddens," Istanbul Aydin University Institute of Social Sciences. [http://acikarsiv.aydin.edu.tr/handle/11547/1576?mode=full Abstract] [Based on analysis of "three medieval romances’s content— Walter Scott’s ''Ivanhoe'' (1920), Kathleen Woodowiss’ ''The Wolf and the Dove'' (1974), and Amanda Quick’s ''Mystique'' (1995)"]

;Hall, Glinda Fountain. 2008.: ''A genre of our own: the cultural work of women's popular romance fiction.'' Thesis (Ph. D.)--Arkansas State University. [http://dbellis.library.astate.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=547355 Catalogue record at Arkansas State University's library.]

;Hamlyn, Eleanor, 2014. : "Reading the Genre Codes in Giorgio Scerbanenco's Hybridised ''Romanzi Rosa''", A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Italian Studies, The University of Auckland. [https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/2292/23609/whole.pdf?sequence=2]

;Harlan, Kimber Leigh. 2005. : '' Romancing the reader: constructing a discursive and social female identity through romance novels.'' Thesis (M.A.) -- Tarleton State University. [Abstract available [http://gradworks.umi.com/14/36/1436377.html here] and [http://en.scientificcommons.org/32181902 here].]

;Harris, Patricia Marie, 1985. : ''The rhetorical vision of courtship in Harlequin Romances: a fantasy theme analysis.'' Thesis (M.A., Communication Studies)--California State University, Sacramento.

;Harrison, Rachel, 1980. : ''Women and Romantic Fiction: Subordination and Resistance''. Thesis (M.Litt) - University of Birmingham, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies.

;Hartmann, Britta U., 2014. : ''Island fictions : Castaways and imperialism''. PhD thesis, University of Tasmania. [http://eprints.utas.edu.au/22391/ Abstract] [Includes a chapter on "castaway romances" which focuses on 20th- and 21st-century novels by writers including Violet Winspear, Margery Hilton, Ginna Gray, Julie Tetel Andersen, Penelope Neri, Donna Simpson, Darlene Marshall, Jill Sharvis, Kandy Shepherd & Tracey Garvis Graves.]

;Harzewski, Stephanie, 2006. : "The new novel of manners: Chick lit and postfeminist sexual politics ." U of Pennsylvania, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'', 67.7:2573.)

;Heffernan, Joan-Mary, 1992. : ''Women's romantic fiction :a study of three New Zealand Mills and Boon authors.'' Dissertation (MA--English)--University of Auckland.

;Henderson, Courtney R.,2007. : "Ladies and Loners: A Comparative Gender Study of the Romance and Popular Western.' M.A. diss., The University of Texas at Arlington. [http://hdl.handle.net/10106/510 Abstract and full PDF] ["my focal texts for the romance genre are [[Johanna Lindsey]]’s ''Savage Thunder'' and Joan Johnston’s ''Frontier Woman''."]

;Heydt, Victoria, 2010. : "Stark naked: an analysis of eighteenth and twenty-first century romance novels." Washington College. [http://hdl.handle.net/10090/19085 Details]

;Hilton, Linda Ann Wheeler, 2000. : "Half Heaven, Half Heartache : Discovering the Transformative Potential in Women's Popular Fiction." A thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Honors College for the bachelor's degree, Arizona State University West. [http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4446146~S3 Details] [Published as a Kindle edition in 2011 - [http://www.amazon.com/Half-Heaven-Heartache-transformative-ebook/dp/B005MGBCZY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1315857987&sr=1-1 US], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Half-Heaven-Heartache-transformative-ebook/dp/B005MGBCZY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1315867417&sr=1-1 UK]]

;Hirsbrunner, A.R., 2000. : "Doomed to become heroines? Identification, women and fiction." Ph.D., Wales, Cardiff. ["The fear that readers will want to become like the main characters of novels they read has accompanied prose fiction throughout its history, 1970s feminists in particular were convinced that women were being duped into subscribing to patriarchal stereotypes by canonical or popular romances. The present study examines this topos. [...] fiction is not itself a fantasy, but can be used to confirm and refine a fantasy the reader already has. Romance thus contributes to a homogenisation of its females readers' fantasies, but cannot implant fantasies in subjects with different desires."] [http://library.cardiff.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v2=1&ti=1,1&SEQ=20100611101350&Search_Arg=Hirsbrunner&SL=None&Search_Code=NAME_&CNT=50&PID=Y78d0gX3xAH_gsUtC5Zukc9vQw&SID=1 Entry in Cardiff University's Library Catalogue.]

;Hodgson, Kathleen, 2006. : "The representation of the female hero in the romantic fiction of Mills & Boon." Thesis (MPhil.) - University of Reading, Institute of Education.

;Hubbard, Rita Cooper, 1982. : "Relationship Styles In Popular Romance Fiction: A Fantasy Theme Analysis Of Harlequin Romances, 1950-1979." (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 42.12:4973)

;Hughes, Helen Muriel, 1988. : "Changes In Historical Romance, 1890s To The 1980s: The Development Of The Genre From Stanley Weyman To Georgette Heyer And Her Successors." U Of Bradford (United Kingdom), (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 50.11: 3603)

;Hurley, Frances Kay., 1999. : "In the Words of Girls: The Reading of Adolescent Romance Fiction." Harvard U, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 60.6: 1946)

;Hutton-Jarvis, C.A., 1998. : "The educational potential of romantic fiction." PhD from University of Leeds. ["Romantic fiction was chosen as the focus for the case-study because of its capacity to stimulate women readers to make connections between their reading and their lives. Popular romances foreground issues which have particular implications for women's personal, social and economic situations. The case-study includes detailed textual analyses which illustrate the potential for using the romance as a vehicle for exploring such issues."]

;Jackson, Elaine, 2005. : "Riding the tosh horse: women writers of popular romance between the wars." Thesis (doctoral) - University of Birmingham, Department of English. [http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=2&uin=uk.bl.ethos.423625 British Library details] [From the abstract at the "Index to Theses" website: "Concentrating on three primary authors: E.M. Hull, Berta Ruck, and Marguerite Jervis (writing under pseudonyms Oliver Sandys and Countess Barcynska), this thesis examines the production and distribution of popular romance between the two World Wars. [...] Authors’ personal experiences of love and marriage are explored alongside the more public influences of editors, publishers, and literary agents. The relationship between authors and readers is also examined. This thesis demonstrates how the authors in question pioneered what we now recognize as a predominantly female romance genre [...] and that their oeuvre contribute substantially to the canon of women’s writing history."]

;Jagodzinski, Mallory Diane, 2010. : ''Of Bustles and Breeches: Cross-dressing Romance Novel Heroines and the Performance of Gender Ideology''. Master of Arts (MA) Thesis, Bowling Green State University, Popular Culture. [The thesis "examines three recent cross-dressing romance novels: ''The Spy'' by [[Celeste Bradley]]; ''Duchess By Night'' by [[Eloisa James]]; and ''Almost a Gentleman'' by [[Pam Rosenthal]]." [http://etd.ohiolink.edu/view.cgi/Jagodzinski%20Mallory%20Diane.pdf?bgsu1276724423 Abstract and link to PDF].]

;Jagodzinski, Mallory, 2015. : ''Love is (Color) Blind: Historical Romance Fiction and Interracial Relationships in the Twenty-First Century''. PhD dissertation, Graduate College of Bowling Green State University. [This dissertation analyzes three historical romance novels — ''Secrets of a Scandalous Heiress'' by Theresa Romain (2015), ''The Duke of Shadows'' by Meredith Duran (2008) and ''The Heiress Effect by Courtney Milan'' (2013)][https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=bgsu1440101084&disposition=inline PDF]

;Janzen, Moira J. 1994. : ''Georgette Heyer's Regency romances: serious literature or popular fiction?'' Thesis (MA--English) -- University of Auckland

;Jensen, Margaret Ann, 1980. : "Women and romantic fiction a case study of Harlequin Enterprises, Romances and readers" (January 1, 1980). ETD Collection for McMaster University. Paper AAINK46885. [http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/opendissertations/3229/ Details and pdf here]. In her ''Love's $weet Return: The Harlequin Story'' (1984), Jensen describes that book as "the outgrowth of a doctoral dissertation I completed at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario" (11).]

;Jocks, Yvonne Annette, 1988. : “Adventure and Virtue: Alternating Emphasis in the Popular Romance Tradition.” Master’s thesis, University of Texas at Arlington. [Jocks writes romances under the pseudonym [[Evelyn Vaughn|Evelyn Vaughn]] ]

;Johnson, Naomi Ruth, 2007. : "Consuming Desires: A Feminist Analysis of Bestselling Teen Romance Novels". The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 68.11)

;Jossart, Deborah A. 2004. : ''Transforming the fairytale: a diachronic study of utopias of popular romance.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Dakota, 2004.

;Joyal, Amanda, 2012. : From Victorian literature to the romance novel: Disability and the courtship plot. M.A. thesis, University of Wyoming, AAT 1510201.

;Kamble, Jayashree, 2008. : "Uncovering and Recovering the Popular Romance Novel." PhD thesis from the University of Minnesota. AAT 3338954. [http://purl.umn.edu/47092 Details, Abstract] and [http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/47092/1/Kamble_umn_0130E_10108.pdf PDF]

;Kebadze, Nino, 2007. : "Fictions of Surrender: Romance and Exemplarity in Post-War Spanish Women's Narratives. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky, United States -- Kentucky. Publication No. AAT 3263682. [[http://gradworks.umi.com/32/63/3263682.html Abstract.] "The second part of this dissertation focuses on three novels by the best-selling authors of ''novelas rosa'' --Luisa-María Linares, Concha Linares-Becerra, and Carmen de Icaza." This has subsequently been published as a book by Tamesis.]

;Keegan, Faye Jessica, 2016. : "Soft metafiction(s) : Mary Stewart and the self-reflective middlebrow." Ph.D. thesis, University of Newcastle. [https://theses.ncl.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/10443/3474/1/Keegan%2C%20F.J.%202016.pdf Details and pdf].

;Kempf, Rachel Erin, 2015. : "Dirty Words: The Writing Process of 'Smutshop'." The University of Texas at Austin, Master of Fine Arts.[https://utexas-ir.tdl.org/bitstream/handle/2152/32463/KEMPF-MASTERSREPORT-2015.pdf?sequence=1 PDF] ["I worked at Siren-BookStop, Inc. for three years, cleaning up manuscripts and penning gay werewolf erotica [...] It was the best and worst job I’ve ever had — the best because I got paid to write and spend my workday making dirty jokes, and the worst because real sex isn’t porn sex, and real women aren’t romance heroines, and love and relationships are messy and complicated and when you spend all day boxing it into the confines of a highly formulaic genre, you’re bound to start getting some messed-up ideas about how your love life ought to be"]

;Kemppinen, Anne-Mari Katriina, 1988. : "Translating for popular literature with special reference to Harlequin books and their Finnish translations." University of Joensuu. [http://joecat.linneanet.fi/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SC=Author&SA=Kemppinen%2C%20Anne-Mari%20Katriina&PID=sTMe__AyvDhIajvkv16BgtNTTxe&BROWSE=1&HC=1&SID=4 Details copied from Joensuu University Library's online catalogue.]

;Khuankaew, Sasinee, 2015. : "Femininity and masculinity in three selected twentieth-century Thai romance fictions." Ph.D thesis, Cardiff University. [http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.665888 Abstract][http://orca.cf.ac.uk/76730/1/S%20Khuankaew%20PhD%20thesis.pdf Pdf]

;Kinard, Amanda Marette, 1999. : "Forbidden Pleasures: The Romance and Its Readers." Vanderbilt U.,(''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 59.12: 4424)

;Kirkland, Catherine, 1984. : "For The Love Of It: Women Writers And The Popular Romance." U of Pennsylvania, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 46.1:10.

;Klarich, Morgan L., 2012. : "Multiculturalism, Sex, and Powerful Women: The New Romance Novel as the Voice of Neofeminism?". MA Thesis, Dartmouth College, 97 pages; AAT 1510706. [http://gradworks.umi.com/15/10/1510706.html Abstract]

;Kloester, Jennifer V., 2004. : "[[Georgette Heyer]]: writing the Regency: history in fiction from ''Regency Buck'' to ''Lady of Quality'' 1935-1972." Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne, History Dept.

;Kolko, Beth E. “Writing the Romance: Cultural Studies, Community, and the Teaching of
Writing.” Ph.D. diss., University of Texas at Austin, 1994.

;Kramer, Devon J., 2010. : "Truth through the medium of cheerfulness: Romance novels as points of resistance." M.A., Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 2010 , 114 pages; AAT 1479123.

;Kusaeri, Akhmad, Dewi Candraningrum and Titis Setyabudi, 2015. : "Love Conflict Reflected in Jennifer Crusie's ''Anyone But You'' Novel (1996): Psychoanalytic Approach." School of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta. [http://eprints.ums.ac.id/34257/1/NASKAH%20PUBLIKASI.pdf]

;Lamprinou, Artemis, 2013. : "A Study on the Cultural Variations in the Verbalisation of Near-Universal Emotions: Translating Emotions from British English into Greek in Popular Bestseller Romances," PhD thesis, University of Surrey. [https://www.academia.edu/5354053/A_Study_on_the_Cultural_Variations_in_the_Verbalisation_of_Near-Universal_Emotions_Translating_Emotions_from_British_English_into_Greek_in_Popular_Bestseller_Romances_PhD_thesis Abstract]

;Larson, Christine, 2017. : “An Economy of Words: Precarity, Solidarity and Innovation in Digital Book Publishing.” PhD Diss., Stanford University. [According to Lois and Gregson (2018) "Larson’s dissertation (2017) comprises the only known examination of writers’ careers in the romance genre. Her 2014 survey examined 4,270 romance writers’ earnings over the previous eight years, comparing their incomes via traditional and self-publishing. She found that only approximately 20 percent of her sample earned above the U.S. median income through their writing."]

;Lessard, Victoria, 2017. : 'Marketing Desire: The "Normative/Other" Male Body and the "Pure" White Female Body on the Cover Art of Cassie Edwards' ''Savage Dream'' (1990), ''Savage Persuasion'' (1991), and ''Savage Mists'' (1992)', MA thesis, McGill University.[http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/webclient/StreamGate?folder_id=0&dvs=1520696109115~383]

;Liu, S.-h, 2012. : "The Translation/Mutation of Romantic Love: An Exploration of the Translation History of Modern Romances in Taiwan after 1960". PhD Thesis, National Taiwan Normal University. [http://www.airitilibrary.com/Publication/alDetailedMesh?docid=U0021-1610201315284770 Abstract]

;Lin, Fang-Mei, 1992. : "Social Change and Romantic Ideology: The Impact of the Publishing Industry, Family Organization, and Gender Roles on the Reception and Interpretation of Romance Fiction in Taiwan, 1960-1990." U of Pennysylvania (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'', 53.5:1675) [http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9227710/ Abstract]

;Lohmann, Jennifer, 2006. : " 'Beauty and the Beast' Themes in Romance Novels." A Master’s Paper for the M.S. in L.S degree. April, 2006. 41 pages. Advisor: Brian Sturm. A Master’s paper submitted to the faculty of the School of Information and Library Science of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Library Science. [http://etd.ils.unc.edu:8080/dspace/bitstream/1901/302/2/draft3.pdf]

;Lutz, Deborah, 2004. : "The Dangerous Lover and the Erotics of Failure: Nineteenth-century Byronism and the Contemporary Romance. Ph.D. dissertation, City University of New York, United States -- New York. Publication No. AAT 3127895. [Has since been published by Ohio State University Press - see the main bibliography for details.]

;Malloy, Audrey Miles, 2017. : "Remnants of the Bodice Ripper: How Consent is Characterized in Heterosexual and Lesbian Erotic Romance Novels." Bard College, Senior Projects Spring 2017, Bard Undergraduate Senior Projects. [http://digitalcommons.bard.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1088&context=senproj_s2017]

;Markert, John, 1984. : "Beyond Gatekeepers: Romance Publishing and the Production of Culture." Ph.D. dissertation in Sociology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. [http://discoverlibrary.vanderbilt.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?ct=display&doc=vanunicorn544260&indx=1&srt=rank&vl(freeText0)=markert%20john%20beyond%20gatekeepers&dum=true&mode=Basic&ct=search&vid=VANDERBILT&doc=vanunicorn544260&scp.scps=scope%3A(GMA)%2Cscope%3A(vanunicorn)%2Cscope%3A(tvnews)&frbg=&indx=1&fn=search&tab=default_tab Details in Vanderbilt University Library Catalogue.]

;Margolis, Ann, 2009. : "In Defense of Romantic Fiction" (2009). Master of Science in Publishing. Pace University, Dyson College of Arts & Sciences. [http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/dyson_mspublishing/10 Details and link to pdf].

;McAlister, Jodi Ann, 2015. : "Romancing the Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Popular Literature in the West". PhD thesis, Macquarie University, 2015. [https://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:44291]

;McKinley, Tracey Lynn, 2007. : 'The Female Quest: An Analysis of Archetypal Layering in Harlequin Presents.' M.Ed. diss., Queen's University (Canada).

; Michel, Anita, 1997. : ''Re-reading the (series) romance : toward a typology of recent series romance novels.'' Thesis (M.A.)--Bowling Green State University.

;Miguel, Donna De Silva, 2002. : ''Love conquers all :the rhetoric, culture, and appeal of the contemporary romance novel, and coming to terms with coming out of the closet.'' Thesis (M.A.)--New Mexico State University.

;Modleski, Tania. 1980. : "'Popular Feminine Narratives: A Study of Romances, Gothics, and Soap Operas'." Stanford U., (''Dissertation Abstracts International: Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'') 41.5: 2104-A.

;Moffitt, Mary Anne Smeltzer, 1990. : "Understanding Middle-Class Adolescent Leisure: A Cultural Studies Approach to Romance Novel Reading" U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (''Dissertation Abstracts International'' 51.4: 1035A)

;Moody, Stephanie Lee, 2013. : "Affecting Genre: Women's Participation with Popular Romance Fiction." Ph.D thesis. University of Michigan. [http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/99818/slmoody_1.pdf?sequence=1]

;Morrissey, Katherine, 2008. : ''Fanning the Flames of Romance: An Exploration of Fan Fiction and the Romance Novel''. MA Thesis, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University. [http://hdl.handle.net/1961/6198 Abstract] and [http://dspace.wrlc.org/dspace/bitstream/1961/6198/1/17_etd_kem82.pdf the thesis].

;Morrissey, Katherine, 2016. : ''Romance Networks: Aspiration & Desire in Today’s Digital Culture''. Theses and Dissertations. Paper 1179. Ph.D. thesi, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. [http://dc.uwm.edu/etd/1179 Abstract and link to download after June 06, 2018]

;Naber, Christine Marie, 1995. : "Rape myths are the theory--romance novels are the practice: The impact of exposure to images of women in popular culture, " U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'',57.4:2950). [http://hdl.handle.net/2142/18972 Abstract]

;Neal, Lynn S., 2003. : "Romancing God: Reading Evangelical Romance Novels." Ph.D. dissertation, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States -- North Carolina. Publication No. AAT 3086588. [Has since been published by the University of North Carolina Press - see the main bibliography for details.]

;Newton, Marlo Leigh. 1991. : ''Romancing the tome: the novels of Georgette Heyer.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of Melbourne

;Olivier, Séverine, 2009. : "Le roman sentimental. Productions contemporaines et pratiques de lecture.' Doctorat en Langues et lettres, Université Libre de Bruxelles. [http://theses.ulb.ac.be/ETD-db/collection/available/ULBetd-11132009-153019/ Abstract]

;O'Mahony, Lauren Kate, 2015. : "In Search of Feminist Romance in Australian 'Chick Lit'." Thesis presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of Murdoch University. [http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/25543/1/In_Search_of_Feminist_Romance_in____Australian_Chick_lit_PhD_Thesis_O%27Mahony.pdf]

;O'Neil, Kathryn M., 2016. : "Women's rhetoric and the romance novel genre." M.A. Thesis, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. [http://gradworks.umi.com/10/13/10134046.html Abstract]

;Omissi, Dominic, 1995. : "The Mills and Boon memsahibs: women's romantic Indian fiction 1877-1947." Ph.D., Lancaster. [http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.282386 British Library details.] [Abstract from the Index to Theses website: "This thesis examines the published written work of eleven different women. The material is principally in the form of romantic novels but short stories form a significant minority along with poetry, autobiography, history, and contemporary political comment. [...] All but one of the writers spent extended periods in India and numerous of their works have never been discussed in any critical work of which I am aware. [...] the current work challenges the dominant image of India, its climate, people and imperial significance, drawn from the writings of men like Kipling, Forster and Orwell. The study concludes that this image (which I call the canonical image) is utterly inappropriate when measured against the writings of these women. Their work is, I conclude, in certain important respects counter-canonical.]

;Owen, Mairead, 1990. : "Women's Reading of Popular Romantic Fiction: A Case Study in the Mass Media: A Key to the Ideology of Women." U. of Liverpool, (''Dissertation Abstracts International'' 52.8: 2745A) [http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.280340 Details and download available.]

;Paizis, George, 1986. : "'Reine ou esclave ... ' : conflicting images of women in the contemporary 'romantic novel' in France." Ph.D. Thesis, University of London. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53571849 Details]

;Parameswaran, Radhika E., 1998. : "Public Images, Private Pleasures: Romance Reading at the Intersection of Gender, Class, and National Identities in Urban India." U of Iowa, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 58.12:4485)

;Parv, Valerie, 2007. : "Healing Writes: Restorying the Authorial Self through Creative Practice : and ''Birthright'', a speculative fiction novel." Thesis for Master of Arts degree (by research), University of Queensland. [The novel is not available online, but [http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16646/2/Valerie_Parv_Exegesis.pdf the non-fiction section is] and [http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16646/ an abstract is also available].]

;Pearce, Elizabeth Florence, 2004. : "Reading the Lesbian Romance: Re-imagining Love, Sex, Relationships, and Community." Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Iowa, United States -- Iowa. Publication No. AAT 3139383. ["The core of the research emerged from the face-to-face, phone and e-mail conversations with readers of lesbian romance texts" and one section is "based on an examination of twenty-five lesbian romance novels."]

;Pylkkänen, Merita, 2013. : "Didactic Fulfillment and the Popular Romance: Jude Deveraux’s ''The Mulberry Tree''." MA thesis, University of Eastern Finland. [http://epublications.uef.fi/pub/urn_nbn_fi_uef-20130866/urn_nbn_fi_uef-20130866.pdf]

;Potter, J.E., 1998. : "Boys in khaki, girls in print: women's literary responses to the Great War 1914-1918", D.Phil., Oxford. ["This thesis explores the ways in which women interpreted the Great War as it happened and focuses on texts written and published between 1914 and 1918. [...] The romance novels discussed in Chapter Three follow a pattern in which the aspirations of heroes and heroines are thwarted - then fulfilled - by the events of the War. Such 'light entertainment' makes highly-charged claims for the regenerative power and the righteousness of Britain's sacrifice."] [This has since been published as a book.]

;Rampure, Archana, 2005. : "Doctors in the Darkness: Reading Race, Gender, and History in the Popular Medical Romance ", U of Toronto, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 66.10:3642) [http://search.proquest.com/docview/276475552 Abstract] and some [http://thehypelessromantic.com/2013/07/06/medical-romances-imperialism-nationalism-race-and-gender/ discussion/description here].

;Reed, Eleanor, 2018. : "Domestic Culture in ''Woman's Weekly'', 1918-1958", Doctoral thesis, Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Roehampton. [https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/files/1346863/Domestic_Culture_in_Woman_s_Weekly_1918_1958.pdf] ["This thesis [...] explores the domestic culture produced by the magazine between the end of the First World War in November 1918,and 1958." The "literary methodology for surveying periodical form [...] is based on romance, the genre to which the vast majority of ''Woman’s Weekly'' fiction printed during the period belongs" (2).]

;Rice, Linda. 2008. : ''Ambiguous love a reflection of self in relation to popular romance fiction.'' Darwin, N.T.: Iron Mountain. Thesis (M.A.)--Charles Darwin University

;Russell, Shanon, 2014. : "Dangerous Young Men: Themes of Female Sexuality and Masculinity in Paranormal Romance Novels for Young Adults." Masters Thesis. University of Ottawa.[https://ruor.uottawa.ca/bitstream/10393/31631/1/Russell_Shannon_2014_Thesis.pdf]

;Rutherford, Carina Lynn, 1999. : ''Wild dreams rooted in reality :an exploration of the Harlequin Mills & Boon novels of Daphne Clair.'' Thesis (MA--English)--University of Auckland.

;Sagun, Karryl Kim Abella, 2019. : ''Book Mavens of Manila : an interpretative phenomenological analysis of contemporary niche publishers in the Philippines''. Doctoral thesis,Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. [https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/bitstream/handle/10220/48072/SAGUNKKAS.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y Pdf] [I include this because it incorporates material from "three Wattpad self-publishers based in the Philippines: Mina V. Esguerra, Noreen Capili, and Kimberly Villanueva. All three agreed to be quoted verbatim, and to be referred to by name. They have all published both on electronic platforms (particularly Wattpad) and on print. They also share the same genre for their works: romance" (123)]

;Sandbakken, Asta Margrethe, 2016. : "Feeling Men: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Emotion in the Contemporary Romance." MA Thesis, University of Oslo.[https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/51997/Sandbakken_Master.pdf?sequence=1]

;Sanyal, Madhuparna, 2008. : "Re-imagining the late-colonial Anglo-Indian woman's romance: Reading Maud Diver." PhD dissertation, Drew University. AAT 3334864. [https://catalog.drew.edu/web2/tramp2.exe/authority_hits/A02ok5gn.004?server=1home&item=1 Details from Drew University Library]

;Savinainen, Raija, 2001. : ''Gender-specific features of male/female interaction in a popular romantic novel by Barbara Cartland''. University of Jyväskylä. [http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-2001867069 Details and link to pdf.]

;Shore, Zandra Lesley, 1999. : "Girls reading culture, autobiography as inquiry into teaching the body, the romance, and the economy of love." Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Education, University of Toronto. [Can be downloaded from [http://hdl.handle.net/1807/15698 the University of Toronto Library]. [See in particular Chapter Four, which mentions the work done on romance and romance readers by Radway, Snitow, Cohn, Christian-Smith and others.]

;Short, Christopher Brown, 1996. : "The history of romance illustration and the romance novel cover." Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Illustration in the Graduate School at Syracuse University. [http://summit.syr.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=1563900 Bibliographic Details]

;Smáradóttir, Helena María, 2006. : "Happily Ever-After: The Romance Reader's Individual Choice and Empowerment." B.A. thesis. University of Iceland.

;Smáradóttir, Helena María, 2009. : "Love as a Commodity: Brand-Name Romantic Fiction and its Readers. The Domain and Readership of Harlequin Enterprises, Both in Iceland and Abroad." Thesis submitted for a master's degree at the University of Iceland. Various sections [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/handle/1946/2789 available online]: [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/bitstream/1946/2789/8/ttur_fixed.pdf Summary], [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/bitstream/1946/2789/1/Efnisyfirlit_fixed.pdf Table of Contents], [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/bitstream/1946/2789/3/Inngangur_fixed.pdf Introduction], [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/bitstream/1946/2789/7/pd_fixed.pdf Conclusion], [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/bitstream/1946/2789/6/pd_fixed.pdf Works Cited], [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/bitstream/1946/2789/5/l_fixed.pdf Appendix]. Those wishing to read more of this thesis or the author's B.A. thesis may [mailto:helena@skipulag.com contact the author directly].

;Smith, William Clay Kinchen, 2002. : "Revising Captivity Narratives", U of Florida. [http://etd.fcla.edu/UF/UFE0000611/smith_w.pdf] [This thesis deals with many types of captivity narrative, but there are sections specifically about romances. In the chapter on works from the 1980s, there is a section on romance (341-354), and the chapter concerning the 1990s has a similar section (373-378). Romance authors whose works are discussed include [[Madeline Baker]], [[Karen A. Bale]], [[Cassie Edwards]], [[Fern Michaels]], [[Nan Ryan]] and [[Janelle Taylor]].]

;Sorenson, Tanya Lee, 2014. : "How Traditional is the Romance? Heroines, Stereotypes, and the Heterosexual Script." Senior Projects Spring 2014. Paper 339. Bard College. [http://digitalcommons.bard.edu/senproj_s2014/339 Abstract]

;Spears, Jessica D., 2018. : ''The Romance Novel Cover''. MA Thesis (Art History). City University of New York (CUNY), Hunter College, 2018. [https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/350/ Abstract and link to pdf.]

;Starr, Marian, 1981. : ''Sweet Savage Book: The Romance in America, 1855-1980'', Honors paper, Duke University. This is a typescript manuscript with 118 leaves (the bibliography can be found on leaves 106-118). OCLC Number: 07724196. [http://library.duke.edu/catalog/search/recordid/DUKE000461276 Details in Duke University's Library Catalogue.] [As far as modern romances are concerned, the focus is on the historical romances of the seventies ([[Rosemary Rogers]], [[Kathleen Woodiwiss]], etc.) with particular emphasis on their rape-fantasy aspects.]

;Sterk, Helen Mae, 1986. : "Functioning fictions :the adjustment rhetoric of Silhouette romance novels." Ph.D. U. of Iowa, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 47.7:2372)

;Tang, Wei-chung, 2004. : "The Masculine Hero in American Popular Romances." MA Thesis, National Chengchi University, Taiwan. [http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/31797 Abstract]

;Tang, Yang, 2014. : "Between Fantasy and Reality: Time-Travel Romance and Media Fandom in Chinese Cyberspace." MA Thesis, Simon Fraser University. [http://summit.sfu.ca/system/files/iritems1/14110/etd8410_YTang.pdf]

;Tatlock, Kristen Doris, 1986. :'' Raised on romance :a cultural study of romance fiction.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of Virginia.

;Taylor, Jessica Anne, 2013. : “Write the Book of Your Heart: Career, Passion and Publishing in the Romance Writing Community,” Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto. [https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/36016 Abstract and link to pdf]

;Tennenhouse, Tracy Shana, 1996. : "Female Fantasies in Women's Popular Fiction", U California Santa Barbara, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 57.9:3943)

;Therrien, Kathleen Mary, 1998. : "Trembling at Her Own Response: Resistance and Reconciliation in Mass-Market Romance Novels." (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 58.7: 2659) [Special focus on [[Julie Garwood]], [[Amanda Quick]]/[[Jayne Ann Krentz]] and [[Susan Wiggs]].]

;Tienkamp, Aaf, 2016. : "New Adult Romance: An Emerging Genre." Master’s Dissertation Literary Studies. Programme: Writing, Editing and Mediating, University of Groningen. [http://arts.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/18051/1/MA_2449307_A_Tienkamp.pdf]

;Travis, Melissa E., 2013. : "Assume the Position: Exploring Discipline Relationships." Sociology Dissertations, Paper 71. Ph.D thesis. Georgia State University, Ph.D thesis. [http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/sociology_diss/71/ Abstract] and [http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1070&context=sociology_diss pdf]. [See the section on "Discipline Romance Novels", pp. 159-66.]

;Turner, Natasha, 2015. : "Contemporary Erotic Romance: Cunning Linguists or Fifty Shades of Feminist Dismay?" BA (Hons) dissertation, published in ''The New Birmingham Review'' 1.2. [These older links are no longer working [http://www.newbirminghamreview.uk/ojs/index.php/nbr/article/view/44 Abstract] [http://www.newbirminghamreview.uk/ojs/index.php/nbr/article/view/44/21 pdf] but the item should [https://www.academia.edu/10303798/Contemporary_Erotic_Romance_Cunning_Linguists_or_Fifty_Shades_of_Feminist_Dismay?email_work_card=title still be available here]]

;Uddin-Khan, Evelyn Angelina, 1995. : "Gender, Ethnicity and the Romance Novel," Columbia U, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 56.11:4341)

;Vani, Christina, 2018. : ''Immortal Words: The Language and Style of the Contemporary Italian Undead-Romance Novel''. Ph.D. thesis. University of Toronto, 2018. [https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/91987/3/Vani_Christina_201811_PhD_thesis.pdf]

;Walker, Lynn G., 2000. : ''Women Reading Popular Fiction: Influences on Gender Identity.'' Thesis (M.A.L.S.)--North Central College.

;Warner, Celeste R., 2010. : ''Heyer’s Heroes: An Investigation into [[Georgette Heyer]] and Her Literary ‘Mark’ on the Regency Hero''. A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in English at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.[http://hdl.handle.net/10289/4406]

;Whalen, Kacey, 2017. : "A Consumption of Gay Men: Navigating the Shifting Boundaries of M/M Romantic Readership", MA thesis from DePaul University.[http://via.library.depaul.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1234&context=etd]

;White, Ann Yvonne, 2008. : ''Genesis Press: Cultural Representation and the Production of African American Romance Novels''. Ph.D. thesis from the University of Iowa. [[http://infohawk.uiowa.edu/F?func=direct&local_base=uiowa&doc_number=004400887 Link to University of Iowa catalogue details.]] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uuGj4AKOTXoC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Whyte, Tamara Lynn. 2013. :''Shakespeare in Love: Appropriation of Shakespeare in Popular Romance Novels.'' U of Alabama. (''Dissertation Abstracts International'') 75, no. 6 (December 2014). [http://acumen.lib.ua.edu/#!/u0015_0000001_0001465/document/u0015_0000001_0001465?page=1&limit=40]

;Wiebe, Laura, 2013. : ''Speculative Matter: Generic Affinities, Posthumanisms and Science-Fictional Imaginings''. Ph.D. thesis from McMaster University.[http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8703&context=opendissertations] [See in particular pages 37-71 on love, romance and Christine Feehan's Ghostwalkers series of romances.]

;Wilson, Elizabeth Suzanne, 1986. : ''Women creating men :the history of the hero in contemporary category romance fiction since the 1950s.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

;Wirtén, Eva Hemmungs, 1998. : ''Global Infatuation: Explorations in Transnational Publishing and Texts: The case of Harlequin Enterprises and Sweden'', Section for Sociology of Literature at the Department of Literature, Uppsala University. [http://www.abm.uu.se/evahw/Global_Infatuation.pdf PDF was there] but can now be downloaded from [https://www.academia.edu/433430/Global_Infatuation_Explorations_in_Transnational_Publishing_and_Texts._The_Case_of_Harlequin_Enterprises_and_Sweden here]

;Wood, Andrea, 2008. : ''Radicalizing Romance: Subculture, Sex, and Media at the Margins''. PhD Thesis, University of Florida. AAT 3392728 [http://etd.fcla.edu/UF/UFE0023561/wood_a.pdf PDF]

;Young, Beth Rapp, 1995. : "But are they any good? Women readers, formula fiction, and the sacralization of the literary canon", U of Southern California, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 57.2:893)

;Young, Erin S., 2010. : "Corporate Heroines and Utopian Individualism: A Study of the Romance Novel in Global Capitalism", Ph.D. thesis, University of Oregon, AAT 3420428. [https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/11460 Pdf available from University of Oregon.] [This author has since had 2 articles published which appear to draw on this thesis. See the main academic romance bibliography for details. "This dissertation explores two subgenres of popular romance fiction that emerge in the 1990s: 'corporate' and 'paranormal' romance. While the formulaic conventions of popular romance have typically centralized the gendered tension between hero and heroine, this project reveals that 'corporate' and 'paranormal' romances negotiate a new primary conflict, the tension between work and home in the era of global capitalism. [...] The 'corporate' romances of [[Jayne Ann Krentz]], [[Nora Roberts]], [[Elizabeth Lowell]], and [[Katherine Stone]] feature heroines who constantly navigate the dual and intersecting arenas of work and home in an effort to locate a balance that leads to success and happiness in both realms. In contrast, the 'paranormal' romances of [[Laurell K. Hamilton]], [[Charlaine Harris]], [[Kelley Armstrong]], and [[Carrie Vaughn]] dissolve the tension between home and work, or the private and the public, by affirming the heroine's open and endless pursuit of pleasure, adventure, and self-fulfillment."]

;Young, Whitney A., 2013. : "Monsters in My Bed: Accounting for the Popularity of Young Adult Paranormal Romances." MA Thesis. Georgia State University. [http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1035&context=wsi_theses]

;Yuill, Brendon, 2018. : "Sheiks and Sherifs: Western Portrayals of the Middle East between the World Wars." MA Thesis. University of Central Oklahoma.[https://search.proquest.com/openview/bca2306d1789bef0c53ba80b278430bc/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y]

;Zachik-Smith, Susie, 1993. : ''Romance by the book :a morphological analysis of the popular romance.'' Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, San Bernardino.

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* '''Bibliography'''
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** [[Bibliography T-Z]] - the final part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
* [[Scholarship in Languages Other than English|Bibliography of Scholarship in Languages Other than English]].
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Some of the items listed below are freely available online, but most are not. More details for many of them are available via the [http://www.proquest.com/en-US/catalogs/databases/detail/pqdt.shtml ProQuest Database] but this is accessible only by subscription.

;Abdullah-Poulos, Layla, 2016. : “Muslim Love American Style: Islamic-American Hybrid Culture and Native-Born American Black Muslim Romance.” MA thesis, SUNY Empire State College, 2016.[https://search.proquest.com/openview/6bf792f06a331a24ef39d4809d964ef9/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y Excerpt]

;Adams, Kathleen Barzun, 2003. : ''Thirty years of change : heroes, heroines, and the popular romance.'' Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity College.

;Achieng’, Okang’a Nancy, 2017. : "A Cosmopolitan National Romance: A Study of ''In Dependence'' by Sarah Ladipo Manyika." MA thesis, Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.[http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10539/23823/Title%20A%20Cosmopolitan%20National%20Romance-1.pdf?sequence=2] [About an African novel which it seems might or might not be a romance, depending on how one defines "African romance" (since the author argues that African romance is more expansive than the US definition).]

;Al-Bataineh, Afaf Badr, 1998. : "The modern Arabic novel: a literary and linguistic analysis of the genre of popular fiction, with special reference to translation from English." Ph.D., Heriot-Watt.[http://hdl.handle.net/10399/1233] [From the abstract at the "Index to Theses" website: "critical insights should enable us to form an overall picture of how the subject of my case study (Mills & Boon and its translation into Arabic) is viewed in the languages and cultures concerned: this particular genre has not been acceptable to the Western literary establishment until recently, and is not acceptable to the Arabic critical establishment even today. [...] Chapter Eight presents a detailed analysis of a Mills & Boon novel in English and its translation into Arabic."]

;Allport, Tanya, 1988. : ''Female journeys :the place of Jane Eyre and "Mills and Boon" in the search for women's existential space.'' Thesis (MA--English)--University of Auckland.

;Anderton, Gretchen E., 2009. : ''Excitement, adventure, indifference: Romance readers' perceptions of how romance reading impacts their sex lives''. Ed.D., Widener University, 2009 , 165 pages; AAT 3383833

;Araujo, Gail, 2009. : ''Living to read romance: The transformative potential of interpretive practice in romance reading.'' M.A., California State University, Fullerton. [http://gradworks.umi.com/14/78/1478345.html Abstract].

;Avila, Debbie Maria, 2005. : "The Romance Novel of the 1930s and 1940s in Spain and Portugal: The Cases of Carmen de Icaza and Alice Ogando." U of California Irvine (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 66.7:2572)

;Backman, Nelina Esther, 1999. : "Evangelism Embarrassed: Christian Literature in a post-Christian Culture." Ph.D. dissertation, Brown University, United States -- Rhode Island. Publication No. AAT 9932368. [Includes some discussion of "contemporary evangelical romance fiction."]

;Balducci, Federica. 2011. : ''A Different Shade of Pink: Literary Thresholds and Cultural Intersections in Italian Chick Lit''. A thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Italian. [http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/1929] [See the section on 'Italian popular romance: ''romanzo rosa'' and its evolution', pp. 67-83.]

;Barletta, Sandra Anne, 2008. : ''A first kiss is still a first kiss: romancing the mid-life reader and heroine : A basic renovation.'' Thesis (M.A.(Research))--Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 2008. [http://eprints.qut.edu.au/19205/ Abstract and link to pdf]. [Pages 1-29 are analysis of "a neglected demographic of reader and heroine who are marginalised within the romance genre. As well, it gives reasons why heroines need not be characterised in particular roles or situations as they age, and a rationale for why their underrepresentation as romance heroines should end." ''A Basic Renovation'' is a romance novel written by Barletta and included in the thesis which was "Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Creative Writing (romance)."]

;Barletta, Sandra A., 2014. : ''Cougars, Grannies, Evil Stepmothers, and Menopausal Hot Flashers: Roles, Representations of Age, and the Non-traditional Romance Heroine.'' PhD thesis in Creative Writing and Literary Studies, Queensland University of Technology. [http://eprints.qut.edu.au/72686/3/Sandra_Barletta_Thesis.pdf]

;Barra, Andrea Cipriano, 2014. : ''Beyond the Bodice Ripper: Innovation and Change in the Romance Novel Industry''. PhD dissertation in Sociology, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. [https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/45202/ Abstract and link to pdf]

;Benjamin, Sarah, 1999. : "The Theory of 'Identity Dissonance': Mass Communication, Romance Fiction, and the Self-Concept." M.A. dissertation, York University (Canada), Canada. Publication No. AAT MQ43370.[http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq43370.pdf]

;Beyer, Jennifer Ann Perry, 2000. : ''The romance novel revolution :a study of criticisms and readers.'' Thesis (M.A.)--Bemidji State University.

;Billekens, F.G.W., 2019. : ''Never Mind Me When There's You: The Submission Of The Heroine In YA Supernatural Romance Fiction'', Bachelor's Thesis, Utrecht University. [https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/377634 Abstract and link to pdf]

;Blanding, Cristen, 2005. : ''Interracial romance novels and the resolution of racial difference.'' Thesis (M.A.)--Bowling Green State University. [http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1131365873 Abstract and PDF]

;Böhmová, Petra, 2012. : "Contemporary American Christian Fiction: Young and Rivers." Diploma thesis, Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Education, Department of English Language and Literature. [http://is.muni.cz/th/385552/pedf_m/Petra_Bohmova-diplomova_prace.pdf] [One of the novels discussed is Francine Rivers' ''Redeeming Love''.]

;Brasileiro Neves, 2014. : "ROMANCES DE BOLSO: A novela romântica da Harlequin Books no mercado editorial brasileiro", Trabalho de pesquisa de mercado apresentado ao Departamento de Comunicação Social, da Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, como requisito para a obtenção do grau de bacharelado em Publicidade e Propaganda, Recife. [https://www.academia.edu/11331340/ROMANCES_DE_BOLSO_A_NOVELA_ROM%C3%82NTICA_DA_HARLEQUIN_BOOKS_NO_MERCADO_EDITORIAL_BRASILEIRO]

;Breeden, Amanda L., 2007. : ''Neo romance :gender renegotiation in Harlequin romance novels.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of Northern Iowa.

;Bryson, Mary, 2004. : ''Public Library Services to the Romance Reader: An Online Survey of Romance Readers''. A Master’s paper for the M.S. in L.S. degree - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. May, 2004. [http://ils.unc.edu/MSpapers/2979.pdf]

;Buckley, Julia, 2010. : "The Door To Wonderland: How Mary Stewart’s Literary Voice Influenced 20th Century Romantic Suspense." MA thesis, Elmhurst College.[http://ojsserv.dom.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/192]

;Bun, Jennifer C., 2007. : "The Effects of Romance Novel Readership on Relationship Beliefs, Romantic Ideals, and Relational Satisfaction." Honors Thesis - Boston College. [http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/communication/meta-elements/pdf/thesis07.bun.pdf Full text]

;Burge, Amy, 2012. : "Desiring the East: A Comparative Study of Middle English Romance and Modern Popular Sheikh Romance." PhD thesis, University of York. [Abstract and pdf available [http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3121/ here].]

;Burley, Stephanie Carol., 2003. : "Hearts of Darkness: The Racial Politics of Popular Romance." U of Maryland, College Park (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 64.6: 2082)

;Burnside, Mary Elizabeth, 1996. : "The novels of Mills and Boon in the post-war period." M.Phil., Hull.[http://library.hull.ac.uk/record=b1697392]

;Bywaters, Barbara Lee, 1989. :"'Re-reading Jane': Jane Austen's legacy to twentieth-century women writers'. PhD thesis. Bowling Green State University. [http://maurice.bgsu.edu/record=b1714503~S0 Details at BGSU library]. A short excerpt of this thesis seems to be available in ''Georgette Heyer: A Critical Retrospective''. Ed. Mary Fahnestock-Thomas. Saraland, AL: PrinnyWorld, 2001. 493-508.

;Capps, Stephanie Carol, 2017. :"What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs about Relationships". Master of Science thesis. University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 2017. [https://shareok.org/bitstream/handle/11244/50728/2017_Capps_Stephanie_Carol_Thesis.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y] [This seems very similar to an article with the same title published the next year. The primary author may have changed their lastname: http://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Faca0000189 ]

;Carmichael, Lynn P., 1985. "A Romantic Past: A Study of Historical Romance as a Form of Recreational Fiction in Public Libraries." M.A. thesis, South Australian Institute of Technology.

;Chappel, Deborah Kaye, 1992. : "American Romances: Narratives of Culture and Identity" Duke University, ''Dissertation Abstracts International''52 (8): 2923A-24A.

;Christian, Linda Kathryn. 1984.: "'Becoming a Woman through Romance: Adolescent Novels and the Ideology of Femininity'." U. of Wisconsin, Madison (''Dissertation Abstracts International: Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'') 45.5: 1282.

;Clawson, Laura, 1998. : "Covering genres: romance, science-fiction/fantasy, pleasure, and respectability." Thesis (B.A., Honors, American Studies, English)--Wesleyan University, 1998. Special Collections: Wesleyan (Thesis), Call Number: 1998 C617 ["my senior honors thesis at Wesleyan was about romance and sci-fi, and how academics tended to treat sci-fi as literature and romances as a cultural phenomenon to be explained." (from [http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/index.php/weblog/comments/interview-with-laura-clawson-daily-kos-contributing-editor/ an interview at Smart Bitches Trashy Books]) ]

;Close, Lisa. 2008. : ''Functional analysis of the contemporary folkloric vampire.'' Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of English, 2008. [References Nora Roberts' Circle Trilogy: see abstract in [http://primofe1.byu.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?ct=display&doc=byu_unicorn4154044&indx=2&frbg=&dum=true&vid=byu-cl&vl(13550901UI0)=any&vl(172369922UI1)=all_items&srt=rank&indx=1&dstmp=1278574032499&tab=default_tab&ct=search&scp.scps=scope%3A(simpledl)%2Cscope%3A(LEE)%2Cscope%3A(BYU)%2Cscope%3A(LAW)%2Cscope%3A(byugle)%2Cscope%3A(Unicorn_online)%2Cscope%3A(CONTENTdm)%2Cscope%3A(JUV)%2Cscope%3A(SPEC)%2Cscope%3A(INTERNET)%2Cscope%3A(SWKT)%2Cscope%3A(SLC)%2Cscope%3A(LEELRC)%2Cscope%3A(MUSIC)%2Cscope%3A(saskia)%2Cscope%3A(CONTENTdm2)&vl(freeText0)=close%20lisa&fn=search&mode=Basic&dscnt=0 Brigham Young University library's catalog].]

;Coddington, Lynn, 1997. : "Romance and Power: Writing Romance Novels as a Practice of Critical Literacy." Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, United States -- California. Publication No. AAT 9803158.

;Colemnero, Laura Elizabeth, 1999. : "The social construction of gender as represented in popular fiction, 1990-1997." Ph.D. dissertation, South Dakota State University, Publication No. AAT 9924280. [Includes analysis of [[Johanna Lindsey]]'s ''[[Gentle Rogue]]''.]

;Collier, Kathryn (Kizzi), 2018. : "My Chemical Erotic Romance: A Deeper Look into Women’s Lustful Fantasies." A Division III Project, Hampshire College.[https://dspace.hampshire.edu/bitstream/10009/1058/1/Division%20III%20Final%21%20.pdf]

;Cortesi, Taylor D., 2013. : "'Traitorous Bodies': Cartesian Dualism in Romance Novels by Susan Johnson and E. L. James." M. Lit. thesis, Texas State University - San Marcos. [https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/4554 Abstract and link to pdf].

;Davis, Mary Louise, 1986. : 'Romances and the Modern Ms.: a Study of Contemporary (Line) Romances, 1980-1984.' Ph.D. diss., University of Southern California.(''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A:The Humanities and Social Sciences)'' 47.11, p. 4108.

;Davis, Storme G. 2008. : ''Nora Roberts: descendant of Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë?'': a thesis presented to the faculty of the Graduate School, Tennessee Technological University. Thesis (M.A.)--Tennessee Technological University, 2008.

;DiVisconte, Jessica, 2009. : ''The Recession and Its Effect on the Romance Genre''. Master of Science in Publishing. Paper 16. Dyson College of Arts & Sciences, Pace University. [http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/dyson_mspublishing/16 Abstract and link to pdf.]

;Donalson, Tara A., 2005. : ''The Parody of Romance.'' MA Thesis, Graduate School of The University of Texas at Arlington. ["I look at the parallel formulas found in secular and inspirational romance fiction, searching how inspirational romance evangelizes and gives spiritual instruction to its readers."] [http://dspace.uta.edu/handle/10106/410 Abstract and link to pdf.]

;Downey, Kristin, 2005. : "Irony, Ideology, and Resistance: The Amazing Double Life of Harlequin Presents", McMaster University, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 66.10:3640.

;Dryden, Therese Michelle, 2011. : "Bachelor Dad on Her Doorstep." MPhil Thesis, University of Newcastle (Australia). [This dissertation is in two parts: the first has been published as ''Bachelor Dad on Her Doorstep'', "a Harlequin Mills & Boon Sweet Romance" under the pseudonym "Michelle Douglas" and is therefore not available online. The "accompanying exegesis discusses the conventions and constraints of the popular romance genre. It explores the challenges presented to a writer in creating and maintaining emotional intensity in a popular genre romance and the need to provide a satisfying and credible ending to that romance" and it can be downloaded from [http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/920190 here].]

;Dummer, Kathleen Ann. 1990. : ''A study of character development of main characters in young adult category romance literature.'' Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wyoming.

;Dunnion, Janne May, 1997. : ''Mapping Normalcy: Romance and the Postmodern Body'', MA thesis, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the Univesity of Toronto. ["The main focus of this thesis is an examination of the constitution of the female body within the location of popular culture, specifically Harlequin Enterprises and popular romance novels."] [http://hdl.handle.net/1807/11494 Details and link to pdf]

;Elliott, Margaret A., 1996. : 'The Librarian's Stereotyped Image in Romance Novels, 1980-1995: Has the Image Changed?', Master's Research Paper, Kent State University. ERIC Document ED401924. [http://eric.ed.gov:80/ERICWebPortal/detail?accno=ED401924 Abstract] and [http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED401924 PDF]

;English, Jessica, 2017. : “Reading the Romance: Through the Eyes of a Millenial Feminist.” Masters Thesis. Eastern Washington University. [http://dc.ewu.edu/theses/456/]

;Faust, Meredith S., 2010. : ""Love of the purest kind": Heteronormative rigidity in the homoerotic fiction of Ann Herendeen" (2010). Theses and Dissertations. Paper 41. MA thesis from DePaul University. [http://via.library.depaul.edu/etd/41 Details] and [http://via.library.depaul.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=etd PDF].

;Fekete, Maleah, 2016. : "Social Differences in Taste: Investigating Romance Reading." 2016 SURF Conference Proceedings [This is a conference paper but outlines the direction of a larger project. The student has a supervisor.][http://escholarship.org/uc/item/28f1q2d7]

;Fenty, Linda D. 1987. : "A Comparative Analysis of Female Role Models in Selected Contemporary Teen Romances." Auburn University (''Dissertation Abstracts International'') 48, no. 8: 2007A-2007A. [http://aubiecat.auburn.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=629918 Auburn University Library Catalog details].

;Fera-VanGent, Tania, 2005: 'Popular Romance Novels: Seeking out the 'Sisterhood'." M.A. diss., Brock University (Canada).[https://dr.library.brocku.ca/jspui/bitstream/10464/1379/1/Brock_Fera-VanGent_Tania_2007.pdf]

;Flesch, Juliet, 2001. : ''From Australia with love :Australian romance novels, 1950-2000. '' Thesis (Ph.D)--Dept. of History (Women's Study), University of Melbourne.

;Fletcher, Lisa, 2002. : '' I love you :historical romance fiction and heterosexuality.'' Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne.

;Funderburk, Amy, 2004. : ''Romance Collections in North Carolina Public Libraries: Are All Genres Treated Equally?'' A Master’s Paper for the M.S. in L.S. degree. - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April, 2004. [http://www.ils.unc.edu/MSpapers/2934.pdf]

;Gardner, Dora Abigail, 2019. : 'Defending the Bodice Ripper', MA thesis, Eastern Kentucky University. [https://search.proquest.com/openview/20dec25c37b36e929b647b84b6b0bd49/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y Excerpt]

;Garza, Raquel M, ???? (possibly 2011). : ''“Don’t tell me I don’t know what Love is”: A Comparative Study on Heterosexual and Homosexual Romance Novels'' Longwood University, [probably submitted as part of a Bachelor's degree in Communication Studies with a concentration in Public Relations and Organizational Communication]. [https://workstory.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/508208/FINAL_Thesis_original.doc]

;Geib, Aleta Esther. 1986. : ''Changing heroes: depictions of the male sex role in category romance novels, 1976-1983.'' Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio State University.

;Genz, Carole, 2005. : "Romance Revisited: Transformations of the Marital Love Triangle in Women’s Fictions." PhD thesis, University of Stirling, Department of English Studies.

;Gerlitz, Laura Michelle, 2019. : "Judging a Book By Its Cover: Bringing the Digital Humanities into Reader’s Advisory", MA thesis, Digital Humanities and Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta. ["This study sets out to examine recurring themes found on book wrappers published by Harlequin in their first seventeen years [1949-1965] [...]. The resulting patterns will be connected to reader’s advisory as appeal factors in successful book selection by readers."] [https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/f51462bd-47aa-48ae-8fe7-57db23a6019d/view/89cf31f4-04e7-40d8-ae68-1246d36134f9/Gerlitz_Laura_M_201903_MLISMA.pdf]

;Glennemeier, Jaelyn, 2018. : “And he was an Arab!:” Imperial Femininity and Pleasure in E. M. Hull's 1919 Desert Romance, ''The Sheik''', Honors thesis, University of Kansas. [https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/26639 Abstract and link to pdf].

;Goade, Sally Ann, 1999. : "'And With the Land, Our Spirits So Blended': Interrelated Frontier Quests of Self in Contemporary Historical Romance. A Study of Rosanne Bittner's 'Savage Destiny' series", Idaho State U, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 60.4:1132).

;Goris, An, 2011. : From Romance to Roberts and Back Again: genre, authorship and the construction of textual identity in contemporary popular romance novels." PhD thesis, University of Leuven. [https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/317472 Abstract and Index] [https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/317472/1/text+1-469.pdf Pdf]

;Gorry, April Marie, 1999. : "Leaving Home for Romance: Tourist Women's Adventures Abroad," PhD thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara.[http://anthro.vancouver.wsu.edu/media/PDF/romance.pdf] [This is an anthropology PhD but Chapter 5 (pages 195-240) presents "the results of a survey of 45 popular romance novels dating from 1977 to 1996 [...] it is principally intended to test the validity of findings generated by my field survey of romance tourism.]

;Gregor, Theresa Lynn, 2010. : ''From Captors to Captives: American Indian Responses to Popular American Narrative Forms''. Ph.D. thesis from University of Southern California. [Available from [http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll127/id/302844 here]. See the section on "''Savage Obsession'' and ''Dreamquest'': The Cultural Work of Contemporary Mass-Marketed American/Indian Romances," pages 175-186. Discusses novels by [[Cassie Edwards]] and [[Janet Wellington]].]

;Griffin, Linda Coleman, 1999. : "An Analysis of Meaning Creation through the Integration of Sociology and Literature: A Critical Ethnography of a Romance Reading Group." U of Houston, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'', 60.4: 1117.)

;Güvendi Yalçın, Elif, 2018. : "The Transformation of Romance Novels Based on the Theories of Sociologist Anthony Giddens," Istanbul Aydin University Institute of Social Sciences. [http://acikarsiv.aydin.edu.tr/handle/11547/1576?mode=full Abstract] [Based on analysis of "three medieval romances’s content— Walter Scott’s ''Ivanhoe'' (1920), Kathleen Woodowiss’ ''The Wolf and the Dove'' (1974), and Amanda Quick’s ''Mystique'' (1995)"]

;Hall, Glinda Fountain. 2008.: ''A genre of our own: the cultural work of women's popular romance fiction.'' Thesis (Ph. D.)--Arkansas State University. [http://dbellis.library.astate.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=547355 Catalogue record at Arkansas State University's library.]

;Hamlyn, Eleanor, 2014. : "Reading the Genre Codes in Giorgio Scerbanenco's Hybridised ''Romanzi Rosa''", A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Italian Studies, The University of Auckland. [https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/2292/23609/whole.pdf?sequence=2]

;Harlan, Kimber Leigh. 2005. : '' Romancing the reader: constructing a discursive and social female identity through romance novels.'' Thesis (M.A.) -- Tarleton State University. [Abstract available [http://gradworks.umi.com/14/36/1436377.html here] and [http://en.scientificcommons.org/32181902 here].]

;Harris, Patricia Marie, 1985. : ''The rhetorical vision of courtship in Harlequin Romances: a fantasy theme analysis.'' Thesis (M.A., Communication Studies)--California State University, Sacramento.

;Harrison, Rachel, 1980. : ''Women and Romantic Fiction: Subordination and Resistance''. Thesis (M.Litt) - University of Birmingham, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies.

;Hartmann, Britta U., 2014. : ''Island fictions : Castaways and imperialism''. PhD thesis, University of Tasmania. [http://eprints.utas.edu.au/22391/ Abstract] [Includes a chapter on "castaway romances" which focuses on 20th- and 21st-century novels by writers including Violet Winspear, Margery Hilton, Ginna Gray, Julie Tetel Andersen, Penelope Neri, Donna Simpson, Darlene Marshall, Jill Sharvis, Kandy Shepherd & Tracey Garvis Graves.]

;Harzewski, Stephanie, 2006. : "The new novel of manners: Chick lit and postfeminist sexual politics ." U of Pennsylvania, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'', 67.7:2573.)

;Heffernan, Joan-Mary, 1992. : ''Women's romantic fiction :a study of three New Zealand Mills and Boon authors.'' Dissertation (MA--English)--University of Auckland.

;Henderson, Courtney R.,2007. : "Ladies and Loners: A Comparative Gender Study of the Romance and Popular Western.' M.A. diss., The University of Texas at Arlington. [http://hdl.handle.net/10106/510 Abstract and full PDF] ["my focal texts for the romance genre are [[Johanna Lindsey]]’s ''Savage Thunder'' and Joan Johnston’s ''Frontier Woman''."]

;Heydt, Victoria, 2010. : "Stark naked: an analysis of eighteenth and twenty-first century romance novels." Washington College. [http://hdl.handle.net/10090/19085 Details]

;Hilton, Linda Ann Wheeler, 2000. : "Half Heaven, Half Heartache : Discovering the Transformative Potential in Women's Popular Fiction." A thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Honors College for the bachelor's degree, Arizona State University West. [http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4446146~S3 Details] [Published as a Kindle edition in 2011 - [http://www.amazon.com/Half-Heaven-Heartache-transformative-ebook/dp/B005MGBCZY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1315857987&sr=1-1 US], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Half-Heaven-Heartache-transformative-ebook/dp/B005MGBCZY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1315867417&sr=1-1 UK]]

;Hirsbrunner, A.R., 2000. : "Doomed to become heroines? Identification, women and fiction." Ph.D., Wales, Cardiff. ["The fear that readers will want to become like the main characters of novels they read has accompanied prose fiction throughout its history, 1970s feminists in particular were convinced that women were being duped into subscribing to patriarchal stereotypes by canonical or popular romances. The present study examines this topos. [...] fiction is not itself a fantasy, but can be used to confirm and refine a fantasy the reader already has. Romance thus contributes to a homogenisation of its females readers' fantasies, but cannot implant fantasies in subjects with different desires."] [http://library.cardiff.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v2=1&ti=1,1&SEQ=20100611101350&Search_Arg=Hirsbrunner&SL=None&Search_Code=NAME_&CNT=50&PID=Y78d0gX3xAH_gsUtC5Zukc9vQw&SID=1 Entry in Cardiff University's Library Catalogue.]

;Hodgson, Kathleen, 2006. : "The representation of the female hero in the romantic fiction of Mills & Boon." Thesis (MPhil.) - University of Reading, Institute of Education.

;Hubbard, Rita Cooper, 1982. : "Relationship Styles In Popular Romance Fiction: A Fantasy Theme Analysis Of Harlequin Romances, 1950-1979." (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 42.12:4973)

;Hughes, Helen Muriel, 1988. : "Changes In Historical Romance, 1890s To The 1980s: The Development Of The Genre From Stanley Weyman To Georgette Heyer And Her Successors." U Of Bradford (United Kingdom), (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 50.11: 3603)

;Hurley, Frances Kay., 1999. : "In the Words of Girls: The Reading of Adolescent Romance Fiction." Harvard U, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 60.6: 1946)

;Hutton-Jarvis, C.A., 1998. : "The educational potential of romantic fiction." PhD from University of Leeds. ["Romantic fiction was chosen as the focus for the case-study because of its capacity to stimulate women readers to make connections between their reading and their lives. Popular romances foreground issues which have particular implications for women's personal, social and economic situations. The case-study includes detailed textual analyses which illustrate the potential for using the romance as a vehicle for exploring such issues."]

;Jackson, Elaine, 2005. : "Riding the tosh horse: women writers of popular romance between the wars." Thesis (doctoral) - University of Birmingham, Department of English. [http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=2&uin=uk.bl.ethos.423625 British Library details] [From the abstract at the "Index to Theses" website: "Concentrating on three primary authors: E.M. Hull, Berta Ruck, and Marguerite Jervis (writing under pseudonyms Oliver Sandys and Countess Barcynska), this thesis examines the production and distribution of popular romance between the two World Wars. [...] Authors’ personal experiences of love and marriage are explored alongside the more public influences of editors, publishers, and literary agents. The relationship between authors and readers is also examined. This thesis demonstrates how the authors in question pioneered what we now recognize as a predominantly female romance genre [...] and that their oeuvre contribute substantially to the canon of women’s writing history."]

;Jagodzinski, Mallory Diane, 2010. : ''Of Bustles and Breeches: Cross-dressing Romance Novel Heroines and the Performance of Gender Ideology''. Master of Arts (MA) Thesis, Bowling Green State University, Popular Culture. [The thesis "examines three recent cross-dressing romance novels: ''The Spy'' by [[Celeste Bradley]]; ''Duchess By Night'' by [[Eloisa James]]; and ''Almost a Gentleman'' by [[Pam Rosenthal]]." [http://etd.ohiolink.edu/view.cgi/Jagodzinski%20Mallory%20Diane.pdf?bgsu1276724423 Abstract and link to PDF].]

;Jagodzinski, Mallory, 2015. : ''Love is (Color) Blind: Historical Romance Fiction and Interracial Relationships in the Twenty-First Century''. PhD dissertation, Graduate College of Bowling Green State University. [This dissertation analyzes three historical romance novels — ''Secrets of a Scandalous Heiress'' by Theresa Romain (2015), ''The Duke of Shadows'' by Meredith Duran (2008) and ''The Heiress Effect by Courtney Milan'' (2013)][https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=bgsu1440101084&disposition=inline PDF]

;Janzen, Moira J. 1994. : ''Georgette Heyer's Regency romances: serious literature or popular fiction?'' Thesis (MA--English) -- University of Auckland

;Jensen, Margaret Ann, 1980. : "Women and romantic fiction a case study of Harlequin Enterprises, Romances and readers" (January 1, 1980). ETD Collection for McMaster University. Paper AAINK46885. [http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/opendissertations/3229/ Details and pdf here]. In her ''Love's $weet Return: The Harlequin Story'' (1984), Jensen describes that book as "the outgrowth of a doctoral dissertation I completed at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario" (11).]

;Jocks, Yvonne Annette, 1988. : “Adventure and Virtue: Alternating Emphasis in the Popular Romance Tradition.” Master’s thesis, University of Texas at Arlington. [Jocks writes romances under the pseudonym [[Evelyn Vaughn|Evelyn Vaughn]] ]

;Johnson, Naomi Ruth, 2007. : "Consuming Desires: A Feminist Analysis of Bestselling Teen Romance Novels". The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 68.11)

;Jossart, Deborah A. 2004. : ''Transforming the fairytale: a diachronic study of utopias of popular romance.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Dakota, 2004.

;Joyal, Amanda, 2012. : From Victorian literature to the romance novel: Disability and the courtship plot. M.A. thesis, University of Wyoming, AAT 1510201.

;Kamble, Jayashree, 2008. : "Uncovering and Recovering the Popular Romance Novel." PhD thesis from the University of Minnesota. AAT 3338954. [http://purl.umn.edu/47092 Details, Abstract] and [http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/47092/1/Kamble_umn_0130E_10108.pdf PDF]

;Kebadze, Nino, 2007. : "Fictions of Surrender: Romance and Exemplarity in Post-War Spanish Women's Narratives. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky, United States -- Kentucky. Publication No. AAT 3263682. [[http://gradworks.umi.com/32/63/3263682.html Abstract.] "The second part of this dissertation focuses on three novels by the best-selling authors of ''novelas rosa'' --Luisa-María Linares, Concha Linares-Becerra, and Carmen de Icaza." This has subsequently been published as a book by Tamesis.]

;Keegan, Faye Jessica, 2016. : "Soft metafiction(s) : Mary Stewart and the self-reflective middlebrow." Ph.D. thesis, University of Newcastle. [https://theses.ncl.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/10443/3474/1/Keegan%2C%20F.J.%202016.pdf Details and pdf].

;Kempf, Rachel Erin, 2015. : "Dirty Words: The Writing Process of 'Smutshop'." The University of Texas at Austin, Master of Fine Arts.[https://utexas-ir.tdl.org/bitstream/handle/2152/32463/KEMPF-MASTERSREPORT-2015.pdf?sequence=1 PDF] ["I worked at Siren-BookStop, Inc. for three years, cleaning up manuscripts and penning gay werewolf erotica [...] It was the best and worst job I’ve ever had — the best because I got paid to write and spend my workday making dirty jokes, and the worst because real sex isn’t porn sex, and real women aren’t romance heroines, and love and relationships are messy and complicated and when you spend all day boxing it into the confines of a highly formulaic genre, you’re bound to start getting some messed-up ideas about how your love life ought to be"]

;Kemppinen, Anne-Mari Katriina, 1988. : "Translating for popular literature with special reference to Harlequin books and their Finnish translations." University of Joensuu. [http://joecat.linneanet.fi/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SC=Author&SA=Kemppinen%2C%20Anne-Mari%20Katriina&PID=sTMe__AyvDhIajvkv16BgtNTTxe&BROWSE=1&HC=1&SID=4 Details copied from Joensuu University Library's online catalogue.]

;Khuankaew, Sasinee, 2015. : "Femininity and masculinity in three selected twentieth-century Thai romance fictions." Ph.D thesis, Cardiff University. [http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.665888 Abstract][http://orca.cf.ac.uk/76730/1/S%20Khuankaew%20PhD%20thesis.pdf Pdf]

;Kinard, Amanda Marette, 1999. : "Forbidden Pleasures: The Romance and Its Readers." Vanderbilt U.,(''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 59.12: 4424)

;Kirkland, Catherine, 1984. : "For The Love Of It: Women Writers And The Popular Romance." U of Pennsylvania, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 46.1:10.

;Klarich, Morgan L., 2012. : "Multiculturalism, Sex, and Powerful Women: The New Romance Novel as the Voice of Neofeminism?". MA Thesis, Dartmouth College, 97 pages; AAT 1510706. [http://gradworks.umi.com/15/10/1510706.html Abstract]

;Kloester, Jennifer V., 2004. : "[[Georgette Heyer]]: writing the Regency: history in fiction from ''Regency Buck'' to ''Lady of Quality'' 1935-1972." Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne, History Dept.

;Kolko, Beth E. “Writing the Romance: Cultural Studies, Community, and the Teaching of
Writing.” Ph.D. diss., University of Texas at Austin, 1994.

;Kramer, Devon J., 2010. : "Truth through the medium of cheerfulness: Romance novels as points of resistance." M.A., Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 2010 , 114 pages; AAT 1479123.

;Kusaeri, Akhmad, Dewi Candraningrum and Titis Setyabudi, 2015. : "Love Conflict Reflected in Jennifer Crusie's ''Anyone But You'' Novel (1996): Psychoanalytic Approach." School of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta. [http://eprints.ums.ac.id/34257/1/NASKAH%20PUBLIKASI.pdf]

;Lamprinou, Artemis, 2013. : "A Study on the Cultural Variations in the Verbalisation of Near-Universal Emotions: Translating Emotions from British English into Greek in Popular Bestseller Romances," PhD thesis, University of Surrey. [https://www.academia.edu/5354053/A_Study_on_the_Cultural_Variations_in_the_Verbalisation_of_Near-Universal_Emotions_Translating_Emotions_from_British_English_into_Greek_in_Popular_Bestseller_Romances_PhD_thesis Abstract]

;Larson, Christine, 2017. : “An Economy of Words: Precarity, Solidarity and Innovation in Digital Book Publishing.” PhD Diss., Stanford University. [According to Lois and Gregson (2018) "Larson’s dissertation (2017) comprises the only known examination of writers’ careers in the romance genre. Her 2014 survey examined 4,270 romance writers’ earnings over the previous eight years, comparing their incomes via traditional and self-publishing. She found that only approximately 20 percent of her sample earned above the U.S. median income through their writing."]

;Lessard, Victoria, 2017. : 'Marketing Desire: The "Normative/Other" Male Body and the "Pure" White Female Body on the Cover Art of Cassie Edwards' ''Savage Dream'' (1990), ''Savage Persuasion'' (1991), and ''Savage Mists'' (1992)', MA thesis, McGill University.[http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/webclient/StreamGate?folder_id=0&dvs=1520696109115~383]

;Liu, S.-h, 2012. : "The Translation/Mutation of Romantic Love: An Exploration of the Translation History of Modern Romances in Taiwan after 1960". PhD Thesis, National Taiwan Normal University. [http://www.airitilibrary.com/Publication/alDetailedMesh?docid=U0021-1610201315284770 Abstract]

;Lin, Fang-Mei, 1992. : "Social Change and Romantic Ideology: The Impact of the Publishing Industry, Family Organization, and Gender Roles on the Reception and Interpretation of Romance Fiction in Taiwan, 1960-1990." U of Pennysylvania (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'', 53.5:1675) [http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9227710/ Abstract]

;Lohmann, Jennifer, 2006. : " 'Beauty and the Beast' Themes in Romance Novels." A Master’s Paper for the M.S. in L.S degree. April, 2006. 41 pages. Advisor: Brian Sturm. A Master’s paper submitted to the faculty of the School of Information and Library Science of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Library Science. [http://etd.ils.unc.edu:8080/dspace/bitstream/1901/302/2/draft3.pdf]

;Lutz, Deborah, 2004. : "The Dangerous Lover and the Erotics of Failure: Nineteenth-century Byronism and the Contemporary Romance. Ph.D. dissertation, City University of New York, United States -- New York. Publication No. AAT 3127895. [Has since been published by Ohio State University Press - see the main bibliography for details.]

;Malloy, Audrey Miles, 2017. : "Remnants of the Bodice Ripper: How Consent is Characterized in Heterosexual and Lesbian Erotic Romance Novels." Bard College, Senior Projects Spring 2017, Bard Undergraduate Senior Projects. [http://digitalcommons.bard.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1088&context=senproj_s2017]

;Markert, John, 1984. : "Beyond Gatekeepers: Romance Publishing and the Production of Culture." Ph.D. dissertation in Sociology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. [http://discoverlibrary.vanderbilt.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?ct=display&doc=vanunicorn544260&indx=1&srt=rank&vl(freeText0)=markert%20john%20beyond%20gatekeepers&dum=true&mode=Basic&ct=search&vid=VANDERBILT&doc=vanunicorn544260&scp.scps=scope%3A(GMA)%2Cscope%3A(vanunicorn)%2Cscope%3A(tvnews)&frbg=&indx=1&fn=search&tab=default_tab Details in Vanderbilt University Library Catalogue.]

;Margolis, Ann, 2009. : "In Defense of Romantic Fiction" (2009). Master of Science in Publishing. Pace University, Dyson College of Arts & Sciences. [http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/dyson_mspublishing/10 Details and link to pdf].

;McAlister, Jodi Ann, 2015. : "Romancing the Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Popular Literature in the West". PhD thesis, Macquarie University, 2015. [https://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:44291]

;McKinley, Tracey Lynn, 2007. : 'The Female Quest: An Analysis of Archetypal Layering in Harlequin Presents.' M.Ed. diss., Queen's University (Canada).

; Michel, Anita, 1997. : ''Re-reading the (series) romance : toward a typology of recent series romance novels.'' Thesis (M.A.)--Bowling Green State University.

;Miguel, Donna De Silva, 2002. : ''Love conquers all :the rhetoric, culture, and appeal of the contemporary romance novel, and coming to terms with coming out of the closet.'' Thesis (M.A.)--New Mexico State University.

;Modleski, Tania. 1980. : "'Popular Feminine Narratives: A Study of Romances, Gothics, and Soap Operas'." Stanford U., (''Dissertation Abstracts International: Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'') 41.5: 2104-A.

;Moffitt, Mary Anne Smeltzer, 1990. : "Understanding Middle-Class Adolescent Leisure: A Cultural Studies Approach to Romance Novel Reading" U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (''Dissertation Abstracts International'' 51.4: 1035A)

;Moody, Stephanie Lee, 2013. : "Affecting Genre: Women's Participation with Popular Romance Fiction." Ph.D thesis. University of Michigan. [http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/99818/slmoody_1.pdf?sequence=1]

;Morrissey, Katherine, 2008. : ''Fanning the Flames of Romance: An Exploration of Fan Fiction and the Romance Novel''. MA Thesis, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University. [http://hdl.handle.net/1961/6198 Abstract] and [http://dspace.wrlc.org/dspace/bitstream/1961/6198/1/17_etd_kem82.pdf the thesis].

;Morrissey, Katherine, 2016. : ''Romance Networks: Aspiration & Desire in Today’s Digital Culture''. Theses and Dissertations. Paper 1179. Ph.D. thesi, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. [http://dc.uwm.edu/etd/1179 Abstract and link to download after June 06, 2018]

;Naber, Christine Marie, 1995. : "Rape myths are the theory--romance novels are the practice: The impact of exposure to images of women in popular culture, " U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'',57.4:2950). [http://hdl.handle.net/2142/18972 Abstract]

;Neal, Lynn S., 2003. : "Romancing God: Reading Evangelical Romance Novels." Ph.D. dissertation, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States -- North Carolina. Publication No. AAT 3086588. [Has since been published by the University of North Carolina Press - see the main bibliography for details.]

;Newton, Marlo Leigh. 1991. : ''Romancing the tome: the novels of Georgette Heyer.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of Melbourne

;Olivier, Séverine, 2009. : "Le roman sentimental. Productions contemporaines et pratiques de lecture.' Doctorat en Langues et lettres, Université Libre de Bruxelles. [http://theses.ulb.ac.be/ETD-db/collection/available/ULBetd-11132009-153019/ Abstract]

;O'Mahony, Lauren Kate, 2015. : "In Search of Feminist Romance in Australian 'Chick Lit'." Thesis presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of Murdoch University. [http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/25543/1/In_Search_of_Feminist_Romance_in____Australian_Chick_lit_PhD_Thesis_O%27Mahony.pdf]

;O'Neil, Kathryn M., 2016. : "Women's rhetoric and the romance novel genre." M.A. Thesis, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. [http://gradworks.umi.com/10/13/10134046.html Abstract]

;Omissi, Dominic, 1995. : "The Mills and Boon memsahibs: women's romantic Indian fiction 1877-1947." Ph.D., Lancaster. [http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.282386 British Library details.] [Abstract from the Index to Theses website: "This thesis examines the published written work of eleven different women. The material is principally in the form of romantic novels but short stories form a significant minority along with poetry, autobiography, history, and contemporary political comment. [...] All but one of the writers spent extended periods in India and numerous of their works have never been discussed in any critical work of which I am aware. [...] the current work challenges the dominant image of India, its climate, people and imperial significance, drawn from the writings of men like Kipling, Forster and Orwell. The study concludes that this image (which I call the canonical image) is utterly inappropriate when measured against the writings of these women. Their work is, I conclude, in certain important respects counter-canonical.]

;Owen, Mairead, 1990. : "Women's Reading of Popular Romantic Fiction: A Case Study in the Mass Media: A Key to the Ideology of Women." U. of Liverpool, (''Dissertation Abstracts International'' 52.8: 2745A) [http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.280340 Details and download available.]

;Paizis, George, 1986. : "'Reine ou esclave ... ' : conflicting images of women in the contemporary 'romantic novel' in France." Ph.D. Thesis, University of London. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53571849 Details]

;Parameswaran, Radhika E., 1998. : "Public Images, Private Pleasures: Romance Reading at the Intersection of Gender, Class, and National Identities in Urban India." U of Iowa, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 58.12:4485)

;Parv, Valerie, 2007. : "Healing Writes: Restorying the Authorial Self through Creative Practice : and ''Birthright'', a speculative fiction novel." Thesis for Master of Arts degree (by research), University of Queensland. [The novel is not available online, but [http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16646/2/Valerie_Parv_Exegesis.pdf the non-fiction section is] and [http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16646/ an abstract is also available].]

;Pearce, Elizabeth Florence, 2004. : "Reading the Lesbian Romance: Re-imagining Love, Sex, Relationships, and Community." Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Iowa, United States -- Iowa. Publication No. AAT 3139383. ["The core of the research emerged from the face-to-face, phone and e-mail conversations with readers of lesbian romance texts" and one section is "based on an examination of twenty-five lesbian romance novels."]

;Pylkkänen, Merita, 2013. : "Didactic Fulfillment and the Popular Romance: Jude Deveraux’s ''The Mulberry Tree''." MA thesis, University of Eastern Finland. [http://epublications.uef.fi/pub/urn_nbn_fi_uef-20130866/urn_nbn_fi_uef-20130866.pdf]

;Potter, J.E., 1998. : "Boys in khaki, girls in print: women's literary responses to the Great War 1914-1918", D.Phil., Oxford. ["This thesis explores the ways in which women interpreted the Great War as it happened and focuses on texts written and published between 1914 and 1918. [...] The romance novels discussed in Chapter Three follow a pattern in which the aspirations of heroes and heroines are thwarted - then fulfilled - by the events of the War. Such 'light entertainment' makes highly-charged claims for the regenerative power and the righteousness of Britain's sacrifice."] [This has since been published as a book.]

;Rampure, Archana, 2005. : "Doctors in the Darkness: Reading Race, Gender, and History in the Popular Medical Romance ", U of Toronto, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 66.10:3642) [http://search.proquest.com/docview/276475552 Abstract] and some [http://thehypelessromantic.com/2013/07/06/medical-romances-imperialism-nationalism-race-and-gender/ discussion/description here].

;Reed, Eleanor, 2018. : "Domestic Culture in ''Woman's Weekly'', 1918-1958", Doctoral thesis, Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Roehampton. [https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/files/1346863/Domestic_Culture_in_Woman_s_Weekly_1918_1958.pdf] ["This thesis [...] explores the domestic culture produced by the magazine between the end of the First World War in November 1918,and 1958." The "literary methodology for surveying periodical form [...] is based on romance, the genre to which the vast majority of ''Woman’s Weekly'' fiction printed during the period belongs" (2).]

;Rice, Linda. 2008. : ''Ambiguous love a reflection of self in relation to popular romance fiction.'' Darwin, N.T.: Iron Mountain. Thesis (M.A.)--Charles Darwin University

;Russell, Shanon, 2014. : "Dangerous Young Men: Themes of Female Sexuality and Masculinity in Paranormal Romance Novels for Young Adults." Masters Thesis. University of Ottawa.[https://ruor.uottawa.ca/bitstream/10393/31631/1/Russell_Shannon_2014_Thesis.pdf]

;Rutherford, Carina Lynn, 1999. : ''Wild dreams rooted in reality :an exploration of the Harlequin Mills & Boon novels of Daphne Clair.'' Thesis (MA--English)--University of Auckland.

;Sagun, Karryl Kim Abella, 2019. : ''Book Mavens of Manila : an interpretative phenomenological analysis of contemporary niche publishers in the Philippines''. Doctoral thesis,Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. [https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/bitstream/handle/10220/48072/SAGUNKKAS.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y Pdf] [I include this because it incorporates material from "three Wattpad self-publishers based in the Philippines: Mina V. Esguerra, Noreen Capili, and Kimberly Villanueva. All three agreed to be quoted verbatim, and to be referred to by name. They have all published both on electronic platforms (particularly Wattpad) and on print. They also share the same genre for their works: romance" (123)]

;Sandbakken, Asta Margrethe, 2016. : "Feeling Men: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Emotion in the Contemporary Romance." MA Thesis, University of Oslo.[https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/51997/Sandbakken_Master.pdf?sequence=1]

;Sanyal, Madhuparna, 2008. : "Re-imagining the late-colonial Anglo-Indian woman's romance: Reading Maud Diver." PhD dissertation, Drew University. AAT 3334864. [https://catalog.drew.edu/web2/tramp2.exe/authority_hits/A02ok5gn.004?server=1home&item=1 Details from Drew University Library]

;Savinainen, Raija, 2001. : ''Gender-specific features of male/female interaction in a popular romantic novel by Barbara Cartland''. University of Jyväskylä. [http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-2001867069 Details and link to pdf.]

;Shore, Zandra Lesley, 1999. : "Girls reading culture, autobiography as inquiry into teaching the body, the romance, and the economy of love." Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Education, University of Toronto. [Can be downloaded from [http://hdl.handle.net/1807/15698 the University of Toronto Library]. [See in particular Chapter Four, which mentions the work done on romance and romance readers by Radway, Snitow, Cohn, Christian-Smith and others.]

;Short, Christopher Brown, 1996. : "The history of romance illustration and the romance novel cover." Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Illustration in the Graduate School at Syracuse University. [http://summit.syr.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=1563900 Bibliographic Details]

;Smáradóttir, Helena María, 2006. : "Happily Ever-After: The Romance Reader's Individual Choice and Empowerment." B.A. thesis. University of Iceland.

;Smáradóttir, Helena María, 2009. : "Love as a Commodity: Brand-Name Romantic Fiction and its Readers. The Domain and Readership of Harlequin Enterprises, Both in Iceland and Abroad." Thesis submitted for a master's degree at the University of Iceland. Various sections [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/handle/1946/2789 available online]: [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/bitstream/1946/2789/8/ttur_fixed.pdf Summary], [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/bitstream/1946/2789/1/Efnisyfirlit_fixed.pdf Table of Contents], [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/bitstream/1946/2789/3/Inngangur_fixed.pdf Introduction], [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/bitstream/1946/2789/7/pd_fixed.pdf Conclusion], [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/bitstream/1946/2789/6/pd_fixed.pdf Works Cited], [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/bitstream/1946/2789/5/l_fixed.pdf Appendix]. Those wishing to read more of this thesis or the author's B.A. thesis may [mailto:helena@skipulag.com contact the author directly].

;Smith, William Clay Kinchen, 2002. : "Revising Captivity Narratives", U of Florida. [http://etd.fcla.edu/UF/UFE0000611/smith_w.pdf] [This thesis deals with many types of captivity narrative, but there are sections specifically about romances. In the chapter on works from the 1980s, there is a section on romance (341-354), and the chapter concerning the 1990s has a similar section (373-378). Romance authors whose works are discussed include [[Madeline Baker]], [[Karen A. Bale]], [[Cassie Edwards]], [[Fern Michaels]], [[Nan Ryan]] and [[Janelle Taylor]].]

;Sorenson, Tanya Lee, 2014. : "How Traditional is the Romance? Heroines, Stereotypes, and the Heterosexual Script." Senior Projects Spring 2014. Paper 339. Bard College. [http://digitalcommons.bard.edu/senproj_s2014/339 Abstract]

;Spears, Jessica D., 2018. : ''The Romance Novel Cover''. MA Thesis (Art History). City University of New York (CUNY), Hunter College, 2018. [https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/350/ Abstract and link to pdf.]

;Starr, Marian, 1981. : ''Sweet Savage Book: The Romance in America, 1855-1980'', Honors paper, Duke University. This is a typescript manuscript with 118 leaves (the bibliography can be found on leaves 106-118). OCLC Number: 07724196. [http://library.duke.edu/catalog/search/recordid/DUKE000461276 Details in Duke University's Library Catalogue.] [As far as modern romances are concerned, the focus is on the historical romances of the seventies ([[Rosemary Rogers]], [[Kathleen Woodiwiss]], etc.) with particular emphasis on their rape-fantasy aspects.]

;Sterk, Helen Mae, 1986. : "Functioning fictions :the adjustment rhetoric of Silhouette romance novels." Ph.D. U. of Iowa, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 47.7:2372)

;Tang, Wei-chung, 2004. : "The Masculine Hero in American Popular Romances." MA Thesis, National Chengchi University, Taiwan. [http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/31797 Abstract]

;Tang, Yang, 2014. : "Between Fantasy and Reality: Time-Travel Romance and Media Fandom in Chinese Cyberspace." MA Thesis, Simon Fraser University. [http://summit.sfu.ca/system/files/iritems1/14110/etd8410_YTang.pdf]

;Tatlock, Kristen Doris, 1986. :'' Raised on romance :a cultural study of romance fiction.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of Virginia.

;Taylor, Jessica Anne, 2013. : “Write the Book of Your Heart: Career, Passion and Publishing in the Romance Writing Community,” Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto. [https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/36016 Abstract and link to pdf]

;Tennenhouse, Tracy Shana, 1996. : "Female Fantasies in Women's Popular Fiction", U California Santa Barbara, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 57.9:3943)

;Therrien, Kathleen Mary, 1998. : "Trembling at Her Own Response: Resistance and Reconciliation in Mass-Market Romance Novels." (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 58.7: 2659) [Special focus on [[Julie Garwood]], [[Amanda Quick]]/[[Jayne Ann Krentz]] and [[Susan Wiggs]].]

;Tienkamp, Aaf, 2016. : "New Adult Romance: An Emerging Genre." Master’s Dissertation Literary Studies. Programme: Writing, Editing and Mediating, University of Groningen. [http://arts.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/18051/1/MA_2449307_A_Tienkamp.pdf]

;Travis, Melissa E., 2013. : "Assume the Position: Exploring Discipline Relationships." Sociology Dissertations, Paper 71. Ph.D thesis. Georgia State University, Ph.D thesis. [http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/sociology_diss/71/ Abstract] and [http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1070&context=sociology_diss pdf]. [See the section on "Discipline Romance Novels", pp. 159-66.]

;Turner, Natasha, 2015. : "Contemporary Erotic Romance: Cunning Linguists or Fifty Shades of Feminist Dismay?" BA (Hons) dissertation, published in ''The New Birmingham Review'' 1.2. [These older links are no longer working [http://www.newbirminghamreview.uk/ojs/index.php/nbr/article/view/44 Abstract] [http://www.newbirminghamreview.uk/ojs/index.php/nbr/article/view/44/21 pdf] but the item should [https://www.academia.edu/10303798/Contemporary_Erotic_Romance_Cunning_Linguists_or_Fifty_Shades_of_Feminist_Dismay?email_work_card=title still be available here]]

;Uddin-Khan, Evelyn Angelina, 1995. : "Gender, Ethnicity and the Romance Novel," Columbia U, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 56.11:4341)

;Vani, Christina, 2018. : ''Immortal Words: The Language and Style of the Contemporary Italian Undead-Romance Novel''. Ph.D. thesis. University of Toronto, 2018. [https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/91987/3/Vani_Christina_201811_PhD_thesis.pdf]

;Walker, Lynn G., 2000. : ''Women Reading Popular Fiction: Influences on Gender Identity.'' Thesis (M.A.L.S.)--North Central College.

;Warner, Celeste R., 2010. : ''Heyer’s Heroes: An Investigation into [[Georgette Heyer]] and Her Literary ‘Mark’ on the Regency Hero''. A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in English at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.[http://hdl.handle.net/10289/4406]

;Whalen, Kacey, 2017. : "A Consumption of Gay Men: Navigating the Shifting Boundaries of M/M Romantic Readership", MA thesis from DePaul University.[http://via.library.depaul.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1234&context=etd]

;White, Ann Yvonne, 2008. : ''Genesis Press: Cultural Representation and the Production of African American Romance Novels''. Ph.D. thesis from the University of Iowa. [[http://infohawk.uiowa.edu/F?func=direct&local_base=uiowa&doc_number=004400887 Link to University of Iowa catalogue details.]] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uuGj4AKOTXoC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Whyte, Tamara Lynn. 2013. :''Shakespeare in Love: Appropriation of Shakespeare in Popular Romance Novels.'' U of Alabama. (''Dissertation Abstracts International'') 75, no. 6 (December 2014). [http://acumen.lib.ua.edu/#!/u0015_0000001_0001465/document/u0015_0000001_0001465?page=1&limit=40]

;Wiebe, Laura, 2013. : ''Speculative Matter: Generic Affinities, Posthumanisms and Science-Fictional Imaginings''. Ph.D. thesis from McMaster University.[http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8703&context=opendissertations] [See in particular pages 37-71 on love, romance and Christine Feehan's Ghostwalkers series of romances.]

;Wilson, Elizabeth Suzanne, 1986. : ''Women creating men :the history of the hero in contemporary category romance fiction since the 1950s.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

;Wirtén, Eva Hemmungs, 1998. : ''Global Infatuation: Explorations in Transnational Publishing and Texts: The case of Harlequin Enterprises and Sweden'', Section for Sociology of Literature at the Department of Literature, Uppsala University. [http://www.abm.uu.se/evahw/Global_Infatuation.pdf PDF was there] but can now be downloaded from [https://www.academia.edu/433430/Global_Infatuation_Explorations_in_Transnational_Publishing_and_Texts._The_Case_of_Harlequin_Enterprises_and_Sweden here]

;Wood, Andrea, 2008. : ''Radicalizing Romance: Subculture, Sex, and Media at the Margins''. PhD Thesis, University of Florida. AAT 3392728 [http://etd.fcla.edu/UF/UFE0023561/wood_a.pdf PDF]

;Young, Beth Rapp, 1995. : "But are they any good? Women readers, formula fiction, and the sacralization of the literary canon", U of Southern California, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 57.2:893)

;Young, Erin S., 2010. : "Corporate Heroines and Utopian Individualism: A Study of the Romance Novel in Global Capitalism", Ph.D. thesis, University of Oregon, AAT 3420428. [https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/11460 Pdf available from University of Oregon.] [This author has since had 2 articles published which appear to draw on this thesis. See the main academic romance bibliography for details. "This dissertation explores two subgenres of popular romance fiction that emerge in the 1990s: 'corporate' and 'paranormal' romance. While the formulaic conventions of popular romance have typically centralized the gendered tension between hero and heroine, this project reveals that 'corporate' and 'paranormal' romances negotiate a new primary conflict, the tension between work and home in the era of global capitalism. [...] The 'corporate' romances of [[Jayne Ann Krentz]], [[Nora Roberts]], [[Elizabeth Lowell]], and [[Katherine Stone]] feature heroines who constantly navigate the dual and intersecting arenas of work and home in an effort to locate a balance that leads to success and happiness in both realms. In contrast, the 'paranormal' romances of [[Laurell K. Hamilton]], [[Charlaine Harris]], [[Kelley Armstrong]], and [[Carrie Vaughn]] dissolve the tension between home and work, or the private and the public, by affirming the heroine's open and endless pursuit of pleasure, adventure, and self-fulfillment."]

;Young, Whitney A., 2013. : "Monsters in My Bed: Accounting for the Popularity of Young Adult Paranormal Romances." MA Thesis. Georgia State University. [http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1035&context=wsi_theses]

;Yuill, Brendon, 2018. : "Sheiks and Sherifs: Western Portrayals of the Middle East between the World Wars." MA Thesis. University of Central Oklahoma.[https://search.proquest.com/openview/bca2306d1789bef0c53ba80b278430bc/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y]

;Zachik-Smith, Susie, 1993. : ''Romance by the book :a morphological analysis of the popular romance.'' Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, San Bernardino.

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;Dalsgaard, Inger H. 2009. : "Consumed by Romance: Narration, Branding, and Participation in the Digital Marketplace." In ''Internet Fictions,'' 128-146. (Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars). [In the [http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/978-1-4438-0108-9-sample.pdf introduction to this volume of essays] the editors mention that "Inger H. Dalsgaard [...] investigates the practices of romance fiction writers and readers on the net through the lense [sic] of late capitalist marketing strategies and ideologies which seek to market products as goods designed by the customer rather than as prefabricated objects: romance sites, she contends, and the marketing of toys for children have a lot more in common than one might suppose."]

;Daly, Brenda O. 1989. : 'Laughing WITH, or Laughing AT the Young-Adult Romance', ''The English Journal'', 78.6: 50-60.

;Danaher, Mike and Margaret Jamieson, 2016. : “On Manoeuvre: Navigating Practice-Led Methodology in a Creative Writing PhD for the First Time.” ''Constructing Methodology for Qualitative Research: Researching Education and Social Practices''. Ed. Bobby Harreveld, Mike Danaher, Celeste Lawson, Bruce Allan Knight and Gillian Busch. London: Palgrave, 2016. 155-169. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lrXsDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [It’s about a Australian PhD on historical romance being written by a mature student who was in prison herself and believes historical romance can empower women.]

;Dandridge, Rita B., 2003. : 'The Race, Gender, Romance Connection: A Black Feminist Reading of African American Women's Historical Romances', in ''Doubled Plots: Romance and History'', see below, pp. 185-201. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lqx4qPr6uroC&pg=PA185&dq=&hl=en&ei=8fsZTPX2H8iosQaVwMzDBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Dandridge, Rita B., 2003. : 'African American Women's Historical Romances: Race and Gender Revisited', ''The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference'', Ed. Leslie Fife, pp. 42-56. [http://robertleston.com/my-files/PAF/2000-2003%20SW-Texas%20PCA-ACA%20Proceedings.pdf Whole proceedings online here.]

;Dandridge, Rita B., 2004. : ''Black Women's Activism: Reading African American Women's Historical Romances'', African-American Literature and Culture, 5 (New York: Peter Lang). [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=106433704 Index and extracts]

;Dandridge, Rita B., 2010. : 'The African American Historical Romance: An Interview with [[Beverly Jenkins]]', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 1.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2010/08/interview-beverly-jenkins-by-rita-b-dandridge/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/JPRS1.1_Dandridge_InterviewBeverlyJenkins.pdf as a pdf].]

;Dandridge, Rita B., 2016. : 'Love Prevailed Despite What American History Said: Agape and Eros in Beverly Jenkins's ''Night Song'' and ''Through the Storm''', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 151-166.

;Dannenberg, Hilary P. 2008. : "Nadine Gordimer's The Pickup and the Desert Romance Tradition in Post/Colonial Anglophone Fiction." ''Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa'' 20, no. 1: 69-88.

;Darbyshire, Peter, 2000. : ‘Romancing the World: [[Harlequin]] Romances, the Capitalist Dream, and the Conquest of Europe and Asia’, ''Studies in Popular Culture'' 23.1 [http://www.pcasacas.org/SPC/spcissues/23.1/darbyshire.htm] [If that link is broken, the article should still be available [http://web.archive.org/web/20050417053043/http://pcasacas.org/SPC/spcissues/23.1/darbyshire.htm via the Internet Archive].]

;Darbyshire, Peter, 2002. : ‘The Politics of Love: [[Harlequin]] Romances and the Christian Right’, ''Journal of Popular Culture'' (Popular Culture Center, Bowling Green State Univ., OH) (35:4) [Spring 2002]: 75-87.

;Dascăl, Reghina, 2012. : 'Raj Matriarchs: Women Authors of Anglo-Indian Romance' In ''Romance: The History of a Genre,'' 179-200. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars. [Excerpt available [http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Romance--The-History-of-a-Genre1-4438-3734-2.htm from here]]

;Davis, Sara N., 2005. : 'Values and the Romance Novel: Journeys of the Reader', in ''Education, Arts and Morality: Creative Journeys'', ed. Doris B. Wallace (Kluwer: New York), pp. 45-62. [http://books.google.com/books?id=VjaK5lke2BUC&pg=PA45&dq=%22values+and+the+romance+novel%22&sig=LMnmHha92Ijpdlb5tll8XuTo7us Excerpt] [This paper "examines the ways in which reader responses are constructed in dialogue with cultural discourses. These provide the context when students read romance novels. Readers enter the process with many negative evaluations of romance novels which conflict with other prevalent discourses valuing romance for women."] [http://www.springerlink.com/content/p117u4m521658t82/?p=cff70741729244d0828f5b65af2b3e0a&pi=2 Details here.]

;Deal, Clare H., 2015. : "‘Throbb[ing] with a consciousness of a knowledge that appalled her’: Embodiment and Female Subjectivity in the Desert Romance", ''Women: A Cultural Review'' 26.1-2: 75-95. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09574042.2015.1035049?src=recsys#.VdNvq7P7s_t Abstract]

;Deffenbacher, Kristina, 2014. : "Rape Myths' Twilight and Women's Paranormal Revenge in Romantic and Urban Fantasy Fiction." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 47.5: 923-936. [http://www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.12179/abstract Abstract]

;De Geest, D., and A. Goris. 2010. : "Constrained writing, creative writing: The case of handbooks for writing romances." ''Poetics Today'' 31, (1): 81-106.[https://www.academia.edu/9990200/Constrained_Writing_Creative_Writing_The_Case_of_Handbooks_for_Writing_Romances]

;Delamoir, Jeanette, 2003. : "Marie Bjelke Petersen's 'Virile Story': ''Jewelled Nights'', Gender Instability, and the Bush", ''Hecate'' 29.1: 115-131. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6655/is_1_29/ai_n29018696/pg_2/?tag=content;col1 Unofficial version]

;Delany, Samuel R., 1987. : “The Gestation of Genres: Literature, Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy ...” ''Intersections: Fantasy and Science Fiction'', eds George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP), pp. 63-73. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Zao2IFNhvQkC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA63#v=onepage&q&f=false]

;DeVries, Susan, Margaret Dunlop, Suzanne Goopy, Wendy Moyle, and Diane Sutherland-Lockhart, 1995. : 'Discipline and Passion: Meaning, Masochism and Mythology in Popular Medical Romances', ''Nursing Inquiry'' 2.4: 203-210. [http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119256839/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 Abstract] [https://www.academia.edu/662364/Discipline_and_passion_meaning_masochism_and_mythology_in_popular_medical_romances?email_work_card=title pdf]

;Diamond, Geneva, 2015. : "Medievalism and the Courtship Plot in Julie Garwood's Popular Romance Novels", in ''The Middle Ages in Popular Culture: Medievalism and Genre'', ed. Helen Young (Amhurst, NY: Cambria). [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vQ1HCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT51&lpg=PT51&source=bl&ots=_PQEh3U222&sig=j9ZJVpa2AjSEeQONOafVm_dfW-A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAGoVChMI-cm8uY3WxwIVBPEUCh1CyQgx#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Diekman, Amanda B., McDonald, Mary, & Gardner, Wendi L., 2000. : 'Love Means Never Having To Be Careful: The Relationship Between Reading Romance Novels and Safe Sex Behavior', ''Psychology of Women Quarterly'', 24.2: 179-188. [http://serials.cib.unibo.it/cgi-ser/start/it/spogli/df-s.tcl?prog_art=3106218&language=ITALIANO&view=articoli Abstract]

;Dillon, George L., 2007. : 'The Genres Speak; Using Large Corpora to Profile Generic Registers.' ''Journal of Literary Semantics,'' 36.2: 159-187. Part II looks at romance fiction. [http://www.msh-reseau.prd.fr/RevuesSom/detailrevue.jsp?Drevue=%22Journalx032;ofx032;literaryx032;semantics%22 Abstract available via this page]

;Dixon, jay, 1987. : 'Fantasy Unlimited: the World of Mills and Boon', ''Women's Review'', 21 (July): 18-19.**

;Dixon, jay, 1999. : ''The Romance Fiction of [[Mills and Boon|Mills & Boon]] 1909-1990s'' (London: UCL Press). [http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1857282663/ref=sib_rdr_toc/103-7667421-4472612?%5Fencoding=UTF8&p=S00A&j=0#reader-page Contents page and excerpt]

;Dixon, Peter, and Marisa Bortolussi. 2009. : "Readers' Knowledge of Popular Genre." ''Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal'' 46, no. 6: 541-571. [http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all?content=10.1080/01638530902959570 Abstract]

;[http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/278 Doubled Plots: Romance and History], 2003. : eds. Susan Strehle and Mary Paniccia Carden (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi).

;Douglas, Ann, 1980. : 'Soft-Porn Culture: Punishing the Liberated Woman.' ''The New Republic'' Vol.183, No.9 （August 30, 1980): 25-29.

;Doyle, Marsha Vanderford, 1985. : "The Rhetoric of Romance: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Barbara Cartland Novels." ''Southern Speech Communication Journal'' 51: 24-48. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10417948509372645#.VQxTdmPNbHI Abstract]

;Dreimane, Jana, 2015. : "Authors, Publishers and Readers of Popular Literature in Latvia in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s." ''Interlitteraria'' 20.2: 56–70. [https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/IL/article/view/IL.2015.20.2.6 Abstract] [http://kleio.ee/index.php/IL/article/viewFile/IL.2015.20.2.6/7604 Full text]

;Driscoll, Beth, 2014. : "Genre, Author, Text, Reader: Teaching Nora Roberts’s ''Spellbound''." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2. [http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/genre-author-text-reader-teaching-nora-robertss-spellboundby-beth-driscoll/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/GATR_Driscoll.pdf as a pdf file]]

;Driscoll, Beth, Lisa Fletcher and Kim Wilkins, 2016. : "Women, Akubras and Ereaders: Romance Fiction and Australian Publishing." ''The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing''. Ed. Emmett Stinson and Aaron Mannion. Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing. 67-87. [https://www.academia.edu/34113634/Women_Akubras_and_Ereaders_Romance_Fiction_and_Australian_Publishing]

;Driscoll, Beth, Lisa Fletcher, Kim Wilkins and David Carter, 2018. : "The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction." ''Creative Industries Journal'' 11.2: 203-221. [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17510694.2018.1480851?scroll=top&needAccess=true Abstract]

;Driscoll, Beth, 2019. : 'Book Blogs as Tastemakers', ''Participations'' 16.1: 280-305.[http://www.participations.org/Volume%2016/Issue%201/14.pdf] [Looks at romance fiction blogs Smart Bitches, Trashy Books (SBTB), Natasha is a Book Junkie (NIABJ), and Joyfully Jay.]

;Driscoll, Catherine, 2006. : "One True Pairing: The Romance of Pornography and the Pornography of Romance." Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays, eds. Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse (Jefferson, NC: McFarland): 79–96. [http://karenhellekson.com/?page_id=38 Abstract] [Pdf can be downloaded [http://usyd.academia.edu/CatherineDriscoll/Papers/649414/One_True_Pairing_The_Romance_of_Pornography_and_the_Pornography_of_Romance from Academia.edu].]

;Dubino, Jeanne. 1993. : “The Cinderella Complex: Romance Fiction, Patriarchy, and Capitalism.” ''Journal of Popular Culture'', 27.3: 103-118.

;Duder, C. J. D., 1991. : “Love and the Lions: The Image of White Settlement in Kenya in Popular Fiction, 1919-1939.” ''African Affairs'', 90.360: 427-38. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/722940 First page.]

;Dudovitz, Resa L., 1990. : ''The Myth of Superwoman: Women's Bestsellers in France and the United States.'' (New York: Routledge). Chapter 4 is 'The boundary between the romance and the bestseller: Harlequins, historical novels and family.'

;Dugger, Julie M., 2014. : "“I’m a Feminist, But…” Popular Romance in the Women’s Literature Classroom." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2. [http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/im-a-feminist-but-popular-romance-in-the-womens-literature-classroomby-julie-m-dugger/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/IAFB_Dugger.pdf as a pdf]]

;Dyhouse, Carol, 2017. : ''Hearthrobs: A History of Women and Desire''. Oxford: Oxford UP. [https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Heartthrobs.html?id=RCuhDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

==E==

;Ebert, Teresa L., 1988. : 'The Romance of Patriarchy: Ideology, Subjectivity, and Postmodern Feminist Cultural Theory', ''Cultural Critique'', 10: 19-57.

;Ebert, Teresa L., 2009. : "Chick Lit: 'Not Your Mother's Romance Novels'." ''The Task of Cultural Critique'' (Urbana: University of Illinois Press), pp. 97-117. [This is Chapter 5 of the book and in order to discuss chick lit Ebert engages in a fair amount of analysis of the romance genre. An excerpt is available [http://books.google.com/books?id=OEYGxoLGApYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA97#v=onepage&q&f=false here].]

;Ebert, Teresa L., 2012. : ‘Hegel's “picture-thinking” as the interpretive logic of the popular’, ''Textual Practice''. [This was first published as an iFirst article so at the time of adding the entry it hadn't yet been been allocated to a particular issue of the journal. "The paper examines Hegel's concept of ‘picture-thinking’ and demonstrates how it has become the commonsense of contemporary popular culture through a close reading of women's romances as exemplary of a popular knowing that emphasizes the sensual concrete and cancels the abstract."[http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2012.719712 Click here for more details.]]

;Edmondson, Belinda, 2007.: 'The Black romance.' " ''Women's Studies Quarterly'' 35.1/2: 191-211. [http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/27649661?uid=3738032&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21100798892481 Excerpt]

;Egan, Jesi, 2016. : 'Cultural Futurity and the Politics of Recovery: Mary Renault's Ambivalent Romances.' ''MFS Modern Fiction Studies'' 62.3: 462-80. [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/631176/summary Abstract]

;Eike, Ann M., 1986. : ‘An Investigation of the Market for Paperback Romance Novels’, ''Journal of Cultural Economics'', 10:1: 25-36.

;Ehnenn, Jill, 1998. : 'Desperately Seeking Susan Among the Trash: Reinscription, Subversion and Visibility in the Lesbian Romance Novel', ''Atlantis'', special issue on "Sexualities and Feminisms", 23.1: 120-127. [http://journals.msvu.ca/index.php/atlantis/article/view/1698 Abstract and link to full text]

;Elliott, Jack, 2014. : 'Patterns and Trends in Harlequin Category Romance', ''Advancing Digital Humanities: Research, Methods, Theories'', Ed. Katherine Bode and Paul Longley Arthur. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9LMaBgAAQBAJ&lpg=PT15&ots=0CaEEtS6Pl&lr&pg=PT69#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Elliott, Jack, 2014. : 'Vocabulary Decay in Category Romance'. ''Digital Scholarship in the Humanities'', Online, December 2014. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqu069 Abstract]

;Elliott, Jack, 2015. : 'Whole Genre Sequencing', ''Digital Scholarship in the Humanities'', Online, August 2015. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqv034 Abstract]

;Emrys, A. B., 1994. : "Magic Regencies: How Fantasy Forms a Hybrid." ''Popular Culture Review'' 5.1: 85-93.

;Engler, Sandra, 2005. :'' "A Career's Wonderful, but Love is More Wonderful Still" : Femininity and Masculinity in the Fiction of Mills & Boon.'' Tübingen: Francke.

;English Studies Group, 1978-9, 1980. : 'Recent Developments in English Studies at the Centre', ''Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 1972-79'', ed. Stuart Hall, Dorothy Hobson, Andrew Lowe and Paul Willis. 1980. London: Taylor & Francis, 2005. 227-262. [See pages 250-262 which "suggest analogies between certain narratives - the novels of [[Barbara Cartland]] - and a particular grammar practised within an historical institution: English teaching from the 1930s to the 1950s" and draws parallels between romance and "Gramsci's characterisation of common sense".]

;Erwin, Lee. 2002. : "Genre and Authority in Some Popular Nigerian Women's Novels." ''Research in African Literatures'' 33, no. 2: 81-99. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/3820975 Excerpt]

;Escolar, Marisa, 2015. : "Marry the Allies? Luciana Peverelli’s ‘True’ ''Romanzo Rosa'' in ‘Liberated’ Rome." ''Italian Culture'' 70.2: 228-248. [http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/0075163415Z.00000000097 Abstract]

;Esquibel, Catrióna Rueda, 1992. : "A Duel of Wits and the Lesbian Romance Novel: Or, Verbal Intercourse in Fictional Regency England." in ''New Perspectives on Women and Comedy.'' Ed. Regina Barreca, (Philadelphia, PA: Gordon and Breach) pp. 123-133.

;Esser, L. G., Adkins, D., & Velasquez, D. L., 2008. : "“The Red Dot District”: Uncommon Ground in Reader Advisory Education and Professional Practice." in ''Educational Media and Technology Yearbook'' 33. Ed. Michael Orey, V. J. McClendon, Robert Maribe Branch. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited. 105–111. **

==F==

;Faktorovich, Anna, 2014. : ''The Formulas of Popular Fiction: Elements of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Religious and Mystery Novels''. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BVeDBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Faktorovich, Anna, 2015. : ''Gender Bias in Mystery and Romance Novel Publishing: Mimicking Masculinity and Femininity''. (Stone Mountain, GA: Anaphora Literary P).

;Faktorovich, Anna, 2015. : "Interview with Mary Jo Putney, Best-Selling Romance Author." ''Pennsylvania Literary Journal'' 7.2:10-24.[http://anaphoraliterary.com/plj/plj-excerpts/interview-with-mary-jo-putney-best-selling-romance-author/ Available in full]

;Fahnestock-Thomas, Mary, 2001. : ''[[Georgette Heyer]]: a Critical Retrospective.'' Saraland,AL: PrinnyWorld Press. [[http://www.amazon.com/Georgette-Heyer-Retrospective-Mary-Fahnestock-Thomas/dp/0966800532 Excerpt available] via Amazon's "Look Inside!" feature. [http://www.biggerbooks.com/bk_detail.aspx?ISBN=9780966800531 Index]]

;Farooqui, Javaria and Rabia Ashraf, 2019. : ‘Reconnaissance of “Difference” in Cognitive Maps: Authenticating Happily Ever After in Julia Quinn’s ''To Sir Philip with Love''’, ''Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences'' 22.2: 71-82. [https://jhss-khazar.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Reconnaissance-of-%E2%80%98Difference%E2%80%99-in-Cognitive-Maps-Authenticating-Happily-Ever-After-in-Julia-Quinn%E2%80%99s-To-Sir-Philip-with-Love.pdf]

;Faura, Salvador, Shelley Godsland, and Nickianne Moody, 2004. : "The Romance Novel, or, the Generalisimo's Control of the Popular Imagination." in ''Reading the Popular in Contemporary Spanish Texts.'' pp. 46-58. (Newark, DE: U of Delaware P.)(About Corin Tellado, Spanish romance novelist) [[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=twRJwNrGreIC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA46,M1 Excerpt here].]

;Felski, Rita, 1990. : 'Kitsch, Romance Fiction And Male Paranoia: Stephen King meets the Frankfurt School', ''Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture'', 4.1.[http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/4.1/Felski.html]

;Feng, Jin, 2011. : 'Men Conquer the World and Women Save Mankind: Rewriting Patriarchal Traditions through Web-based Matriarchal Romances', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 1.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2011/03/men-conquer-the-world-and-women-save-mankind/] ["This article examines one Chinese women's literature website by the name of Jinjiang, and focuses especially on a particular type of popular romance, nüzun, or matriarchal narratives."].

;Feng, Jin, 2013. : ''Romancing the Internet: Producing and Consuming Chinese Web Romance.'' Leiden: Brill. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yQGaAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina, 2019. : "Chamorro WWII Romances: Combating Erasure with Tales of Survival and Vitality", ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 8.[http://jprstudies.org/2019/07/chamorro-wwii-romances-combating-erasure-with-tales-of-survival-and-vitalityby-carolina-fernandez-rodriguez/]

;Finn, Geraldine, 1988. : 'Women, Fantasy, and Popular Culture: The Wonderful World of Harlequin Romance', ''Popular Cultures and Political Practices'', Ed. Richard Gruneau (Toronto: Garamond Press), 51-67.** [A review by Herman Gray in ''Contemporary Sociology'' 19.1 (1990) describes Finn's article as "The real joy of the volume" and there are further details as follows: "Consistent with the Cultural Studies approach, Finn convincingly demonstrates how Harlequin texts and women's experiences of them express the contradictions that structure women's lives. She argues that women readers find refuge in the Harlequin novels, while at the same time such refuge helps to maintain and reproduce structures of domination that women experience" (74). Another summary of Finn's essay can be found in [http://irs.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/25/3/248 a review in the ''International Review for the Sociology of Sport'', 25.3, 248-249 (1990).]

;Fisher, Maryanne and Anthony Cox, 2010. : 'Man Change Thyself: Hero Versus Heroine Development in Harlequin Romance Novels', ''Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology'' 4.4: 305-316. [http://137.140.1.71/jsec/articles/volume4/issue4/FisherVol4Iss4.pdf] or [http://www.maryannefisher.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Fisher_Cox_Neeps2010.pdf].

;Fisher, Maryanne L., and Tami M. Meredith. 2012. : "The Success behind the Candy-Colored Covers: An Evolutionary Perspective on Romance Novels." ''Evolutionary Review'' 3, no. 1: 155-167.

;Flegel, Monica and Jenny Roth, 2010. : 'Annihilating love and heterosexuality without women: Romance, generic difference, and queer politics in "Supernatural" fan fiction', Transformative Works and Cultures 4. [http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/133/147 Available online].

;Flesch, Juliet, 1996. : 'A Labour of Love? Compiling a Bibliography of Twentieth Century Australian Romance Novels', ''APLIS'', 9.3-4: 170-78.

;Flesch, Juliet, 1997. : 'Not just housewives and old maids', ''Collection Building'', 16.3: 119-124. [Describes the content of The Romance Fiction Collection in the University of Melbourne Library, 'the reasons for its establishment and some special aspects of its housing and bibliographical control. Also suggests some of the uses to which it may be put'.] [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mcb/171/1997/00000016/00000003/art00003 Abstract]

;Flesch, Juliet, 2004. : ''From Australia With Love: A History of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels'' (Fremantle, W.A.: Curtin University Books).

;Flesch, Juliet, 2005. : ‘Blushing Bride to Bush Matriarch: Women in the Fiction of [[Lucy Walker]].’ ''Journal of Publishing''. Australian Special Issue. 1 (October 2005): 37-52.**

;Flesch, Juliet, 2007. : 'Love under the Coolabah: Australian Romance Publishing since 1990', in ''Making books: Contemporary Australian Publishing''. Ed. David Carter and Anne Galligan. St. Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press. 279-285. ** [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=p4wu8G4XgH0C&lpg=PP1&ots=XhPwRmBzdP&dq=Making%20books%3A%20Contemporary%20Australian%20Publishing&pg=PA280 Excerpt]

;Flesch, Juliet, 2009. : ‘”Feminists Talk about Sisterhood: I Do Not Know How Deeply They Feel It”: Australian Mass Market Romance Novels and Their Critics,’ ''Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader'', Ed. Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal (New Delhi: SSS Publications, 2009). pp. 419-??. **

;Flesch, Juliet, 2012. : 'The Wide Brown Land and the Big Smoke: The Setting of Australian Popular Romance', ''Sold by the Millions: Australia's Bestsellers''. Ed. Toni Johnson-Woods and Amit Sarwal (Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars), pp. 82-95. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XDIsBwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA82#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [The introduction to this volume of essays can be found [http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Sold-by-the-Millions--Australia-s-Bestsellers1-4438-3584-6.htm here].]

;Fletcher, Lisa, 2003. : "Historical Romance, Gender and Heterosexuality: John Fowles's ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'' and A.S. Byatt's ''Possession''." ''Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies'' 7.1-2: 26-42. [http://eprints.utas.edu.au/540/1/jigs_LF.pdf PDF]

;Fletcher, Lisa, 2004. : ‘“Mere Costumery”? Georgette Heyer’s Cross-Dressing Novels,’ in ''Masquerades: Disguise in English Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present'', Eds. Pilar Sánchez Calle and Jesús López-Paláez Casellas, (Gdansk: University of Gdansk Press), pp. 196-212. [http://eprints.utas.edu.au/538/ Abstract][https://www.academia.edu/1904046/_Mere_costumery_Georgette_Heyers_cross-dressing_novels Download]

;Fletcher, Lisa, 2008. : ''Historical Romance Fiction and Heterosexuality: Heterosexuality and Performativity'', (Ashgate). [Fletcher examines "the connections between popular “classics” by [...] Georgette Heyer, a selection of mass market historical romances published between 1980 and 2005," John Fowles’s ''The French Lieutenant’s Woman'' and A.S. Byatt’s ''Possession''.] [https://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=9945&edition_id=10544 Abstract, Index and Excerpt] and [http://books.google.com/books?id=GK3m60_Q6WIC&dq=&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=I0c5aQHGTM&sig=JjYPIXBRcP6YrWE7-AJxzKOMl5g&hl=en&ei=F40aSuTBI8irjAfz_fDwDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPP1,M1 Excerpts via Google Books].

;Fletcher, Lisa, Rosemary Gaby, and Jennifer Kloester, 2011. : 'Pedagogy Report: Embedding Popular Romance Studies in Undergraduate English Units: Teaching [[Georgette Heyer]]’s ''Sylvester''', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 1.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2011/03/pedagogy-report-embedding-popular-romance-studies-in-undergraduate-english/].

; Fletcher, Lisa, 2013. : 'The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Popular Romance Studies: What is it, and why does it matter?', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/the-scholarship-of-teaching-and-learning-popular-romance-studies-what-is-it-and-why-does-it-matter-by-lisa-fletcher/]. [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Fletcher_Scholarship.pdf as a pdf].]

;Fletcher, Lisa, 2014. : 'Writing the Happy Ever After: An Interview with Anne Gracie', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2. [http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/writing-the-happy-ever-after-an-interview-with-anne-gracieby-lisa-fletcher/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/WTHEA_Fletcher1.pdf as a pdf].]

;Fletcher, Lisa, Beth Driscoll, and Kim Wilkins, 2018. : "Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance", ''Journal of Popular Culture''. Online First 16 July 2018. [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jpcu.12706 Excerpt]

;Fong, Katrina, Justin B. Mullin and Raymond A. Mar, 2013. : "What You Read Matters: The Role of Fiction Genre in Predicting Interpersonal Sensitivity". ''Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts'' 7.4 (2013): 370-376.[http://www.yorku.ca/mar/fong%20et%20al%202013_PACA_what%20you%20read%20matters.pdf]

;Fong, Katrina, Justin B. Mullin, and Raymond A. Mar, 2015. : "How Exposure to Literary Genres Relates to Attitudes Toward Gender Roles and Sexual Behavior." ''Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts''. Advance online publication. 27 April 2015. [http://www.yorku.ca/mar/Fong%20et%20al_PACA_Genre%20and%20sexual%20attitudes.pdf]

;Forbes, Curdella, 2006. : 'X Press Publications: Pop Culture, “Pop Lit” and Caribbean Literary Criticism: An Essay of Provocation', ''Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal'' 4.1. [http://anthurium.miami.edu/volume_4/issue_1/forbes-xpress.html]

;Fordham, Helen, 2014. : '‘That’s love for you’: Destabilizing divides and re-imaging subjectivities in the romantic fiction of Eloisa James.' ''Australasian Journal of Popular Culture'' 3.3: 273-284. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/ajpc/2014/00000003/00000003/art00003 Abstract]

;Foster, Guy Mark, 2007. : 'How Dare a Black Woman Make Love to a White Man! Black Women Romance Novelists and the Taboo of Interracial Desire.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 103-128. [http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1academicnews/004466.shtml Article about Foster's research and this item.]

;Foster, Guy Mark, 2015. : 'What To Do If Your Inner Tomboy Is a Homo: Straight Women, Bisexuality, and Pleasure in M/M Gay Romance Fictions', ''Journal of Bisexuality'', Published online first. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15299716.2015.1092910 Abstract]

;Fox, Pamela, 1994. : 'The "Revolt of the Gentle": Romance and the Politics of Resistance in Working-Class Women's Writing', ''NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction'', 27.2: 140-160. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/1345818 Excerpt]

;Fowler, Bridget, 1979. : ' "True to Me Always": An Analysis of Women's Magazine Fiction', ''The British Journal of Sociology'' 30.1: 91-119. [http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/589503 Abstract] [Fowler takes "for analysis stories published in popular twopenny magazines and sampled them at four-weekly intervals for the period mid-1929 to mid-1930".]

;Fowler, Bridget, 1991. : ''The Alienated Reader: Women and Popular Romantic Literature in the Twentieth Century'' (Brighton: Harvester Wheatsheaf).

;Francis, Conseula and Alison Piepmeier, 2011. : 'Interview: Joanna Russ,' ''Journal of Popular romance Studies'' 1.2. [http://jprstudies.org/2011/03/interview-joanna-russ/] ["In this interview, Russ reflects on her initial responses to slash fandom and considers its political and social meanings in the 1980s and today."]

;Francis, Conseula, 2016. : 'Flipping the Script: Romancing Zane's Urban Erotica', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 167-180.

;Franco, Jean, 1986. : "The Incorporation of Women: A Comparison of North American and Mexican Popular Narrative." in ''Studies in Entertainment: Critical Approaches to Mass Culture.'' Ed. Tania Modleski, (Bloomington: Indiana UP), pp. 119-138. [Especially Harlequin Romances; treatment of women; compared to photonovel. Franco says that "While there is an obvious risk in laying too much emphasis on a single example, I am now going to do precisely that" and chooses to take as a specific example of a Harlequin romance ''[[Moon Witch |Moonwitch]]'' [sic] by [[Anne Mather |Ann Mather]] [sic]."] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7uRtV1ZzHY8C&lpg=PR18&ots=X8_Sf_8M6H&dq=&pg=PA126#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Franco, Jean, 2004. : "Plotting Women: Popular Narratives for Women in the United States and in Latin America." in ''The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader.'' Eds. Ana Del Sarto, Alicia Ríos, and Abril Trigo, (Durham, NC: Duke UP) pp. 183-202.

;Franssen, Thomas and Olav Velthuis, 2014. : 'Making materiality matter: a sociological analysis of prices on the Dutch fiction book market, 1980–2009.' ''Socio-Economic Review''. [http://ser.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/08/07/ser.mwu025.abstract Abstract] ["in terms of size, romance books are smaller than all other books: on average 18.48 cm, which is 1.5 cm less than the other genres. This implies that each romance novel is, just because of its size, 24% cheaper than other genres."]

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2002. : "'Expressing' Herself: The Romance Novel and the Feminine Will to Power," in ''Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America.'' Eds. Lydia Cushman Schurman and Deidre Johnson. (Connecticut: Greenwood Press) pp. 17-36. [http://www.academia.edu/411174/_Expressing_Herself_The_Romance_Novel_and_the_Feminine_Will_to_Power Abstract]

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2008. : '[[Suzanne Brockmann]]', ''Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice'' 2.2/3. [Formerly at [http://www.teachingamericanlit.com/files/Microsoft_Word_-_TALTP-BrockmannSuzanne.pdf]. This link no longer works but a pdf of the entire issue can be downloaded from [http://www.cpcc.edu/taltp/archives/spring-summer-2008-2-2-3/spring_summer_2008_merged.pdf/at_download/file]].

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2009. : 'Darcy’s Vampiric Descendants: Austen’s Perfect Romance Hero and J. R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood', ''Persuasions On-line'' 30.1. [http://jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol30no1/frantz.html]

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2009. : "'I’ve tried my entire life to be a good man': [[Suzanne Brockmann]]’s Sam Starrett, Ideal Romance Hero." ''Women Constructing Men: Female Novelists and their Male Characters, 1750-2000''. Ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Katharina Rennhak. (Lanham, MD: Lexington), pp. 227-247. [http://books.google.com/books?id=ByCOQZD0WeYC&pg=PA227#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2012. : ' "How we love ''is'' our soul": Joey W. Hill's BDSM Romance ''Holding the Cards'',' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 47-59.

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2012. : “The History of BDSM Fiction and Romance,” ''Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey'', ed. Lori Perkins (Dallas, TX: BenBella Books), pp. 159-172.

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2013. : 'On the Tenth Anniversary of Pamela Regis’s ''A Natural History of the Romance Novel''', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/on-the-tenth-anniversary-of-pamela-regiss-a-natural-history-of-the-romance-novel-by-sarah-s-g-frantz/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Frantz_RegisOnTenth.pdf as a pdf].]

;Frantz Lyons, Sarah and Eric Murphy Selinger, 2016. : 'Strange Stirrings, Strange Yearnings: ''The Flame and the Flower'', ''Sweet Savage Love'', and the Lost Diversities of Blockbuster Historical Romance', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 89-110.

;Frederick, Rhonda. 2013.: "Making Jamaican Love: Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain and Romance-ified Diaspora Identities." ''Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal Of Criticism'' 17, no. 3: 63-84.

;Frenier, Mariam Darce, 1988. : ''Good-bye Heathcliff: Changing Heroes, Heroines, Roles, and Values in Women’s [[Category]] Romances'', Contributions in Women’s Studies, no. 94. (New York: Greenwood Press). [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=27366802 Contents page and excerpts]

;Friedman, Lenemaja, 1990. : ''Mary Stewart'', Twayne's English Authors Series, 474 (Boston: Twayne). [Chapters 1-4 discuss Mary Stewart's romantic suspense novels, giving the reader what is, in effect, a detailed synopsis and review of each novel.]

;Frolund, Tina, 2007.: ''Genrefied Classics: A Guide to Reading Interests in Classic Literature.'' (Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited) Has a section on Romance Literature. [According to [http://doi.contentdirections.com/mr/greenwood.jsp?doi=10.1336/1591581729 the abstract], "By identifying the genre characteristics of more than 400 classic fiction works, and organizing titles according to those features, it helps readers find the types of books they enjoy; and it helps you promote classics to teen (and adult!) readers."]

;Fuchs, Barbara, 2004. : ''Romance''. The New Critical Idiom. Ed. John Drakakis. New York: Routledge. [See the chapter on "Romance and 'genre' literature," on pages 124-130]. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QZGMt8gSaasC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA124#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] and [http://www.routledgeliterature.com/books/Romance-isbn9780415212618 Index and excerpt available via the "View Inside" feature at Routledge's website]

==G==

;Gagne-Hawes, Genevieve. 2006. : "Anatomy of a Romance: Questioning genre conventions in the novels of Nora Roberts." ''Modern Mask'' 1.2.[http://modernmask.org/Issue_II/modernmask_literature/anatomy.html]

;Ganguly, Keya. 1991. : 'Alien(ated) Readers: Harlequin Romances and the Politics of Popular Culture', ''Communication'', 12.2: 129-50.

;Gardner, Jeanne Emerson. 2013. : "She Got Her Man, but Could She Keep Him? Love and Marriage in American Romance Comics, 1947–1954." ''Journal Of American Culture'' 36, no. 1: 16-24. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jacc.12009/abstract Excerpt]

;Gardner, Jeanne. 2012. : "Girls Who Sinned in Secret and Paid in Public: Romance Comics, 1949-1954." In ''Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns'', 92-102. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012

;Gardner, Jeanne. 2011. :"'True-To-Life': Romance Comics and Teen-Age Desire, 1947-1954." ''Forum for World Literature Studies,'' vol. 3, no. 1, Apr. 2011, pp. 118-128.

;Gargano, Elizabeth, 2006. : ' "English Sheiks" and Arab Stereotypes: E. M. Hull, T. E. Lawrence, and the Imperial Masquerade', ''Texas Studies in Literature and Language'' 48.2: 171-186. [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/texas_studies_in_literature_and_language/v048/48.2gargano.html Excerpt]

;Garland, Sarah, 2012. : 'Ornamentalism: Desire, Disavowal, and Displacement in E. M. Hull's ''The Sheik''', ''Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers from Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code'', ed. Sarah Churchwell and Thomas Ruys Smith (London: Continuum), pp. 197-216.

;Garton, Stephen, 2008. : "'Fit Only for the Scrap Heap': Rebuilding Returned Soldier Manhood in Australia After 1945." ''Gender & History'' 20.1: 48-67. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/gend/2008/00000020/00000001/art00004?crawler=true Abstract]

;Gates, Sarah, 2016. : "Feminism, NASCAR and the Italian billionaire's secret baby: Defending the romance genre." ''Voiceworks'' 103 (Autumn): 95-101. [https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=310777771841114;res=IELLCC Abstract]

;Geest, Dirk de, and An Goris, 2010. : "Constrained Writing, Creative Writing: The Case of Handbooks for Writing Romances." ''Poetics Today'' 31, no. 1: 81-106. [http://poeticstoday.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/31/1/81 Abstract]

;Gelder, Ken, 2004. : ''Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field'' (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge). [See the section on "Romance, formula, industry, subgenres" on pages 43-52.] [http://books.google.com/books?id=7VHERzW1-LMC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA43#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt.]

;Gelder, Ken and Rachael Weaver, 2010. : "Louise Mack and Colonial Pseudo Literature." ''Southerly'' 70.2: 82-95.[https://www.academia.edu/29357278/Louise_Mack_and_Colonial_Pseudo_Literature_2010_]

;Gehrmann, Susanne, 2018. : “Remediating Romance: Forms and Functions of New Media in Contemporary Love Stories from Togo and South Africa”. ''Africa Today'' 65.1: 65-84. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/africatoday.65.1.05?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Abstract]

;Gifford, James, 2017. : “Mary Stewart’s Greek Novels: Hellenism, Orientalism and the Cultural Politics of Pulp Presentation.” ''Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013''. Ed. Eleni Papargyriou, Semele Assinder and David Holton. New York: Peter Lang, 2017. 99-118. [https://www.peterlang.com/view/9781433140488/chapter06.xhtml Excerpt]

;Gilbert, Pam and Sandra Taylor, 1993. : "Reading the Romance," ''Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies''. Ed. Graeme Turner. London: Routledge. 246-??? ** [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=suAOAAAAQAAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA246#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Gill, Rosalind and Elena Herdieckerhoff. 2006. : “Rewriting the Romance: New Femininities in Chick Lit?” ''Feminist Media Studies'' 6.4 (2006): 487-504.[http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a768577256~db=all] Rpt. in ''LSE Research Online''. 2007. LSE Lib., London School of Economics and Political Science. <http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/2514>.

;Gillis, Bryan and Joanna Simpson, 2015. : ''Sexual Content in Young Adult Literature: Reading between the Sheets'' (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield). [See Chapter 6 on "Sexual Content in Young Adult Romance".] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uVamBgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA101#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Gillis, Stacy, 2015. : "The Cross-Dresser, the Thief, His Daughter and Her Lover: Queer Desire and Romance in Georgette Heyer’s ''These Old Shades''", ''Women: A Cultural Review'' 26.1-2: 57-74. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09574042.2015.1035024#.VdNvqLP7s_t Abstract]

;Gillis, Stacy, 2018. : “Manners, Money, and Marriage: Austen, Heyer, and the Literary Genealogy of the Regency Romance”. ''After Austen: Reinventions, Rewritings, Revisitings''. Ed. Lisa Hopkins. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 81-101.

;Glass, E. R., and A. Mineo. 1986. : "Georgette Heyer and the Uses of Regency." In Marucci, Franco (ed.); Bruttini, Adriano (ed.) ''La performance del testo,'' 283-292. Siena: Ticci.

;Gleason, William, 2011. : “Belles, Beaux, and Paratexts: American Story Papers and the Project of Romance.” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1 [http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%E2%80%9Cbelles-beaux-and-paratexts-american-story-papers-and-the-project-of-romance%E2%80%9D-by-william-gleason/]

;Gleason, William A, 2016. : 'Postbellum, Pre-Harlequin: American Romance Publishing in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 57-70.

;Gleason, William, 2016. : "The Inside Story: Jennifer Crusie and the Architecture of Love." ''Popular Fiction and Spatiality: Reading Genre Settings''. Ed. Lisa Fletcher. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 79-93. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pz5rDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA80#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-137-56902-8_6 Abstract]

;Goade, Sally, 2007. : 'Introduction' pp. 1-11 and 'Understanding the Pleasure: An Undergraduate Romance Reading Community.' pp. 206-230 in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing). Edited by Goade. [pdf of table of contents, introduction and first chapter [http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Empowerment-versus-Oppression--Twenty-First-Century-Views-of-Popular-Romance-Novels.htm here]]

;Goldman, Crystal, 2012. : “Love in the Stacks: Popular Romance Collection Development in Academic Libraries,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2012/10/love-in-the-stacks-popular-romance-collection-development-in-academic-libraries-by-crystal-goldman/]

;Goldman, Crystal, 2015. : “Special Issue: Romancing the Library (Editor’s Introduction),” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/special-issue-romancing-the-library-editors-introductionby-crystal-goldman/]

;Golubov, Nattie, 2017. : "Reading the Romance Writer as an Author-Entrepreneur," ''Interférences littéraires/Literaire interferenties'' 21 (December), "Gendered Authorial Corpographies", Ed. Aina Pérez Fontdevila & Meri Torras Francès, 131-160. [http://www.interferenceslitteraires.be/node/748 Abstract and link to pdf]

;Gómez Calderón, María José. : “Romancing the Dark Ages: The Viking Hero in Sentimental Narrative.” ''Boletín Millares Carlo'' 26 (2007): 287-97.[http://mdc.ulpgc.es/cdm/ref/collection/bolmc/id/374]

;González-Cruz, Maria-Isabel. 2015. : "Love in Paradise: Visions of the Canaries in a Corpus of Popular Romance Fiction Novels". ''Oceánide'', Journal of the Spanish Society for the Study of Popular Culture SELICUP, vol. 7.[http://oceanide.netne.net/articulos/art7-4.pdf]

;González-Cruz, Maria-Isabel, 2016. : "Discourse Types and Functions in Popular Romance Fiction Novels ("Work in Progress")." ''On the move: Glancing Backwards To Build a Future in English Studies'' Ed. Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz and Jon Ortiz de Urbina Arruabarrena. Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto. 265-271.

;González Cruz, Maria Isabel, 2017. : 'Exploring the dynamics of English/Spanish codeswitching in a written corpus', ''Alicante Journal of English Studies / Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses'' 30: 331-355. [http://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/72178 Abstract and link to pdf]

;González Mínguez, M. Teresa, 2010. : "Who is more fragile? A study of heroes and heroines in the twentieth century romantic fiction of [[Mills and Boon]]." ''Cuadernos Kóre'' [http://hosting01.uc3m.es/ojs/index.php/KORE/issue/view/22 1.2]: 179-192. [[http://hosting01.uc3m.es/ojs/index.php/KORE/article/view/225 Abstract] and [http://kusan.uc3m.es/CIAN/index.php/CK/article/view/1044/485 PDF].]

;Goodwin, Sarah Webster, 1997. : "Romance and Change: Teaching the Romance to Undergraduates.", ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 233-241.

;Gordis, Lisa M., 2016. : '"Jesus loves your girl more than you do": Marriage as Triangle in Evangelical Romance and Puritan Narratives', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 323-346.

;Goris, An, 2009. : "Romance the World Over," in ''Global Cultures''. Ed. Frank A. Salamone. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars. pp. 59-?? ** [Discusses the worldwide translation, production and distribution of Harlequins.] [http://kuleuven.academia.edu/AnGoris/Papers/88815/Romance-the-World-Over Abstract]

;Goris, An, 2011. : “Matricide in Romance Scholarship? Response to Pamela Regis’ Keynote Address at the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%E2%80%9Cmatricide-in-romance-scholarship-response-to-pamela-regis%E2%80%99-keynote-address-at-the-second-annual-conference-of-the-international-association-for-the-study-of-popular-romance%E2%80%9D/]

;Goris, An, 2012. : "Loving by the Book: Voice and Romance Authorship," in ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction. Critical Essays.'' Ed. Frantz, Sarah S.G. and Selinger, Eric Murphy. Jefferson: McFarland. pp. 73-83.

;Goris, An, 2012. : "Mind, Body, Love: Nora Roberts and the Evolution of Popular Romance Studies," ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2012/10/mind-body-love-nora-roberts-and-the-evolution-of-popular-romance-studies-by-an-goris/]

;Goris, An, 2013. : '''A Natural History of the Romance Novel''’s Enduring Romance with Popular Romance Studies', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/a-natural-history-of-the-romance-novels-enduring-romance-with-popular-romance-studies-by-an-goris/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Goris_RegisEnduring.pdf as a pdf].]

;Goris, An, 2013. : "Happily Ever After ... And After: Serialization and the Popular Romance Novel." ''Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present)'' 12.1 [http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/articles/spring_2013/goris.htm]

;Goris, An, 2015. : "Hidden Codes of Love : The Materiality of the Category Romance Novel." ''Belphégor''.[http://belphegor.revues.org/616]

;Goșa, Codruța. 2012. : "Sex and the Genre: The Role of Sex in Popular Romance." In ''Romance: The History of a Genre,'' 14-28. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars. [Nora Roberts, Sandra Brown, Judith McNaught] [Excerpt available [http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Romance--The-History-of-a-Genre1-4438-3734-2.htm from here]]

;Graham, Robert J., 1989. : “Media Literacy and Cultural Politics.” ''Adult Education Quarterly'' 39.3: 152-60. [http://aeq.sagepub.com/content/39/3/152.short Abstract] ["Through an analysis of two representative media-romance fiction and television news programs-this article argues for the production of a more media-literate citizenry. The section on women's romances addresses the confluence of a commercial, institutional and ideological matrix that poses crucial problems of a socio-cultural nature." The section on romance is mostly based on Radway's ''Reading the Romance''.]

;Graves, Joanne, 2014. : 'Beyond Valentine's Day: The romance novel in the evolving world of publishing', LIANZA Conference 2014, 12-15 October, Auckland, New Zealand: Pou Whakairo: Connect and Thrive. [LIANZA is the Library and Information Association of New Zealand. The article discusses New Zealand libraries and romance authors.][http://www.lianza.org.nz/sites/default/files/Graves_J_Beyond_Valentines_Day.pdf]

;Graybill, Beth. 2010. : "Chasing the Bonnet: The Premise and Popularity of Writing Amish Women." ''Journal of the Center for Mennonite Writing'' 2, no. 4: 1-6. [http://www.mennonitewriting.org/journal/2/4/bonnet-fiction/]

;Greenfeld-Benovitz, Miriam, 2012. : 'The Interactive Romance Community: The Case of "Covers Gone Wild",' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 195-205.

;Greenwood, Alice. 1983. : "Language Stereotypes in Mass Market Romances." ''CUNYForum: Papers in Linguistics'' 9: 157-173.

;Greer, Germaine, 1971. : ''The Female Eunuch'' (London: Paladin). [First published in 1970, there is a chapter on romance (pages 171-189in this edition) in which she critiques [[Georgette Heyer]]'s ''Regency Buck'', [[Barbara Cartland]]'s ''The Wings of Love'' and [[Lucy Walker]]'s ''The Loving Heart''.]

;Grescoe, Paul, 1996. : ''The Merchants of Venus: Inside [[Harlequin]] and the Empire of Romance'' (Vancouver: Raincoast). [ [[Kathleen Gilles Seidel]]'s "Half-Risen Venus", ''Paradoxa'' 3.1-2 (1997): 250-252 is a review of this book.]

;Griffin, Susan E., 1997. : "Resistance and Reinvention in Sandra Cisneros' ''Woman Hollering Creek''." ''Ethnicity and the American Short Story'', ed. Julie Brown (New York: Garland), pp. 85-96. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vT_7cLnnUlUC&lpg=PA85&lr=lang_en&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] ["Cisneros' [...] 'Woman Hollering Creek,' is the story in which she most clearly illustrates the negative effects of popular romance genres' portrayal of women, and it is also the story in which she begins to illustrate how women can resist the romance narrative" (87).]

;Griswold, Wendy, and Misty Bastian, 1987. : “Continuities and Reconstructions in Cross-cultural Literary Transmission: The Case of the Nigerian Romance Novel.” ''Poetics'' 16.3-4: 327-351. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0304-422X(87)90010-6 Abstract]

;Griswold, Wendy, 1989. : "Formulaic Fiction: The Author as Agent of Elective Affinity." ''Comparative Social Research.'' 11: 75-130.

;Gruner, Elisabeth Rose, 2019. : ''Constructing the Adolescent Reader in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction''. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/978-1-137-53924-3 Abstract] [See in particular Chapter 3, "Misreading the Classics: Gender, Genre, and Agency in YA Romance", pp. 51-84.]

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==A-C==

;Adams, L. 2004. : "Chick Lit and Chick Flicks: Secret Power or Flat Formula?" '' The Horn Book Magazine.'' 80:669-680.[http://www.hbook.com/magazine/articles/2004/nov04_adams.asp]

;Akass, Kim, and Janet McCabe, 2004. : “Ms. Parker and the Vicious Circle: Female Narrative and Humour in ''Sex and the City'',” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 177-198.

;Alb, Anemona Filip. 2008.: "Protean Femininities: Shifting Stereotypes in 'Chick Lit'." ''Gender Studies'' 1, no. 7: 39-48.

;Arosteguy, Katie O'Donnell. 2009. : "The Clothes Do Make the Women: The Politics of Fashioning Femininity in Contemporary American Chick Lit." ''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 70, no. 11: 4284. [http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Spring2009/k_arosteguy_040109.pdf. ]

;Arosteguy, Katie. 2010. : "The Politics of Race, Class, and Sexuality in Contemporary American Mommy Lit." ''Women's Studies'' 39, no. 5: 409-429.

;Arthurs, Jane. : “''Sex and the City'' and Consumer Culture: Remediating Postfeminist Drama.” ''Feminist Media Studies'' 3.1 (2003): 83-98.

;Balducci, Federica. 2011. : ''A Different Shade of Pink: Literary Thresholds and Cultural Intersections in Italian Chick Lit''. A thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Italian. [http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/1929]

;Balducci, Federica. 2011. : “When chick lit meets romanzo rosa: Intertextual narratives in Stefania Bertola’s romantic fiction,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2011/12/when-chick-lit-meets-romanzo-rosa-intertextual-narratives-in-stefania-bertola%E2%80%99s-romantic-fiction-by-federica-balducci/]

;Baloria, Nitasha. 2014. : "To Be or Not To Be a 'Wife': Theme of Marriage in the Works of Marian Keyes," ''Research Scholar: An International Refereed e-Journal of Literary Explorations'' 2.1.[http://researchscholar.co.in/downloads/56-nitasha-baloria.pdf]

;Baloria, Nitasha. 2014. : "Is Chick Lit a Fluff or a Product of Jane Austen’s Style?," ''European Academic Research'' 2.7. [http://euacademic.org/UploadArticle/984.pdf]

;Benstock, Shari. : "Afterword: The New Woman's Fiction." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 253-???.

;Boyd, Elizabeth B. : "Ya Yas, Grits, and Sweet Potato Queens: Contemporary Southern Belles and the Prescriptions That Guide Them." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 159-172.

;Burns, Amy, 2011. : "'Tell me all about your new man': (Re)Constructing Masculinity in Contemporary Chick Texts." ''Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network'' 4.1. [http://journalhosting.org/meccsa-pgn/index.php/netknow/issue/current/showToc Links to abstract and pdf]

;Burns, Amy, 2012. : "The Postfeminist Flâneuse: The Literary Value of Contemporary Chick Lit." ''Graduate Journal of Social Science'' 9.3.[http://gjss.org/images/stories/volumes/9/3/Burns.pdf]

;Butler, Pamela and Jigna Desai. : “Manolos, Marriage, and Mantras: Chick-Lit Criticism and Transnational Feminism.” ''Meridians'' 8.2 (2008): 1-31. [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/meridians/v008/8.2.butler.html Abstract]

;Campbell, P. 2006. : "The Sand in the Oyster The Lit of Chick Lit." '' The Horn Book Magazine.'' 82 (4):487-491.[http://www.hbook.com/magazine/articles/2006/jul06_campbell.asp]

;Cano López, Marina. : "Looking Back in Desire; or How Jane Austen Rewrites Chick Lit in Alexandra Potter’s ''Me and Mr. Darcy''." ''Persuasions'' 31.1 (2010).[http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol31no1/cano-lopez.html]

;Carvalho, Charmaine. : "Chick Lit in India: Possibilities for a Feminine Aesthetic in Popular Fiction." ''Estetyka i Krytyka The Polish Journal of Aesthetics'' 41 (2016): 13-32. [http://estetykaikrytyka.pl/art/41/eik_41_1.pdf]

;Caselli, Carolyn Ann. 2006.: ''Chick Lit : postmodern literature for the everywoman.'' Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, Northridge.

;Chen, Eva. : "Shanghai(ed) Babies: Geopolitics, Biopolitics and the Global Chick Lit." ''Feminist Media Studies'' (advanced release 6 Oct. 2011). [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14680777.2011.597102 Abstract]

;Chen Eva Yin-i. : "Neoliberal Self-Governance and Popular Postfeminism in Contemporary Anglo-American Chick Lit", ''Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies'' 36.1 (2010): 243-275.[http://www.concentric-literature.url.tw/issues/Transnational%20Taiwan/11.pdf]

;Craddock, Louise. : "Bridget Jones's Little Red Dress: Chicklit, Mass-market Popular Romance and Feminism." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 43-51. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

==D-F==

;Davis-Kahl, Stephanie. : "The Case for Chick Lit in Academic Libraries." ''Collection Building'' 27.1 (2008): 18-21. [http://works.bepress.com/stephanie_davis_kahl/1 Abstract and link to pdf]

;Dorney, Kate. : "Shop Boys and Girls! Interpellating Readers as Consumers in Chicklit and Ladlit." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 12-22. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Dunn, Hannah. 2005.: ''Making the personal political: reflexivity as neo-feminist activism in Brit-art and Chick-lit.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of Colorado.

;Ebert, Teresa L. 2009. : ''The task of cultural critique.'' Urbana: University of Illinois Press. [Chapter-Chick lit: "not your mother's romance novels"] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OEYGxoLGApYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA97#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Ehriander, Helene, 2015. : "Chick Lit in Historical Settings by Frida Skybäck", ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/chick-lit-in-historical-settings-by-frida-skybackby-helene-ehriander/]

;Farr, Cecilia Konchar. 2009. : "It Was Chick Lit All Along: The Gendering of a Genre." In ''You've Come a Long Way, Baby: Women, Politics, and Popular Culture'', 201-214. Lexington, KY: UP of Kentucky, 2009.

;Ferriss, Suzanne and Mallory Young. : "Introduction." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 1-16.

;Ferriss, Suzanne and Mallory Young. : “Chicks, Girls and Choice: Redefining Feminism.” ''Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue'' 6 (2006): 87-97. [http://www.junctures.org/issues.php?issue=06&title=Language&colour=rgb(73,47,146)]

;Ferris, Suzanne. : "Narrative and Cinematic Doubleness: ''Pride and Prejudice'' and ''Bridget Jones's Diary''." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 71-84.

;Ferris, Suzanne. : "Working Girls: The Precariat of Chick Lit", in Cupcakes, Pinterest and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early Twenty-First Century, ed. Elana Levine (University of Illinois, 2015): 177-???.

;Fest, Kerstin. 2009. : "Angels in the House or Girl Power: Working Women in Nineteenth-Century Novels and Contemporary Chick Lit." ''Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal'' 38, no. 1: 43-62.

;Frater, Lara. 2009. : "Fat heroines in chick-lit: gateway to acceptance in the mainstream?" in Rothblum, Esther D., and Sondra Solovay. ''The Fat Studies Reader.'' New York: New York University Press. 235-240. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XtLWPWNO8gUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA235#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Frenkel, Ronit, 2019. : “Pleasure as Genre: Popular Fiction, South African Chick-Lit and Nthikeng Mohlele’s Pleasure.” ''Feminist Theory'', (February 2019). [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1464700119831537#articleCitationDownloadContainer Abstract]

==G-I==

;Gamble, Sarah. : "When Romantic Heroines Turn Bad: The Rise of the ‘Anti-Chicklit’ Novel." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/gamble.html]

;Gehrmann, Susanne. : “Emerging Afro-Parisian ‘Chick-Lit’ by Lauren Ekué and Léonora Miano.” ''Feminist Theory'', Feb. 2019. [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1464700119831539#articleCitationDownloadContainer Abstract]

;Gennaro, Stephen. : “Sex and the City: Perpetual Adolescence Gendered Feminine?” ''Nebula'' 4.1 (2007). 1 August 2009.[http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/Gennaro.pdf]

;Genz, Stéphanie, and Benjamin A. Brabon. 2009. : ''Postfeminism: cultural texts and theories.'' Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Chapter - Girl power and chick lit, on pages 76-90.] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yUGpvXJe9NAC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA76#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Gerhard, Jane. : “''Sex and the City'': Carrie Bradshaw’s Queer Postfeminism.” ''Feminist Media Studies'' 5.1 (2005): 37-49.

;Ghosh, Srijani. : "''Res Emptito Ergo Sum'': Fashion and Commodity Fetishism in Sophie Kinsella’s ''Confessions of a Shopaholic''." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 46.2 (2013): 378-393. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.12031/abstract Excerpt]

;Gill, Rosalind. : "Lad lit as mediated intimacy: A postfeminist tale of female power, male vulnerability and toast." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/gill.html]

;Gill, Rosalind and Elena Herdieckerhoff. : "Rewriting the Romance: New Femininities in Chick Lit?" ''Feminist Media Studies'' 6.4 (2006): 487-504. [Abstract and pdf available from [http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/2514 LSE Research Online]]

;Gormley, Sarah. : "Introduction." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/gormley.html]

;Gorton, Kristyn. : "'Kiss My Tiara': Chicklit and Female Empowerment." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 23-28. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Gruslytė, Monika, Aurelija Taujanskaitė, and Erika Žemaitytė. : "The tradition of consciousness-raising fiction in contemporary popular fiction Chick lit." ''Straipsnis leidinyje: Jaunųjų mokslininkų darbai'' 39.1 (2013): 125-129. [http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:J.04~2013~ISSN_1648-8776.N_1_39.PG_125-129 Abstract and link to pdf.] [http://vddb.library.lt/fedora/get/LT-eLABa-0001:J.04~2013~ISSN_1648-8776.N_1_39.PG_125-129/DS.002.1.01.ARTIC Pdf]

;Guerrero, Lisa A. : "'Sistahs Are Doin' It For Themselves': Chick Lit in Black and White." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 87-102.

;Gunne, Sorcha. : ‘Gender, Genre and Modernity: Popular Romance Fiction in Ireland’, ''Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction'', Ed. L Harte. Oxford: Oxford University Press [in press]. [[https://www.academia.edu/37300918/Gender_Genre_and_Modernity_Popular_Romance_Fiction_in_Ireland pre-print version]]

;Gymnich, Marion, and Kathrin Ruhl. 2010. : "Revisiting the Classical Romance: Pride and Prejudice, Bridget Jone's Diary and Bride and Prejudice." In ''Gendered (Re)Visions: Constructions of Gender in Audiovisual Media'', 23-44. Göttingen, Germany: V&R, 2010. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VWcRp0Xy41IC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA23#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Hale, Elizabeth. : "Long-Suffering Professional Females: The Case of Nanny Lit." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 103-118.

;Harzewski, Stephanie. 2004. : "'Chick Lit' and the Urban Code Heroine: Interview Symposium with Caren Lissner, Melissa Senate, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, and Jennifer Weiner." In ''Voces de América/American Voices: Entrevistas a escritores americanos/Interviews with American Writers,''. Cádiz, Spain: Aduana Vieja, 2004. 689-719.

;Harzewski, Stephanie. : "Tradition and Displacement in the New Novel of Manners." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 29–46.

;Harzewski, Stephanie. : "The new novel of manners: Chick lit and postfeminist sexual politics" (January 1, 2006). Dissertations available from ProQuest. Paper AAI3225468. [Abstract http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI3225468]

;Harzewski, Stephanie. : ''Chick Lit and Postfeminism.'' Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011.

;Hedrick, Tace. : ''Chica Lit: Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century''. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2015. [https://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=36578 Details and excerpt]

;Henry, Astrid. : “Orgasms and Empowerment. ''Sex and the City'' and the Third Wave Feminism.” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 65-82.

;Hewett, Heather. : "You Are Not Alone: The Personal, the Political and the 'New' Mommy Lit." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 119-140.

;Horrocks, Clare. : "Tart Noir: Chicklit with Criminal Balls." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 59-64. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]



;Hurst, Rochelle. : “The Barrister’s Bedmate: Harlequin Mills & Boon and the Bridget Jones Debate.” ''Australian Feminist Studies'' 24.62 (2009): 453-468. [Feminist critique of Harlequin Mills & Boons (especially a selection by [[Emma Darcy]]) and comparison with Helen Fielding's ''Bridget Jones'' novels. For a discussion of why many aspects of this essay's methodology are troubling, from an academic perspective, see [http://www.readreactreview.com/2010/02/10/feminist-critique-of-romance-ur-doin-it-wrong/ this article by Jessica at ''Read React Review'']].

;Hurt, Erin. 2009. : "Trading Cultural Baggage for Gucci Luggage: The Ambivalent Latinidad of Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's "The Dirty Girls Social Club.." ''MELUS'' 34, no. 3: 133-153.

;Hurt, Erin (ed.) 2018. : ''Theorizing Ethnicity and Nationality in the Chick Lit Genre''. Routledge. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=unx0DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Isbister, Georgina C. : "Chick Lit: A Postfeminist Fairy Tale." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/isbister.html]

==J-L==

;Jermyn, Deborah. : “In Love with Sarah Jessica Parker: Celebrating Female Fandom and Friendship in ''Sex and the City''.” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 201-217.

;Jermyn, Deborah. : ''Sex and the City''. Detroit: Wayne State Press, 2009.

;Johnson, Joanna Webb. : "Chick Lit Jnr.: More Than Glitz and Glamour for Teens and Tweens." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 141-158.

;Kaminski, Melissa J. and Robert G. Magee. : "Does This Book Make Me Look Fat?: The Effect of Protagonist Body Weight and Body Esteem on Female Readers' Body Esteem." ''Body Image'' (2012). [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2012.10.009 Abstract]

;Kent, Paula Rachel. 2007. : '' Think pink and high heels: women and beauty as represented in chick lit novels.'' Thesis (M.A.) Stephenville, Tex: Tarleton State University. [http://gradworks.umi.com/14/55/1455093.html Abstract]

;Kiernan, Anna. : "No Satisfaction: ''Sex and the City'', ''Run Catch Kiss'', and the Conflict of Desires in Chick Lit's New Heroines." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 207-218.

;Knowles, Joanne. : "Editorial." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 3-4. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Knowles, Joanne. : "Material Girls: Location and Economics in Chicklit Fiction, Or, How Singletons Finance Their Jimmy Choo Collections." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 37-42. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Knowles, Joanne. 2008. : "'Our foes are almost as many as our readers': debating the worth of women's reading and writing--the case of chick-lit." ''Popular Narrative Media'' 1.2 (2008): 217-231.

;Kohli, Joy. : ''Governing Women’s Sexuality in “Sex and the City”: Pleasure, Relationships And Reproduction''. Ann Arbor: Proquest, 2008.

;Konchar Farr, Cecilia. : "It Was Chick Lit All Along: The Gendering of a Genre." ''You've Come A Long Way Baby: Women, Politics, and Popular Culture''. Ed. Lilly J. Goren. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. 201-214. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=G132LEhM4ucC&lpg=PA208&pg=PA201#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Leffler, Yvonne. : "Chick Lit as Healing and Self-Help Manual?" ''Culture, Health, and Religion at the Millennium: Sweden Unparadised'', Ed. Marie Demker, Yvonne Leffler and Ola Sigurdson. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 155-182. [http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9781137472236.0008 Excerpt]

;Lenz, Christian. : ''Geographies of Love: The Cultural Spaces of Romance in Chick- and Ladlit''. PhD thesis, TU Dortmund University, 2014. Verlag 2016. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rrgADAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Lerman, Amy S. : “Jane Green and the Contemporary ‘Singleton’: Why Women Can Laugh at their Bachelorette Predicaments.” ''The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference''. Ed. Leslie Fife. 1285-1298.

;Lim, Megan S.C., Margaret E. Hellard and Danielle Horyniak. : "Safe Sex in Chick Lit: a ‘Novel’ Analysis of Sexual Health References in Popular Women’s Fiction. ''Sexual Health''. Online first, 27 July 2018. [https://doi.org/10.1071/SH18017 Abstract]

==M-O==

;Mabry, A. Rochelle. : "About a Girl: Female Subjectivity and Sexuality in Contemporary 'Chick' Culture." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 191-206.

;Markle, Gail. : “Can Women Have Sex Like a Man? Sexual Scripts in Sex and the City.” ''Sexuality and Culture'' 12 (2008): 45-57.

;Mathew, Imogen Louise. : "‘The Pretty and the Political Didn’t Seem to Blend Well’: Anita Heiss’s Chick Lit and the Destabilisation of a Genre", ''JASAL: Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature'' 15.3 (2015). [https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/JASAL/article/view/10575 Abstract and pdf].

;Mathew, Imogen. : "Educating the Reader in Anita Heiss’s Chick Lit." ''Contemporary Women's Writing'' (2016). First published online: July 31, 2016. [http://cww.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/07/31/cww.vpw019.extract# Excerpt]

;Mazza, Cris. : "Who's Laughing Now? A Short History of Chick Lit and the Perversion of a Genre." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 17-28.

;Mazza, Cris. 2000. : "Editing Postfeminist Fiction: Finding the Chic in Lit." ''Symplokē: A Journal for the Intermingling of Literary, Cultural and Theoretical Scholarship'' 8, no. 1-2: 101-112.

;Merck, Mandy. : “Sexuality in the City.” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 48-62.

;Missler, Heike. : ''The Cultural Politics of Chick Lit: Popular Fiction, Postfeminism and Representation''. New York: Routledge, 2017. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mVtuDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Moody, Nickianne. : "Empathy and Irony in the Soundtrack to Chicklit." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 52-58. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Morrison, Amanda Maria. 2010. : "Chicanas and 'Chick Lit': Contested Latinidad in the Novels of Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 43, no. 2: 309-329.

;Nelson, Ashley. : “Sister Carrie meets Carrie Bradshaw: Exploring Progress, Politics and the Single Woman in ''Sex and the City'' and Beyond.” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 83-95.

;Newns, Lucinda, 2017. : "Renegotiating romantic genres: Textual resistance and Muslim chick lit." ''Journal of Commonwealth Literature''. Online first. 1-17. [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0021989416686156 Abstract]

;Ommundsen, Wenche. 2008. : "From China with Love: Chick Lit and the New Crossover Fiction." In ''China Fictions-English Language: Literary Essays in Diaspora, Memory, Story,''. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi. 327-345

;Ommundsen, Wenche. 2011. : "Sex and the Global City: Chick Lit with a Difference." ''Contemporary Women's Writing'' 5.2: 107-124. [http://cww.oxfordjournals.org/content/5/2/107.extract Abstract]

;Oria, Beatriz, 2012. : “’Just Say Yes’: the Romanticisation of Love in ''Sex and the City'',” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2012/10/just-say-yes-the-romanticisation-of-love-in-sex-and-the-city-by-beatriz-oria/]

==P-R==

;Pérez-Serrano, Elena. : "Chick Lit and Marian Keyes: The ideological background of the genre." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/perezserrano.html]

;Perez-Serrano, Elena. 2009. : "Growing Old Before Old Age: Ageing in the Fiction of Marian Keyes." ''Educational Gerontology'' 35, no. 2: 135-145.

;Regules, Anne E. 2006. : ''Working women re-working the romance: chick-lit from Kate Chopin to Jennifer Weiner and Sex and the City.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of Texas at San Antonio.

;Ross, Sharon Marie. : “Talking Sex: Comparison Shopping through Female Conversation in HBO’s ''Sex and the City''.” ''The Sitcom Reader: America Viewed and Skewed''. Eds. Mary M. Dalton and Laura Linder. New York: State University of NY Press, 2005. 111-122.

;Rowntree, Margaret, Nicole Moulding and Lia Bryant, 2012. : "Feminine Sexualities in Chick Lit." ''Australian Feminist Studies'', Volume 27, Issue 72: 121-137. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08164649.2012.648259 Abstract]

;Ryan, Mary, 2009. : ‘What a Way to Make a Living: Irish Chick Lit and the Working World.’ ''MP: An Online Feminist Journal'' 2.5: 27-41.[http://academinist.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Chick_Ryan.pdf]

;Ryan, Mary, 2010. : "Trivial or Commendable? : Women's Writing, Popular Culture, and Chick Lit." ''452F Journal of Comparative Literature'' 3 (July 2010): 70-84.[http://www.452f.com/en/mary-ryan.html]

;Ryan, Mary, 2010. : "Stepping Out from the Margins: Ireland, Morality, and Representing the ‘Other’ in Irish Chick Lit." ''Nebula: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship'' 7.3: 137-149.[http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/Ryan.pdf]

;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : “The Bodies of Chick Lit: Positive Representations of the Female Body in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction.” ''Inquire: A Journal of Comparative Literature'' 1.1 [http://inquire.streetmag.org/articles/13]

;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : “Then and Now: Memories of a Patriarchal Ireland in the Work of Marian Keyes.” ''452°F Journal of Comparative Literature'' 4: 110-130.[http://www.452f.com/en/ryan.html]

;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : "Ending the Silence: Representing Women’s Reproductive Lives in Irish Chick Lit." ''Nebula: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship'' 8.1: 209-224.[http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/Ryan3.pdf]

;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : ‘Amongst Women: Male Romance Authors and Irish Chick Lit Author, Andrew O’Connor’, ''The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture'' 1.2: 209-225. [http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=11989/ Abstract]

==S-U==

;Santaemilia, J. 2008. : The translation of sex-related language: The danger(s) of self-censorship(s). ''TTR: Traduction, Terminologie et Redaction'' 21, (2): 221-252

;Sellei, Nora. : "Bridget Jones and Hungarian Chick Lit." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 173-188.

;Smith, Caroline J. 2005. : "Living the Life of a Domestic Goddess: Chick Lit's Response to Domestic-Advice Manuals." ''Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal'' 34, no. 8: 671-699.

;Smith, Caroline J. 2007. : "The Girls' Guide to Creating Community: Analyzing Reading Communities in Chick Lit." In ''Narratives of Community: Women's Short Story Sequences,''. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2007. 352-371.

;Smith, Caroline J. : ''Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit''. New York: Routledge, 2008. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XDACykiKvL8C&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Smyczyńska, Katarzyna. : "Commitment Phobia and Emotional Fuckwittage: Postmillennial Constructions of Male 'Other' in Chicklit Novels." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 29-36. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Smyczyńska, Katarzyna. : ''The World According to Bridget Jones: Discourses of Identity in Chicklit Fictions''. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2007.

;Spencer, Lynda Gichanda, 2014. : "Writing Women in Uganda and South Africa: Emerging Writers from Post-Repressive Regimes." PhD Thesis, Stellenbosch University, April 2014. [http://scholar.sun.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10019.1/86251/spencer_writing_2014.pdf PDF] [See Chapter 3, which "explores how Goretti Kyomuhendo, Zukiswa Wanner and Angela Makholwa and Cynthia Jele embrace chick lit as a form of writing that allows them to reflect on the lived realities of women."]

;Tangney, ShaunAnne. 2008. : "Chick Lit Matters: From Femme Covert to Fendi, Feminine Fiction Provides Feminist Critique." In ''Honoring Human Herstory: A Celebration of Women's Heritage,''. Minot, ND: Minot State University, 2008. 49-63.

;Taylor, Anthea. 2011. : ''Single Women in Popular Culture: The Limits of Postfeminism.''New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [See in particular Chapter 3: "Spinsters and Singletons: ''Bridget Jones's Diary'' and its Cultural Reverberations"]

;Thoma, Pamela. : "Romancing the Self and Negotiating Consumer Citizenship in Asian American Labor Lit." ''Contemporary Women's Writing'' 2013. [http://cww.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/03/26/cww.vps036.extract# Excerpt]

;Umminger, Alison. : "Supersizing Bridget Jones: What's Really Eating the Women in Chick Lit." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 239-252.

==V-Z==

;Van Slooten, Jessica Lyn. : "Fashionably Indebted: Conspicuous Consumption, Fashion, and Romance in Sophie Kinsella's ''Shopaholic'' Trilogy." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 219-238.

;Veseljević Jerković, Selma. : "Mad about the Boy: The Phenomenon of Fictional Autobiography." ''Društvene i humanističke studije'' 4.2(8): 89-102. [http://www.dhs.ff.untz.ba/index.php/home/article/view/268 Abstract] [http://www.dhs.ff.untz.ba/index.php/home/article/download/268/204 pdf]

;Wells, Juliette. : "Mother of Chick Lit? Women Writers, Readers, and Literary History." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 47-70.

;Whelehan, Imelda. : ''Overloaded: Popular Culture and the Future of Feminism''. London: The Women’s Press Ltd., 2000. [Looks at various aspects of popular culture: men's magazines (''Loaded'', ''Maxim'', ''GQ''); TV shows (''Ally McBeal'', ''Sex in the City'', ''Men Behaving Badly'') and novels (''Bridget Jones' Diary'').]

;Whelehan, Imelda. : ''Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary: A Reader’s Guide''. New York: Continuum, 2002. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SN8iV7A7ZqkC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Whelehan, Imelda. : "Sex and the Single Girl: Helen Fielding, Erica Jong and Helen Gurley Brown." ''Essays and Studies 2004: Contemporary British Women Writers.'' Ed. Emma Parker. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2004.

;Whelehan, Imelda. : "High Anxiety: Feminism, Chicklit And Women In The Noughties." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 5-11. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Whelehan, Imelda. : "Teening Chick Lit?" ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/whehelan.html]

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;Macdonald, Andrew, Gina Macdonald, and MaryAnn Sheridan. 2000.: ''Shape-shifting: images of Native Americans in recent popular fiction.'' Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. (Chapter on The Romance Genre: Welcome to Club Cherokee). [http://www.questia.com/read/10046517 Excerpt.]

;Maher, Jennifer, 2001. : 'Ripping the Bodice: Eating, Reading, and Revolt', ''College Literature'', 28.1:64-83.

;Makinen, Merja, 2001. : ''Feminist Popular Fiction.'' (New York: Palgrave). [Includes a chapter on 'The Romance' - for table of contents see [http://www.palgrave.com/newsearch/Catalogue.aspx?is=033379317X here]. This chapter gives an overview of much of the feminist criticism of the genre (both positive and negative) and concludes with three case studies, only two of which Makinen really considers to be romances: [[Susan Napier]]'s ''[[Deal of a Lifetime]]'' and [[Lisa Shapiro]]'s ''[[Color of Winter]]''.]

;Malinowska, Anna, 2017. : 'Paternal Structures of the Romance', ''Romanica Silesiana'' 12: 40-52. [https://www.journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RS/article/view/7153 Abstract and pdf]

;Mangat, T.K., 1998. : 'The surgeon in popular fiction - The Mills and Boon doctor-nurse romance', ''Theoretical Surgery'', 3.2:89-92.

;Mann, Peter H., 1969. : ''The Romantic Novel: A Survey of Reading Habits'' (London: Mills & Boon). **

;Mann, Peter H., 1974. : ''A New Survey: The Facts About Romantic Fiction''. (London: Mills & Boon). **

;Mann, Peter H., 1979. : ‘Romantic Fiction and its Readers’ in ''Entertainment: A Cross-Cultural Examination'', ed. H.D. Fischer & S. R. Melnick (New York: Hastings House), pp. 34-42. **

;Mann, Peter H., 1981. : 'The Romantic Novel and its Readers', ''Journal of Popular Culture'', 15.1: 9-18.

;Mann, Peter H., 1985. : 'Romantic Fiction and Its Readership', ''Poetics'', 14.1-2: 95-105.

;Margolies, David, 1982-1983. : ‘[[Mills and Boon|Mills & Boon]]: Guilt without Sex’, ''Red Letters'', 14: 5-13.

;Margolis, Harriet, 1992. : 'Feminist Irony or Poisonous Fantasy?: Category Romance and the Conscious Reader,' ''Yearbook of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Fine Arts''. Ed. William E. Grim and Michael B. Harper. 3. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press. 165-78.

;Margolis, Harriet, 1995. : “The Lover's Value(s): Women's Romance Novels in an Exchange-Based Society.” ''Conference Papers (New Zealand Women's Studies Association Annual Meeting, 1994)''. 78-82.

;Margolis, Harriet, 1997. : "A Childe in Love, Or Is It Just Fantasy? The Values of Women's Genres." ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 121-144.

;Markert, John, 1985. : 'Romance Publishing and the Production of Culture', ''Poetics'', 14.1-2: 69-93.[http://www.sitemason.com/files/edRwVW/articleromance%20publishing%20and%20poc.pdf]

;Markert, John. 1987. : "The Publishing Decision: Managerial Policy and Its Effect on Editorial Decision Making-The Case of Romance Publishing." ''Book Research Quarterly'' 3, no. 2: 33-59.

;Markert, John, 2016. : ''Publishing Romance: The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present''. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. [http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-9490-3 Abstract and table of contents]

;Markert, John, 2017. : “God is Love: The Christian Romance Market.” ''Publishing Research Quarterly''. Online First. [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12109-017-9523-6 Abstract]

;Marks, Pamela. 1999. : 'The Good Provider in Romance Novels', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 10-22. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ja_Ia-oZo4wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA10#v=onepage&q=&f=false Excerpt]

;Martin, Darcy, 2003. : 'Womanhood Reinvented: Eve Dallas, Protagonist in J. D. Robb's "In Death" Series', ''The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference'', Ed. Leslie Fife, pp. 1989-2019. [http://robertleston.com/my-files/PAF/2000-2003%20SW-Texas%20PCA-ACA%20Proceedings.pdf Whole proceedings online here.]

;Matelski, Elizabeth, 2016. : '"I'm Not the Only Lesbian Who Wears a Skirt": Lesbian Romance Fiction and Identity in Post-World War II America', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 71-88.

;Matthews, Amy T., 2016. : 'The Hopeful Romantic', ''Kill Your Darlings'' 27: 44-56. ["Is it possible to be both a romance writer and a feminist? And if so, how might the romance genre contribute to the advancement of women's rights?"][http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=639426118893246;res=IELLCC Details]

;Matthews, Amy T., 2016. : 'Entangled: the exegetical process of a romance writer', ''Arts and Humanities as Higher Education'' December 2016. [http://www.artsandhumanities.org/journal/entangled-the-exegetical-process-of-a-romance-writer/]

;Mayfield, Kerrita K., 2014. : "Liminal eRoticism: Emerging Forms of Gender Identity and Performance in e-Romances and Their Feminist Electronic Communities." ''Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education'' 14.1: 55-72.[https://www.academia.edu/9674400/Liminal_eRoticism_Emerging_Forms_of_Gender_Identity_and_Performance_in_e-Romances_and_their_Feminist_Electronic_Communities] [Note that pagination is different in version available [http://www.freireproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Taboo141.pdf#page=56 here]]

;Mason, Gillian, 2008. : '[[Rosemary Rogers]]', ''Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice'' 2.2/3. [Formerly at [http://www.teachingamericanlit.com/files/Microsoft_Word_-_TALTP-RogersRosemaryuse.pdf]. This link no longer works but a pdf of the entire issue can be downloaded from [http://www.cpcc.edu/taltp/archives/spring-summer-2008-2-2-3/spring_summer_2008_merged.pdf/at_download/file]].

;Masteller, Jean Carwile, 1996. : 'Romancing the Reader: From Laura Jean Libbey to [[Harlequin]] Romance and Beyond', in ''Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes: Dime Novels, Series Books, and Paperbacks'', ed. Larry E. Sullivan, and Lydia Cushman Schurman (New York: Haworth Press). 263-84. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kygsBgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA266#v=onepage&q&f=false excerpt]

;Matthews, Jessica, 2014. : "Studying the Romance Reader, Then and Now: Rereading Janice Radway’s ''Reading the Romance''." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2.[http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/studying-the-romance-reader-then-and-now-rereading-janice-radways-reading-the-romancejessica-matthews/]

;Maynard, Lee Anna, 2008. : '[[LaVyrle Spencer]]', ''Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice'' 2.2/3. [Formerly at [http://www.teachingamericanlit.com/files/Microsoft_Word_-_TALTP-LaVyrleMaynard.pdf]. This link no longer works but a pdf of the entire issue can be downloaded from [http://www.cpcc.edu/taltp/archives/spring-summer-2008-2-2-3/spring_summer_2008_merged.pdf/at_download/file]].

;Mazloomian, Maryam, and Nahid Mohammadi. 2018. : “Discursive Vulnerability and Identity Development: A Triangular Model of Bio-Forces in Cultural Ecological Analysis of American Romance Fiction.” ''Forum for World Literature Studies,'' vol. 10, no. 3, Sept. 2018, pp. 413–432.

;McAleer, Joseph. 1990. : 'Scenes from Love and Marriage: Mills and Boon and the Popular Publishing Industry in Britain, 1908-1950', ''Twentieth Century British History'', 1.3: 264-288.

;McAleer, Joseph, 1999. : ''Passion's Fortune: The Story of [[Mills and Boon|Mills & Boon]]'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press). [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=83423284 Contents page and excerpts available here.] [http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198204558 Pdf of the Introduction and Chapter 8 available available from here.]

;McAleer, Joseph, 2011. : 'Love, Romance, and the National Health Service', ''Classes, Cultures, & Politics: Essays on British History for Ross McKibbin'', ed. Clare V. J. Griffiths, James J. Nott, & William Whyte (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 173-191. ["The rise of the 'Doctor-Nurse' romance in the 1950s coincided with the NHS and, in fact, helped to promote and reinforce it. Mills & Boon authors, most of them former nurses, were ambassadors for the system and would tolerate no criticism of it" (190).] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TxwooaK4OzIC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA173#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;McAlister, Jodi, 2014. : '‘That complete fusion of spirit as well as body’: Heroines, heroes, desire and compulsory demisexuality in the Harlequin Mills & Boon romance novel.' ''Australasian Journal of Popular Culture'' 3.3: 299-310. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/ajpc/2014/00000003/00000003/art00005 Abstract]

;McAlister, Jodi, 2015. : ‘Breaking the Hard Limits: Romance, Pornography, and the Question of Genre in the ''Fifty Shades'' Trilogy.’ ''Analyses/Rereadings/Theories'' 3.2: 23-33.[http://dspace.uni.lodz.pl:8080/xmlui/bitstream/handle/11089/21796/5.3.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y]

;McAlister, Jodi, 2016. : 'Traveling Through Time and Genre: Are the ''Outlander'' Books Romance Novels?', ''Adoring Outlander: Essays on Fandom, Genre and the Female Audience'', ed. Valerie Estelle Frankel (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 94-105. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=w7WaCwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA162&ots=_NFPi51ZCb&lr=lang_en&pg=PA94#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;McAlister, Jodi, 2016. : '“You and I are humans, and there is something complicated between us”: ''Untamed'' and queering the heterosexual historical romance', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.2 (15 July 2016).[http://jprstudies.org/2016/07/you-and-i-are-humans-and-there-is-something-complicated-between-us-untamed-and-queering-the-heterosexual-historical-romanceby-jodi-mcalister/] [Focuses on Anna Cowan's ''Untamed'' (2013).]

;McAlister, Jodi, 2016. : "Between Pleasure and Pain: The Textual Politics of the Hymen." ''Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen''. Ed. Jonathan A. Allan, Cristina Santos, and Adriana Spahr. London: Zed. 45-64.

;McAlister, Jodi, 2018. : ‘ “Feelings Like the Women in Books”: Declarations of Love in Australian Romance Novels, 1859–1891’, ''Emotions: History, Culture, Society'' 2.1: 91-112. [http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/2208522x-02010005 Abstract]

;McAlister, Jodi, 2018. : ‘Defining and Redefining Popular Genres: The Evolution of ‘New Adult’ Fiction.’ ''Australian Literary Studies'' 33.4 (2018).[https://www.australianliterarystudies.com.au/articles/defining-and-redefining-popular-genres-the-evolution-of-new-adult-fiction]

;McAlister, Jodi, 2018. : 'The literary text as historical artifact: The colonial couple in Australian romantic fiction by women, 1838-1860', ''Lilith: A Feminist History Journal'', No. 24: 38-51. [https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=132448864519872;res=IELHSS Abstract]

;McAlister, Jodi, and Hsu-Ming Teo, 2017. : "Love in Australian Romance Novels." ''The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia''. Ed. Hsu-Ming Teo. North Melbourne, VIC: Australian Scholarly Publishing, pp.194-222.

;McAlpine, Rachel, 1998. : ''The Passionate Pen: New Zealand’s Romance Writers Talk to Rachel McAlpine'', (Christchurch, N.Z.: Hazard Press). [This seems to include interviews with [[Victoria Aldridge]], [[Rilla Berg]], [[Gloria Beven]], [[Eva Burfield]], [[Daphne Clair]], [[Robyn Donald]], [[Catherine Hay]], [[Rosalie Henaghan]], [[Miriam MacGregor]], [[Mary Moore]], [[Susan Napier]], [[Jessie Nichols]], [[Ivy Preston]], [[Essie Summers]], [[Rachelle Swift]] ]**

;McCafferty, Kate, 1994. : ‘Palimpsest of Desire: The Re-Emergence of the American Captivity Narrative as Pulp Romance’, ''Journal of Popular Culture'', 27.4: 43-56.

;McCay, Mary A., 2001. : 'Love's Labors Won:Romance Fiction and the Politics of Love.' ''New Orleans Review'', 27.1:171-183.

;McCracken, Scott, 1998. : ''Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction'' (Manchester: Manchester University Press). Chapter 3 is on 'Popular romance'. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wVNWTrtfv_UC&lpg=PP1&ots=9pCaWpEyqQ&pg=PA75#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;McKay, Jade and Elizabeth Parsons, 2009. : ‘Out of Wedlock: The Consummation and Consumption of Marriage in Contemporary Romance Fiction’, ''Genders'' 50.[http://www.genders.org/g50/g50_mckayparsons.html]

;McKnight-Trontz, Jennifer, 2002. : ''The Look of Love: The Art of the Romance Novel'' (New York: Princeton Architectural Press). [This is about the cover art of romance novels from the 1940s to the 1970s] [[http://books.google.com/books?id=7ONpEbYVz-MC&dq=&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=8EBFO3-BOT&sig=bpxSTer1w-pdEG-32DsfMPyc8oU&hl=en&ei=N7H8SduIJtTMjAekxaWjAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPP1,M1 Excerpt via Google Books], [http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/feb/romance/020214.romance.html Description, small gallery of photos and an audio report from NPR radio], and [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568983123/103-6269920-8123869 search inside via Amazon - Index page and excerpts]]

;McLennon, Leigh, 2014. : "Defining Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance: Crossing Boundaries of Genre, Media, Self and Other in New Supernatural Worlds." ''Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media'' 23. [http://refractory.unimelb.edu.au/2014/06/26/uf-mclennon/]

;McLeod, Dion, 2017. : "'Try-error-try-it': Love, loss, and the subversion(?) of the heteronormative romance story in Will ''Grayson, Will Grayson''." ''Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature'' 25.1: 73-94. [https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=032395495053472;res=IELHSS Abstract]

;McNamara, Sallie, 2000. : "[[Georgette Heyer]]: the historical romance and the consumption of the erotic, 1918-1939." in ''All the world and her husband: women in twentieth-century consumer culture,'' (London: Cassell): 82-96. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nPHucjV8JdwC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA82 See Google Books]

;McNeil, Helen, 1981. : 'She Trembled at His Touch', Quarto (May 1981): 17-18. [According to Nickianne Moody, (see below for details of her essay, "Sex and the Single Couple") McNeil describes "five plot types in Mills & Boon fiction of the 1970s" (144). **

;McReynolds, Louise, 1998. : 'Reading the Russian Romance: What Did the ''Keys to Happiness'' Unlock?", ''Journal of Popular Culture'', 31.4: 95-108. [http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119111369/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 Excerpt] [The novel in question may not end with a happily-ever-after.]

;McWilliam, Kelly, 2009. : 'Romance in foreign accents: Harlequin-Mills & Boon in Australia', ''Continuum'' 23.2: 137-145. [http://eprints.usq.edu.au/4887/ Abstract and pdf.]

;Melman, Billie, 1988. : ''Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties: Flappers and Nymphs'' (London: Macmillan). [Chapter 2 is titled "'Sex Novels': A New Kind of Best-seller"; Chapter 6 is titled "1919-1928: 'The Sheik of Araby' - Freedom in Captivity in the Desert Romance." Also of interest may be two of the chapters on "story papers": Chapter 7, "'A Lass of Lancashire': The Mill Girl as Emblem of Working-Class Virtues" and Chapter 9, "The Emigrant: Romance and the Empire."]

;Ménard, A. Dana and Christine Cabrera, 2011. : ' ‘Whatever the Approach, Tab B Still Fits into Slot A’: Twenty Years of Sex Scripts in Romance Novels', ''Sexuality & Culture'' 15.3: 240-255. [http://www.springerlink.com/content/x0326j350ru1716k/ Abstract]

;Ménard, A. Dana, 2013. : 'Note from the Field: “Reflecting on Romance Novel Research: Past, Present and Future”, ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/note-from-the-field-reflecting-on-romance-novel-research-past-present-and-future-by-a-dana-menard/] [This article, which discusses responses to the 2011 article above, is also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Menard_Reflecting.pdf as a pdf].]

;Mendez Jose Luis, 1986. : "The Novels of Corin Tellado." ''Studies in Latin American Popular Culture.'' 5:31-40. (Tellado is a Spanish author of romance novels)

;Meyer, Michaela D. E., 2015. : "Living the Romance through ''Castle'': Exploring Autoethnography, Popular Culture and Romantic Television Narratives". ''The Popular Culture Studies Journal'' 3.1&2: 245-269.[http://mpcaaca.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/pcsj_vol3_no1-2.pdf#page=255] [This includes a discussion of romance fiction, not just television romantic narratives]

;Miles, Angela, 1988. : ‘Confessions of a [[Harlequin]] Reader: Romance and the Myth of Male Mothers’, ''Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory'', 12, no. 1-2: 1-36. ** Reprinted in ''The Hysterical Male: New Feminist Theory'', Eds. Arthur & Marilouise Kroker (New York: New World Perspectives, 1991), pp. 92-131. [In March 1985 [http://digitallibrary.uleth.ca/cdm/singleitem/collection/archives/id/10279/rec/19 ''The Meliorist'' published an article] summarising a lecture Miles gave, titled "Confessions of a Harlequin Reader."]

;Miller, Jessica, 2015. : "Passionate Virtue: Conceptions of Medical Professionalism in Popular Romance Fiction." ''Literature and Medicine'' 33.1: 70-90. [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/literature_and_medicine/v033/33.1.miller.html Abstract and Excerpt]

;Milton, Suzanne, 2008. : 'Teaching the Romance Novel: An Introduction', ''Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice'' 2.2/3. [Formerly at [http://www.teachingamericanlit.com/files/Microsoft_Word_-_Teaching_the_Romance.pdf] and now (perhaps with a different title) at [http://www.cpcc.edu/taltp/archives/spring-summer-2008-2-2-3/introduction_spring_summer_2008.pdf/at_download/file]].

;Mirmohamadi, Kylie, 2015. : "Love on the Land: Australian Rural Romance in Place." ''English Studies''. Published online 19 Jan. 2015. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0013838X.2014.983786#.VMagpI9HBxY Abstract]

;Mitchell, Diana, 1995. : 'If You Can't Beat'em, Join 'em: Using the Romance Series to Confront Gender Stereotypes', ''The ALAN Review'', 22.2.[http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/winter95/Mitchell.html]

;Mitchell, Karen S., 1996. : ‘Ever After: Reading the Women Who Read (and Re-Write) Romances’, ''Theatre Topics'', 6.1: 51-69. [As might be supposed from the title of the Journal, this is about drama: the author 'decided to stage a performance centered on the popular romance genre and the women who read these novels']

;Modleski, Tania, 1980. : ‘The Disappearing Act: A Study of [[Harlequin]] Romances’, ''Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society'' 5: 435-448.

;Modleski, Tania, 1982. : ''Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-produced fantasies for women'' (New York: Routledge).

;Modleski, Tania, 1997. :"My Life as a Romance Reader." ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 15-28. Reprinted in ''Old Wives’ Tales and Other Women’s Stories'' (New York: NYU Press, 1998).

;Modleski, Tania, 1998. : "My Life as a Romance Writer." ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 4.9: 134-144. (See below for details of the reply to Modleski by Mussell). Reprinted in ''Old Wives’ Tales and Other Women’s Stories'' (New York: NYU Press, 1998).

;Moffitt, Mary Anne, 1986. : "Function of Hero and Heroine in Women's Formula Fiction: A Gaining of Self through Separation, Identification, and Assimilation." . Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association (36th, Chicago, IL, May 22-26, 1986), 40 pgs. ERIC document ED274005.

;Moffitt, Mary Anne, 1987. : "Understanding the Appeal of the Romance Novel for the Adolescent Girl: A Reader-Response Approach." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association (37th, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 21-25, 1987), 46 pgs ERIC document ED284190.

;Moffitt, Mary Anne, 1987. : "Understanding the "Guidebooks" to Writing Romance Fiction as Reinforcement of Self through the "Formula" Model." Paper presented at the Joint Meeting of the Central States Speech Association and the Southern Speech Communication Association (St. Louis, MO, April 9-12, 1987), 25 pgs., ERIC document ED281250.

;Moffitt, Mary Anne, 1993. : "Leisure Fiction and the Audience: Meaning and Communication Strategies." ''Women's Studies in Communication'' 16.2 : 27-61. (Examination of the leisure practice called romance reading, pursued by two audiences distinguished primarily through age differences)

;Montague, Holly, 1992. : 'Sweet and Pleasant Passion: Female and Male Fantasy in Ancient Romance Novels', in ''Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome'', ed. Amy Richlin (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 231-249. [[http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=97684849 First page] and, if you scroll down the page, an [http://people.uncw.edu/deagona/ancientnovel/bibliography.htm abstract].]

;Moody, Nickianne, 1998. : ‘Mills & Boon’s ''Temptations'': Sex and the Single Couple in the 1990s’ in ''Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film'', ed. Lynne Pearce & Gina Wisker (London: Pluto), pp. 141-156.

;Moody, Stephanie, 2010. : "Women's Leadership in Romance Fiction Scholarship." ''Gender and Women's Leadership: A Reference Handbook''. Ed. K. O'Connor. (London: Sage), 941-947. [http://knowledge.sagepub.com/view/womensleadership/n98.xml Excerpt]

;Moody, Stephanie, 2014. : "From ''Reading the Romance" to Grappling with Genre." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2.[http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/from-reading-the-romance-to-grappling-with-genreby-stephanie-moody/]

;Moody, Stephanie, 2016. : "Identification, Affect, and Escape: Theorizing Popular Romance Reading." ''Pedagogy'' 16.1: 105-123. [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/pedagogy/v016/16.1.moody.html Abstract]

;Moody, Stephanie, 2016. : “Building Social Worlds: Examining Women’s Uses of Romance Novels.” ''Literacy in Practice: Writing in Private, Public and Working Lives''. Eds. Patrick Thomas and Pamela Takayoshi. New York: Routledge. 32-45. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nH74CgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA32&ots=yKy92qAW3F&lr=lang_en&pg=PA32#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Moody-Freeman, Julie E., 2016. : 'Scripting Black Love in the 1990s: Pleasure, Respectability, and Responsibility in an Era of HIV/AIDS', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 111-127.

;Moore, Kate and Eric Murphy Selinger, 2012. : 'The Heroine as Reader, the Reader as Heroine: Jennifer Crusie’s ''Welcome to Temptation''', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.2.[http://jprstudies.org/2012/04/the-heroine-as-reader-the-reader-as-heroine-jennifer-crusies-welcome-to-temptation-by-kate-moore-and-eric-murphy-selinger/].

;Moore, Laura M, 2019. : "Sexual Agency, Safe Sex, and Consent Negotiations in Erotic Romance Novels." ''European Journal of Social Sciences'' 2.2: 92-96.[http://journals.euser.org/files/articles/ejss_v2_i2_19/Moore.pdf]

;Moore, Michael, and Daniela Kramer, 1999.: "Satir for Beginners: Incongruent Communication Patterns in Romantic Fiction." ''ETC: A Review of General Semantics'' 56.4: 429-37. [http://www.amazon.com/SATIR-BEGINNERS-Incongruent-Communication-Semantics/dp/B00099NSVK First couple of paragraphs]

;Moran, Albert, 1990. : '"No More Virgins": Writing Romance - an Interview with [[Emma Darcy|Emma Darcy]]', ''Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture'', 4.1.[http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/4.1/Darcy.html]

;Morgan, Paula, 2003. : “Like Bush Fire in My Arms”: Interrogating the World of Caribbean Romance, ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 36.4: 804-827.

;Morrissey, Katherine, 2014. : 'Fifty Shades of Remix: The Intersecting Pleasures of Commercial and Fan Romances', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2014/02/fifty-shades-of-remix-the-intersecting-pleasures-of-commercial-and-fan-romancesby-katherine-morrissey/]

;Morrissey, Katherine, 2014. : "Rattling the Toolkit: Methods for Reading Romance, Gender, and Culture." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2.[http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/rattling-the-toolkit-methods-for-reading-romance-gender-and-cultureby-katherine-morrissey/]

;Morrissey, Katherine, 2015. : “Steamy, Spicy, Sensual: Tracing the Cycles of Erotic Romance.” ''Women & Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets & Readers''. Ed. Kristen Phillips. Jefferson: McFarland, 2015. 42-58.[https://www.academia.edu/31433608/_Steamy_Spicy_Sensual_Tracing_the_Cycles_of_Erotic_Romance._]

;Morton, Leith, 2016. : "The reinvention of romance: The rewriting, reception and censorship of 'ninjobon' in modern Japan." ''Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia'' 47: 85-115. [http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=093293731315404;res=IELHSS Abstract]

;Mosley, Shelley, John Charles, and Julie Havir, 1995. : 'The Librarian as Effete Snob: Why Romance?', ''Wilson Library Bulletin'', 69: 24–25.**

;Moss, Gemma, 1993. : 'The Place for Romance in Young People's Writing', ''Texts of Desire: Essays on Fiction, Femininity and Schooling'', ed. Linda Christian-Smith. (London: Falmer), pp. 106-???. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7849AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA106#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Motte, Warren, 2012. : "A Walk on the Sheikh Side." ''Formes Poétiques Contemporaines'' 9: 119-134. [Whole issue [http://doublechange.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/FPC9-2012.pdf available for download].]

;Moudileno, Lydie, 2008: "The Troubling Popularity of West African Romance Novels." ''Research in African Literatures'' 39.4: 120-132. [[http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/research_in_african_literatures/v039/39.4.moudileno.html Abstract]]

;Muhomah, C, 2002. : 'What do women want?: Versions of masculinity in Kenyan romantic fiction,' ''English Studies in Africa,'' 45, no. 2 (2002): 77-90.

;Mukherjea, Ananya. 2011. : "Team Bella: Fans Navigating Desire, Security, and Feminism." In ''Theorizing Twilight: Critical Essays on What's at Stake in a Post-Vampire World,'' 70-83. Ed. Maggie Parke and Natalie Wilson. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011.

;Mukherjea, Ananya, 2011. : 'My Vampire Boyfriend: Postfeminism, “Perfect” Masculinity, and the Contemporary Appeal of Paranormal Romance', ''Studies in Popular Culture'' 33.2.[http://pcasacas.org/SiPC/33.2/Mukherjea.pdf]

;Mulhern, Chieko Irie, 1989. : 'Japanese Harlequin Romances as Transcultural Woman's Fiction', ''The Journal of Asian Studies'', 48.1: 50-70.

;Mussell, Kay J., 1975. : 'Beautiful and Damned: The Sexual Woman in Gothic Fiction', ''Journal of Popular Culture'', 9.1: 84-89. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1975.0901_84.x/abstract Excerpt]

;Mussell, Kay J. 1983. : '"But Why Do They Read Those Things?": The Female Audience and the Gothic Novel.' in Ed. Juliann Fleenor ''The Female Gothic,'' (Montreal: Eden Press) pp. 57-68.**

;Mussell, Kay, 1984. : ''Fantasy and Reconciliation: Contemporary Formulas of Women's Romance Fiction'' (Westport CT: Greenwood Press). [http://www.questia.com/library/book/fantasy-and-reconciliation-contemporary-formulas-of-womens-romance-fiction-by-kay-mussell.jsp Excerpts]

;Mussell, Kay. 1978. : "Romantic Fiction." In ''Handbook of American Popular Culture'', vol. 2, edited by M. Thomas Inge, 317-43. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.**

;Mussell, Kay, 1997. : 'Where's Love Gone? Transformations in Romance Fiction and Scholarship', ''Paradoxa'', 3.1-2: 3-14.

;Mussell, Kay, 1997. : '''Paradoxa'' Interview with [[Jayne Ann Krentz]]', ''Paradoxa'', 3.1-2: 46-57.

;Mussell, Kay, 1997. : '''Paradoxa'' Interview with [[Nora Roberts]]', ''Paradoxa'' 3.1-2: 155-163.

;Mussell, Kay, 1997. : '''Paradoxa'' Interview with [[Barbara Michaels | Barbara G. Mertz]]', ''Paradoxa'' 3.1-2: 180-183.

;Mussell, Kay, 1997. : '''Paradoxa'' Interview with [[Janet Dailey]]', ''Paradoxa'' 3.1-2: 214-218.

;Mussell, Kay, 1997. : 'On-Line Romance', ''Paradoxa'' 3.1-2: 246-249.

;Mussell, Kay, 1998. : 'Kay Mussell Replies to Tania Modleski', ''Paradoxa'' 4.9: 145-147.

==N==

;Nakagawa, Chiho, 2011. : “Safe Sex with Defanged Vampires: New Vampire Heroes in Twilight and the Southern Vampire Mysteries”, ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%E2%80%9Csafe-sex-with-defanged-vampires-new-vampire-heroes-in-twilight-and-the-southern-vampire-mysteries%E2%80%9D-by-chiho-nakagawa/]

;Nash, Walter, 1990. : ''Language in Popular Fiction'' (London: Routledge). [Includes quotes from [[Barbara Cartland]]'s ''The Naked Battle'' ([http://books.google.com/books?id=-_sNAAAAQAAJ&lpg=PR7&ots=T2Hw-H2zuM&lr&pg=PA104#v=onepage&q&f=false 104]), [[Anne Weale]]'s ''[[Bed Of Roses - Anne Weale|''Bed Of Roses'']]'' ([http://books.google.com/books?id=-_sNAAAAQAAJ&lpg=PR7&ots=T2Hw-H2zuM&lr&pg=PA106#v=onepage&q&f=false 106]) and ''[[Summer’s Awakening|''Summer’s Awakening'']]'', [[Claudia Jameson]]'s ''[[Escape to Love]]'' and [[Barbara Perkins]]' [[Marina's Sister]].] [http://books.google.com/books?id=-_sNAAAAQAAJ&lpg=PR7&ots=T2Hw-H2zuM&lr&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Ndalianis, Angela. 2012. : ''The Horror Sensorium: Media and the Senses.'' Jefferson, NC: McFarland. Includes chapter "Paranormal Romance: Anita Blake, Sookie Stackhouse and the Monsters Who Love Them."

;Neal, Lynn S, 2006. : ''Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press). [[http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/T-7628.html Description] of the book and [http://www.mountaintimes.com/mtweekly/2006/0316/christian_romance.php3 newspaper interview] with the author about it.]

;Neal, Lynn S., 2013. : ‘Evangelical Love Stories: The Triumphs and Temptations of Romantic Fiction,’ in ''Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture: Pop Goes the Gospel'', ed. Robert H. Woods, Jr, vol. 2 (Santa Barbara: Praeger): 1–20.[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3VBuyPno2j8C&lpg=RA1-PR5&ots=emCm1yK95-&pg=RA1-PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false]

;Neal, Lynn S., 2014. : "The Politics of Popular Romance Studies." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2.[http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/the-politics-of-popular-romance-studiesby-lynn-s-neal/]

;Nelson, Elizabeth, 2015. : "The Romance of Self-Publishing". ''Self-Publishing and Collection Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries''. Ed. Robert P. Holley. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2015. 149-157.[http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=626378]

;Neuhaus, Jessamyn and John Neuhaus. 2015. : "'Sometimes It Feels More Like a Commune Than a Town': Envisioning Utopian Possibilities in Robyn Carr's Virgin River Romance Novels." S''tudies in Popular Culture'', vol. 37, no. 2, 2015, pp. 25-42.[http://www.jstor.org/stable/43940356 Excerpt]

;Neuman, Susan B., 1985. :"The Uses of Reading Mass-Produced Romance Fiction." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Reading Association (30th, New Orleans, LA, May 5-9, 1985), 23 pgs. ERIC document ED263528.

;Neville, Lucy, 2018. : ''Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: Women and Gay Male Pornography and Erotica''. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mVNSDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [This includes some discussion of romance, which is why it's been added to the bibliography.]

;Newns, Lucinda, 2017. : "Renegotiating romantic genres: Textual resistance and Muslim chick lit." ''Journal of Commonwealth Literature''. Online first. 1-17. [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0021989416686156 Abstract]

;Neylon, Virginia Lyn, 2003. : 'Reading and Writing the Romance Novel: An Analysis of Romance Fiction and Its Place in the Community College Classroom', Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (54th, New York, NY, March 19-22, 2003). 20 pgs. ERIC Document ED477339. [Available on the web [http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:eczCyqeDME4J:www.cuyamaca.edu/lyn.neylon/Romance/Reading%2520and%2520writing%2520romance.doc in html] or as a Word document from the author's [http://www.cuyamaca.edu/lyn.neylon/Romance/Romance.asp webpage]]

;Nielsen, Inge, 2000. : "Caught in the Web of Love: Intercepting the Young Adult Reception of Qiongyao's Romances On-Line." ''Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae'' 53.3-4: 235-253.

;Nilson, Maria, 2013. : "From ''The Flame and the Flower'' to ''Fifty Shades of Grey'': Sex, Power and Desire in the Romance Novel," ''Akademisk Kvarter/Academic Quarter'' 7: 119-131.[http://www.akademiskkvarter.hum.aau.dk/pdf/vol7/8a_MariaNilson_FlameFlowerFiftyShades.pdf]

;Nolan, Michelle, 2008. : ''Love on the Racks : a History of American Romance Comics.'' (Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland). [http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-3519-7 Description and link to table of contents].

;''North American Romance Writers'', 1999. : ed. Kay Mussell and Johanna Tuñón (Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press).

;Novak, Julia, 2014. : "Nell Gwyn in Contemporary Romance Novels: Biography and the Dictates of 'Genre Literature'." ''Contemporary Women's Writing''. Advance Access publication date: June 6, 2014.[http://cww.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/06/05/cww.vpu007.extract Excerpt] [https://www.academia.edu/30647596/Nell_Gwyn_in_Contemporary_Romance_Novels_Biography_and_the_Dictates_of_Genre_Literature?email_work_card=view-paper Unpaginated version] ["examines the generic properties of Diane Haeger’s ''The Perfect Royal Mistress'' (2007), Susan Holloway Scott’s ''The King’s Favorite'' (2008), and Gillian Bagwell’s ''The Darling Strumpet'' (2011)"]

;Nowicka, Katarzyna, 2010. : "Romancing the Masses – Problems of Light Romantic Fiction Translation in Poland" in ''3rd Annual International Conference on Philology, Literature & Linguistics, 12 – 15 July 2010, Athens, Greece''. Athens: Athens Institute for Education and Research.** [According to the abstract [http://www.atiner.gr/abstracts/2010ABST-LIT.pdf here], the paper "centre[s] around the formative role of translation in the process of light romantic fiction publishing, subordinate and passive position of the author and special responsibility of the editor who controls the procedure of trans-editing. The main impact is to be laid on the power relations between the Harlequin translator and the Publishing House represented by the editor. In addition, the figure of factory translator is to be presented in detail, considering professionalism, working conditions, environment and methods. The problems of mass literature rendition, such as haste, restrictions, standardization or commercialism, as well as translation mistakes resulting from them are to be presented and illustrated with the examples taken from the English and Polish issues of selected titles."]

;Núñez Puente, Sonia, 2008. : "The Romance Novel and Popular Culture during the Early Franco Regime in Spain: Towards the Construction of Other Discourses of Femininity." ''Journal of Gender Studies'' 17.3: 225-36. [http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=0958-9236&volume=17&issue=3&spage=225 Abstract]

;Nye, David, 1988. : "The Consumption of American Popular Culture." ''Text & Context: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies'' 2.1: 85-93. (Harlequin Romances; relationship to popular culture; film; amusement park)

;Nyquist, Mary, 1993. : 'Romance in the Forbidden Zone', in ''ReImagining Women: Representations of Women in Culture'', ed. Shirley Neuman (ed. & introd.) and Glennis Stephenson (Toronto: U of Toronto Press),pp. 160-81.

==O==

;O'Byrne, Patricia, 2008. : "Popular Fiction in Postwar Spain: The Soothing, Subversive ''Novela Rosa''." ''Journal of Romance Studies'' 8.2: 37-57. [http://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/romance-studies/8/2/jrs080204.xml Abstract]

;O'Byrne, Patricia, 2014. : "Susana March Alcalá: Sexual Abuse and Male Dominion" in ''Post-War Spanish Women Novelists and the Recuperation of Historical Memory.'' by Patricia O'Byrne. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Tamesis. 89-118. [This chapter discusses the ''novela rosa''.] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=lang_en&id=ZDM3BAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA89&ots=sX20nBO_II&sig=uDhnjaa0uOgYPoiUW-B9YX5Ws8M#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Odag, Özen, 2008. : "Of Men Who Read Romance and Women Who Read Adventure Stories: An Empirical Reception Study on the Emotional Engagement of Men and Women while Reading Narrative Texts." ''New Beginnings in Literary Studies.'' Auracher, Jan, ed.; Peer, Willie van, ed. (Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars), pp. 308-329.

;Oklopčić, Biljana, 2016. : "Medieval heresy in Croatian historical romances: a case study of Marija Jurić Zagorka’s ''Plameni inkvizitori''." ''Neohelicon'' (online first 10 August 2016). [http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11059-016-0346-9 Abstract]

;Olivarez, Omar, Ryan Hardie, and Kate G. Blackburn, 2018. : "The Language of Romance: An Open Vocabulary Analysis of the Highest Rated Words Used in Romance Novels." ''Journal of Language and Social Psychology''. First Published August 18, 2018. [https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X18793976 Abstract]

;Olivier, Séverine, 2012. : "Francophone Perspectives on Romantic Fiction: From the Academic Field to Reader’s Experience." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.2. [http://jprstudies.org/2012/04/francophone-perspectives-on-romantic-fiction-from-the-academic-field-to-readers-experience-by-severine-olivier-interview-with-agnes-caubet-romance-reader-and-webmaster-of-les-romantiques/] [Part 1 gives an overview of Francophone romance scholarship and Part 2 is an interview with Agnès Caubet, "Romance Reader and Webmaster of Les Romantiques, fan website and webzine."]

;O’Mahony, Lauren, 2014. : 'Australian rural romance as feminist romance?' ''Australasian Journal of Popular Culture'' 3.3: 285-298. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/ajpc/2014/00000003/00000003/art00004 Abstract]

;O’Mahony, Lauren, 2014. : 'Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks?: Romance, Ethics and Human-Dog Relationships in a Rural Australian Novel', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2. [http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/teaching-an-old-dog-new-tricks-romance-ethics-and-human-dog-relationships-in-a-rural-australian-novelby-lauren-omahony/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/TAODNT_OMahony.pdf as a pdf].]

;O'Mahony, Lauren. 2017. : "Death and the Australian Rural Romance Novel." ''TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses,'' vol. (Supplement 45), Oct. 2017, pp. 1-14.[http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue45/OMahony.pdf]

;O’Mahony, Lauren and Olivia Murphy, 2018. : 'From polite society to the Pilbara: The ingénue abroad in ''Evelina'' and ''The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots''', ''Outskirts'' 38:1-23.[http://www.outskirts.arts.uwa.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/3108127/OMahony-and-Murphy.pdf]

;Opas, Lisa Lena, and Fiona Tweedie, 1999.: "The Magic Carpet Ride: Reader Involvement in Romantic Fiction." ''Literary and Linguistic Computing: Journal of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing'' 14.1: 89-101.[http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/14/1/89.abstract] [An abstract of a conference paper with the same title, given by the authors the previous year, can be found [http://www.arts.klte.hu/allcach98/abst/abs33.htm here]]

;Osborne, Gwendolyn, 2002. : "How Black Romance - Novels, that is - Came to Be." ''Black Issues Book Review'' Jan-Feb. 2002. 50.[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HST/is_1_4/ai_82511066 original link] [https://web.archive.org/web/20041111200108/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HST/is_1_4/ai_82511066 article can now be found via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine]

;Osborne, Gwendolyn E., 2003. : 'In Search of Women Who Look Like Me: A Brief History of the African-American Romance', ''The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference'', Ed. Leslie Fife, pp. 2020-2044. [http://robertleston.com/my-files/PAF/2000-2003%20SW-Texas%20PCA-ACA%20Proceedings.pdf Whole proceedings online here.]

;Osborne, Gwendolyn E., 2004. : "'Women Who Look Like Me': Cultural Identity and Reader Responses to African American Romance Novels." ''Race/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers'', ed. Rebecca Ann Lind (New York: Pearson), pp. 61-68.

;Osborne, Laurie E., 1999. : "Romancing the Bard", ''Shakespeare and Appropriation'', ed. Christy Desmet and Robert Sawyer (New York: Routledge), 47-64. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Qo0Xd_0dNUAC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA47#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [Osborne has also created a Romancing the Bard website. Its contents are not identical to those in this article, but it may nonetheless be of interest. For more details see [[Romance Resources for Academics|Romance Resources for Academics]] ].

;Osborne, Laurie, 2000. : "Sweet, Savage Shakespeare", ''Shakespeare without Class: Misappropriations of Cultural Capital'', ed. Donald Hedrick and Bryan Reynolds (New York: Palgrave), 135-51. [http://books.google.com/books?id=lFWHrrY00IUC&lpg=PA6&ots=Qb1gFBA8HW&dq=&pg=PA135#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Osborne, Laurie E., 2002. : "Harlequin Presents: That '70s Shakespeare and Beyond." in ''Shakespeare after Mass Media.'' Ed. Richard Burt (New York: Palgrave), pp. 127-149.(influence on Harlequin Romances). [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5nhk7moWXaQC&lpg=PP1&ots=oqTJpA3naK&pg=PA127#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Ostrov Weisser, Susan, 2001. : ''Women and Romance: A Reader''. Ed. Susan Ostrov Weisser. New York: New York UP. [http://www.nyupress.org/books/Women_and_Romance-products_id-2548.html Abstract and link to Table of Contents]

;Ostrov Weisser, Susan, 2013. : ''The Glass Slipper: Women and Love Stories''. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP. [See in particular Chapter 7, "Feminism and Harlequin Romance: The Problem of the Love Story" and Chapter 8, "A Genre of One's Own: African American Romance Imprints and the 'Universality' of Love"] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QbkKAQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Owen, Mairead, 1997. : 'Re-inventing romance: Reading popular romantic fiction', ''Women's Studies International Forum'', 20.4:537-46. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VBD-3SX1GK8-8&_user=10&_coverDate=08%2F31%2F1997&_rdoc=1&_fmt=summary&_orig=browse&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=0d94c077ef7aa8003df3328425c81fa0 Abstract] [http://www.brown.uk.com/brownlibrary/RM.htm Excerpt]

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==A==

;Abartis, Caesarea, 1979. : 'The Ugly-Pretty, Dull-Bright, Weak-Strong Girl in the Gothic Mansion', ''Journal of Popular Culture'', 13.2: 257-63.

;Abdullah-Poulos, Layla, 2018. : "The Stable Muslim Love Triangle - Triangular Desire in African American Muslim Romance Fiction." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 7. [http://jprstudies.org/2018/11/the-stable-muslim-love-triangle-triangular-desire-in-african-american-muslim-romance-fictionby-layla-abdullah-poulos/]

;Adams, Lisa, and John Heath, 2007. : ''Why We Read What We Read: A Delightfully Opinionated Journey Through Contemporary Bestsellers. '' (Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks) Has a chapter titled, Hopefully Ever After: Love, Romance, and Relationships.

;Adkins, Denice, Linda Esser & Diane Velasquez, 2006. : ‘Relations Between Librarians and Romance Readers: A Missouri Survey’, ''Public Libraries'', 45.4, (July/August 2006): 54-64. [http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/pla/plapublications/publiclibraries/julyaug2006.pdf Whole issue available as a pdf.]

;Adkins, Denice, Linda Esser, Diane Velasquez, and Heather L. Hill. 2008. : "Romance novels in american public libraries: A study of collection development practices." ''Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services'' 32, no. 2: 59-67. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lcats.2008.08.014 Abstract.]

;Adkins, Denice, Linda R. Esser, and Diane Velasquez, 2010. : "Promoting Romance Novels in American Public Libraries." ''Public Libraries'' 49.4 (July/August): 41-48.

;Ahlberg, Sofia, 2009. : "Women and War in Contemporary Love Stories from Uganda and Nigeria." ''Comparative Literature Studies'' 46.2: 407-424.

;Alberts, J. K., 1986. : ‘The role of couples' conversations in relationship development: A content analysis of courtship talk in Harlequin romance novels’, ''Communication Quarterly'', 34: 127-142. **

;Ali, Abu-Bakar, 2018. : "Agency, Gender, Nationalism, and the Romantic Imaginary in Pakistan", ''Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing''. Ed. Aroosa Kanwal and Saiyma Aslam. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. 225-235. [https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351719865/chapters/10.4324%2F9781315180618-32 Abstract]

;Ali, Kecia, 2017. : ''Human in Death: Morality and Mortality in J. D. Robb's Novels''. Waco, Texas: Baylor UP.

;Ali, Kecia. 2017. : “Troubleshooting Post-9/11 America: Religion, Racism, and Stereotypes in Suzanne Brockmann’s ''Into the Night'' and ''Gone Too Far''.” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 6.[http://jprstudies.org/2017/09/troubleshooting-post-911-america-religion-racism-and-stereotypes-in-suzanne-brockmanns-into-the-night-and-gone-too-farby-kecia-ali/]

;Ali, Kecia, 2018. : "Romance Fiction in the Archives." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 7.[http://jprstudies.org/2018/05/romance-fiction-in-the-archivesby-kecia-ali/]

;Allan, Jonathan A., 2011. : "Theorising Male Virginity in Popular Romance Novels." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1 [http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/theorising-male-virginity/]

;Allan, Jonathan A., 2012. : “Theorising the Monstrous and the Virginal in Popular Romance Novels.” eBook of the ''Inversions of Power and Paradox: Studies of Monstrosity'', Eds. Elizabeth Nelson and Jonathan A. Allan. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2012. [The whole volume can be downloaded [https://www.interdisciplinarypress.net/online-store/ebooks/evil-monsters-horror/inversions-of-power-and-paradox here] and [http://www.academia.edu/1097989/Theorising_the_Monstrous_and_the_Virginal_in_Popular_Romance_Novels this essay] has been made available on its own by the author.]

;Allan, Jonathan A., 2013. : “Reading the Regis Roundtable: An Outsider’s Perspective.” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/reading-the-regis-roundtable-an-outsiders-perspective-by-jonathan-a-allan/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Allan_RegisReadingRoundtable.pdf as a pdf].]

;Allan, Jonathan A., 2016. : "The Purity of His Maleness: Masculinity in Popular Romance Novels." ''The Journal of Men's Studies''. [http://men.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/01/20/1060826515624382.abstract Abstract]

;Allan, Jonathan A., 2016. : ''Reading from Behind: A Cultural Analysis of the Anus''. Regina: University of Regina Press. [See chapter 3, "Topping from the Bottom: Anne Tenino's ''Frat Boy and Toppy''"]

;Allen, Amanda K. 2009. : "The Cinderella-Makers: Postwar Adolescent Girl Fiction as Commodity Tales." ''Lion and the Unicorn'' 33, no. 3: 282-299.

;Allen, Amanda K. 2012. : “Charm the Boys, Win the Girls: Power Struggles in Mary Stolz’s Cold War Adolescent Girl Romance Novels,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.1. [http://jprstudies.org/2012/10/charm-the-boys-win-the-girls-power-struggles-in-mary-stolzs-cold-war-adolescent-girl-romance-novels-by-amanda-k-allen/]

;Allen, Jeanne., 1989 : "Harlequins, Gothics, and Soap Operas: Addressing Needs and Masking Fears." ''Quarterly Review of Film & Video'' 11: 113-115. [[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10509208909361290#preview Excerpt] This is a review of Tania Modleski's ''Loving with a Vengeance''.]

;Anderson, Jennifer, 1981. : ''Mills and Boon: Love and Oppression.'' Broadway [N.S.W.] : New South Wales Institute of Technology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.** [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn282031 Details from the National Library of Australia]

;Anderson, Rachel, 1974. : ''The Purple Heart Throbs: The Sub-literature of Love'' (London: Hodder and Stoughton).

;Andresen, Julie Tetel, 1999. : "Postmodern Identity (Crisis): Confessions of a Linguistic Historiographer and Romance Writer." in ''Romantic Conventions.'' Ed. Anne K. Kaler and Rosemary E. Johnson-Kurek (Bowling Green, OH: Popular) pp. 173-186. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ja_Ia-oZo4wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA185#v=onepage&q=&f=false Excerpt]

;Ang, Ien, 1996. : ''Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences for a Postmodern World'' (London & New York: Routledge). [Chapter 6 is titled 'Feminist Desire and Female Pleasure: On Janice Radway's ''Reading the Romance''']

;Ardis, Ann. 1996. : "E. M. Hull, Mass Market Romance and the New Woman Novel in the Early Twentieth Century." ''Women's Writing'' 3, no. 3: 287-296. [http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a746802875 Abstract]

;Arimbi, Diah Ariani, 2017. : "Women in Indonesian Popular Fiction: Romance, Beauty, and Identity Politics in ''Metropop'' Novels." ''Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions''. Ed. Jan van der Putten, Monika Arnez, Edwin P. Wieringa and Arndt Graf. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2017. 247-271. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=lang_en&id=6sI3DwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA247&ots=HhXm4WHIxU&sig=G1jqDffTpkQVHkhHchs5sjMcfEw#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Armstrong, Jane, Liz Byrski and Helen Merrick, 2014. : "Love works: Reading and writing romance in the twenty-first century." ''Australasian Journal of Popular Culture'' 3.3: 257-261.

;Arnold, Marilyn. 1981.: "Pornography, Romance, and the Paradox of Freedom." In ''Ye Are Free to Choose: Agency and the Latter-Day Saint Woman,'' ed. Maren M. Mouritsen. (Provo: Brigham Young Univ.): 50-62.

;Aronowitz, Beverly-Lynne, 1988. : 'Women's Fiction and Popular Romance: Student Audience and Teaching Dilemma', Paper presented at the Annual National Literature Conference (3rd, Chicago, IL, October 14-15, 1988). 32 pgs. ERIC document ED298525. [http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED298525&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=eric_accno&objectId=0900000b80044666 Abstract]

;Aronowitz, Beverly-Lynne, 1991. : "The Dilemma of Teaching Women's Fiction: Is It Pop, Pulp, Porn-or Poetry?." ''Pennsylvania English'' 15.2: 1-20.

;Arvanitaki, Eirini, 2015. : "Gender in Recent Romance Novels: A Third Wave Feminist Mills and Boon Love Affair?", in ''Re/Presenting Gender and Love'', ed. Dikmen Yakalı Çamoğlu (Interdisciplinary Net). [http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/publishing/product/representing-gender-and-love/ Index of the book]

;Arvanitaki, Eirini, 2017. : "Postmillennial femininities in the popular romance novel." ''Journal of Gender Studies''. Published online: 28 Aug 2017. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09589236.2017.1368370 Abstract]

;Assiter, Alison, 1988. : ‘Romance Fiction: Porn for Women?’, in ''Perspectives on Pornography: Sexuality in Film and Literature'', ed. Gary Day & Clive Bloom (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan), pp. 101-109.

;Ávila, Debbie Maria, 2014. : "Conflicting Images of Womanhood in the Novels of Alice Ogando." ''Cincinnati Romance Review'' 38: 245-259. [http://www.cromrev.com/volumes/vol38/CRR%20v38-A15%20Avila.pdf] ["The now largely forgotten Portuguese writer Alice Ogando (1900-1981)[...]'s feminist message is counterposed by her more formulaic romance novels, in which she upholds traditional images of femininity and of idealized marriage"]

==B==

;Bach, Evelyn, 1997.:'Sheik Fantasies: Orientalism and Feminine Desire in the Desert Romance', ''Hecate'', 23.1: 9-40. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6655/is_n1_v23/ai_n28696255 Unpaginated version]

;Badik, Victoria L., 1997. : "On Using Genre Fiction in Bibliotherapy", ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 242-245.

;Bailie, Helen T., 2011. : 'Blood Ties: The Vampire Lover in the Popular Romance', ''The Journal of American Culture'', 34.2: 141-48. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1542-734X.2011.00770.x/full Excerpt]

;Balducci, Federica, 2011. : “When chick lit meets romanzo rosa: Intertextual narratives in Stefania Bertola’s romantic fiction,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2011/12/when-chick-lit-meets-romanzo-rosa-intertextual-narratives-in-stefania-bertola%E2%80%99s-romantic-fiction-by-federica-balducci/]

;Baldus, Kimberly, 2012. : 'Gossip, Liminality, and Erotic Display: Jennifer Crusie’s Links to Eighteenth-Century Amatory Fiction', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.2.[http://jprstudies.org/2012/04/gossip-liminality-and-erotic-display-jennifer-crusies-links-to-eighteenth-century-amatory-fiction-by-kimberly-baldus/]

;Baldys, Emily M., 2012. : 'Disabled Sexuality, Incorporated: The Compulsions of Popular Romance', ''Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies'' 6.2: 125-141.[http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/p5432n5p72675023/?p=e6c0e1bde814401c91c88b6dcb061c08&pi=1 Abstract and Excerpt]

;Banzon-Mooney, Isabela, 1997. : “‘Cinderella,’ ‘Snow White’ and Romance Fiction.” ''Journal of English Studies and Comparative Literature'' 2.1: 4-18. [http://www.journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/jescl/article/viewfile/2472/2340].

;Barot, Len, 2016. : 'Queer Romance in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century America: Snapshots of a Revolution', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 389-404.

;Barr, Elizabeth, 2013. : '“Who the devil wrote that?”: Intertextuality and Authorial Reputation in Georgette Heyer’s ''Venetia''', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2.[http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/who-the-devil-wrote-that-intertextuality-and-authorial-reputation-in-georgette-heyers-venetia-by-elizabeth-barr/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Barr_Intertextuality.pdf as a pdf].]

;Barrett, Rebecca Kaye, 2003. : ‘Higher Love: What Women Gain from Christian Romance Novels’, ''Journal of Religion and Popular Culture'', 4. [http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/484h263478158331/ Excerpt] [http://web.archive.org/web/20040301135012/http://www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc/art4-higherlove.html Archived version]

;Barrett-Fox, Rebecca, 2007. : 'Hope, Faith and Toughness: An Analysis of the Christian Hero.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 93-102.

;Barrett-Fox, Rebecca, 2016. : 'Christian Romance Novels: Inspiring Convention and Challenge', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 347-368.

;Batsleer, Janet, 1981. : ‘Pulp in the Pink’, ''Spare Rib'', 109: 52-5. [https://journalarchives.jisc.ac.uk/media_open/pdf/generated/sparerib/P.523_344_Issue109/PDF/P.523_344_Issue109_0052-0055_124.pdf Pdf available from the British Library] Repr. in Bob Ashley (ed.), ''The Study of Popular Fiction: A Source Book'' (London: Pinter, 1989), 206-12 and Bob Ashley (ed.) ''Reading Popular Narrative: A Source Book'' (London: Leicester University Press, 1989), 217-22.**

;Batsleer, Janet, Tony Davies, Rebecca O'Rourke and Chris Weedon, 1985. : ''Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class'' (London: Methuen). There are also [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/12371238/editions?editionsView=true&referer=di a couple of other editions] of this book, both published by Routledge. The chapter with most relevance for this bibliography is Chapter 5, "Gender and Genre: Women's Stories," on pages 86-105. A partial preview of that chapter, in one of the Routledge editions, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xH0MYhv6eGsC&pg=PP7&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=0_1#PPA86,M1 is available].

;Baum, Thomas, 2012. : "Working the Skies: Changing Representations of Gendered Work in the Airline Industry, 1930-2011." ''Tourism Management'' 33.5: 1185-1194. [This is mostly about work in the airline industry but it draws on one of Betty Beaty's romances and other works of fiction featuring flight attendants/air stewardesses] [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2011.11.012 Abstract] and [http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/34800/ Unpaginated version]

;Behm-Morawitz, Elizabeth, Melissa A. Click, and Jennifer Stevens Aubrey. 2010. : "Relating to Twilight: Fans' Responses to Love and Romance in the Vampire Franchise." In ''Bitten by Twilight: Youth Culture, Media, and the Vampire Franchise,'' 137-154. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2010. [Also of interest may be Aubrey, Jennifer Stevens, Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz, and Melissa A. Click. 2010. "[http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/216/184 The romanticization of abstinence: Fan response to sexual restraint in the Twilight series]." ''Transformative Works and Cultures'' 5.]

;Beidler, Peter, 1991. : 'The Contemporary Indian Romance: A Review Essay', ''American Indian Culture and Research Journal'' 15.4: 97-125. ** [Brief details [http://aisc.metapress.com/content/3364826673xm74t7/ here] and [http://iportal.usask.ca/index.php?sid=601141574&id=14147&t=details here].]

;Bell, Kathleen, 1995. : 'Cross-dressing in Wartime: Georgette Heyer's ''[[The Corinthian]]'' in its 1940 Context'. ''War Culture: Social Change and Changing Experience in World War Two Britain'', Ed. Pat Kirkham and David Thoms (London: Lawrence and Wishart), 151-60. ** Reprinted in ''Georgette Heyer: A Critical Retrospective'', ed. Mary Fahnestock-Thomas (Saraland AL: Prinny World Press, 2001): 461-72. **

;Belsey, Catherine, 1993. : 'Writing About Desire', The Glasgow Review, 2. [http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/STELLA/COMET/glasgrev/issue2/belsey.htm#Title]

;Belsey, Catherine, 1994. : ''Desire; Love Stories in Western Culture.'' (Oxford: Blackwell). Chapter 2 (Reading Love Stories) touches on popular romance. [http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0631168141.html Abstract.]

;Beidler, Peter G., 1991. : 'The Contemporary Indian Romance: A Review Essay', ''American Indian Culture and Research Journal '', 15.4:97-125.

;Bennett-Kapusniak, Renee and Adriana McCleer, 2015. : "Love in the Digital Library: A Search for Racial Heterogeneity in E-Books." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/love-in-the-digital-library-a-search-for-racial-heterogeneity-in-e-booksby-renee-bennett-kapusniak-and-adriana-mccleer/]

;Benson, Stephen, 1996. : 'Stories of Love and Death: Reading and Writing the Fairy Tale Romance', ''Image & Power: Women in Fiction in the Twentieth Century'', ed. Sarah Sceats and Gail Cunningham, (New York: Longman), pp. 103-113. [Benson argues that "The formulaic nature of the popular romance - the generic stamp of Mills and Boon or Harlequin - could be said to have grown out of the structured, repetitive form of the folk tale" (105). The majority of this essay deals with the following tales: Cupid and Psyche; Beauty and the Beast; Bluebeard, and reworkings/reinterpretations of them by Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood.]

;Bereska, Tami M., 1994. : 'Adolescent Sexuality and the Changing Romance Novel Market', ''The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality'' 3: 35-44.**

;Bettinotti, Julia and Marie-Françoise Truel, 1997. : "Lust and Dust: Desert Fabula in Romances and Media." ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 184-194.

;Bettinotti, Julia, 1998. : 'Re-imagining the Gold Rush; Prospectors, Log Cabins and Mail-Order Brides in Contemporary Western Romances.' ''Northern Review,'' No. 19 (Winter 1998): 170-180.

;Betz, Phyllis M. 2009. : ''Lesbian romance novels: a history and critical analysis.'' Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. [http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-3836-5 Description from the publisher].

;Betz, Phyllis M. 2017. : ''Katherine V. Forrest: A Critical Appreciation''. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. [See Chapter 2, "Diana and Lane: From Pulp to Passion" [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1uw8DgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q&f=false excerpt here]. ]

;Bhasin, Neeta, 2018. : "Romancing the 'Illegal' Immigrant", ''Journal of Literature and Art Studies'' 8.10: 1459-1474.[http://www.davidpublisher.org/Public/uploads/Contribute/5bda8da0a037a.pdf] [Focuses on Serena Bell's ''Yours to Keep''.]

;Bianchi, Diana and Adele d'Arcangelo, 2015. : 'Translating History or Romance? Historical Romantic Fiction and Its Translation in a Globalised Market', ''Linguistics and Literature Studies'' 3.5: 248-253.[http://www.hrpub.org/download/20150831/LLS8-19304470.pdf]

;Black, Jessica E., Stephanie C. Capps and Jennifer L. Barnes, 2017. : 'Fiction, Genre Exposure, and Moral Reality'. ''Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts''. [http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2017-19178-001/ Abstract] and [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jessica_Black5/publication/316317123_Fiction_Genre_Exposure_and_Moral_Reality/links/58fa206daca2723d79d601cc/Fiction-Genre-Exposure-and-Moral-Reality.pdf Pre-print version]

;Blake, Susan L., 2003. : 'What "Race" is the Sheik?: Rereading a Desert Romance', in ''Doubled Plots: Romance and History'', see below, pp. 67-85. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&id=3B-byRPo2WMC&dq=&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=zfrthQL88T&sig=FmqFOK4wmlo_hHEUaGkJr9Qr9mI&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA67,M1 Via GoogleBooks][This is about E. M. Hull's ''The Sheik''.]

;Blouin, Michael J., 2018. : ''Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972–2017''. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.[https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-89387-7] [See Chapter 3 on 'Danielle Steel and the New Home Economics' because Blouin refers to romance scholarship and describes Steel as "the undisputed master of the mass-market romance" (75). This is, however, disputed, both by many romance readers and by Steel herself, who has "insisted that her books aren't romantic fiction. 'They're not really about romance ... I really write more about the human condition,' she said. '[Romance] is an element in life but I think of romance novels as more of a category and I write about the situations we all deal with – loss and war and illness and jobs and careers, good things, bad things, crimes, whatever'." [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/sep/23/danielle-steel-romance-fiction-novels] ]

;Bly, Mary, 2012. : 'On Popular Romance, J. R. Ward, and the Limits of Genre Study,' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 60-72.

;Bold, Rudolph, 1980. : 'Trash in the Library', ''Library Journal'', 105.10: 1138-39.

;Booth, Naomi. 2015. : "Good Vibrations: Shaken Subjects and the Disintegrative Romance Heroine." ''In Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets and Readers,'' 99-116. Jefferson, NC: McFarland

;Booth, Sandra, 1997. : "Paradox in Popular Romances of the 1990s: The Paranormal versus Feminist Humor." ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 94-106.

;Borgia, Danielle N., 2011. : "''Twilight'': The Glamorization of Abuse, Codependency, and White Privilege." ''Journal of Popular Culture''. Article first published online: 21 SEP 2011 in "Early View." [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com./doi/10.1111/j.1540-5931.2011.00872.x/abstract Excerpt]

;Bostian, Patricia Kennedy, 2008. : '[[Amanda Scott]]: Bringing History to Life', ''Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice'' 2.2/3. [Formerly at [http://www.teachingamericanlit.com/files/Microsoft_Word_-_ScottAmanda.pdf]. This link no longer works and the paper appears to have been omitted from the pdf of the entire issue which can be downloaded from [http://www.cpcc.edu/taltp/archives/spring-summer-2008-2-2-3/spring_summer_2008_merged.pdf/at_download/file]].

;Botts, Amber, 1999. : 'Cavewoman Impulses: The Jungian Shadow Archetype in Popular Romantic Fiction', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 62-74.

;Bowman, Barbara. 1983. : "Victoria Holt's Gothic Romances: A Structuralist Inquiry." In Fleenor, Julian E. (ed.)''The Female Gothic,'' 69-81. Montreal: Eden.

;Bowring, Joanna and Margaret O’Brien, 2008. : ''The Art of Romance: Mills & Boon and Harlequin Cover Designs'', (Munich: Prestel). [This has a short history of the companies and some descriptions of the covers and then the rest of the book consists of photos of Mills & Boon and Harlequin book covers, many of which can be viewed [http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/mills-amp-boon--a-literary-love-affair-835616.html?action=Popup&ino=1 here], and there are smaller selections [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/gallery/2008/nov/27/mills-and-boon-covers?picture=340129693 here] and [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/donotmigrate/3558711/Mills-and-Boon-the-art-of-love.html here].]

;Brackett, Kim Pettigrew, 2000. : "Facework Strategies Among Romance Fiction Readers", ''The Social Science Journal'', 37.3: 347-60.

;Bradford, Clare, 2013. : "Monsters: Monstrous Identities in Young Adult Romance", ''(Re)Imagining the World: Children’s Literature’s Response to Changing Times'', ed Yan Wu, Kerry Mallan and Roderick McGillis. Heidelberg: Springer. 115-125. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OVtEAAAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA115#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] and [https://www.academia.edu/10607961/Monsters_Monstrous_Identities_in_Young_Adult_romance unpaginated version]

;Breslin, Carol Ann, 1999. : 'Medieval Magic and Witchcraft in the Popular Romance Novel', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 75-85. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ja_Ia-oZo4wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q=&f=false Excerpt]

;Bronstein, Carolyn, 2014. : 'The Political Uses of Lesbian Romance Fiction: Reading Patrick Califia’s ''Macho Sluts'' as a Response to 1980s Anti-Pornography Feminism', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2014/02/the-political-uses-of-lesbian-romance-fiction-reading-patrick-califias-macho-sluts-as-a-response-to-1980s-anti-pornography-feminismby-carolyn-bronstein/]

;Brouillette, Sarah, 2019. : "Romance Work." ''Theory & Event'' 22.2, pp. 451-464. [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/722834/pdf Abstract]

;Brown, Fahamisha Patricia, 2008. : '[[Beverly Jenkins]]', ''Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice'' 2.2/3. [Formerly at [http://www.teachingamericanlit.com/files/Microsoft_Word_-_TALTP-JenkinsBeverlyuse.pdf]. This link no longer works but a pdf of the entire issue can be downloaded from [http://www.cpcc.edu/taltp/archives/spring-summer-2008-2-2-3/spring_summer_2008_merged.pdf/at_download/file]].

;Brown, Fahamisha Patricia, 2008. : '[[Anita Richmond Bunkley]]', ''Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice'' 2.2/3. [Formerly at [http://www.teachingamericanlit.com/files/Microsoft_Word_-_TALTP-BunkleyAnita.pdf]. This link no longer works but a pdf of the entire issue can be downloaded from [http://www.cpcc.edu/taltp/archives/spring-summer-2008-2-2-3/spring_summer_2008_merged.pdf/at_download/file]].

;Brown, Sonya C., 2011. : 'Does This Book Make Me Look Fat?', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 1.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2011/03/does-this-book-make-me-look-fat/] ["Analysis of the text of several examples of plus-size romances, as well as of readers’ posts and arguments, ultimately reveals deep ambivalence about size acceptance, real and fictional."]

;Brunt, Rosalind, 1984. : 'A Career in Love: The Romantic World of Barbara Cartland.' in ''Popular Fiction and Social Change.'' ed. Christopher Pawling, (New York: St Martin's), pp. 127-156.

;Bryce, Jane, 1996. : "'A World of Caribbean Romance' Reformulating the Legend of Love or: 'Can a Caress Be Culturally Specific?'." in ''Framing the Word: Gender and Genre in Caribbean Women's Writing.'' Ed. Joan Anim-Addo (London: Whiting and Birch), pp. 108-127. **

;Burge, Amy, 2012. : “Do Knights Still Rescue Damsels in Distress?: Reimagining the Medieval in the Mills & Boon Historical Romance,” ''The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction ,'' ed. Katherine Cooper and Emma Short (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 95-114. [http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=514500 Details] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YrVtUTUmlC8C&lpg=PA95&pg=PA95#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Burge, Amy, 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. [http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=18830/ Abstract]

;Burge, Amy, 2016. : ''Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance''. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. [http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/representing-difference-in-the-medieval-and-modern-orientalist-romance-amy-burge/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781137601315 Abstract and Table of Contents]

;Burge, Amy, 2016. : "‘I Will Cut Myself and Smear Blood on the Sheet’: Testing Virginity in Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance." ''Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen''. Ed. Jonathan A. Allan, Cristina Santos, and Adriana Spahr. London: Zed. 17-44. [http://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/files/30097013/Virgin_Envy_chapter_pre_proof.pdf Pre-print version]

;Burley, Stephanie, 2000. : "Shadows and Silhouettes: The Racial Politics of Category Romance." ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 5.13-14: 324-343.

;Burley, Stephanie, 2003. : 'What's a Nice Girl like You Doing in a Book like This?: Homoerotic Reading and Popular Romance', in ''Doubled Plots: Romance and History'', see below, pp. 127-46. [http://books.google.com/books?id=3B-byRPo2WMC&dq=&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=zfstjNM05P&sig=DTg9qdbOWddx4BwwPEZa4SUuHY0&hl=en&ei=_bnwSfmDMYKUjAfvlPW_DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#PPA127,M1 Excerpt]

;Burnett, Ann, & Rhea Reinhardt Beto, 2000. : ‘Reading Romance Novels: An Application of Parasocial Relationship Theory’, ''North Dakota Journal of Speech & Theatre'', 13. [http://www2.edutech.nodak.edu/ndsta/beto.htm]

;Butler, Lucy. 2014. : "After Happy Ever: Tender Extremities and Tangled Selves in Three Australasian Bluebeard Tales." ''Journal Of Popular Romance Studies'' 4, no. 2: [http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/after-happy-ever-tender-extremities-and-tangled-selves-in-three-australasian-bluebeard-talesby-lucy-butler/]

;Byatt, A.S. 1991. : "An Honourable Escape: [[Georgette Heyer]]." in ''Passions of the Mind: Selected writings.'' London: Chatto & Windus. 258-265.

==C==

;Cabrera, Christine and Amy Dana Ménard, 2012. : “'She Exploded into a Million Pieces': A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Orgasms in Contemporary Romance Novels.” ''Sexuality & Culture'', Online First™, 10 July 2012. [http://www.springerlink.com/content/a766072ur506053r/?MUD=MP Details]

;Cadogan, Mary, 1994. : ''And Then Their Hearts Stood Still: An Exuberant Look at Romantic Fiction Past and Present'' (London: Macmillan).

;Calhoun-French, Diane M., 1987. : '"New" Women in Old Stories: Silhouette "Intimate Moments"', in ''Heroines of Popular Culture'', ed. Pat Browne (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press), pp. 114-119. [http://books.google.com/books?id=6IWjPVqk1nIC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA115#v=onepage&q=&f=false Pages 115], [http://books.google.com/books?id=6IWjPVqk1nIC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA116#v=onepage&q=&f=false 116] and [http://books.google.com/books?id=6IWjPVqk1nIC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA119#v=onepage&q=&f=false 119] are available for viewing via Google Books.

;Calhoun-French, Diane M. 2000. : "Of Love and Death: Murder and Mayhem Meet the Romance." ''Clues: A Journal of Detection'', 21.1: 1-16.

;Calhoun-French, Diane M., 1999. : 'Time-Travel and Related Phenomena in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 100-12. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ja_Ia-oZo4wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA100#v=onepage&q=&f=false Excerpt]

;Capelle, Annick, 1996. : 'Harlequin Romances in Western Europe: The Cultural Interactions of Romantic Literature', in ''European Readings of American Popular Culture'', ed. John Dean & Jean-Paul Gabilliet (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press), pp. 91-100. ** [http://www.questia.com/read/27210141?title=8%3a%20Harlequin%20Romances%20in%20Western%20Europe%3a%0AThe%20Cultural%20Interactions%20of%20Romantic%0ALiterature Excerpt 1], [http://www.questia.com/read/27210149?title=NOTES Excerpt 2]

;Carroll, Noël, 1994. : 'The Paradox of Junk Fiction', ''Philosophy and Literature'' 18.2: 225-241. [This isn't specifically about romance, but it refers to [[Betty Neels]]'s ''[[The Quiet Professor]]''. Excerpt and some comments on it are available [http://www.racyromancereviews.com/2010/02/07/monday-morning-stepback-is-there-a-paradox-of-junk-fiction/ here] if you scroll down to item 3.]

;Carter, Catherine, 2008. : "Poverty, Payment, Power: [[Kathleen Thompson Norris]] and Popular Romance." ''Studies in American Fiction'' 36.2: 197-220. [http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-37127806_ITM Excerpt] and [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6410/is_2_36/ai_n31464594/ Unpaginated version].

;Castagna, JoAnn and Robin Radespiel, 1990. : 'Making Rape Romantic: A Study of [[Rosemary Rogers]]' "Steve and Ginny" Novels', in ''Women and Violence in Literature: An Essay Collection'', ed. Katherine Anne Ackley (New York : Garland). **

;Caton, Steven C., 2000. : “''The Sheik'': Instabilities of Race and Gender in Transatlantic Popular Culture of the Early 1920s.” ''Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930''. Ed. Holly Edwards. Princeton: Princeton UP. 99-117. **

;Cawelti, John G. 1976. : ''Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

;Cawelti, John. 1978. : "Romance: The Once and Future Queen." ''The Wilson Quarterly'' 2.3: 102-109. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/40255458 Excerpt]

;Cella, Laurie J. C., 2019. : ''The Personal and the Political in American Working-Class Literature, 1850-1939: Defining the Radical Romance''. (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington). [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BJepDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [Cella "make[s] the case that working-class women, in history and in literature, constructed romance narratives in which they were the heroines, reveled in the adventures created by Laura Jean Libbey, and celebrated their new entry in the working world" (5)]

;Chandra, Elizabeth, 2015. : "Blossoming Dahlia: Chinese Women Novelists in Colonial Indonesia", ''Southeast Asian Studies'' 4.3: 533-564.[http://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/203093/1/sas_4_3_533.pdf]

;Chant, Ian, 2013. : "Popular Romance Project Unites Writers, Scholars, Fans." ''Library Journal'' 138.17:52-52.[http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/09/publishing/popular-romance-project-connects-readers-writers-scholars-and-libraries/]

;Chappel, Deborah K., 1997. : 'LaVyrle Spencer and the Anti-Essentialist Argument.' ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2:107-120

;Chappel Traylor, Deborah, 2014. : "To My Mentor, Jan Radway, With Love." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2.[http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/to-my-mentor-jan-radway-with-loveby-deborah-chappel-traylor/]

;Charles, Helen, 1995. : '(Not) Compromising: Inter-Skin Colour Relations', in ''Romance Revisited'' , ed. Jackie Stacey and Lynne Pearce (New York: New York UP), pp. 197-209. [The author says that she looks at 'inter-skin colour relations in the television programme Taboo (1993) along with Barbara Burford's novella, The Threshing Floor (1986) and Ann Allen Shockley's The Mistress and the Slave Girl (1987)'.]

;Charles, John, & Linz, Cathie, 2005. : 'Romancing Your Readers: How Public Libraries Can Become More Romance Reader Friendly', ''Public Libraries'' 44.1 (January/February): 43–48. [http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/pla/plapublications/publiclibraries/janfeb2005.pdf Whole issue available as a pdf.]

;Chelton, Mary K., 1991. : 'Unrestricted Body Parts and Predictable Bliss: The Audience Appeal of Formula Romances.' ''Library Journal'' 116.12: 44-49.

;Chelton, Mary K., 2015. : 'Readers' Advisory: There Seem to be More SEALs in Romance Fiction than in the US Navy, and if so, Why Does it Matter?' ''Reference & User Services Quarterly'' 55.1: 21-24. [https://www.journals.ala.org/rusq/article/view/5794 Abstract]

;Chelton, Mary K., 2018. : “Searching for Birth Parents or Adopted Children: Finding without Seeking in Romance Novels”, ''Reference & User Services Quarterly'' 57.4: 266-273. [https://journals.ala.org/index.php/rusq/article/view/6704 Abstract and link to pdf].

;Chen, Eva Y.I., 2007. : 'Forms of Pleasure in the Reading of Popular Romance:Psychic and Cultural Dimensions.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 30-41.

;Cherniak, Mariia, and Stephen Lovell. 2005. : "Russian Romantic Fiction." In ''Reading for Entertainment in Contemporary Russia: Post-Soviet Popular Literature in Historical Perspective,'' 151-172. Munich, Germany: Sagner, 2005.

;Chess, Shira, 2014. : 'Strange Bedfellows: Subjectivity, Romance, and Hidden Object Video Games', ''Games and Culture''. Online First, 4 August 2014. [http://gac.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/08/01/1555412014544904.abstract Abstract]

;Cheyne, Ria, 2013. : "Disability Studies Reads the Romance." ''Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies'' 7.1: 37-52. [http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/784053x67tk33042/?p=b7f1bc6ef8a5466f8f2e27d703feef35&pi=2 Abstract and Excerpt] The next entry is a slightly revised version of the same article.

;Cheyne, Ria, 2017. : "Disability Studies Reads the Romance: Sexuality, Prejudice, and the Happily-Ever-After in the Work of Mary Balogh." ''Culture - Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies''. Ed. Anne Waldschmidt, Hanjo Berressem and Moritz Ingwersen. Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript. 201-216.[https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/books/9783839425336/9783839425336-012/9783839425336-012.pdf]

;Chivers, Marian, Lesley Speed and Meg Tasker, 2014. : 'The warrior woman in Harlequin’s Bombshell Athena Force series.' ''Australasian Journal of Popular Culture'' 3.3: 335-349. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/ajpc/2014/00000003/00000003/art00008 Abstract]

;Chopra, Radhika, 1995. : 'Wanted Men: Imaging the Hero in Popular Romantic Fiction' in ''Perspectives on Women: Canada and India'', ed. Aparna Basu (Bombay: Allied Publishers). **

;Chopra, Radhika, 1998. : "Whose Face Do I See?: Anonymity and Authorship in Popular Romances." ''Indian Journal of Gender Studies'' 5.2: 185-200. [http://ijg.sagepub.com/content/5/2/185.extract Excerpt]

;Chow, Karen. 1999. : “Popular Sexual Knowledges and Women’s Agency in 1920s England: Marie Stopes’s ''Married Love'' and E.M. Hull’s ''The Sheik''.” ''Feminist Review'' 63: 64-87. [http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1395588?uid=3738032&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21101621560467 Excerpt]

;Christian-Smith, Linda K., 1987. : 'Gender, Popular Culture, and Curriculum - Adolescent Romance Novels as Gender Text', ''Curriculum Inquiry'', 17.4:365-406.

;Christian-Smith, Linda K., 1988. : "Romancing the girl : adolescent romance novels and the construction of femininity." in ''Becoming Feminine: The Politics of Popular Culture.'' Ed. by Roman, Leslie G., Linda K. Christian-Smith, and Elizabeth Ann Ellsworth (London: Falmer Press) pp. ?

;Christian-Smith, Linda K., 1990. : ''Becoming a Woman Through Romance'' (New York; London: Routledge).

;Christian-Smith, Linda K., 1993. : "Voices of Resistance: Young Women Readers of Romance Fiction." in ''Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schoools,'' Ed. by Lois Wies and Michelle Fine (Albany: State University of New York Press) pp. 169-189. [http://www.questiaschool.com/read/102485745?title=Chapter%20Eight%3A%20Voices%20of%20Resistance%3A%20Young%20Women%20Readers%20of%20Romance%20Fiction Excerpt]

;Christian-Smith, Linda K., 1993. : 'Sweet Dreams: Gender and Desire in Teen Romance Novels', ''Texts of Desire: Essays on Fiction, Femininity and Schooling'', ed. Linda Christian-Smith. (London: Falmer), pp. 45-68. **

;Christian-Smith, Linda K., 1994. : "Young Women and Their Dream Lovers: Sexuality in Adolescent Fiction." in ''Sexual Cultures and the Construction of Adolescent Identities.'' Ed. Janice M. Irvine (Philadelphia : Temple University Press) pp. 206-227. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eDLiD6b2_8YC&pg=PA206&lpg=PA206&dq=&source=bl&ots=SG7oeeMuvj&sig=DHa1xEB4TYd3Hx5_HGQm6WyMbT0&hl=en&ei=9DRnSqHDOJqOjAfQ7aGcAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1 Excerpt]

;Clancy, Kim, 1992. :"Tania Modleski, Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women." in ''Reading into Cultural Studies.'' Ed. Martin Barker and Anne Beezer, (London: Routledge) pp. 119-133. [http://books.google.com/books?id=JC0OAAAAQAAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=&pg=PA120#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] and [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mqFVv9yADb4C&lpg=PP1&ots=f5OnjOYEPv&dq=%&pg=PA119#v=onepage&q&f=false another excerpt.]

;Clark, Beverly Lyon, Karen Gennari Bernier, Michelle Henneberry-Nassau, Lauren Beth Jenks, Angie J. Moorman, and Marah Bianca Rhoades, 1996. : 'Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves', ''The Centennial Review'', 40.2: 359-84. [Rptd. in ''Women and Romance: A Reader''. Ed. Susan Ostrov Weisser. New York: New York UP, 2001: 355-374. **]

;Clasen, Tricia. 2010.: "Taking a Bite Out of Love: The Myth of Romantic Love in the Twilight Series." In ''Bitten by Twilight: Youth Culture, Media, and the Vampire Franchise,'' 119-134. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2010.

;Clasen, Tricia. 2017. : “Masculinity and Romantic Myth in Contemporary YA Romance.” In '' Gender(ed) Identities: Critical Rereadings of Gender in Children’s and Young Adult Literature,'' edited by Tricia Clasen and Holly Hassel. New York: Routledge, pp. 228–241. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=q8_mDAAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PT230#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Clawson, Laura, 2005. : 'Cowboys and Schoolteachers: Gender in Romance Novels, Secular and Christian', ''Sociological Perspectives'', 48.4: 461-79. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/sop.2005.48.4.461 Abstract]

;Cockin, Katharine, 2007. : "Chicks and Lads in Contemporary Fiction." ''Anglistik und Englischunterricht'', issue on Teaching Contemporary British Fiction, 69: 107-123. [http://www.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/tocs/184436214.pdf Index page only, as pdf.]

;Coddington, Lynn, 1997. : "Wavering Between Worlds: Feminist Influences in the Romance Genre." ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 58-77.

;Cohn, Jan, 1977. : 'The Romances of Mary Roberts Rinehart: Some Problems in the Study of Popular Culture', ''Journal of Popular Culture'', 11.3: 581-590.

;Cohn, Jan, 1988. : Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for Women (Durham and London: Duke UP). [http://books.google.com/books?id=vSy_6qvqIIoC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpts] and [http://www.questia.com/read/5634004 more excerpts].

;Coles, Claire D., and M. Johnna Shamp, 1984. : “Some Sexual, Personality, and Demographic Characteristics of Women Readers of Erotic Romances.” ''Archives of Sexual Behavior'' 13.3: 187-209.

;Cook, Jennifer R., Sharon S. Rostosky and Ellen D. B. Riggle., 2013. : "Gender Role Models in Fictional Novels for Emerging Adult Lesbians." ''Journal of Lesbian Studies'' 17:2: 150-166. [[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10894160.2012.691416 Abstract]. The authors analysed "11 young adult novels that received 2011 Lambda Literary Award nominations" and of these five were romances.]

;Cook, Jon, 1988. : “Fictional Fathers.” Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender and Popular Fiction. Ed. Susannah Radstone. (London: Lawrence & Wishart), pp. 137-64. [http://www.questiaschool.com/read/112042341?title=Fictional%20Fathers First page.]

;Cook, Nancy. 2009. : "Home on the Range: Montana Romances and Geographies of Hope." In ''All Our Stories Are Here: Critical Perspectives on Montana Literature,'' 55-77. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 2009. [See item [http://books.google.com/books?id=P5lsdAGwPycC&pg=PA55&lpg=PA55 via Google Books].]

;Cordell, Sigrid, 2013. : "Loving in Plain Sight: Amish Romance Novels as Evangelical Gothic," ''Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies'' 1.2: 1-16. [http://hdl.handle.net/1811/57706 Abstract and link to pdf]

;Coste, Didier, 1981. : "Installments of the Heart: Text Delimitation in Periodical Narrative and Its Consequences." ''Sub-Stance''10/11: 56-65.[http://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/34998282/www.jstor.org.haysend.u-bordeaux3.fr_stable_pdfplus_10.2307_3684531.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ56TQJRTWSMTNPEA&Expires=1472391844&Signature=L2pM9hsy1Wde616vKTYbIqPI0lc%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DInstallments_of_the_Heart_Text_Delimitat.pdf]

;Coward, Rosalind, 1984. : 'An Overwhelming Desire', in ''Female Desire: Women’s Sexuality Today'' (London: Paladin Grafton Books), pp. 187-196. [This is the chapter which focuses on the romance. An excerpt of part of the chapter can be found in Mary Eagleton's ''Feminist Literary Criticism'', [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MO9xIC7umwwC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA189#v=onepage&q=&f=false 189-192] ]

;Cox, Anthony and Maryanne Fisher, 2009. : 'The Texas Billionaire's Pregnant Bride: An Evolutionary Interpretation of Romance Fiction Titles', ''Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology'' 3.4: 386-401.[http://137.140.1.71/jsec/articles/volume3/issue4/CoxV3I4.pdf] or [http://www.maryannefisher.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Cox_Fisher_Harlequin_2009.pdf]

;Craddock, Louise, 2004. : 'Bridget Jones's Little Red Dress: Chicklit, mass-market popular romance and feminism', ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8: 43-51. [Compares Harlequin's Red Dress Ink (chick lit) imprint to its romances] [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Pdf of whole issue]

;Crane, Lynda L., 1994. : 'Romance Novel Readers: in Search of Feminist Change?', ''Women's Studies'', 23.3: 257-69.

;Crane, Megan, 2015. : “Stacy Holden’s ‘Love in the Desert’: An Author’s Response”. ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/stacy-holdens-love-in-the-desert-an-authors-responseby-megan-crane/]

;Crane, Ralph and Lisa Fletcher, 2016. : “The Genre of Islands: Popular Fiction and Performative Geographies.” ''Island Studies Journal'' 11.2 (2016): 637-650. [http://www.islandstudies.ca/sites/islandstudies.ca/files/ISJ-11-2-MS372-Crane+Fletcher.pdf]

;Cranny-Francis, Anne, 1990. : ''Feminist Fiction: Feminist Uses of Generic Fiction'' (Cambridge: Polity). [Chapter 6, "Feminist Romance" (pages 177-192) focuses on the romance genre.]

;Crawford, Mary, 1994. : 'Rethinking the Romance: Teaching the Content and Function of Gender Stereotypes in the Psychology of Women Course', ''Teaching of Psychology'', 21: 151-153. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=93953013 Fragment of Article] **

;Crawford, Joseph, 2014. : ''The Twilight of the Gothic? Vampire Fiction and the Rise of the Paranormal Romance, 1991-2012''. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2014. [http://jprstudies.org/2016/07/review-the-twilight-of-the-gothic-vampire-fiction-and-the-rise-of-the-paranormal-romance-by-joseph-crawford/ See also María T. Ramos-García's review of this book in the ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'']

;Creed, Barbara, 1984. : 'The Women's Romance as Sexual Fantasy: Mills & Boon', in ''All Her Labours II: Embroidering the framework'', ed. Margaret Allen, Jean Blackburn, Carol Johnson, Margaret King and Alison Mackinnon (Sydney: Hale and Iremonger): 47-67. **

;Creed, Barbara, 2003. : ''Media Matrix: Sexing the New Reality'' (Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin). [http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/reviews/rev_18/TCbr18a.html review here] [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=105157323 Contents page and excerpts] [contains a chapter on Mills & Boon romances, titled 'Mills & Boon dot com: The beast in the bedroom']

;[[Jennifer Crusie|Crusie, Jennifer]], 1997. : ‘Romancing Reality: The Power of Romance Fiction to Reinforce and Re-Vision the Real’, first published in ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'', 3.1-2: 81-93. [An [http://www.jennycrusie.com/for-writers/essays/romancing-reality-the-power-of-romance-fiction-to-reinforce-and-re-vision-the-real/ unpaginated version] is available on Crusie's website.]

;[[Jennifer Crusie|Crusie Smith, Jennifer]], 1998. : 'The Romantic Suspense Mystery', ''Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage'', Ed. Robin W. Winks and Maureen Corrigan (New York: Scribner), pp. 1183-97.

;[[Jennifer Crusie|Crusie Smith, Jennifer]], 1999. : 'This Is Not Your Mother's Cinderella: The Romance Novel as Feminist Fairy Tale', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 51-61. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ja_Ia-oZo4wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA51#v=onepage&q=&f=false Excerpt.] [http://www.jennycrusie.com/for-writers/essays/this-is-not-your-mothers-cinderella-the-romance-novel-as-feminist-fairy-tale/ Unpaginated version on Crusie's website.]

;Curthoys, Ann, and John Docker, 1990. : 'Popular Romance in the Postmodern Age. And an Unknown Australian Author', ''Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture'', 4.1.[http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/4.1/Curthoys.html]

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[[category:Romance Resources]][[category:Romance Scholarship]]
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* [[:Category:Academics Who Write Romance|Academics Who Write Romance]]
* [[Academic Online Essays (not published in academic journals or volumes)]]
* [[Autobiographies and Biographies of Romance Authors]]
* '''Bibliography'''
** [[Bibliography A-C]] - the first part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
** [[Bibliography D-G]] - the second part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
** [[Bibliography H-L]] - the third part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
** [[Bibliography M-O]] - the fourth part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
** [[Bibliography P-S]] - the fifth part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
** [[Bibliography T-Z]] - the final part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
* [[Scholarship in Languages Other than English|Bibliography of Scholarship in Languages Other than English]].
* [[Guides to the Genre]]
* '''Romance in the Media''' - lists news items/features items about romance.
** [[Romance in the Media A-I]]
** [[Romance in the Media J-Z]]
* [[Romance Resources for Academics|Romance Resources for Academics]] - lists romance-related resources which may be of interest to academics.
* [[Writers on Romance]] - lists items written about the genre by romance authors but not published in academic journals or books.

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Some of the items listed below are freely available online, but most are not. More details for many of them are available via the [http://www.proquest.com/en-US/catalogs/databases/detail/pqdt.shtml ProQuest Database] but this is accessible only by subscription.

;Abdullah-Poulos, Layla, 2016. : “Muslim Love American Style: Islamic-American Hybrid Culture and Native-Born American Black Muslim Romance.” MA thesis, SUNY Empire State College, 2016.[https://search.proquest.com/openview/6bf792f06a331a24ef39d4809d964ef9/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y Excerpt]

;Adams, Kathleen Barzun, 2003. : ''Thirty years of change : heroes, heroines, and the popular romance.'' Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity College.

;Achieng’, Okang’a Nancy, 2017. : "A Cosmopolitan National Romance: A Study of ''In Dependence'' by Sarah Ladipo Manyika." MA thesis, Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.[http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10539/23823/Title%20A%20Cosmopolitan%20National%20Romance-1.pdf?sequence=2] [About an African novel which it seems might or might not be a romance, depending on how one defines "African romance" (since the author argues that African romance is more expansive than the US definition).]

;Al-Bataineh, Afaf Badr, 1998. : "The modern Arabic novel: a literary and linguistic analysis of the genre of popular fiction, with special reference to translation from English." Ph.D., Heriot-Watt.[http://hdl.handle.net/10399/1233] [From the abstract at the "Index to Theses" website: "critical insights should enable us to form an overall picture of how the subject of my case study (Mills & Boon and its translation into Arabic) is viewed in the languages and cultures concerned: this particular genre has not been acceptable to the Western literary establishment until recently, and is not acceptable to the Arabic critical establishment even today. [...] Chapter Eight presents a detailed analysis of a Mills & Boon novel in English and its translation into Arabic."]

;Allport, Tanya, 1988. : ''Female journeys :the place of Jane Eyre and "Mills and Boon" in the search for women's existential space.'' Thesis (MA--English)--University of Auckland.

;Anderton, Gretchen E., 2009. : ''Excitement, adventure, indifference: Romance readers' perceptions of how romance reading impacts their sex lives''. Ed.D., Widener University, 2009 , 165 pages; AAT 3383833

;Araujo, Gail, 2009. : ''Living to read romance: The transformative potential of interpretive practice in romance reading.'' M.A., California State University, Fullerton. [http://gradworks.umi.com/14/78/1478345.html Abstract].

;Avila, Debbie Maria, 2005. : "The Romance Novel of the 1930s and 1940s in Spain and Portugal: The Cases of Carmen de Icaza and Alice Ogando." U of California Irvine (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 66.7:2572)

;Backman, Nelina Esther, 1999. : "Evangelism Embarrassed: Christian Literature in a post-Christian Culture." Ph.D. dissertation, Brown University, United States -- Rhode Island. Publication No. AAT 9932368. [Includes some discussion of "contemporary evangelical romance fiction."]

;Balducci, Federica. 2011. : ''A Different Shade of Pink: Literary Thresholds and Cultural Intersections in Italian Chick Lit''. A thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Italian. [http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/1929] [See the section on 'Italian popular romance: ''romanzo rosa'' and its evolution', pp. 67-83.]

;Barletta, Sandra Anne, 2008. : ''A first kiss is still a first kiss: romancing the mid-life reader and heroine : A basic renovation.'' Thesis (M.A.(Research))--Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 2008. [http://eprints.qut.edu.au/19205/ Abstract and link to pdf]. [Pages 1-29 are analysis of "a neglected demographic of reader and heroine who are marginalised within the romance genre. As well, it gives reasons why heroines need not be characterised in particular roles or situations as they age, and a rationale for why their underrepresentation as romance heroines should end." ''A Basic Renovation'' is a romance novel written by Barletta and included in the thesis which was "Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Creative Writing (romance)."]

;Barletta, Sandra A., 2014. : ''Cougars, Grannies, Evil Stepmothers, and Menopausal Hot Flashers: Roles, Representations of Age, and the Non-traditional Romance Heroine.'' PhD thesis in Creative Writing and Literary Studies, Queensland University of Technology. [http://eprints.qut.edu.au/72686/3/Sandra_Barletta_Thesis.pdf]

;Barra, Andrea Cipriano, 2014. : ''Beyond the Bodice Ripper: Innovation and Change in the Romance Novel Industry''. PhD dissertation in Sociology, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. [https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/45202/ Abstract and link to pdf]

;Benjamin, Sarah, 1999. : "The Theory of 'Identity Dissonance': Mass Communication, Romance Fiction, and the Self-Concept." M.A. dissertation, York University (Canada), Canada. Publication No. AAT MQ43370.[http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq43370.pdf]

;Beyer, Jennifer Ann Perry, 2000. : ''The romance novel revolution :a study of criticisms and readers.'' Thesis (M.A.)--Bemidji State University.

;Billekens, F.G.W., 2019. : ''Never Mind Me When There's You: The Submission Of The Heroine In YA Supernatural Romance Fiction'', Bachelor's Thesis, Utrecht University. [https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/377634 Abstract and link to pdf]

;Blanding, Cristen, 2005. : ''Interracial romance novels and the resolution of racial difference.'' Thesis (M.A.)--Bowling Green State University. [http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1131365873 Abstract and PDF]

;Böhmová, Petra, 2012. : "Contemporary American Christian Fiction: Young and Rivers." Diploma thesis, Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Education, Department of English Language and Literature. [http://is.muni.cz/th/385552/pedf_m/Petra_Bohmova-diplomova_prace.pdf] [One of the novels discussed is Francine Rivers' ''Redeeming Love''.]

;Brasileiro Neves, 2014. : "ROMANCES DE BOLSO: A novela romântica da Harlequin Books no mercado editorial brasileiro", Trabalho de pesquisa de mercado apresentado ao Departamento de Comunicação Social, da Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, como requisito para a obtenção do grau de bacharelado em Publicidade e Propaganda, Recife. [https://www.academia.edu/11331340/ROMANCES_DE_BOLSO_A_NOVELA_ROM%C3%82NTICA_DA_HARLEQUIN_BOOKS_NO_MERCADO_EDITORIAL_BRASILEIRO]

;Breeden, Amanda L., 2007. : ''Neo romance :gender renegotiation in Harlequin romance novels.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of Northern Iowa.

;Bryson, Mary, 2004. : ''Public Library Services to the Romance Reader: An Online Survey of Romance Readers''. A Master’s paper for the M.S. in L.S. degree - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. May, 2004. [http://ils.unc.edu/MSpapers/2979.pdf]

;Buckley, Julia, 2010. : "The Door To Wonderland: How Mary Stewart’s Literary Voice Influenced 20th Century Romantic Suspense." MA thesis, Elmhurst College.[http://ojsserv.dom.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/192]

;Bun, Jennifer C., 2007. : "The Effects of Romance Novel Readership on Relationship Beliefs, Romantic Ideals, and Relational Satisfaction." Honors Thesis - Boston College. [http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/communication/meta-elements/pdf/thesis07.bun.pdf Full text]

;Burge, Amy, 2012. : "Desiring the East: A Comparative Study of Middle English Romance and Modern Popular Sheikh Romance." PhD thesis, University of York. [Abstract and pdf available [http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3121/ here].]

;Burley, Stephanie Carol., 2003. : "Hearts of Darkness: The Racial Politics of Popular Romance." U of Maryland, College Park (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 64.6: 2082)

;Burnside, Mary Elizabeth, 1996. : "The novels of Mills and Boon in the post-war period." M.Phil., Hull.[http://library.hull.ac.uk/record=b1697392]

;Bywaters, Barbara Lee, 1989. :"'Re-reading Jane': Jane Austen's legacy to twentieth-century women writers'. PhD thesis. Bowling Green State University. [http://maurice.bgsu.edu/record=b1714503~S0 Details at BGSU library]. A short excerpt of this thesis seems to be available in ''Georgette Heyer: A Critical Retrospective''. Ed. Mary Fahnestock-Thomas. Saraland, AL: PrinnyWorld, 2001. 493-508.

;Capps, Stephanie Carol, 2017. :"What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs about Relationships". Master of Science thesis. University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 2017. [https://shareok.org/bitstream/handle/11244/50728/2017_Capps_Stephanie_Carol_Thesis.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y] [This seems very similar to an article with the same title published the next year. The primary author may have changed their lastname: http://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Faca0000189 ]

;Carmichael, Lynn P., 1985. "A Romantic Past: A Study of Historical Romance as a Form of Recreational Fiction in Public Libraries." M.A. thesis, South Australian Institute of Technology.

;Chappel, Deborah Kaye, 1992. : "American Romances: Narratives of Culture and Identity" Duke University, ''Dissertation Abstracts International''52 (8): 2923A-24A.

;Christian, Linda Kathryn. 1984.: "'Becoming a Woman through Romance: Adolescent Novels and the Ideology of Femininity'." U. of Wisconsin, Madison (''Dissertation Abstracts International: Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'') 45.5: 1282.

;Clawson, Laura, 1998. : "Covering genres: romance, science-fiction/fantasy, pleasure, and respectability." Thesis (B.A., Honors, American Studies, English)--Wesleyan University, 1998. Special Collections: Wesleyan (Thesis), Call Number: 1998 C617 ["my senior honors thesis at Wesleyan was about romance and sci-fi, and how academics tended to treat sci-fi as literature and romances as a cultural phenomenon to be explained." (from [http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/index.php/weblog/comments/interview-with-laura-clawson-daily-kos-contributing-editor/ an interview at Smart Bitches Trashy Books]) ]

;Close, Lisa. 2008. : ''Functional analysis of the contemporary folkloric vampire.'' Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of English, 2008. [References Nora Roberts' Circle Trilogy: see abstract in [http://primofe1.byu.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?ct=display&doc=byu_unicorn4154044&indx=2&frbg=&dum=true&vid=byu-cl&vl(13550901UI0)=any&vl(172369922UI1)=all_items&srt=rank&indx=1&dstmp=1278574032499&tab=default_tab&ct=search&scp.scps=scope%3A(simpledl)%2Cscope%3A(LEE)%2Cscope%3A(BYU)%2Cscope%3A(LAW)%2Cscope%3A(byugle)%2Cscope%3A(Unicorn_online)%2Cscope%3A(CONTENTdm)%2Cscope%3A(JUV)%2Cscope%3A(SPEC)%2Cscope%3A(INTERNET)%2Cscope%3A(SWKT)%2Cscope%3A(SLC)%2Cscope%3A(LEELRC)%2Cscope%3A(MUSIC)%2Cscope%3A(saskia)%2Cscope%3A(CONTENTdm2)&vl(freeText0)=close%20lisa&fn=search&mode=Basic&dscnt=0 Brigham Young University library's catalog].]

;Coddington, Lynn, 1997. : "Romance and Power: Writing Romance Novels as a Practice of Critical Literacy." Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, United States -- California. Publication No. AAT 9803158.

;Colemnero, Laura Elizabeth, 1999. : "The social construction of gender as represented in popular fiction, 1990-1997." Ph.D. dissertation, South Dakota State University, Publication No. AAT 9924280. [Includes analysis of [[Johanna Lindsey]]'s ''[[Gentle Rogue]]''.]

;Collier, Kathryn (Kizzi), 2018. : "My Chemical Erotic Romance: A Deeper Look into Women’s Lustful Fantasies." A Division III Project, Hampshire College.[https://dspace.hampshire.edu/bitstream/10009/1058/1/Division%20III%20Final%21%20.pdf]

;Cortesi, Taylor D., 2013. : "'Traitorous Bodies': Cartesian Dualism in Romance Novels by Susan Johnson and E. L. James." M. Lit. thesis, Texas State University - San Marcos. [https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/4554 Abstract and link to pdf].

;Davis, Mary Louise, 1986. : 'Romances and the Modern Ms.: a Study of Contemporary (Line) Romances, 1980-1984.' Ph.D. diss., University of Southern California.(''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A:The Humanities and Social Sciences)'' 47.11, p. 4108.

;Davis, Storme G. 2008. : ''Nora Roberts: descendant of Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë?'': a thesis presented to the faculty of the Graduate School, Tennessee Technological University. Thesis (M.A.)--Tennessee Technological University, 2008.

;DiVisconte, Jessica, 2009. : ''The Recession and Its Effect on the Romance Genre''. Master of Science in Publishing. Paper 16. Dyson College of Arts & Sciences, Pace University. [http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/dyson_mspublishing/16 Abstract and link to pdf.]

;Donalson, Tara A., 2005. : ''The Parody of Romance.'' MA Thesis, Graduate School of The University of Texas at Arlington. ["I look at the parallel formulas found in secular and inspirational romance fiction, searching how inspirational romance evangelizes and gives spiritual instruction to its readers."] [http://dspace.uta.edu/handle/10106/410 Abstract and link to pdf.]

;Downey, Kristin, 2005. : "Irony, Ideology, and Resistance: The Amazing Double Life of Harlequin Presents", McMaster University, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 66.10:3640.

;Dryden, Therese Michelle, 2011. : "Bachelor Dad on Her Doorstep." MPhil Thesis, University of Newcastle (Australia). [This dissertation is in two parts: the first has been published as ''Bachelor Dad on Her Doorstep'', "a Harlequin Mills & Boon Sweet Romance" under the pseudonym "Michelle Douglas" and is therefore not available online. The "accompanying exegesis discusses the conventions and constraints of the popular romance genre. It explores the challenges presented to a writer in creating and maintaining emotional intensity in a popular genre romance and the need to provide a satisfying and credible ending to that romance" and it can be downloaded from [http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/920190 here].]

;Dummer, Kathleen Ann. 1990. : ''A study of character development of main characters in young adult category romance literature.'' Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wyoming.

;Dunnion, Janne May, 1997. : ''Mapping Normalcy: Romance and the Postmodern Body'', MA thesis, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the Univesity of Toronto. ["The main focus of this thesis is an examination of the constitution of the female body within the location of popular culture, specifically Harlequin Enterprises and popular romance novels."] [http://hdl.handle.net/1807/11494 Details and link to pdf]

;Elliott, Margaret A., 1996. : 'The Librarian's Stereotyped Image in Romance Novels, 1980-1995: Has the Image Changed?', Master's Research Paper, Kent State University. ERIC Document ED401924. [http://eric.ed.gov:80/ERICWebPortal/detail?accno=ED401924 Abstract] and [http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED401924 PDF]

;English, Jessica, 2017. : “Reading the Romance: Through the Eyes of a Millenial Feminist.” Masters Thesis. Eastern Washington University. [http://dc.ewu.edu/theses/456/]

;Faust, Meredith S., 2010. : ""Love of the purest kind": Heteronormative rigidity in the homoerotic fiction of Ann Herendeen" (2010). Theses and Dissertations. Paper 41. MA thesis from DePaul University. [http://via.library.depaul.edu/etd/41 Details] and [http://via.library.depaul.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=etd PDF].

;Fekete, Maleah, 2016. : "Social Differences in Taste: Investigating Romance Reading." 2016 SURF Conference Proceedings [This is a conference paper but outlines the direction of a larger project. The student has a supervisor.][http://escholarship.org/uc/item/28f1q2d7]

;Fenty, Linda D. 1987. : "A Comparative Analysis of Female Role Models in Selected Contemporary Teen Romances." Auburn University (''Dissertation Abstracts International'') 48, no. 8: 2007A-2007A. [http://aubiecat.auburn.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=629918 Auburn University Library Catalog details].

;Fera-VanGent, Tania, 2005: 'Popular Romance Novels: Seeking out the 'Sisterhood'." M.A. diss., Brock University (Canada).[https://dr.library.brocku.ca/jspui/bitstream/10464/1379/1/Brock_Fera-VanGent_Tania_2007.pdf]

;Flesch, Juliet, 2001. : ''From Australia with love :Australian romance novels, 1950-2000. '' Thesis (Ph.D)--Dept. of History (Women's Study), University of Melbourne.

;Fletcher, Lisa, 2002. : '' I love you :historical romance fiction and heterosexuality.'' Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne.

;Funderburk, Amy, 2004. : ''Romance Collections in North Carolina Public Libraries: Are All Genres Treated Equally?'' A Master’s Paper for the M.S. in L.S. degree. - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April, 2004. [http://www.ils.unc.edu/MSpapers/2934.pdf]

;Gardner, Dora Abigail, 2019. : 'Defending the Bodice Ripper', MA thesis, Eastern Kentucky University. [https://search.proquest.com/openview/20dec25c37b36e929b647b84b6b0bd49/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y Excerpt]

;Garza, Raquel M, ???? (possibly 2011). : ''“Don’t tell me I don’t know what Love is”: A Comparative Study on Heterosexual and Homosexual Romance Novels'' Longwood University, [probably submitted as part of a Bachelor's degree in Communication Studies with a concentration in Public Relations and Organizational Communication]. [https://workstory.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/508208/FINAL_Thesis_original.doc]

;Geib, Aleta Esther. 1986. : ''Changing heroes: depictions of the male sex role in category romance novels, 1976-1983.'' Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio State University.

;Genz, Carole, 2005. : "Romance Revisited: Transformations of the Marital Love Triangle in Women’s Fictions." PhD thesis, University of Stirling, Department of English Studies.

;Glennemeier, Jaelyn, 2018. : “And he was an Arab!:” Imperial Femininity and Pleasure in E. M. Hull's 1919 Desert Romance, ''The Sheik''', Honors thesis, University of Kansas. [https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/26639 Abstract and link to pdf].

;Goade, Sally Ann, 1999. : "'And With the Land, Our Spirits So Blended': Interrelated Frontier Quests of Self in Contemporary Historical Romance. A Study of Rosanne Bittner's 'Savage Destiny' series", Idaho State U, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 60.4:1132).

;Goris, An, 2011. : From Romance to Roberts and Back Again: genre, authorship and the construction of textual identity in contemporary popular romance novels." PhD thesis, University of Leuven. [https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/317472 Abstract and Index] [https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/317472/1/text+1-469.pdf Pdf]

;Gorry, April Marie, 1999. : "Leaving Home for Romance: Tourist Women's Adventures Abroad," PhD thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara.[http://anthro.vancouver.wsu.edu/media/PDF/romance.pdf] [This is an anthropology PhD but Chapter 5 (pages 195-240) presents "the results of a survey of 45 popular romance novels dating from 1977 to 1996 [...] it is principally intended to test the validity of findings generated by my field survey of romance tourism.]

;Gregor, Theresa Lynn, 2010. : ''From Captors to Captives: American Indian Responses to Popular American Narrative Forms''. Ph.D. thesis from University of Southern California. [Available from [http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll127/id/302844 here]. See the section on "''Savage Obsession'' and ''Dreamquest'': The Cultural Work of Contemporary Mass-Marketed American/Indian Romances," pages 175-186. Discusses novels by [[Cassie Edwards]] and [[Janet Wellington]].]

;Griffin, Linda Coleman, 1999. : "An Analysis of Meaning Creation through the Integration of Sociology and Literature: A Critical Ethnography of a Romance Reading Group." U of Houston, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'', 60.4: 1117.)

;Güvendi Yalçın, Elif, 2018. : "The Transformation of Romance Novels Based on the Theories of Sociologist Anthony Giddens," Istanbul Aydin University Institute of Social Sciences. [http://acikarsiv.aydin.edu.tr/handle/11547/1576?mode=full Abstract] [Based on analysis of "three medieval romances’s content— Walter Scott’s ''Ivanhoe'' (1920), Kathleen Woodowiss’ ''The Wolf and the Dove'' (1974), and Amanda Quick’s ''Mystique'' (1995)"]

;Hall, Glinda Fountain. 2008.: ''A genre of our own: the cultural work of women's popular romance fiction.'' Thesis (Ph. D.)--Arkansas State University. [http://dbellis.library.astate.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=547355 Catalogue record at Arkansas State University's library.]

;Hamlyn, Eleanor, 2014. : "Reading the Genre Codes in Giorgio Scerbanenco's Hybridised ''Romanzi Rosa''", A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Italian Studies, The University of Auckland. [https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/2292/23609/whole.pdf?sequence=2]

;Harlan, Kimber Leigh. 2005. : '' Romancing the reader: constructing a discursive and social female identity through romance novels.'' Thesis (M.A.) -- Tarleton State University. [Abstract available [http://gradworks.umi.com/14/36/1436377.html here] and [http://en.scientificcommons.org/32181902 here].]

;Harris, Patricia Marie, 1985. : ''The rhetorical vision of courtship in Harlequin Romances: a fantasy theme analysis.'' Thesis (M.A., Communication Studies)--California State University, Sacramento.

;Harrison, Rachel, 1980. : ''Women and Romantic Fiction: Subordination and Resistance''. Thesis (M.Litt) - University of Birmingham, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies.

;Hartmann, Britta U., 2014. : ''Island fictions : Castaways and imperialism''. PhD thesis, University of Tasmania. [http://eprints.utas.edu.au/22391/ Abstract] [Includes a chapter on "castaway romances" which focuses on 20th- and 21st-century novels by writers including Violet Winspear, Margery Hilton, Ginna Gray, Julie Tetel Andersen, Penelope Neri, Donna Simpson, Darlene Marshall, Jill Sharvis, Kandy Shepherd & Tracey Garvis Graves.]

;Harzewski, Stephanie, 2006. : "The new novel of manners: Chick lit and postfeminist sexual politics ." U of Pennsylvania, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'', 67.7:2573.)

;Heffernan, Joan-Mary, 1992. : ''Women's romantic fiction :a study of three New Zealand Mills and Boon authors.'' Dissertation (MA--English)--University of Auckland.

;Henderson, Courtney R.,2007. : "Ladies and Loners: A Comparative Gender Study of the Romance and Popular Western.' M.A. diss., The University of Texas at Arlington. [http://hdl.handle.net/10106/510 Abstract and full PDF] ["my focal texts for the romance genre are [[Johanna Lindsey]]’s ''Savage Thunder'' and Joan Johnston’s ''Frontier Woman''."]

;Heydt, Victoria, 2010. : "Stark naked: an analysis of eighteenth and twenty-first century romance novels." Washington College. [http://hdl.handle.net/10090/19085 Details]

;Hilton, Linda Ann Wheeler, 2000. : "Half Heaven, Half Heartache : Discovering the Transformative Potential in Women's Popular Fiction." A thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Honors College for the bachelor's degree, Arizona State University West. [http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4446146~S3 Details] [Published as a Kindle edition in 2011 - [http://www.amazon.com/Half-Heaven-Heartache-transformative-ebook/dp/B005MGBCZY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1315857987&sr=1-1 US], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Half-Heaven-Heartache-transformative-ebook/dp/B005MGBCZY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1315867417&sr=1-1 UK]]

;Hirsbrunner, A.R., 2000. : "Doomed to become heroines? Identification, women and fiction." Ph.D., Wales, Cardiff. ["The fear that readers will want to become like the main characters of novels they read has accompanied prose fiction throughout its history, 1970s feminists in particular were convinced that women were being duped into subscribing to patriarchal stereotypes by canonical or popular romances. The present study examines this topos. [...] fiction is not itself a fantasy, but can be used to confirm and refine a fantasy the reader already has. Romance thus contributes to a homogenisation of its females readers' fantasies, but cannot implant fantasies in subjects with different desires."] [http://library.cardiff.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v2=1&ti=1,1&SEQ=20100611101350&Search_Arg=Hirsbrunner&SL=None&Search_Code=NAME_&CNT=50&PID=Y78d0gX3xAH_gsUtC5Zukc9vQw&SID=1 Entry in Cardiff University's Library Catalogue.]

;Hodgson, Kathleen, 2006. : "The representation of the female hero in the romantic fiction of Mills & Boon." Thesis (MPhil.) - University of Reading, Institute of Education.

;Hubbard, Rita Cooper, 1982. : "Relationship Styles In Popular Romance Fiction: A Fantasy Theme Analysis Of Harlequin Romances, 1950-1979." (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 42.12:4973)

;Hughes, Helen Muriel, 1988. : "Changes In Historical Romance, 1890s To The 1980s: The Development Of The Genre From Stanley Weyman To Georgette Heyer And Her Successors." U Of Bradford (United Kingdom), (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 50.11: 3603)

;Hurley, Frances Kay., 1999. : "In the Words of Girls: The Reading of Adolescent Romance Fiction." Harvard U, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 60.6: 1946)

;Hutton-Jarvis, C.A., 1998. : "The educational potential of romantic fiction." PhD from University of Leeds. ["Romantic fiction was chosen as the focus for the case-study because of its capacity to stimulate women readers to make connections between their reading and their lives. Popular romances foreground issues which have particular implications for women's personal, social and economic situations. The case-study includes detailed textual analyses which illustrate the potential for using the romance as a vehicle for exploring such issues."]

;Jackson, Elaine, 2005. : "Riding the tosh horse: women writers of popular romance between the wars." Thesis (doctoral) - University of Birmingham, Department of English. [http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=2&uin=uk.bl.ethos.423625 British Library details] [From the abstract at the "Index to Theses" website: "Concentrating on three primary authors: E.M. Hull, Berta Ruck, and Marguerite Jervis (writing under pseudonyms Oliver Sandys and Countess Barcynska), this thesis examines the production and distribution of popular romance between the two World Wars. [...] Authors’ personal experiences of love and marriage are explored alongside the more public influences of editors, publishers, and literary agents. The relationship between authors and readers is also examined. This thesis demonstrates how the authors in question pioneered what we now recognize as a predominantly female romance genre [...] and that their oeuvre contribute substantially to the canon of women’s writing history."]

;Jagodzinski, Mallory Diane, 2010. : ''Of Bustles and Breeches: Cross-dressing Romance Novel Heroines and the Performance of Gender Ideology''. Master of Arts (MA) Thesis, Bowling Green State University, Popular Culture. [The thesis "examines three recent cross-dressing romance novels: ''The Spy'' by [[Celeste Bradley]]; ''Duchess By Night'' by [[Eloisa James]]; and ''Almost a Gentleman'' by [[Pam Rosenthal]]." [http://etd.ohiolink.edu/view.cgi/Jagodzinski%20Mallory%20Diane.pdf?bgsu1276724423 Abstract and link to PDF].]

;Jagodzinski, Mallory, 2015. : ''Love is (Color) Blind: Historical Romance Fiction and Interracial Relationships in the Twenty-First Century''. PhD dissertation, Graduate College of Bowling Green State University. [This dissertation analyzes three historical romance novels — ''Secrets of a Scandalous Heiress'' by Theresa Romain (2015), ''The Duke of Shadows'' by Meredith Duran (2008) and ''The Heiress Effect by Courtney Milan'' (2013)][https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=bgsu1440101084&disposition=inline PDF]

;Janzen, Moira J. 1994. : ''Georgette Heyer's Regency romances: serious literature or popular fiction?'' Thesis (MA--English) -- University of Auckland

;Jensen, Margaret Ann, 1980. : "Women and romantic fiction a case study of Harlequin Enterprises, Romances and readers" (January 1, 1980). ETD Collection for McMaster University. Paper AAINK46885. [http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/opendissertations/3229/ Details and pdf here]. In her ''Love's $weet Return: The Harlequin Story'' (1984), Jensen describes that book as "the outgrowth of a doctoral dissertation I completed at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario" (11).]

;Jocks, Yvonne Annette, 1988. : “Adventure and Virtue: Alternating Emphasis in the Popular Romance Tradition.” Master’s thesis, University of Texas at Arlington. [Jocks writes romances under the pseudonym [[Evelyn Vaughn|Evelyn Vaughn]] ]

;Johnson, Naomi Ruth, 2007. : "Consuming Desires: A Feminist Analysis of Bestselling Teen Romance Novels". The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 68.11)

;Jossart, Deborah A. 2004. : ''Transforming the fairytale: a diachronic study of utopias of popular romance.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Dakota, 2004.

;Joyal, Amanda, 2012. : From Victorian literature to the romance novel: Disability and the courtship plot. M.A. thesis, University of Wyoming, AAT 1510201.

;Kamble, Jayashree, 2008. : "Uncovering and Recovering the Popular Romance Novel." PhD thesis from the University of Minnesota. AAT 3338954. [http://purl.umn.edu/47092 Details, Abstract] and [http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/47092/1/Kamble_umn_0130E_10108.pdf PDF]

;Kebadze, Nino, 2007. : "Fictions of Surrender: Romance and Exemplarity in Post-War Spanish Women's Narratives. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky, United States -- Kentucky. Publication No. AAT 3263682. [[http://gradworks.umi.com/32/63/3263682.html Abstract.] "The second part of this dissertation focuses on three novels by the best-selling authors of ''novelas rosa'' --Luisa-María Linares, Concha Linares-Becerra, and Carmen de Icaza." This has subsequently been published as a book by Tamesis.]

;Keegan, Faye Jessica, 2016. : "Soft metafiction(s) : Mary Stewart and the self-reflective middlebrow." Ph.D. thesis, University of Newcastle. [https://theses.ncl.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/10443/3474/1/Keegan%2C%20F.J.%202016.pdf Details and pdf].

;Kempf, Rachel Erin, 2015. : "Dirty Words: The Writing Process of 'Smutshop'." The University of Texas at Austin, Master of Fine Arts.[https://utexas-ir.tdl.org/bitstream/handle/2152/32463/KEMPF-MASTERSREPORT-2015.pdf?sequence=1 PDF] ["I worked at Siren-BookStop, Inc. for three years, cleaning up manuscripts and penning gay werewolf erotica [...] It was the best and worst job I’ve ever had — the best because I got paid to write and spend my workday making dirty jokes, and the worst because real sex isn’t porn sex, and real women aren’t romance heroines, and love and relationships are messy and complicated and when you spend all day boxing it into the confines of a highly formulaic genre, you’re bound to start getting some messed-up ideas about how your love life ought to be"]

;Kemppinen, Anne-Mari Katriina, 1988. : "Translating for popular literature with special reference to Harlequin books and their Finnish translations." University of Joensuu. [http://joecat.linneanet.fi/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SC=Author&SA=Kemppinen%2C%20Anne-Mari%20Katriina&PID=sTMe__AyvDhIajvkv16BgtNTTxe&BROWSE=1&HC=1&SID=4 Details copied from Joensuu University Library's online catalogue.]

;Khuankaew, Sasinee, 2015. : "Femininity and masculinity in three selected twentieth-century Thai romance fictions." Ph.D thesis, Cardiff University. [http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.665888 Abstract][http://orca.cf.ac.uk/76730/1/S%20Khuankaew%20PhD%20thesis.pdf Pdf]

;Kinard, Amanda Marette, 1999. : "Forbidden Pleasures: The Romance and Its Readers." Vanderbilt U.,(''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 59.12: 4424)

;Kirkland, Catherine, 1984. : "For The Love Of It: Women Writers And The Popular Romance." U of Pennsylvania, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 46.1:10.

;Klarich, Morgan L., 2012. : "Multiculturalism, Sex, and Powerful Women: The New Romance Novel as the Voice of Neofeminism?". MA Thesis, Dartmouth College, 97 pages; AAT 1510706. [http://gradworks.umi.com/15/10/1510706.html Abstract]

;Kloester, Jennifer V., 2004. : "[[Georgette Heyer]]: writing the Regency: history in fiction from ''Regency Buck'' to ''Lady of Quality'' 1935-1972." Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne, History Dept.

;Kolko, Beth E. “Writing the Romance: Cultural Studies, Community, and the Teaching of
Writing.” Ph.D. diss., University of Texas at Austin, 1994.

;Kramer, Devon J., 2010. : "Truth through the medium of cheerfulness: Romance novels as points of resistance." M.A., Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 2010 , 114 pages; AAT 1479123.

;Kusaeri, Akhmad, Dewi Candraningrum and Titis Setyabudi, 2015. : "Love Conflict Reflected in Jennifer Crusie's ''Anyone But You'' Novel (1996): Psychoanalytic Approach." School of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta. [http://eprints.ums.ac.id/34257/1/NASKAH%20PUBLIKASI.pdf]

;Lamprinou, Artemis, 2013. : "A Study on the Cultural Variations in the Verbalisation of Near-Universal Emotions: Translating Emotions from British English into Greek in Popular Bestseller Romances," PhD thesis, University of Surrey. [https://www.academia.edu/5354053/A_Study_on_the_Cultural_Variations_in_the_Verbalisation_of_Near-Universal_Emotions_Translating_Emotions_from_British_English_into_Greek_in_Popular_Bestseller_Romances_PhD_thesis Abstract]

;Larson, Christine, 2017. : “An Economy of Words: Precarity, Solidarity and Innovation in Digital Book Publishing.” PhD Diss., Stanford University. [According to Lois and Gregson (2018) "Larson’s dissertation (2017) comprises the only known examination of writers’ careers in the romance genre. Her 2014 survey examined 4,270 romance writers’ earnings over the previous eight years, comparing their incomes via traditional and self-publishing. She found that only approximately 20 percent of her sample earned above the U.S. median income through their writing."]

;Lessard, Victoria, 2017. : 'Marketing Desire: The "Normative/Other" Male Body and the "Pure" White Female Body on the Cover Art of Cassie Edwards' ''Savage Dream'' (1990), ''Savage Persuasion'' (1991), and ''Savage Mists'' (1992)', MA thesis, McGill University.[http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/webclient/StreamGate?folder_id=0&dvs=1520696109115~383]

;Liu, S.-h, 2012. : "The Translation/Mutation of Romantic Love: An Exploration of the Translation History of Modern Romances in Taiwan after 1960". PhD Thesis, National Taiwan Normal University. [http://www.airitilibrary.com/Publication/alDetailedMesh?docid=U0021-1610201315284770 Abstract]

;Lin, Fang-Mei, 1992. : "Social Change and Romantic Ideology: The Impact of the Publishing Industry, Family Organization, and Gender Roles on the Reception and Interpretation of Romance Fiction in Taiwan, 1960-1990." U of Pennysylvania (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'', 53.5:1675) [http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9227710/ Abstract]

;Lohmann, Jennifer, 2006. : " 'Beauty and the Beast' Themes in Romance Novels." A Master’s Paper for the M.S. in L.S degree. April, 2006. 41 pages. Advisor: Brian Sturm. A Master’s paper submitted to the faculty of the School of Information and Library Science of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Library Science. [http://etd.ils.unc.edu:8080/dspace/bitstream/1901/302/2/draft3.pdf]

;Lutz, Deborah, 2004. : "The Dangerous Lover and the Erotics of Failure: Nineteenth-century Byronism and the Contemporary Romance. Ph.D. dissertation, City University of New York, United States -- New York. Publication No. AAT 3127895. [Has since been published by Ohio State University Press - see the main bibliography for details.]

;Malloy, Audrey Miles, 2017. : "Remnants of the Bodice Ripper: How Consent is Characterized in Heterosexual and Lesbian Erotic Romance Novels." Bard College, Senior Projects Spring 2017, Bard Undergraduate Senior Projects. [http://digitalcommons.bard.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1088&context=senproj_s2017]

;Markert, John, 1984. : "Beyond Gatekeepers: Romance Publishing and the Production of Culture." Ph.D. dissertation in Sociology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. [http://discoverlibrary.vanderbilt.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?ct=display&doc=vanunicorn544260&indx=1&srt=rank&vl(freeText0)=markert%20john%20beyond%20gatekeepers&dum=true&mode=Basic&ct=search&vid=VANDERBILT&doc=vanunicorn544260&scp.scps=scope%3A(GMA)%2Cscope%3A(vanunicorn)%2Cscope%3A(tvnews)&frbg=&indx=1&fn=search&tab=default_tab Details in Vanderbilt University Library Catalogue.]

;Margolis, Ann, 2009. : "In Defense of Romantic Fiction" (2009). Master of Science in Publishing. Pace University, Dyson College of Arts & Sciences. [http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/dyson_mspublishing/10 Details and link to pdf].

;McAlister, Jodi Ann, 2015. : "Romancing the Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Popular Literature in the West". PhD thesis, Macquarie University, 2015. [https://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:44291]

;McKinley, Tracey Lynn, 2007. : 'The Female Quest: An Analysis of Archetypal Layering in Harlequin Presents.' M.Ed. diss., Queen's University (Canada).

; Michel, Anita, 1997. : ''Re-reading the (series) romance : toward a typology of recent series romance novels.'' Thesis (M.A.)--Bowling Green State University.

;Miguel, Donna De Silva, 2002. : ''Love conquers all :the rhetoric, culture, and appeal of the contemporary romance novel, and coming to terms with coming out of the closet.'' Thesis (M.A.)--New Mexico State University.

;Modleski, Tania. 1980. : "'Popular Feminine Narratives: A Study of Romances, Gothics, and Soap Operas'." Stanford U., (''Dissertation Abstracts International: Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'') 41.5: 2104-A.

;Moffitt, Mary Anne Smeltzer, 1990. : "Understanding Middle-Class Adolescent Leisure: A Cultural Studies Approach to Romance Novel Reading" U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (''Dissertation Abstracts International'' 51.4: 1035A)

;Moody, Stephanie Lee, 2013. : "Affecting Genre: Women's Participation with Popular Romance Fiction." Ph.D thesis. University of Michigan. [http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/99818/slmoody_1.pdf?sequence=1]

;Morrissey, Katherine, 2008. : ''Fanning the Flames of Romance: An Exploration of Fan Fiction and the Romance Novel''. MA Thesis, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University. [http://hdl.handle.net/1961/6198 Abstract] and [http://dspace.wrlc.org/dspace/bitstream/1961/6198/1/17_etd_kem82.pdf the thesis].

;Morrissey, Katherine, 2016. : ''Romance Networks: Aspiration & Desire in Today’s Digital Culture''. Theses and Dissertations. Paper 1179. Ph.D. thesi, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. [http://dc.uwm.edu/etd/1179 Abstract and link to download after June 06, 2018]

;Naber, Christine Marie, 1995. : "Rape myths are the theory--romance novels are the practice: The impact of exposure to images of women in popular culture, " U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'',57.4:2950). [http://hdl.handle.net/2142/18972 Abstract]

;Neal, Lynn S., 2003. : "Romancing God: Reading Evangelical Romance Novels." Ph.D. dissertation, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States -- North Carolina. Publication No. AAT 3086588. [Has since been published by the University of North Carolina Press - see the main bibliography for details.]

;Newton, Marlo Leigh. 1991. : ''Romancing the tome: the novels of Georgette Heyer.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of Melbourne

;Olivier, Séverine, 2009. : "Le roman sentimental. Productions contemporaines et pratiques de lecture.' Doctorat en Langues et lettres, Université Libre de Bruxelles. [http://theses.ulb.ac.be/ETD-db/collection/available/ULBetd-11132009-153019/ Abstract]

;O'Mahony, Lauren Kate, 2015. : "In Search of Feminist Romance in Australian 'Chick Lit'." Thesis presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of Murdoch University. [http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/25543/1/In_Search_of_Feminist_Romance_in____Australian_Chick_lit_PhD_Thesis_O%27Mahony.pdf]

;O'Neil, Kathryn M., 2016. : "Women's rhetoric and the romance novel genre." M.A. Thesis, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. [http://gradworks.umi.com/10/13/10134046.html Abstract]

;Omissi, Dominic, 1995. : "The Mills and Boon memsahibs: women's romantic Indian fiction 1877-1947." Ph.D., Lancaster. [http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.282386 British Library details.] [Abstract from the Index to Theses website: "This thesis examines the published written work of eleven different women. The material is principally in the form of romantic novels but short stories form a significant minority along with poetry, autobiography, history, and contemporary political comment. [...] All but one of the writers spent extended periods in India and numerous of their works have never been discussed in any critical work of which I am aware. [...] the current work challenges the dominant image of India, its climate, people and imperial significance, drawn from the writings of men like Kipling, Forster and Orwell. The study concludes that this image (which I call the canonical image) is utterly inappropriate when measured against the writings of these women. Their work is, I conclude, in certain important respects counter-canonical.]

;Owen, Mairead, 1990. : "Women's Reading of Popular Romantic Fiction: A Case Study in the Mass Media: A Key to the Ideology of Women." U. of Liverpool, (''Dissertation Abstracts International'' 52.8: 2745A) [http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.280340 Details and download available.]

;Paizis, George, 1986. : "'Reine ou esclave ... ' : conflicting images of women in the contemporary 'romantic novel' in France." Ph.D. Thesis, University of London. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53571849 Details]

;Parameswaran, Radhika E., 1998. : "Public Images, Private Pleasures: Romance Reading at the Intersection of Gender, Class, and National Identities in Urban India." U of Iowa, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 58.12:4485)

;Parv, Valerie, 2007. : "Healing Writes: Restorying the Authorial Self through Creative Practice : and ''Birthright'', a speculative fiction novel." Thesis for Master of Arts degree (by research), University of Queensland. [The novel is not available online, but [http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16646/2/Valerie_Parv_Exegesis.pdf the non-fiction section is] and [http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16646/ an abstract is also available].]

;Pearce, Elizabeth Florence, 2004. : "Reading the Lesbian Romance: Re-imagining Love, Sex, Relationships, and Community." Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Iowa, United States -- Iowa. Publication No. AAT 3139383. ["The core of the research emerged from the face-to-face, phone and e-mail conversations with readers of lesbian romance texts" and one section is "based on an examination of twenty-five lesbian romance novels."]

;Pylkkänen, Merita, 2013. : "Didactic Fulfillment and the Popular Romance: Jude Deveraux’s ''The Mulberry Tree''." MA thesis, University of Eastern Finland. [http://epublications.uef.fi/pub/urn_nbn_fi_uef-20130866/urn_nbn_fi_uef-20130866.pdf]

;Potter, J.E., 1998. : "Boys in khaki, girls in print: women's literary responses to the Great War 1914-1918", D.Phil., Oxford. ["This thesis explores the ways in which women interpreted the Great War as it happened and focuses on texts written and published between 1914 and 1918. [...] The romance novels discussed in Chapter Three follow a pattern in which the aspirations of heroes and heroines are thwarted - then fulfilled - by the events of the War. Such 'light entertainment' makes highly-charged claims for the regenerative power and the righteousness of Britain's sacrifice."] [This has since been published as a book.]

;Rampure, Archana, 2005. : "Doctors in the Darkness: Reading Race, Gender, and History in the Popular Medical Romance ", U of Toronto, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 66.10:3642) [http://search.proquest.com/docview/276475552 Abstract] and some [http://thehypelessromantic.com/2013/07/06/medical-romances-imperialism-nationalism-race-and-gender/ discussion/description here].

;Reed, Eleanor, 2018. : "Domestic Culture in ''Woman's Weekly'', 1918-1958", Doctoral thesis, Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Roehampton. [https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/files/1346863/Domestic_Culture_in_Woman_s_Weekly_1918_1958.pdf] ["This thesis [...] explores the domestic culture produced by the magazine between the end of the First World War in November 1918,and 1958." The "literary methodology for surveying periodical form [...] is based on romance, the genre to which the vast majority of ''Woman’s Weekly'' fiction printed during the period belongs" (2).]

;Rice, Linda. 2008. : ''Ambiguous love a reflection of self in relation to popular romance fiction.'' Darwin, N.T.: Iron Mountain. Thesis (M.A.)--Charles Darwin University

;Russell, Shanon, 2014. : "Dangerous Young Men: Themes of Female Sexuality and Masculinity in Paranormal Romance Novels for Young Adults." Masters Thesis. University of Ottawa.[https://ruor.uottawa.ca/bitstream/10393/31631/1/Russell_Shannon_2014_Thesis.pdf]

;Rutherford, Carina Lynn, 1999. : ''Wild dreams rooted in reality :an exploration of the Harlequin Mills & Boon novels of Daphne Clair.'' Thesis (MA--English)--University of Auckland.

;Sagun, Karryl Kim Abella, 2019. : ''Book Mavens of Manila : an interpretative phenomenological analysis of contemporary niche publishers in the Philippines''. Doctoral thesis,Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. [https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/bitstream/handle/10220/48072/SAGUNKKAS.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y Pdf] [I include this because it incorporates material from "three Wattpad self-publishers based in the Philippines: Mina V. Esguerra, Noreen Capili, and Kimberly Villanueva. All three agreed to be quoted verbatim, and to be referred to by name. They have all published both on electronic platforms (particularly Wattpad) and on print. They also share the same genre for their works: romance" (123)]

;Sandbakken, Asta Margrethe, 2016. : "Feeling Men: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Emotion in the Contemporary Romance." MA Thesis, University of Oslo.[https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/51997/Sandbakken_Master.pdf?sequence=1]

;Sanyal, Madhuparna, 2008. : "Re-imagining the late-colonial Anglo-Indian woman's romance: Reading Maud Diver." PhD dissertation, Drew University. AAT 3334864. [https://catalog.drew.edu/web2/tramp2.exe/authority_hits/A02ok5gn.004?server=1home&item=1 Details from Drew University Library]

;Savinainen, Raija, 2001. : ''Gender-specific features of male/female interaction in a popular romantic novel by Barbara Cartland''. University of Jyväskylä. [http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-2001867069 Details and link to pdf.]

;Shore, Zandra Lesley, 1999. : "Girls reading culture, autobiography as inquiry into teaching the body, the romance, and the economy of love." Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Education, University of Toronto. [Can be downloaded from [http://hdl.handle.net/1807/15698 the University of Toronto Library]. [See in particular Chapter Four, which mentions the work done on romance and romance readers by Radway, Snitow, Cohn, Christian-Smith and others.]

;Short, Christopher Brown, 1996. : "The history of romance illustration and the romance novel cover." Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Illustration in the Graduate School at Syracuse University. [http://summit.syr.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=1563900 Bibliographic Details]

;Smáradóttir, Helena María, 2006. : "Happily Ever-After: The Romance Reader's Individual Choice and Empowerment." B.A. thesis. University of Iceland.

;Smáradóttir, Helena María, 2009. : "Love as a Commodity: Brand-Name Romantic Fiction and its Readers. The Domain and Readership of Harlequin Enterprises, Both in Iceland and Abroad." Thesis submitted for a master's degree at the University of Iceland. Various sections [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/handle/1946/2789 available online]: [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/bitstream/1946/2789/8/ttur_fixed.pdf Summary], [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/bitstream/1946/2789/1/Efnisyfirlit_fixed.pdf Table of Contents], [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/bitstream/1946/2789/3/Inngangur_fixed.pdf Introduction], [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/bitstream/1946/2789/7/pd_fixed.pdf Conclusion], [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/bitstream/1946/2789/6/pd_fixed.pdf Works Cited], [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/bitstream/1946/2789/5/l_fixed.pdf Appendix]. Those wishing to read more of this thesis or the author's B.A. thesis may [mailto:helena@skipulag.com contact the author directly].

;Smith, William Clay Kinchen, 2002. : "Revising Captivity Narratives", U of Florida. [http://etd.fcla.edu/UF/UFE0000611/smith_w.pdf] [This thesis deals with many types of captivity narrative, but there are sections specifically about romances. In the chapter on works from the 1980s, there is a section on romance (341-354), and the chapter concerning the 1990s has a similar section (373-378). Romance authors whose works are discussed include [[Madeline Baker]], [[Karen A. Bale]], [[Cassie Edwards]], [[Fern Michaels]], [[Nan Ryan]] and [[Janelle Taylor]].]

;Sorenson, Tanya Lee, 2014. : "How Traditional is the Romance? Heroines, Stereotypes, and the Heterosexual Script." Senior Projects Spring 2014. Paper 339. Bard College. [http://digitalcommons.bard.edu/senproj_s2014/339 Abstract]

;Spears, Jessica D., 2018. : ''The Romance Novel Cover''. MA Thesis (Art History). City University of New York (CUNY), Hunter College, 2018. [https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/350/ Abstract and link to pdf.]

;Starr, Marian, 1981. : ''Sweet Savage Book: The Romance in America, 1855-1980'', Honors paper, Duke University. This is a typescript manuscript with 118 leaves (the bibliography can be found on leaves 106-118). OCLC Number: 07724196. [http://library.duke.edu/catalog/search/recordid/DUKE000461276 Details in Duke University's Library Catalogue.] [As far as modern romances are concerned, the focus is on the historical romances of the seventies ([[Rosemary Rogers]], [[Kathleen Woodiwiss]], etc.) with particular emphasis on their rape-fantasy aspects.]

;Sterk, Helen Mae, 1986. : "Functioning fictions :the adjustment rhetoric of Silhouette romance novels." Ph.D. U. of Iowa, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 47.7:2372)

;Tang, Wei-chung, 2004. : "The Masculine Hero in American Popular Romances." MA Thesis, National Chengchi University, Taiwan. [http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/31797 Abstract]

;Tang, Yang, 2014. : "Between Fantasy and Reality: Time-Travel Romance and Media Fandom in Chinese Cyberspace." MA Thesis, Simon Fraser University. [http://summit.sfu.ca/system/files/iritems1/14110/etd8410_YTang.pdf]

;Tatlock, Kristen Doris, 1986. :'' Raised on romance :a cultural study of romance fiction.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of Virginia.

;Taylor, Jessica Anne, 2013. : “Write the Book of Your Heart: Career, Passion and Publishing in the Romance Writing Community,” Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto. [https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/36016 Abstract and link to pdf]

;Tennenhouse, Tracy Shana, 1996. : "Female Fantasies in Women's Popular Fiction", U California Santa Barbara, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 57.9:3943)

;Therrien, Kathleen Mary, 1998. : "Trembling at Her Own Response: Resistance and Reconciliation in Mass-Market Romance Novels." (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 58.7: 2659) [Special focus on [[Julie Garwood]], [[Amanda Quick]]/[[Jayne Ann Krentz]] and [[Susan Wiggs]].]

;Tienkamp, Aaf, 2016. : "New Adult Romance: An Emerging Genre." Master’s Dissertation Literary Studies. Programme: Writing, Editing and Mediating, University of Groningen. [http://arts.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/18051/1/MA_2449307_A_Tienkamp.pdf]

;Travis, Melissa E., 2013. : "Assume the Position: Exploring Discipline Relationships." Sociology Dissertations, Paper 71. Ph.D thesis. Georgia State University, Ph.D thesis. [http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/sociology_diss/71/ Abstract] and [http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1070&context=sociology_diss pdf]. [See the section on "Discipline Romance Novels", pp. 159-66.]

;Turner, Natasha, 2015. : "Contemporary Erotic Romance: Cunning Linguists or Fifty Shades of Feminist Dismay?" BA (Hons) dissertation, published in ''The New Birmingham Review'' 1.2. [These older links are no longer working [http://www.newbirminghamreview.uk/ojs/index.php/nbr/article/view/44 Abstract] [http://www.newbirminghamreview.uk/ojs/index.php/nbr/article/view/44/21 pdf] but the item should [https://www.academia.edu/10303798/Contemporary_Erotic_Romance_Cunning_Linguists_or_Fifty_Shades_of_Feminist_Dismay?email_work_card=title still be available here]]

;Uddin-Khan, Evelyn Angelina, 1995. : "Gender, Ethnicity and the Romance Novel," Columbia U, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 56.11:4341)

;Vani, Christina, 2018. : ''Immortal Words: The Language and Style of the Contemporary Italian Undead-Romance Novel''. Ph.D. thesis. University of Toronto, 2018. [https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/91987/3/Vani_Christina_201811_PhD_thesis.pdf]

;Walker, Lynn G., 2000. : ''Women Reading Popular Fiction: Influences on Gender Identity.'' Thesis (M.A.L.S.)--North Central College.

;Warner, Celeste R., 2010. : ''Heyer’s Heroes: An Investigation into [[Georgette Heyer]] and Her Literary ‘Mark’ on the Regency Hero''. A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in English at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.[http://hdl.handle.net/10289/4406]

;Whalen, Kacey, 2017. : "A Consumption of Gay Men: Navigating the Shifting Boundaries of M/M Romantic Readership", MA thesis from DePaul University.[http://via.library.depaul.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1234&context=etd]

;White, Ann Yvonne, 2008. : ''Genesis Press: Cultural Representation and the Production of African American Romance Novels''. Ph.D. thesis from the University of Iowa. [[http://infohawk.uiowa.edu/F?func=direct&local_base=uiowa&doc_number=004400887 Link to University of Iowa catalogue details.]] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uuGj4AKOTXoC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Whyte, Tamara Lynn. 2013. :''Shakespeare in Love: Appropriation of Shakespeare in Popular Romance Novels.'' U of Alabama. (''Dissertation Abstracts International'') 75, no. 6 (December 2014). [http://acumen.lib.ua.edu/#!/u0015_0000001_0001465/document/u0015_0000001_0001465?page=1&limit=40]

;Wiebe, Laura, 2013. : ''Speculative Matter: Generic Affinities, Posthumanisms and Science-Fictional Imaginings''. Ph.D. thesis from McMaster University.[http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8703&context=opendissertations] [See in particular pages 37-71 on love, romance and Christine Feehan's Ghostwalkers series of romances.]

;Wilson, Elizabeth Suzanne, 1986. : ''Women creating men :the history of the hero in contemporary category romance fiction since the 1950s.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

;Wirtén, Eva Hemmungs, 1998. : ''Global Infatuation: Explorations in Transnational Publishing and Texts: The case of Harlequin Enterprises and Sweden'', Section for Sociology of Literature at the Department of Literature, Uppsala University. [http://www.abm.uu.se/evahw/Global_Infatuation.pdf PDF was there] but can now be downloaded from [https://www.academia.edu/433430/Global_Infatuation_Explorations_in_Transnational_Publishing_and_Texts._The_Case_of_Harlequin_Enterprises_and_Sweden here]

;Wood, Andrea, 2008. : ''Radicalizing Romance: Subculture, Sex, and Media at the Margins''. PhD Thesis, University of Florida. AAT 3392728 [http://etd.fcla.edu/UF/UFE0023561/wood_a.pdf PDF]

;Young, Beth Rapp, 1995. : "But are they any good? Women readers, formula fiction, and the sacralization of the literary canon", U of Southern California, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 57.2:893)

;Young, Erin S., 2010. : "Corporate Heroines and Utopian Individualism: A Study of the Romance Novel in Global Capitalism", Ph.D. thesis, University of Oregon, AAT 3420428. [https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/11460 Pdf available from University of Oregon.] [This author has since had 2 articles published which appear to draw on this thesis. See the main academic romance bibliography for details. "This dissertation explores two subgenres of popular romance fiction that emerge in the 1990s: 'corporate' and 'paranormal' romance. While the formulaic conventions of popular romance have typically centralized the gendered tension between hero and heroine, this project reveals that 'corporate' and 'paranormal' romances negotiate a new primary conflict, the tension between work and home in the era of global capitalism. [...] The 'corporate' romances of [[Jayne Ann Krentz]], [[Nora Roberts]], [[Elizabeth Lowell]], and [[Katherine Stone]] feature heroines who constantly navigate the dual and intersecting arenas of work and home in an effort to locate a balance that leads to success and happiness in both realms. In contrast, the 'paranormal' romances of [[Laurell K. Hamilton]], [[Charlaine Harris]], [[Kelley Armstrong]], and [[Carrie Vaughn]] dissolve the tension between home and work, or the private and the public, by affirming the heroine's open and endless pursuit of pleasure, adventure, and self-fulfillment."]

;Young, Whitney A., 2013. : "Monsters in My Bed: Accounting for the Popularity of Young Adult Paranormal Romances." MA Thesis. Georgia State University. [http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1035&context=wsi_theses]

;Yuill, Brendon, 2018. : "Sheiks and Sherifs: Western Portrayals of the Middle East between the World Wars." MA Thesis. University of Central Oklahoma.[https://search.proquest.com/openview/bca2306d1789bef0c53ba80b278430bc/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y]

;Zachik-Smith, Susie, 1993. : ''Romance by the book :a morphological analysis of the popular romance.'' Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, San Bernardino.

Romance Resources for Academics

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Laura V:

[[category:Romance Resources]][[Category:Romance Scholarship]]
From this page you may return to the main [[Romance Scholarship]] page or go directly to

* [[:Category:Academics Who Write Romance|Academics Who Write Romance]]
* [[Academic Online Essays (not published in academic journals or volumes)]]
* [[Autobiographies and Biographies of Romance Authors]]
* '''Bibliography'''
** [[Bibliography A-C]] - the first part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
** [[Bibliography D-G]] - the second part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
** [[Bibliography H-L]] - the third part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
** [[Bibliography M-O]] - the fourth part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
** [[Bibliography P-S]] - the fifth part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
** [[Bibliography T-Z]] - the final part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
* [[Scholarship in Languages Other than English|Bibliography of Scholarship in Languages Other than English]].
* [[Dissertation Abstracts]]
* [[Guides to the Genre]]
* '''Romance in the Media''' - lists news items/features items about romance.
** [[Romance in the Media A-I]]
** [[Romance in the Media J-Z]]
* [[Writers on Romance]] - lists items written about the genre by romance authors but not published in academic journals or books.

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==Summary==

This page contains details of academic romance resources, general online resources which may be of interest to academics studying romance, and academic libraries which have romance collections.

==Academic Associations, Publications etc.==

[http://iaspr.org/ International Association for the Study of Popular Romance] (IASPR): "The International Association for the Study of Popular Romance is dedicated to fostering and promoting the scholarly exploration of all popular representations of romantic love. IASPR is committed to building a strong community of scholars of popular romance through open, digital access to all scholarly work published by the Association, by organizing or sponsoring an annual international conference on popular romance studies, and by encouraging the teaching of popular romance at all levels of higher education."

"The [http://iaspr.org/journal/ Journal of Popular Romance Studies] (JPRS) is a peer-reviewed on-line journal presenting scholarship on representations of romantic love in popular media, now and in the past, from anywhere in the world. We welcome theoretical and empirical contributions from all relevant disciplines, including Art, Communications, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Education, English, Film Studies, History, LGBTQ Studies, Marketing, Philosophy, Psychology, Religious Studies, Sociology, Women’s and Gender Studies, as well as interdisciplinary approaches."

The Popular Romance Project is no longer online but it [https://web.archive.org/web/20171001104511/http://popularromanceproject.org/ was archived at the Internet Archive]. It includes articles written by academics about a variety of topics related to popular romance. The Project was linked to a documentary, ''Love Between the Covers'', by Laurie Kahn and a conference at the Library of Congress. Details of video excerpts of both of those can be found [http://teachmetonight.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/new-pages-and-videos-on-love-and.html here].

[http://condor.depaul.edu/~english/pedagogy/romance/index.html Resources for Teaching Popular Romance Fiction]

[http://mailman.depaul.edu/mailman/listinfo/romancescholar RomanceScholar] - A listserv dedicated to academic discussion about romance fiction.

[http://www.zittaw.com/studiesingothicfiction.htm Studies in Gothic Fiction]

[http://teachmetonight.blogspot.com/ Teach Me Tonight] - a blog containing 'Musings on Romance Fiction from an Academic Perspective'.

==Academic Libraries with Romance Collections==

;National Library of Australia. : The National Library of Australia (NLA) has extensive collections of romance novels published and distributed in Australia, principally received under the legal deposit provisions (s201) of the Copyright Act, 1968." [http://www.nla.gov.au/collect/acquisitions.html]. Individual catalogue records for pre-1990 romance novels published by Mills & Boon (over 12,000 titles), Harlequin (over 6000 titles) and Silhouette (over 500 titles) can be located via the [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/ NLA catalogue]. From January 1990 NLA ceased to catalogue romance novels individually, except for Australian romance authors; however, collective records for post-1990 titles can be located at the following locations: [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1390551 Mills & Boon], [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1741526 Silhouette], and [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1768798 Harlequin]. In addition to English language holdings, the NLA holds collections of foreign language romance novels by Australian authors [[Emma Darcy]][http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2340549] (the Australian husband-wife writing team of Wendy Brennan and Frank Brennan), [[Miranda Lee]][http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2209425] and [[Valerie Parv]][http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3031533]. The NLA also holds a small, but notable collection of romance comics which can be searched via subject headings [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=subject:%22Romance%20comic%20books,%20strips,%20etc.%20-%20Australia%20-%20Periodicals.%22&iknowwhatimean=1 ‘Romance comic books, strips, etc. - Australia – Periodicals’] and [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=subject:%22Romance%20comic%20books,%20strips,%20etc.%20-%20United%20States.%22&iknowwhatimean=1 ‘Romance comic books, strips, etc. - United States’]. Original materials held include the [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3645449 personal papers] and [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2163428 oral history recording] of Australian romance writer Lee Pattinson, and [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn618223 personal papers] of G. C. (Gordon Clive) Bleeck.

;Bowling Green State University. : "The Browne Popular Culture Library holds a wide range of romance materials from novels to valentines. The collection includes more than 10,000 volumes of category romance series from publishers such as Harlequin, Silhouette, Loveswept, Candlelight, Ecstasy, and others. The holdings also include a sizable collection of mass market novels, including Georgian, regency, gothic, contemporary, and historicals. [...] In addition, the Library has manuscript collections containing correspondence, fan mail, literary manuscripts, and galley sheets from many prominent romance writers, includings Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Cathie Linz, and April Kihlstrom." [http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page39129.html Broken link] The Browne Library also holds "RWA’s organizational archives documenting its founding 15 years ago and following its growth into the world’s largest non-profit genre organization, specializing in romance fiction." [http://blogs.bgsu.edu/pclnews/?p=12 Broken link]. A description of the RWA archive and suggestions for possible research projects to which it could be helpful [http://jprstudies.org/2018/05/romance-fiction-in-the-archivesby-kecia-ali/ can be found here]. "In December 2017, we received the Frank Kalan Romance Cover Art Collection, more than 100 original oil paintings that Mr. Kalan produced for Harlequin covers. In addition to the artwork, this collection includes paperwork related to each, reference photographs, and cover mockups. For many of these artworks we have also collected the published novel to give researchers a unique opportunity to explore the production process." [https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl/romance.html]

;Brown University. : Brown University's "collections of genre fiction were augmented by a group of romance novels, including translations into many European languages, the work and gift of Barbara Keiler, class of 1976, and Patricia Coughlin" [http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/University_Library/exhibits/leaves/modern.html#pop.html]. The collection of "Romance Novels by Brown & Rhode Island Authors" also includes "the working papers of their authors." [http://128.148.7.229:591/romance/about.html]

;University of Calgary. : The library has a special collection of early Harlequin novels (not all of which are romances) dating from 1949-1962.[http://www.ucalgary.ca/lib-old/SpecColl/harlequin.htm] The library also holds "research material relating to [Paul Grescoe's] book ''The Merchants of Venus: Inside Harlequin and the Empire of Romance'' including Harlequin promotional material, photographs, interviews with various Harlequin executives and writers, articles on romance by other authors, notes and material relating to 1995 Romantic Times convention and issues of Pandora's Box, the newsletter of the Published Authors Network of Romance Writers of America (Acc 705/01.11)."[http://specialcollections.ucalgary.ca/manuscript-collections/literary-and-art-archives-canadian/-paul-grescoe-fonds]

;Library and Archives Canada. : "The general power given to the institution to 'acquire publications and records or obtain the care, custody or control of them' is supported by more specific powers relating to sampling the Internet, the legal (that is, required by law) deposit of publications." [http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/collection/003-330-e.html] Their holdings therefore contain many Harlequin romances published in Canada. LAC's collections can be searched [http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/amicus/index-e.html online via AMICUS] and its "services to the public are provided in its main building located in downtown Ottawa."[http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/visit-us/index-e.html]

;Duke University. : The library holds "Letters from [Georgette] [[Georgette Heyer|Heyer]] to publishers and agents regarding royalties, contracts, and dramatizations of her works of historical fiction. Includes information concerning her lawsuit againt [[Barbara Cartland]]." [http://library.duke.edu/catalog/search/recordid/DUKE001024988] The letters date from 1950-1952.

;George Mason University. : Mason is building a collection of Popular Romance Novels for circulation, not as a special collection. We [...] want the collection to be used by Mason students & faculty as well as researchers at other universities. When items are in a "special collection" those items do not circulate and researchers have to visit the library/collection to use the materials. By putting romance novels in the circulating collection they are accessible via InterLibrary Loan so researchers can use the materials without traveling. [More details from Sarah Sheehan [http://popularromanceproject.org/behind-scenes/7228/ via the Popular Romance Project] and the [http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/creating-a-popular-romance-collection-in-an-academic-libraryby-sarah-e-sheehan-and-jen-stevens/ ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies''].]

;Harvard University (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study). : "The [http://www.radcliffe.edu/schlesinger_library.aspx Schlesinger Library] at the [http://www.radcliffe.edu/about_the_institute.aspx Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study] has a small but growing collection of romance novels. We are currently collecting them as part of an effort to document popular culture. Many of these are the pre-North American re-pubs of Mills & Boon romances. We recently acquired a collection of nurse romances. Of more recent vintage are the NASCAR romances and the Harlequin manga translations of Japanese manga based on Harlequin novels translated into Japanese. These are all searchable in [http://discovery.lib.harvard.edu/ HOLLIS], our on-line catalog, which allows for faceted searching, and [http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/T7YFMLGAVVP4A6XDV5Q7PLXPLUGARKHFIKDIRXLH41KVQDU4SD-17371?RN=688943711 HOLLIS Classic], which allows for indexed searching as well as keyword. We are actively looking to acquire more material, current and older, especially the lines for girls/teens."

;University of Iowa. : The university library holds "The papers of LeAnn Lemberger [which] date from 1982 to the present with additions being made each year. They are organized by publication date, with an alphabetical index. The vast majority of the collection consists of manuscript drafts of her various romance novels." Lemberger "writes using the name [[Leigh Michaels]], a combination of her own name and that of her husband Michael Lemberger. She now publishes an average of four new romances each year, making Leigh Michaels Harlequin's most-published American author." [http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/MSC/ToMsC650/MsC647/lembergerleann.htm] The library also houses material donated by romance author [[Dorothy Garlock]] and the collection "contains unpublished material by Garlock, as well as foreign editions of her works." [http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/MSC/ToMsC650/MsC607/MsC607_garlockdorothy.htm]

;University of Liverpool. : The library has a David and Betty Beaty Archive, which holds, among other things, "correspondence between David and Betty Beaty and several publishers, friends, and others, mainly concerning their respective publications, dated between 1939 and 1998" and "7 boxes containing full or partial autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of Betty Beaty's books, as follows: 'The colours of the night', 'The trysting tower', 'Fatal union', 'Love and the Kentish maid', 'Wheel fortune', 'The path of the moonfish', 'The shadow of the peak', 'The Atlantic sky', and 'Flight into love'". [https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/8441]

;Loyola University. : The Monroe library holds a "collection from Lorena Dureau, opera singer, romance novelist, psychic, & doll designer"[https://twitter.com/MonroeLibLoyno/status/915578651147632640].[More details about Lorena Dureau can be found [http://library.loyno.edu/blog/?p=6329 here].]

;McDaniel College. : "The Nora Roberts American Romance Collection, established in 2011 and housed in Hoover Library at McDaniel College [...] contains the complete works of Nora Roberts / J. D. Robb, RITA Award winning titles of American Romance, and selected works of other American Romance authors recommended by expert and scholar Dr. Pamela Regis". [https://lib.hoover.mcdaniel.edu/arc]

;University of Melbourne. : "The Romance Fiction Collection is a comprehensive collection of paper-back fiction by Australian and New Zealand - as well as British and American - romance novelists published from the 1960s up until the present by publishers such as Mills and Boon, Silhouette and the Women’s Weekly Library." [https://library.unimelb.edu.au/collections/special-collections/rare-books/australiana/romance]

;Michigan State University. : The Romance Fiction collection has at "its core [...] a group of several thousand Harlequin Romances, [but] other popular romance novelists such as Barbara Cartland are also included." [http://specialcollections.lib.msu.edu/html/materials/collections/nyepop_coll.jsp]

;New York University. : The Harlequin Romance Collection of Treva M. Taylor 1967-1996 (Bulk 1974-1996) is held in Fales Library and Special Collections, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library and "The Harlequin Romance Collection of Treva M. Taylor contains 1671 paperbacks spanning three decades of the twentieth century (1970s-1990s). The two publishers represented in the collection are Harlequin and Silhouette." [http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/fales/harlequin.html]

;University of Otago. : "The University of Otago Library’s rare book collection in [http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/SpecialCollections/index.html Special Collections]" includes "numerous samples of Australian Pulp Fiction Literature."[http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/exhibitions/delights2.html] According to Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections Librarian at the University of Otago, it is "a pulp fiction collection of some 900 titles, mainly published in Australia by Sydney based publishers as a result of a publishing embargo on the US based ‘pulps’ before and during the Second World War. The collection complements our more traditional rare books and features detective, westerns, science fiction and romance novels. Representative authors in this field of popular culture include ‘Larry Kent’, Marc Brody, and Carter Brown. The collection was purchased from a collector in Australia in 2005. All are catalogued, and the covers have been digitised for easy access by students, especially those in art history, design and English. It gets added to." Details of the titles in the pulp fiction collection can be found in the [http://otago.lconz.ac.nz/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=hbSearch main catalogue] and as a group they will come up in response to a subject search on the words "pulp literature". Dr Kerr adds that, "In addition, there is an uncatalogued Mills and Boon Collection in the University’s storage facilities; some hundreds of titles."

;University of Queensland, Fryer Library. : The Juliet Flesch Collection of Australian Romance Fiction at the [http://www.library.uq.edu.au/fryer/ University of Queensland’s Fryer Library] consists of approximately 1,500 Australian popular romance novels acquired by [http://www.history.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/fellows/flesch.html Dr. Juliet Flesch] (currently a Fellow at the School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne) in the course of her research for her PhD and her subsequent publication ''From Australia With Love: a History of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels'' (Fremantle, W.A.: Curtin University Books, 2004). The material is principally 20th century, with an end date of 2005. There are numerous variant editions, including some works not represented in the National Library of Australia, and a small collection of books by English and North American authors with Australian settings or heroes/heroines. All of the titles have been individually catalogued in [http://library.uq.edu.au/screens/opacmenu.html the library’s online catalogue] and the entire collection can be viewed by searching [http://library.uq.edu.au/search~S7/?searchtype=t&searcharg=Australian+Romance+Fiction+Collection&searchscope=7&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=t{212040}Australian+Romance+Fiction+Collection{7f201d} Australian Romance Fiction Collection] as a title. The collection has been entered in [http://www.austlit.edu.au/ AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource] by AustLit staff based at UQ, further enhancing AustLit’s genre fiction coverage.

;University of Reading. : 1) "The Harlequin Mills & Boon Archive consists of the editorial correspondence of both John Boon and Alan Boon, script registers, publicity material and some administrative records. It covers the period 1910-2008 (with the bulk of the records covering 1924-1975)" and "The Special Collections Service also acquired a large proportion of the back catalogue of Mills & Boon books" [http://www.reading.ac.uk/special-collections/collections/sc-mills-and-boon.aspx]

2) the Cole Library, a "collection [which] was originally the private library of Professor F J Cole (1872-1959), F.R.S., Professor of Zoology in the University of Reading from 1907 to 1939. [...] The collection [...] includes 15 books by [[Sophie Cole]] (1862-1947), the sister of Professor Cole. As an adolescent, Miss Cole suffered from a long illness, and to pass the time she wrote a romance novel, ''Arrows From the Dark'' in 1909, the first book to be published by Mills and Boon, who later became major publishers of romance novels. The book was well-received, and by 1914, 1,394 women had bought a copy. During her lifetime she wrote 65 books, and earned her living from them for many years.[...] She lived in Brighton, but in her later years came to live with Professor Cole and his wife at Eldon Road in Reading. A number of the books are presentation copies from Miss Cole."[http://www.rdg.ac.uk/special-collections/collections/sc-cole.asp]

3) The University Library catalogue reveals that the Library also holds some "Letters between George Allen & Unwin Ltd and Mills & Boon Ltd, publishers of Great Britain" from 1961 and another folder of "Letters to and from Mills & Boon Ltd", presumably also between M&B and Allen & Unwin Ltd, dating from 1967. [http://vlsirsi.rdg.ac.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/kykaNeynn1/MAIN-LIB/124570045/60/502/X]

4) 46 boxes of the papers of [[Elinor Glyn]] are also held here. The "collection chiefly covers the period 1920-1939, with some earlier material. It contains typescript and manuscript copies of novels (whole and in part), short stories, film scenarios and articles. There are accounts, legal documents, memoranda, correspondence and other papers from Elinor Glyn's various enterprises including Elinor Glyn Ltd, Talkicolor Ltd, Talking & Sound Films Ltd, Morgana Syndicate Ltd and the Elinor Glyn Trustees. There are also papers relating to individual films, including ''The Price of Things'', ''Knowing Men'', ''Six Days'', ''Love's Blindness'' and ''His Hour''. [http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/03070801.html]

;University of Rochester. : The University of Rochester has an extensive collection of Silhouette romances and Silhouette desires (which are listed [http://catalog.lib.rochester.edu/vwebv/search?searchArg=Love%20stories--Periodicals.&searchCode=SUBJ&searchType=3 in the library catalogue] as "love stories--periodicals").

;St. Cloud State University. : Included in the [http://lrts.stcloudstate.edu/library/special/archives/authors/default.asp Minnesota Authors Manuscripts Collection] are the papers of [[LaVyrle Spencer]], including "manuscripts for ''Hummingbird''; ''The Hellion''; ''Twice Loved''; ''The Fulfillment''; ''The Endearment''; ''Years''; ''November of the Heart'' and others." [http://lrts.stcloudstate.edu/library/special/archives/authors/LavyrleSpencer.asp]

;Syracuse University. : Syracuse University Library houses the [http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/s/StreetAndSmith/ Street and Smith Publishers' Archive and Dime Novel Cover Art]. According to Dr. Kirsten MacLeod, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, "S and S published romance pulps [...] Of course they also issued dime novels. That "dime novels" also included romance fiction is a fact often overlooked. Bertha M Clay, E.D.E.N Southworth, etc."

;University of Tulsa. : The McFarlin Library holds a collection of "251 letters from [Georgette] Heyer to her literary agent L. P. Moore and his assistant Norah Perriam, at Christy & Moore, Ltd, concerning the publication of her books. Most of the letters are lengthy with some running to six or eight closely written pages."[http://www.lib.utulsa.edu/speccoll/collections/heyergr/index.htm]

;UK and Irish Legal Deposit Libraries. : These libraries are entitled to "one copy of every publication distributed in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland" ([http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/legaldep/ British Library website]). This does not mean that each of them holds a copy of every one of these books, but it does mean that they have extensive holdings of romances published in the UK, such as Mills & Boon's. The Legal Deposit Libraries are: [http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/bodley Bodleian Library], Oxford; [http://www.bl.uk/ British Library], London; [http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/ University Library, Cambridge]; [http://www.nls.uk/ National Library of Scotland], Edinburgh; [http://www.tcd.ie/Library/ Library of Trinity College], Dublin; [http://www.llgc.org.uk National Library of Wales], Aberystwyth [[http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=4721 which holds the papers of [[Berta Ruck]]].] Their catalogues may be searched either directly via their websites or via [http://copac.ac.uk/ COPAC]: "The Copac® library catalogue gives free access to the merged online catalogues of many major University, Specialist, and National Libraries in the UK and Ireland."

;US Library of Congress, Washington D.C. : Although the library does not "have a copy of every book published in the United States" [http://www.loc.gov/about/faqs.html#every_book] it does contain many romances published in the US. It has [http://catalog.loc.gov/ an online catalog].

;University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. : The UWM's "collection of [over 425] nurse romance novels was donated to Special Collections in 2005 by artist, photographer, and former UWM Art Professor Leslie Bellavance." [http://www.uwm.edu/Library/special/nurse_romance/nurse_romance1.htm] There is an [http://www.uwm.edu/Library/special/nurse_romance/archive_romance.htm online archive of Nurse Romance Covers].

==Bibliographies==

[[Chick Lit Academic Bibliography]]

[["Rom-Coms" Academic Bibliography]]

==General Online Resources==

[http://www.aromancereview.com A Romance Review] has many short [http://www.aromancereview.com/news/wmview.php?ArtCat=5 articles] on various aspects of the genre.

[http://www.likesbooks.com All About Romance] has a short series of items on [http://www.likesbooks.com/romancefamilytree.html The Romance Family Tree]. There are entries on the Bodice-Ripper, the Gothic, the Historical Novel, Inspirationals, Paranormals, Austen and Heyer.

[http://chnm.gmu.edu/dimenovels/ American Women's Dime Novel Project] which 'grew out of my [Felicia L. Carr's] research for my dissertation entitled "All For Love: Gender and Class and the Woman's Dime Novel in Nineteenth-Century America" '.

[http://www.apfa.esrc.unimelb.edu.au/biogs/E000003b.htm Colonial Australian Romance Fiction] from the Colonial Australian Popular Fiction digital archive at the University of Melbourne. Ken Gelder's article on "Negotiating the Colonial Australian Popular Fiction Archive" is available [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/article/viewFile/1864/2626 here], from the ''Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature'' [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/issue/view/Special%20Issue%3A%20Archive%20Madness/showToc 11.1] (2011) and [https://www.academia.edu/7041458/negotiating_the_colonial_Australian_popular_fiction_archive here].

[http://karenhellekson.com/?page_id=42 Fan Fiction and Fan Communities Bibliography] from Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse. ''Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays'' (2006).

[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts] Compiled by D.L. Ashliman at the University of Pittsburgh, this resource includes numerous versions of many different folk and fairy tales, including Beauty and the Beast, Bluebeard, Cinderella, St George and the Dragon, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White.

[http://www.umich.edu/~genreevo/ Genre Evolution Project] This is not about romance at the moment, but its methodology may be of interest:

''We study literature as a living thing, able to adapt to society’s desires and able to influence those desires. Currently, we are tracking the evolution of pulp science fiction short stories published between 1926 and 1999. Just as a biologist might ask the question, “How does a preference for mating with red-eyed males effect eye color distribution in seven generations of fruit flies?” the GEP might ask, “How does the increasing representation of women as authors of science fiction affect the treatment of medicine in the 1960s and beyond?”''

''More generally, the Genre Evolution Project seeks to determine what benefits may derive from treating culture and cultural production and consumption as a complex adaptive system. We view culture and its elements as one would the biosphere, that is, as a system in which organisms succeed or fail according to their fitness to their environment and, by their existence and success, modify their environment.''

[http://www.jenw.org/home.htm Library Career Romances] - excerpts from a number of romances from the 1940s and 1950s featuring heroines who are librarians. [This website is no longer online, but a cached version can be found at the [http://web.archive.org/web/20070705172820/www.jenw.org/home.htm Internet Archive]. Wendy the Superlibrarian has compiled a list of [http://wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspot.com/p/librarians-in-romance-novels.html more recent romances featuring librarians] and some romances are listed [http://www.romancewiki.com/Category:Librarian at the Romance Wiki] itself.]

Librarians, writing in ''Reference & User Services Quarterly'', the official journal of the Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association, suggest five romances in each of five romance subgenres (contemporary, historical, Regency, suspense, and paranormal) to form the core of a library collection, and give a short description of each of these subgenres. [http://rusq.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/47n2/PDFs/alert_collect.pdf]

Marriage, and the history of marriage, are topics which are, for obvious reasons, related to the study of romances. Among the many works which may be of interest in this area is

;Coontz, Stephanie. 2005. : ''Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage'' (New York: Penguin). [http://www.stephaniecoontz.com/books/marriage/chapter1.htm Chapter 1]

[http://www.uwm.edu/Library/special/nurse_romance/nurse_romance1.htm Nurse Romance Cover of the Week]. This collection "presents images and snippets of text from the more than 425 novels held in the UWM [University of Wisconsin Milwaukee] Libraries’ Special Collections that have nurses as central characters. These images, from works written for both young and adult audiences from the 1950s to the 1970s, often reflect stereotypes about nurses, usually negative, that are held in the popular imagination. These works raise issues concerning the image of nurses and the nursing profession in popular culture, and the books that serve to reinforce not only popular misconceptions of nurses, but of women generally, and professional women in particular. They also raise more general questions of gender construction in Western society, reader expectations, and societal/historical contexts that allow for such presentations to persist to this day."

[http://www.colby.edu/personal/l/leosborn/POPSHAK/ Romancing the Bard] by Laurie E. Osborne. Osborne has written a number of academic articles on Shakespeare and popular romance. There is some overlap between the information contained in them and the information which appears on this website, but obviously they are not identical, nor is the format. The site explores the uses of Shakespeare and Shakespearean references in popular romance novels: "Shakespeare and Shakespearean references appear frequently in that most vilified form of popular culture, the romance novel."

[http://www.tiedtothetracks.com/storytelling/ [[Sara Donati]]'s] ([[Rosina Lippi]]) analysis of a number of sex scenes, some from romance, others from outside the genre. She says that: 'Each scene was chosen because it illustrates something instructive, positive or negative. I have tried to construct a list which contains a range in matters of expliciteness, tone and approach. [...] The idea is [to] look at the choices the author made, the underlying mechanics and process, what works, what doesn't. By the time I'm done I hope to be able to articulate clearly some basic guidelines for effective sex scenes of different types. The [http://rosinalippi.com/weblog/?p=407 introduction] [http://web.archive.org/web/20080214203627/http://rosinalippi.com/weblog/?p=407 now archived here] and the scene analyses [http://rosinalippi.com/weblog/?p=408 - 1. Jennifer Crusie][http://web.archive.org/web/20071020202745/http://rosinalippi.com/weblog/?p=408 now archived here], [http://rosinalippi.com/weblog/?p=410 3. - Judith Ivory] [http://web.archive.org/web/20071020202810/http://rosinalippi.com/weblog/?p=410 now archived here], [http://rosinalippi.com/weblog/?p=418 8. - more Jennifer Crusie] were all posted in August 2004.

[http://sequentialcrush.blogspot.com/ Sequential Crush] "a blog devoted to preserving the memory of romance comic books and the creative teams that published them throughout the 1960s and 1970s."

[http://sheikhs-and-desert-love.com/ Sheikhs and Desert Love] has a database of sheik romances and some very snarky analysis of the sub-genre in the features section.

[http://www.slayage.tv/ Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies] Although Buffy isn't a romance and isn't a novel, it is part of popular culture and, given the increase in popularity in vampire/paranormal romances, as well as the rise of the 'kick-ass heroine', this journal may be of interest. In the first issue, for example, there is an [http://www.slayage.tv/essays/slayage1/hleon.htm article] comparing Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

[http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/cinder/cinintr.htm The Cinderella Bibliography] Compiled by Russell Peck. This bibliography lists fiction, music, drama, movies, television programmes and criticism related to the Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast stories. This includes a number of modern romance retellings of these fairytales. Other lists on fairytales, but this time strictly limited to romances, are AAR's [http://www.likesbooks.com/fairytale.html Fairy Tale Romances] page and [http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/bookstore/romancenovels.html SurLaLune's Fairy Tale Romances] page.

[http://www.jennymiller.com/romancecomics/index.html The Golden Age Romance Comics Archive] 'A resource for scholars and fans interested in golden era romance comics, containing full scans of issues'.

[http://www.ausreprints.com/content/main/?group=147 Australian DC Comics Reprint Gallery - Romance comics]: publishing information and digitised cover art.

[http://bronwynclarke.com/blog/ The Romance Genre on the Web: Researching online romance genre communities and their perspectives]

[http://sites.duke.edu/unsuitable/ Unsuitable. A blog written by 'the students and instructors of “The Romance Novel” course (History 248S) at Duke University, Spring semester 2015'.]

[http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/corelli/index.html Victorian Web]'s index of material concerning [[Marie Corelli]], 1855-1924.

[http://yaoiresearch.com/ Yaoi Research: Yaoi, Boys' Love, Slash, M/M, and Gay Romance and Erotica]

Romance Resources for Academics

2019-08-01T18:17:09Z

Laura V:

[[category:Romance Resources]][[Category:Romance Scholarship]]
From this page you may return to the main [[Romance Scholarship]] page or go directly to

* [[:Category:Academics Who Write Romance|Academics Who Write Romance]]
* [[Academic Online Essays (not published in academic journals or volumes)]]
* [[Autobiographies and Biographies of Romance Authors]]
* '''Bibliography'''
** [[Bibliography A-C]] - the first part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
** [[Bibliography D-G]] - the second part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
** [[Bibliography H-L]] - the third part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
** [[Bibliography M-O]] - the fourth part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
** [[Bibliography P-S]] - the fifth part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
** [[Bibliography T-Z]] - the final part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
* [[Scholarship in Languages Other than English|Bibliography of Scholarship in Languages Other than English]].
* [[Dissertation Abstracts]]
* [[Guides to the Genre]]
* '''Romance in the Media''' - lists news items/features items about romance.
** [[Romance in the Media A-I]]
** [[Romance in the Media J-Z]]
* [[Writers on Romance]] - lists items written about the genre by romance authors but not published in academic journals or books.

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==Summary==

This page contains details of academic romance resources, general online resources which may be of interest to academics studying romance, and academic libraries which have romance collections.

==Academic Associations, Publications etc.==

[http://iaspr.org/ International Association for the Study of Popular Romance] (IASPR): "The International Association for the Study of Popular Romance is dedicated to fostering and promoting the scholarly exploration of all popular representations of romantic love. IASPR is committed to building a strong community of scholars of popular romance through open, digital access to all scholarly work published by the Association, by organizing or sponsoring an annual international conference on popular romance studies, and by encouraging the teaching of popular romance at all levels of higher education."

"The [http://iaspr.org/journal/ Journal of Popular Romance Studies] (JPRS) is a peer-reviewed on-line journal presenting scholarship on representations of romantic love in popular media, now and in the past, from anywhere in the world. We welcome theoretical and empirical contributions from all relevant disciplines, including Art, Communications, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Education, English, Film Studies, History, LGBTQ Studies, Marketing, Philosophy, Psychology, Religious Studies, Sociology, Women’s and Gender Studies, as well as interdisciplinary approaches."

The Popular Romance Project is no longer online but it [https://web.archive.org/web/20171001104511/http://popularromanceproject.org/ was archived at the Internet Archive]. It includes articles written by academics about a variety of topics related to popular romance. The Project was linked to a documentary, ''Love Between the Covers'', by Laurie Kahn and a conference at the Library of Congress. Details of video excerpts of both of those can be found [http://teachmetonight.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/new-pages-and-videos-on-love-and.html here].

[http://condor.depaul.edu/~english/pedagogy/romance/index.html Resources for Teaching Popular Romance Fiction]

[http://mailman.depaul.edu/mailman/listinfo/romancescholar RomanceScholar] - A listserv dedicated to academic discussion about romance fiction.

[http://www.zittaw.com/studiesingothicfiction.htm Studies in Gothic Fiction]

[http://teachmetonight.blogspot.com/ Teach Me Tonight] - a blog containing 'Musings on Romance Fiction from an Academic Perspective'.

==Academic Libraries with Romance Collections==

;National Library of Australia. : The National Library of Australia (NLA) has extensive collections of romance novels published and distributed in Australia, principally received under the legal deposit provisions (s201) of the Copyright Act, 1968." [http://www.nla.gov.au/collect/acquisitions.html]. Individual catalogue records for pre-1990 romance novels published by Mills & Boon (over 12,000 titles), Harlequin (over 6000 titles) and Silhouette (over 500 titles) can be located via the [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/ NLA catalogue]. From January 1990 NLA ceased to catalogue romance novels individually, except for Australian romance authors; however, collective records for post-1990 titles can be located at the following locations: [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1390551 Mills & Boon], [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1741526 Silhouette], and [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1768798 Harlequin]. In addition to English language holdings, the NLA holds collections of foreign language romance novels by Australian authors [[Emma Darcy]][http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2340549] (the Australian husband-wife writing team of Wendy Brennan and Frank Brennan), [[Miranda Lee]][http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2209425] and [[Valerie Parv]][http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3031533]. The NLA also holds a small, but notable collection of romance comics which can be searched via subject headings [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=subject:%22Romance%20comic%20books,%20strips,%20etc.%20-%20Australia%20-%20Periodicals.%22&iknowwhatimean=1 ‘Romance comic books, strips, etc. - Australia – Periodicals’] and [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=subject:%22Romance%20comic%20books,%20strips,%20etc.%20-%20United%20States.%22&iknowwhatimean=1 ‘Romance comic books, strips, etc. - United States’]. Original materials held include the [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3645449 personal papers] and [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2163428 oral history recording] of Australian romance writer Lee Pattinson, and [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn618223 personal papers] of G. C. (Gordon Clive) Bleeck.

;Bowling Green State University. : "The Browne Popular Culture Library holds a wide range of romance materials from novels to valentines. The collection includes more than 10,000 volumes of category romance series from publishers such as Harlequin, Silhouette, Loveswept, Candlelight, Ecstasy, and others. The holdings also include a sizable collection of mass market novels, including Georgian, regency, gothic, contemporary, and historicals. [...] In addition, the Library has manuscript collections containing correspondence, fan mail, literary manuscripts, and galley sheets from many prominent romance writers, includings Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Cathie Linz, and April Kihlstrom." [http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page39129.html Broken link] The Browne Library also holds "RWA’s organizational archives documenting its founding 15 years ago and following its growth into the world’s largest non-profit genre organization, specializing in romance fiction." [http://blogs.bgsu.edu/pclnews/?p=12 Broken link]. A description of the RWA archive and suggestions for possible research projects to which it could be helpful [http://jprstudies.org/2018/05/romance-fiction-in-the-archivesby-kecia-ali/ can be found here]. "In December 2017, we received the Frank Kalan Romance Cover Art Collection, more than 100 original oil paintings that Mr. Kalan produced for Harlequin covers. In addition to the artwork, this collection includes paperwork related to each, reference photographs, and cover mockups. For many of these artworks we have also collected the published novel to give researchers a unique opportunity to explore the production process." [https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl/romance.html]

;Brown University. : Brown University's "collections of genre fiction were augmented by a group of romance novels, including translations into many European languages, the work and gift of Barbara Keiler, class of 1976, and Patricia Coughlin" [http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/University_Library/exhibits/leaves/modern.html#pop.html]. The collection of "Romance Novels by Brown & Rhode Island Authors" also includes "the working papers of their authors." [http://128.148.7.229:591/romance/about.html]

;University of Calgary. : The library has a special collection of early Harlequin novels (not all of which are romances) dating from 1949-1962.[http://www.ucalgary.ca/lib-old/SpecColl/harlequin.htm] The library also holds "research material relating to [Paul Grescoe's] book ''The Merchants of Venus: Inside Harlequin and the Empire of Romance'' including Harlequin promotional material, photographs, interviews with various Harlequin executives and writers, articles on romance by other authors, notes and material relating to 1995 Romantic Times convention and issues of Pandora's Box, the newsletter of the Published Authors Network of Romance Writers of America (Acc 705/01.11)."[http://specialcollections.ucalgary.ca/manuscript-collections/literary-and-art-archives-canadian/-paul-grescoe-fonds]

;Library and Archives Canada. : "The general power given to the institution to 'acquire publications and records or obtain the care, custody or control of them' is supported by more specific powers relating to sampling the Internet, the legal (that is, required by law) deposit of publications." [http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/collection/003-330-e.html] Their holdings therefore contain many Harlequin romances published in Canada. LAC's collections can be searched [http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/amicus/index-e.html online via AMICUS] and its "services to the public are provided in its main building located in downtown Ottawa."[http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/visit-us/index-e.html]

;Duke University. : The library holds "Letters from [Georgette] [[Georgette Heyer|Heyer]] to publishers and agents regarding royalties, contracts, and dramatizations of her works of historical fiction. Includes information concerning her lawsuit againt [[Barbara Cartland]]." [http://library.duke.edu/catalog/search/recordid/DUKE001024988] The letters date from 1950-1952.

;George Mason University. : Mason is building a collection of Popular Romance Novels for circulation, not as a special collection. We [...] want the collection to be used by Mason students & faculty as well as researchers at other universities. When items are in a "special collection" those items do not circulate and researchers have to visit the library/collection to use the materials. By putting romance novels in the circulating collection they are accessible via InterLibrary Loan so researchers can use the materials without traveling. [More details from Sarah Sheehan [http://popularromanceproject.org/behind-scenes/7228/ via the Popular Romance Project] and the [http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/creating-a-popular-romance-collection-in-an-academic-libraryby-sarah-e-sheehan-and-jen-stevens/ ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies''].]

;Harvard University (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study). : "The [http://www.radcliffe.edu/schlesinger_library.aspx Schlesinger Library] at the [http://www.radcliffe.edu/about_the_institute.aspx Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study] has a small but growing collection of romance novels. We are currently collecting them as part of an effort to document popular culture. Many of these are the pre-North American re-pubs of Mills & Boon romances. We recently acquired a collection of nurse romances. Of more recent vintage are the NASCAR romances and the Harlequin manga translations of Japanese manga based on Harlequin novels translated into Japanese. These are all searchable in [http://discovery.lib.harvard.edu/ HOLLIS], our on-line catalog, which allows for faceted searching, and [http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/T7YFMLGAVVP4A6XDV5Q7PLXPLUGARKHFIKDIRXLH41KVQDU4SD-17371?RN=688943711 HOLLIS Classic], which allows for indexed searching as well as keyword. We are actively looking to acquire more material, current and older, especially the lines for girls/teens."

;University of Iowa. : The university library holds "The papers of LeAnn Lemberger [which] date from 1982 to the present with additions being made each year. They are organized by publication date, with an alphabetical index. The vast majority of the collection consists of manuscript drafts of her various romance novels." Lemberger "writes using the name [[Leigh Michaels]], a combination of her own name and that of her husband Michael Lemberger. She now publishes an average of four new romances each year, making Leigh Michaels Harlequin's most-published American author." [http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/MSC/ToMsC650/MsC647/lembergerleann.htm] The library also houses material donated by romance author [[Dorothy Garlock]] and the collection "contains unpublished material by Garlock, as well as foreign editions of her works." [http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/MSC/ToMsC650/MsC607/MsC607_garlockdorothy.htm]

;University of Liverpool. : The library has a David and Betty Beaty Archive, which holds, among other things, "correspondence between David and Betty Beaty and several publishers, friends, and others, mainly concerning their respective publications, dated between 1939 and 1998" and "7 boxes containing full or partial autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of Betty Beaty's books, as follows: 'The colours of the night', 'The trysting tower', 'Fatal union', 'Love and the Kentish maid', 'Wheel fortune', 'The path of the moonfish', 'The shadow of the peak', 'The Atlantic sky', and 'Flight into love'". [https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/8441]

;Loyola University. : The Monroe library holds a "collection from Lorena Dureau, opera singer, romance novelist, psychic, & doll designer"[https://twitter.com/MonroeLibLoyno/status/915578651147632640].[More details about Lorena Dureau can be found [http://library.loyno.edu/blog/?p=6329 here].]

;McDaniel College. : "The Nora Roberts American Romance Collection, established in 2011 and housed in Hoover Library at McDaniel College [...] contains the complete works of Nora Roberts / J. D. Robb, RITA Award winning titles of American Romance, and selected works of other American Romance authors recommended by expert and scholar Dr. Pamela Regis". [https://lib.hoover.mcdaniel.edu/arc]

;University of Melbourne. : "The Romance Fiction Collection is a comprehensive collection of paper-back fiction by Australian and New Zealand - as well as British and American - romance novelists published from the 1960s up until the present by publishers such as Mills and Boon, Silhouette and the Women’s Weekly Library." [http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/special/collections/australiana/romance.html]

;Michigan State University. : The Romance Fiction collection has at "its core [...] a group of several thousand Harlequin Romances, [but] other popular romance novelists such as Barbara Cartland are also included." [http://specialcollections.lib.msu.edu/html/materials/collections/nyepop_coll.jsp]

;New York University. : The Harlequin Romance Collection of Treva M. Taylor 1967-1996 (Bulk 1974-1996) is held in Fales Library and Special Collections, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library and "The Harlequin Romance Collection of Treva M. Taylor contains 1671 paperbacks spanning three decades of the twentieth century (1970s-1990s). The two publishers represented in the collection are Harlequin and Silhouette." [http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/fales/harlequin.html]

;University of Otago. : "The University of Otago Library’s rare book collection in [http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/SpecialCollections/index.html Special Collections]" includes "numerous samples of Australian Pulp Fiction Literature."[http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/exhibitions/delights2.html] According to Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections Librarian at the University of Otago, it is "a pulp fiction collection of some 900 titles, mainly published in Australia by Sydney based publishers as a result of a publishing embargo on the US based ‘pulps’ before and during the Second World War. The collection complements our more traditional rare books and features detective, westerns, science fiction and romance novels. Representative authors in this field of popular culture include ‘Larry Kent’, Marc Brody, and Carter Brown. The collection was purchased from a collector in Australia in 2005. All are catalogued, and the covers have been digitised for easy access by students, especially those in art history, design and English. It gets added to." Details of the titles in the pulp fiction collection can be found in the [http://otago.lconz.ac.nz/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=hbSearch main catalogue] and as a group they will come up in response to a subject search on the words "pulp literature". Dr Kerr adds that, "In addition, there is an uncatalogued Mills and Boon Collection in the University’s storage facilities; some hundreds of titles."

;University of Queensland, Fryer Library. : The Juliet Flesch Collection of Australian Romance Fiction at the [http://www.library.uq.edu.au/fryer/ University of Queensland’s Fryer Library] consists of approximately 1,500 Australian popular romance novels acquired by [http://www.history.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/fellows/flesch.html Dr. Juliet Flesch] (currently a Fellow at the School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne) in the course of her research for her PhD and her subsequent publication ''From Australia With Love: a History of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels'' (Fremantle, W.A.: Curtin University Books, 2004). The material is principally 20th century, with an end date of 2005. There are numerous variant editions, including some works not represented in the National Library of Australia, and a small collection of books by English and North American authors with Australian settings or heroes/heroines. All of the titles have been individually catalogued in [http://library.uq.edu.au/screens/opacmenu.html the library’s online catalogue] and the entire collection can be viewed by searching [http://library.uq.edu.au/search~S7/?searchtype=t&searcharg=Australian+Romance+Fiction+Collection&searchscope=7&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=t{212040}Australian+Romance+Fiction+Collection{7f201d} Australian Romance Fiction Collection] as a title. The collection has been entered in [http://www.austlit.edu.au/ AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource] by AustLit staff based at UQ, further enhancing AustLit’s genre fiction coverage.

;University of Reading. : 1) "The Harlequin Mills & Boon Archive consists of the editorial correspondence of both John Boon and Alan Boon, script registers, publicity material and some administrative records. It covers the period 1910-2008 (with the bulk of the records covering 1924-1975)" and "The Special Collections Service also acquired a large proportion of the back catalogue of Mills & Boon books" [http://www.reading.ac.uk/special-collections/collections/sc-mills-and-boon.aspx]

2) the Cole Library, a "collection [which] was originally the private library of Professor F J Cole (1872-1959), F.R.S., Professor of Zoology in the University of Reading from 1907 to 1939. [...] The collection [...] includes 15 books by [[Sophie Cole]] (1862-1947), the sister of Professor Cole. As an adolescent, Miss Cole suffered from a long illness, and to pass the time she wrote a romance novel, ''Arrows From the Dark'' in 1909, the first book to be published by Mills and Boon, who later became major publishers of romance novels. The book was well-received, and by 1914, 1,394 women had bought a copy. During her lifetime she wrote 65 books, and earned her living from them for many years.[...] She lived in Brighton, but in her later years came to live with Professor Cole and his wife at Eldon Road in Reading. A number of the books are presentation copies from Miss Cole."[http://www.rdg.ac.uk/special-collections/collections/sc-cole.asp]

3) The University Library catalogue reveals that the Library also holds some "Letters between George Allen & Unwin Ltd and Mills & Boon Ltd, publishers of Great Britain" from 1961 and another folder of "Letters to and from Mills & Boon Ltd", presumably also between M&B and Allen & Unwin Ltd, dating from 1967. [http://vlsirsi.rdg.ac.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/kykaNeynn1/MAIN-LIB/124570045/60/502/X]

4) 46 boxes of the papers of [[Elinor Glyn]] are also held here. The "collection chiefly covers the period 1920-1939, with some earlier material. It contains typescript and manuscript copies of novels (whole and in part), short stories, film scenarios and articles. There are accounts, legal documents, memoranda, correspondence and other papers from Elinor Glyn's various enterprises including Elinor Glyn Ltd, Talkicolor Ltd, Talking & Sound Films Ltd, Morgana Syndicate Ltd and the Elinor Glyn Trustees. There are also papers relating to individual films, including ''The Price of Things'', ''Knowing Men'', ''Six Days'', ''Love's Blindness'' and ''His Hour''. [http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/03070801.html]

;University of Rochester. : The University of Rochester has an extensive collection of Silhouette romances and Silhouette desires (which are listed [http://catalog.lib.rochester.edu/vwebv/search?searchArg=Love%20stories--Periodicals.&searchCode=SUBJ&searchType=3 in the library catalogue] as "love stories--periodicals").

;St. Cloud State University. : Included in the [http://lrts.stcloudstate.edu/library/special/archives/authors/default.asp Minnesota Authors Manuscripts Collection] are the papers of [[LaVyrle Spencer]], including "manuscripts for ''Hummingbird''; ''The Hellion''; ''Twice Loved''; ''The Fulfillment''; ''The Endearment''; ''Years''; ''November of the Heart'' and others." [http://lrts.stcloudstate.edu/library/special/archives/authors/LavyrleSpencer.asp]

;Syracuse University. : Syracuse University Library houses the [http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/s/StreetAndSmith/ Street and Smith Publishers' Archive and Dime Novel Cover Art]. According to Dr. Kirsten MacLeod, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, "S and S published romance pulps [...] Of course they also issued dime novels. That "dime novels" also included romance fiction is a fact often overlooked. Bertha M Clay, E.D.E.N Southworth, etc."

;University of Tulsa. : The McFarlin Library holds a collection of "251 letters from [Georgette] Heyer to her literary agent L. P. Moore and his assistant Norah Perriam, at Christy & Moore, Ltd, concerning the publication of her books. Most of the letters are lengthy with some running to six or eight closely written pages."[http://www.lib.utulsa.edu/speccoll/collections/heyergr/index.htm]

;UK and Irish Legal Deposit Libraries. : These libraries are entitled to "one copy of every publication distributed in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland" ([http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/legaldep/ British Library website]). This does not mean that each of them holds a copy of every one of these books, but it does mean that they have extensive holdings of romances published in the UK, such as Mills & Boon's. The Legal Deposit Libraries are: [http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/bodley Bodleian Library], Oxford; [http://www.bl.uk/ British Library], London; [http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/ University Library, Cambridge]; [http://www.nls.uk/ National Library of Scotland], Edinburgh; [http://www.tcd.ie/Library/ Library of Trinity College], Dublin; [http://www.llgc.org.uk National Library of Wales], Aberystwyth [[http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=4721 which holds the papers of [[Berta Ruck]]].] Their catalogues may be searched either directly via their websites or via [http://copac.ac.uk/ COPAC]: "The Copac® library catalogue gives free access to the merged online catalogues of many major University, Specialist, and National Libraries in the UK and Ireland."

;US Library of Congress, Washington D.C. : Although the library does not "have a copy of every book published in the United States" [http://www.loc.gov/about/faqs.html#every_book] it does contain many romances published in the US. It has [http://catalog.loc.gov/ an online catalog].

;University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. : The UWM's "collection of [over 425] nurse romance novels was donated to Special Collections in 2005 by artist, photographer, and former UWM Art Professor Leslie Bellavance." [http://www.uwm.edu/Library/special/nurse_romance/nurse_romance1.htm] There is an [http://www.uwm.edu/Library/special/nurse_romance/archive_romance.htm online archive of Nurse Romance Covers].

==Bibliographies==

[[Chick Lit Academic Bibliography]]

[["Rom-Coms" Academic Bibliography]]

==General Online Resources==

[http://www.aromancereview.com A Romance Review] has many short [http://www.aromancereview.com/news/wmview.php?ArtCat=5 articles] on various aspects of the genre.

[http://www.likesbooks.com All About Romance] has a short series of items on [http://www.likesbooks.com/romancefamilytree.html The Romance Family Tree]. There are entries on the Bodice-Ripper, the Gothic, the Historical Novel, Inspirationals, Paranormals, Austen and Heyer.

[http://chnm.gmu.edu/dimenovels/ American Women's Dime Novel Project] which 'grew out of my [Felicia L. Carr's] research for my dissertation entitled "All For Love: Gender and Class and the Woman's Dime Novel in Nineteenth-Century America" '.

[http://www.apfa.esrc.unimelb.edu.au/biogs/E000003b.htm Colonial Australian Romance Fiction] from the Colonial Australian Popular Fiction digital archive at the University of Melbourne. Ken Gelder's article on "Negotiating the Colonial Australian Popular Fiction Archive" is available [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/article/viewFile/1864/2626 here], from the ''Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature'' [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/issue/view/Special%20Issue%3A%20Archive%20Madness/showToc 11.1] (2011) and [https://www.academia.edu/7041458/negotiating_the_colonial_Australian_popular_fiction_archive here].

[http://karenhellekson.com/?page_id=42 Fan Fiction and Fan Communities Bibliography] from Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse. ''Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays'' (2006).

[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts] Compiled by D.L. Ashliman at the University of Pittsburgh, this resource includes numerous versions of many different folk and fairy tales, including Beauty and the Beast, Bluebeard, Cinderella, St George and the Dragon, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White.

[http://www.umich.edu/~genreevo/ Genre Evolution Project] This is not about romance at the moment, but its methodology may be of interest:

''We study literature as a living thing, able to adapt to society’s desires and able to influence those desires. Currently, we are tracking the evolution of pulp science fiction short stories published between 1926 and 1999. Just as a biologist might ask the question, “How does a preference for mating with red-eyed males effect eye color distribution in seven generations of fruit flies?” the GEP might ask, “How does the increasing representation of women as authors of science fiction affect the treatment of medicine in the 1960s and beyond?”''

''More generally, the Genre Evolution Project seeks to determine what benefits may derive from treating culture and cultural production and consumption as a complex adaptive system. We view culture and its elements as one would the biosphere, that is, as a system in which organisms succeed or fail according to their fitness to their environment and, by their existence and success, modify their environment.''

[http://www.jenw.org/home.htm Library Career Romances] - excerpts from a number of romances from the 1940s and 1950s featuring heroines who are librarians. [This website is no longer online, but a cached version can be found at the [http://web.archive.org/web/20070705172820/www.jenw.org/home.htm Internet Archive]. Wendy the Superlibrarian has compiled a list of [http://wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspot.com/p/librarians-in-romance-novels.html more recent romances featuring librarians] and some romances are listed [http://www.romancewiki.com/Category:Librarian at the Romance Wiki] itself.]

Librarians, writing in ''Reference & User Services Quarterly'', the official journal of the Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association, suggest five romances in each of five romance subgenres (contemporary, historical, Regency, suspense, and paranormal) to form the core of a library collection, and give a short description of each of these subgenres. [http://rusq.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/47n2/PDFs/alert_collect.pdf]

Marriage, and the history of marriage, are topics which are, for obvious reasons, related to the study of romances. Among the many works which may be of interest in this area is

;Coontz, Stephanie. 2005. : ''Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage'' (New York: Penguin). [http://www.stephaniecoontz.com/books/marriage/chapter1.htm Chapter 1]

[http://www.uwm.edu/Library/special/nurse_romance/nurse_romance1.htm Nurse Romance Cover of the Week]. This collection "presents images and snippets of text from the more than 425 novels held in the UWM [University of Wisconsin Milwaukee] Libraries’ Special Collections that have nurses as central characters. These images, from works written for both young and adult audiences from the 1950s to the 1970s, often reflect stereotypes about nurses, usually negative, that are held in the popular imagination. These works raise issues concerning the image of nurses and the nursing profession in popular culture, and the books that serve to reinforce not only popular misconceptions of nurses, but of women generally, and professional women in particular. They also raise more general questions of gender construction in Western society, reader expectations, and societal/historical contexts that allow for such presentations to persist to this day."

[http://www.colby.edu/personal/l/leosborn/POPSHAK/ Romancing the Bard] by Laurie E. Osborne. Osborne has written a number of academic articles on Shakespeare and popular romance. There is some overlap between the information contained in them and the information which appears on this website, but obviously they are not identical, nor is the format. The site explores the uses of Shakespeare and Shakespearean references in popular romance novels: "Shakespeare and Shakespearean references appear frequently in that most vilified form of popular culture, the romance novel."

[http://www.tiedtothetracks.com/storytelling/ [[Sara Donati]]'s] ([[Rosina Lippi]]) analysis of a number of sex scenes, some from romance, others from outside the genre. She says that: 'Each scene was chosen because it illustrates something instructive, positive or negative. I have tried to construct a list which contains a range in matters of expliciteness, tone and approach. [...] The idea is [to] look at the choices the author made, the underlying mechanics and process, what works, what doesn't. By the time I'm done I hope to be able to articulate clearly some basic guidelines for effective sex scenes of different types. The [http://rosinalippi.com/weblog/?p=407 introduction] [http://web.archive.org/web/20080214203627/http://rosinalippi.com/weblog/?p=407 now archived here] and the scene analyses [http://rosinalippi.com/weblog/?p=408 - 1. Jennifer Crusie][http://web.archive.org/web/20071020202745/http://rosinalippi.com/weblog/?p=408 now archived here], [http://rosinalippi.com/weblog/?p=410 3. - Judith Ivory] [http://web.archive.org/web/20071020202810/http://rosinalippi.com/weblog/?p=410 now archived here], [http://rosinalippi.com/weblog/?p=418 8. - more Jennifer Crusie] were all posted in August 2004.

[http://sequentialcrush.blogspot.com/ Sequential Crush] "a blog devoted to preserving the memory of romance comic books and the creative teams that published them throughout the 1960s and 1970s."

[http://sheikhs-and-desert-love.com/ Sheikhs and Desert Love] has a database of sheik romances and some very snarky analysis of the sub-genre in the features section.

[http://www.slayage.tv/ Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies] Although Buffy isn't a romance and isn't a novel, it is part of popular culture and, given the increase in popularity in vampire/paranormal romances, as well as the rise of the 'kick-ass heroine', this journal may be of interest. In the first issue, for example, there is an [http://www.slayage.tv/essays/slayage1/hleon.htm article] comparing Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

[http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/cinder/cinintr.htm The Cinderella Bibliography] Compiled by Russell Peck. This bibliography lists fiction, music, drama, movies, television programmes and criticism related to the Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast stories. This includes a number of modern romance retellings of these fairytales. Other lists on fairytales, but this time strictly limited to romances, are AAR's [http://www.likesbooks.com/fairytale.html Fairy Tale Romances] page and [http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/bookstore/romancenovels.html SurLaLune's Fairy Tale Romances] page.

[http://www.jennymiller.com/romancecomics/index.html The Golden Age Romance Comics Archive] 'A resource for scholars and fans interested in golden era romance comics, containing full scans of issues'.

[http://www.ausreprints.com/content/main/?group=147 Australian DC Comics Reprint Gallery - Romance comics]: publishing information and digitised cover art.

[http://bronwynclarke.com/blog/ The Romance Genre on the Web: Researching online romance genre communities and their perspectives]

[http://sites.duke.edu/unsuitable/ Unsuitable. A blog written by 'the students and instructors of “The Romance Novel” course (History 248S) at Duke University, Spring semester 2015'.]

[http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/corelli/index.html Victorian Web]'s index of material concerning [[Marie Corelli]], 1855-1924.

[http://yaoiresearch.com/ Yaoi Research: Yaoi, Boys' Love, Slash, M/M, and Gay Romance and Erotica]

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* '''Bibliography'''
** [[Bibliography A-C]] - the first part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
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==P==
;Pagliassotti, Dru, 2010. : 'Better than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction', ''Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre'', Ed. Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry & Dru Pagliassotti (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 59-83. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9vn7hjM2v4QC&lpg=PA79&pg=PA59#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt.]

;Pagliassotti, Dru, 2013. : "Love and the Machine: Technology and Human Relationships in Steampunk Romance and Erotica," in ''Steaming Into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology'', ed. Julie Anne Taddeo and Cynthia J. Miller (Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow), pp. 65-87. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bYmIZNOHInoC&lpg=PA43&ots=EllchlFAGD&pg=PA65#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Paige, Lori A., 2018. : ''The Gothic Romance Wave: A Critical History of the Mass Market Novels, 1960-1993''. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2018. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-YBvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Paizis, George, 1987. : '"Putting People First" or the contemporary romantic novel, critical discourse and ideology', ''La Chouette'', no 18, March: 38-46. [''[http://www.bbk.ac.uk/llc/forstudents/fs_fr/fr_lc La Chouette]'' is published by the Department of French, School of Languages, Linguistics and Culture, Birkbeck College, University of London] **

;Paizis, George, 1987. : 'That's Romance', ''Socialist Review'', July: 24. **

;Paizis, George, 1994-95. : 'Love, Ideology and Reality: the popular romantic novel and the reader', ''Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies'', 3: 357-68. **

;Paizis, George, 1998. : 'Category Romances - Translation, Realism and Myth', ''The Translator'', 4: 1-24. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13556509.1998.10799004 Abstract]

;Paizis, George, 1998. : ''Love and the Novel: The Poetics and Politics of Romantic Fiction'' (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan). [http://www.powells.com/biblio?show=HARDCOVER:NEW:0312215479:104.50#synopses_and_reviews Some details]

;Paizis, George, 2006. : "Category Romance in the Era of Globalization: The Story of Harlequin." ''The Global Literary Field.'' (Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars)pp. 126-151.

;Palmer, Paulina, 1998. : ‘Girl Meets Girl: Changing Approaches to the Lesbian Romance,’ in ''Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film'', ed. Lynne Pearce & Gina Wisker (London: Pluto), pp. 189-204.

;Parameswaran Radhika, 1999. : 'Western Romance Fiction as English-Language Media in Postcolonial India', ''Journal of Communication'', 49.3: 84-105. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&se=gglsc&d=96458480 Abstract]

;Parameswaran, Radhika, 2002. : 'Reading Fictions of Romance: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in Postcolonial India', ''Journal of Communication'', 52.4: 832-851. [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2002.tb02576.x?journalCode=jcom Abstract]

;Parnell, Claire, 2018. : ‘Models of Publishing and Opportunities for Change: Representations in Harlequin, Montlake and Self-Published Romance Novels.’ ''Australian Literary Studies'' 33.4.[https://www.australianliterarystudies.com.au/articles/models-of-publishing-and-opportunities-for-change-representations-in-harlequin-montlake-and-self-published-romance-novels]

;Pattee, Amy S., 2011. : ''Reading the Adolescent Romance: Sweet Valley High and the Popular Young Adult Romance Novel'' (New York: Routledge). [http://books.google.com/books?id=FC_LKiA94xUC&printsec=frontcover&cd=1&source=gbs_ViewAPI#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [http://jprstudies.org/2011/12/review-reading-the-adolescent-romance-sweet-valley-high-and-the-popular-young-adult-romance-novel-by-amy-s-pattee/ Review]

;Patterson, Janet, 1981. : 'Consuming Passion', ''Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly'', 11: 19-33. Reprinted in ''Fireworks: The Best of Fireweed'', Ed. Makeda Silvera (Toronto: The Women’s Press, 1986), pp. 69-82.**

;Patthey Chavez, GG, and L. Clare, M. Youmans,1996. : 'Watery passion: The struggle between hegemony and sexual liberation in erotic fiction for women.' ''Discourse and Society.'' 7.1: 77-106.

;Peabody, Rebecca, 2016. : 'Kara Walker: American Romance in Black and White', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 131-150. [This article can also be found, in slightly expanded form, in chapter 3, "American Romance in Black and White," of Peabody's ''Consuming Stories: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race'' (Oakland, California: California UP, 2016), pages 84-109. An [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3LIlDQAAQBAJ&lpg=PR1&pg=PA84#v=onepage&q&f=false excerpt is available online].]

;Pearce, Lynne, 2004. : "Popular Romance and Its Readers." in ''A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary.'' ed. Corinne Saunders, (Malden, MA: Blackwell) pp. 521-538.

;Pearce, Lynne, 2007. : '' Romance Writing.'' (Cambridge: Polity Press). Historical treatment looking at romance broadly. Does touch on popular romance, but it is not the whole focus of the book. [http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/id/Romance_Writing/9780745630052 Abstract]

;Pearce, Lynne, 2011. : "Romance and Repetition: Testing the Limits of Love." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%e2%80%9cromance-and-repetition-testing-the-limits-of-love%e2%80%9d-by-lynne-pearce/]

;Peaty, Gwyneth, 2015. : "Rock Hard: Gargoyles in Contemporary Gothic Romance." ''New Directions in 21st Century Gothic: The Gothic Compass''. Ed. Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Donna Lee Brien. New York, NY: Routledge. 54-70. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=lang_en&id=uGahCAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA54&ots=liW5yulIi4&sig=X4X_-HQpus8StmIP28xi2w0qZSk#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Pecora, Norma, 1999. : "Identity by design : the corporate construction of teen romance novels, " in ''Growing Up Girls: Popular Culture and the Construction of Identity.'' Ed. Mazzarella, Sharon R., and Norma Odom Pecora (New York: P. Lang), pp 49-86. ** [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=34675586 Excerpt]

;Pérez Casal, Inmaculada, 2016. : “Love in Times of Crisis: An Approach to Contemporary Romance Novels in Spain.” ''Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research'' 4.2: 62-70.[https://www.ucm.es/data/cont/docs/119-2017-01-02-JACLR%204.2.6.pdf]

;Pérez Casal, Inmaculada, 2018. : “Mass-market romance and the question of genre: N. Sparks, E. L. James and D. Gabaldon.” ''Oceánide'' 10. [http://oceanide.netne.net/articulos/art10-6.pdf]

;Pérez Casal, Inmaculada, 2018. : "The Romance Novel as ''Bildungsroman'' in the Works of Rosamunde Pilcher and Lisa Kleypas". ''Taking Stock to Look Ahead: Celebrating Forty Years of English Studies in Spain''. Ed. María Ferrández San Miguel and Claus-Peter Neumann. Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2018. 139-144.[https://aedean.org/wp-content/uploads/Celebrating-Forty-Years-of-English-Studies-in-Spain.pdf#page=139]

;Pérez‐Gil, María del Mar, 2018. : "Exoticism, Ethnocentrism, and Englishness in Popular Romance Fiction: Constructing the European Other". ''Journal of Popular Culture''. Published online first 19 July 2018. [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jpcu.12710?af=R Excerpt] [Focuses on the Spanish "Other" in the English imagination.]

;Pérez-Gil, María del Mar, 2018. : "Representations of Nation and Spanish Masculinity in Popular Romance Novels: The Alpha Male as “Other”", ''The Journal of Men’s Studies''. Online First September 23, 2018. [https://doi.org/10.1177/1060826518801531 Abstract]

;Pettigrew Brackett, Kim, 2000. : “Facework Strategies among Romance Fiction Readers.” ''Social Science Journal'' 37.3: 347-360.

;Philadelphoff-Puren, Nina, 2005. : "Contextualising Consent: The Problem of Rape and Romance." ''Australian Feminist Studies'' 20.46: 31-42.

;Philadelphoff-Puren, Nina, 2004. : "The Mark of Refusal: Sexual Violence and the Politics of Recontextualization." ''Feminist Theory'' 5.3: 243–256. [http://fty.sagepub.com/content/5/3/243.abstract Abstract]

See also Puren, below.

;Philips, Deborah, 1985. : 'Marketing Moonshine', ''Women's Review'' 2 (December): 16-17. **

;Philips, Deborah, 1990. : 'Mills and Boon: The Marketing of Moonshine,' in ''Consumption, Identity, and Style: Marketing, Meanings, and the Packaging of Pleasure'', ed. Alan Tomlinson (London: Routledge), pp. 139-52. [http://books.google.com/books?id=PvAfLS2QnMwC&pg=RA1-PA139&lpg=RA1-PA139&dq=Deborah+philips+%22marketing+of+moonshine%22&source=web&ots=j6M_s4okbY&sig=zPi4ByZJjzoFXEuJHOq3fUN1UrM Excerpt here.]

;Philips, Deborah, 2000. : 'Shopping for Men: The Single Woman Narrative', ''Women: a Cultural Review'', 11.3: 238-251. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/search/article?title=philips+shopping+for+men&title_type=tka&year_from=1998&year_to=2005&database=1&pageSize=20&index=1 Abstract]

;Philips, Deborah. 2012. : "The Empire of Romance: Love in a Postcolonial Climate." In ''End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945,'' Ed. Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz. 114-133. Manchester, England: Manchester UP, 2012.

;Philips, Deborah. Forthcoming. : "Fifty Shades of Romance." ''International Journal of Cultural Studies''. [https://cris.brighton.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/5900241/palma_50_shades.pdf Manuscript version]

;Philips, Deborah. Forthcoming. : "In defence of reading trash: feminists reading the romance." ''European Journal of Cultural Studies''. [https://cris.brighton.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/506061/In+defence+of+reading+trash+%283%29.pdf Manuscript version]

;Popova, Milena, 2018. : "Rewriting the Romance: Emotion Work and Consent in Arranged Marriage Fanfiction". ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 7. [http://jprstudies.org/2018/07/rewriting-the-romance-emotion-work-and-consent-in-arranged-marriage-fanfictionby-milena-popova/]

;Postma, Kathlene, 1999. : 'American Women Readers Encounter Turkey in the Shadow of Popular Romance', ''Journal of American Studies of Turkey'', 9: 71-82. [http://www.os-ar.com/modules.php?name=Encyclopedia&op=content&tid=501722 Online, unpaginated version.] [The novel under discussion, 'Demetra Vaka's In the Shadow of Islam, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1911', is discussed in the context of the conventions of the romance novel, though it subverts them.]

;Potter, Jane, 1997. : '"A great purifier": The Great War in Women's Romances and Memoirs 1914-1918', ''Women's Fiction and The Great War'', ed. Suzanne Raitt and Trudi Tate (Oxford: Oxford UP), pp. 85-106. [http://books.google.com/books?id=-ikIQ4Zn_XkC&lpg=PP1&ots=PujRPYZru6&dq=&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [The romance authors discussed are Berta Ruck and Ruby M. Ayres.]

;Potter, Jane, 2005. : ''Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918'' (Oxford: Oxford UP). [[http://books.google.com/books?id=VMvwcIQdBZUC&lpg=PP1&ots=rVjglQJVbV&dq=&pg=PA88#v=onepage&q&f=false Chapter 3] is titled "'Putting Things in Their Right Places': The War in Romance Novels" and it considers "only a fraction of the hundreds of 'light fiction' books published between 1914 and 1918: ''My Heart's Right There'' (1914) by Florence Barclay, ''Khaki and Kisses'' (1915) by Berta Ruck, ''Richard Chatterton V. C.'' (1915) by Ruby M. Ayres, ''A Girl Munition Worker'' (1917) by Bessie Marchant, ''Before the Wind'' (1918) by Janet Laing, and ''Good Old Anna'' (1915) by Marie Belloc Lowndes" ([http://books.google.com/books?id=VMvwcIQdBZUC&lpg=PP1&ots=rVjglQJVbV&dq=&pg=PA90#v=onepage&q&f=false 90]).] [http://books.google.com/books?id=VMvwcIQdBZUC&lpg=PP1&ots=rVjglQJVbV&dq=&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Potter, Jane, 2015. : "‘Khaki and Kisses’: Reading the Romance Novel in the Great War." ''Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives''. Ed. Shafquat Towheed and Edmund G. C. King. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 29-44. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jZyhCgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PT45#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Powley, Tammy, 2015. : "Romance Fiction in Florida: The Crisscross of Jane Austen and Angela Hunt." ''Women of Florida Fiction: Essays on 12 Sunshine State Writers''. Ed. Tammy Powley and April Van Camp. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. 123-132. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=lang_en&id=Fvm2BQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA123#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Press, Andrea L., 1986. : 'New Views on the Mass Production of Women's Culture', ''Communication Research'' 13.1: 139-149. [Review essay on Radway's ''Reading the Romance'', Modleski's ''Loving with a Vengeance'' and two books on soap operas.] [http://crx.sagepub.com/content/13/1/139.extract Excerpt].

;Priest, Hannah. 2018. : “Sparkly Vampires and Shimmering Aliens: The Paranormal Romance of Stephenie Meyer.” ''Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction,'' edited by Bernice M. Murphy and Stephen Matterson, Edinburgh University Press, 2018, pp. 182–192

;Proctor, Candice, 2007. : 'The Romance Genre Blues or Why We Don't Get No Respect.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 12-19.

;Puente, Sonia Núñez. 2008.: "The romance novel and popular culture during the early Franco regime in Spain: towards the construction of other discourses of femininity." ''Journal of Gender Studies'' 17, no. 3: 225-236.

;Purdie, Susan, 1992. : 'Janice Radway, Reading the Romance', in ''Reading into Cultural Studies'' ed. Martin Barker and Anne Beezer, (London: Routledge), pp. 148-64.

;Puren, Nina, 1995. : 'Hymeneal Acts: Interrogating the Hegemony of Rape and Romance', ''Australian Feminist Law Journal'' 5: 15-26. [Mentions [[Charlotte Lamb]]'s ''The Sex War'', London: Mills and Boon, 1988.]

;Puri, Jyoti, 1997. : ‘Reading Romance Novels in Postcolonial India’, ''Gender & Society'', 11.4: 434-452. [http://gas.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/4/434?ck=nck Abstract]

==Q==

;Quilliam, Susan, 2011. : ' “He seized her in his manly arms and bent his lips to hers…”. The surprising impact that romantic novels have on our work', ''Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care'' 37.3: 179-181. [http://jfprhc.bmj.com/content/37/3/179.extract Excerpt] [http://press.psprings.co.uk/JFPRH/july/JFPRH1100152.pdf PDF]

==R==

;Rabine, Leslie, 1985. : ''Reading the Romantic Heroine: Text, History, Ideology'', (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press).** [This is described in Williams and Freedman as a "study of the romantic quest from Tristan and Isolde to the Harlequin novel" (145). A chapter each is devoted to the Tristan/Isolde legend, Prévost's ''Manon Lescaut'', Stendhal's ''The Red and the Black'', Charlotte Brontë's ''Shirley'', Alain-Fournier's ''Big Meaulnes'' and Harlequin romances.]

;Rabine, Leslie W., 1985. : ‘Romance in the Age of Electronics: Harlequin Enterprises’, ''Feminist Studies'' 11.1: 39-60. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/3180131 Excerpt]

;Radford, Jean, 1992. : "A Certain Latitude: Romance as Genre." in ''Gender, Language, and Myth: Essays and Popular Narrative.'' ed. Glenwood Irons, (Toronto: U of Toronto P), pp. 3-19.

;Radhika, P., 2004-2005. : "Narratives of Fractured Conjugality: Women’s Romance Novels in Kannada, 1950s-1960s." ''Journal of Karnataka Studies'' 2.1.[http://journalofkarnatakastudies.org/JKS/articles-pdf/JKS%20200411%20to%20200504%20Article%20%284%29.pdf PDF] [As might be deduced from the title, not all of the novels under discussion are "romances" with happy endings: "As is characteristic of all romance novels, the formation of a couple as constituent of romantic love also figures in the post-50s women‘s novels. However, in contrast to the earlier women‘s novels, what is dramatised in the novels of Indira, Triveni, Vani and Anupama is that they significantly articulate the fracturing of the conjugal space and, except for the novels of Anupama (which I will discuss later), have tragic endings." (9)]

;Radhika, P., 2014. : "Inaugurating a (Feminine) Public: Women’s Romances in Kannada, 1950s–1960s." ''Indian Journal of Gender Studies'' 21.1 (2014): 85-110. [http://ijg.sagepub.com/content/21/1/85.short Abstract]

;Radick, Caryn, 2016. : "Romance Writers’ Use of Archives." ''Archivaria, the Journal of the Association of Canadian Archivists'' 81: 45-73. [http://journals.sfu.ca/archivar/index.php/archivaria/article/view/13558 Abstract]

;Radner, Hilary, 1995. : ''Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure'' (New York: Routledge). [See Chapter 3, 'A Dream of Thee,' pages 67-104, which has two sections: 'The Erotic Gag: Reading the Category Romance' and 'Alibis and Cover Stories: Pornography, History, Race, and the Category Romance'.] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LFBy0zINhtkC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA67#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Radway, Janice, 1981. : 'The Utopian Impulse in Popular Literature: Gothic Romances and "Feminist" Protest', ''American Quarterly,'' 33.2 (Summer, 1981): 140-162. [First page available [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0678(198122)33%3A2%3C140%3ATUIIPL%3E2.0.CO;2-2 here]]

;Radway, Janice A, 1982. : 'The Aesthetic in Mass Culture: Reading and the 'Popular' Literary Text', ''Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, Festschrift in Honor of Felix Vodicka'', Ed. Peter Steiner and Ronald Vroon (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, B.V.), pp. 397-429. [Excerpt available from [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TdksXiP6WwQC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA397#v=onepage&q&f=false here]]. [Takes gothic romances as examples.]

;Radway, Janice A., 1983. : ‘Women Read the Romance: The Interaction of Text and Context’, ''Feminist Studies'', 9.1: 53-78. [First page available [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0046-3663(198321)9%3A1%3C53%3AWRTRTI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7 here]] [Rptd. in Ostrov Weisser, ''Women and Romance'', pp. 323-341. **]

;Radway, Janice A., 1984. : 'Interpretive Communities And Variable Literacies: The Functions Of Romance Reading', ''Daedalus'', 113.3:49-73.

;Radway, Janice A., 1991. : ''Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press). First published in 1984. The 1991 edition contains a new introduction by the author.

;Radway, Janice, 1994. : 'Romance and the Work of Fantasy: Struggles over Feminine Sexuality and Subjectivity at Century's End', in ''Viewing, Reading, Listening: Audiences and Cultural Reception'', ed. Jon Cruz and Justin Lewis (Colorado: Westview Press), pp. 213-31. Reprinted in ''Feminism and Cultural Studies'', ed. Morag Shiach (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 395-???. **

;Rani, Mohd. Zariat Abdul, 2012. : "Islam, Romance and Popular Taste in Indonesia." ''Indonesia and the Malay World: '' 40.116 (2012): 59-73. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13639811.2011.648998 Abstract]

;Rani, Mohd Zariat Abdul, 2014. : "The conflict of love and Islam: the main ingredients in the popular Islamic novels of Malaysia." ''South East Asia Research'' 22.3: 417-433. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ip/sear/2014/00000022/00000003/art00008 Abstract] [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ip/sear/2014/00000022/00000003/art00008?crawler=true]

;Rapp, Adrian, Dodgen, Lynda, and Anne K. Kaler, 2000. : "A Romance Writer Gets Away with Murder." ''Clues: A Journal of Detection'' 21.1: 17-21.

;[[Alicia Rasley|Rasley, Alicia]], 1999. :'Paradox in Balance: Some Feminist Themes in Romance', originally published in ''North American Romance Writers'', see above.[http://www.sff.net/people/alicia/artparadox.htm]

;Raub, Patricia, 1992. : "Issues of Passion and Power in E. M. Hull's ''The Sheik''." ''Women's Studies'', 21: 119-128.

;[[Diana Reep|Reep, Diana]], 1982: ''[[The Rescue And Romance: Popular Novels Before World War I]]'', Bowling Green Sate University Popular Press.

;Reeves, Anne R., 2004. : 'Rosa: Fiction as Therapy,' ''Adolescents Talk About Reading: Exploring Resistance to and Engagement with Text''. International Reading Association. 107-156. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FoByTSK_vb8C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA107#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [This chapter of the book explores reading for "escape" through the experiences of Rosa, who "was especially expert in reading romance novels and proud of her expertise" (107) and whose reading allowed her to "dwell on her own troubles, but at a distance made safe by the intervening presence of the story with the happy ending" (115).]

;Regan, Lisa. 2017. : "Women and the 'War Machine' in the Desert Romances of E. M. Hull and Rosita Forbes." ''Women's Writing'', vol. 24, no. 1, Feb. 2017, pp. 109-122. DOI: 10.1080/09699082.2016.1233773 [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09699082.2016.1233773?journalCode=rwow20 Abstract]

;Regis, Pamela, 1997. : 'Complicating Romances and Their Readers: Barrier and Point of Ritual Death in Nora Roberts's Category Fiction.' ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2:145-154.

;Regis, Pamela, 2003. : ''A Natural History of the Romance Novel'' (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press). [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=juPQyVJrsFAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0 Excerpt] [The book is the subject of a Roundtable section in the [http://jprstudies.org/issues/issue-3-2/ ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 (2013)].]

;Regis, Pamela, 2011. : "Female genre fiction in the twentieth century." ''The Cambridge History of the American Novel''. Ed. Leonard Cassuto, Clare Virginia Eby and Benjamin Reiss. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 847-60. [The chapter includes "a definition of the romance novel, some categories to advance its literary analysis, and a first effort to place it in literary history, especially in foundational relation to the sentimental literature of the nineteenth century" (848). It also includes analysis of "seven twentieth-century American romances" (848), among which are [[Kathleen Woodiwiss]]'s ''The Flame and the Flower'', [[Jennifer Crusie]]'s ''Bet Me'', [[Beverly Jenkins]]'s ''Indigo'', [[Ann Herendeen]]'s ''Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander'', and [[Nora Roberts]]' ''Irish Thoroughbred''.] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4ZEPkIzETb0C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA848#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt.]

;Regis, Pamela, 2011. : “What Do Critics Owe the Romance? Keynote Address at the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%E2%80%9Cwhat-do-critics-owe-the-romance-keynote-address-at-the-second-annual-conference-of-the-international-association-for-the-study-of-popular-romance%E2%80%9D-by-pamela-regis/] [There is [http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%E2%80%9Cmatricide-in-romance-scholarship-response-to-pamela-regis%E2%80%99-keynote-address-at-the-second-annual-conference-of-the-international-association-for-the-study-of-popular-romance%E2%80%9D/ a response by An Goris] in the same issue of ''JPRS''].

;Regis, Pamela, 2013. : 'Ten Years After ''A Natural History of the Romance Novel'': Thinking Back, Looking Forward', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/ten-years-after-a-natural-history-of-the-romance-novel-thinking-back-looking-forward-by-pamela-regis/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Regis_ThinkingBack.pdf as a pdf].]

;Regis, Pamela, 2016. : '''Pamela'' Crosses the Atlantic; or, Pamela Andrews's Story Inaugurates the American Romance Novel', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp.25-40. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eAckDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT9&ots=aa7Bfg37EE&lr&pg=PT38#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Reid Boyd, Elizabeth, 2014. : 'Romancing feminism: From women’s studies to women’s fiction.' ''Australasian Journal of Popular Culture'' 3.3: 263-272. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/ajpc/2014/00000003/00000003/art00002 Abstract] [https://www.academia.edu/9400026/Romancing_Feminism_From_Womens_Studies_to_Womens_Fiction Text]

;Rholetter, Wylene, 2008. : '[[Nora Roberts]]', ''Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice'' 2.2/3. [Formerly at [http://www.teachingamericanlit.com/files/Microsoft_Word_-_TALTP-RobertsNora.pdf]. This link no longer works but a pdf of the entire issue can be downloaded from [http://www.cpcc.edu/taltp/archives/spring-summer-2008-2-2-3/spring_summer_2008_merged.pdf/at_download/file]].

;Ricker-Wilson, Carol, 1999. : ‘Busting Textual Bodices: Gender, Reading, and the Popular Romance’, ''English Journal'', 88:3: 57-64. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/821580 Excerpt]

;Rix, Robert W., 2009. : '“Love in the Clouds”: [[Barbara Cartland]]’s Religious Romances', ''The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture'' 21.2. [http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/c935l2276u264262/ Excerpt] [http://web.archive.org/web/20091119103047/http://www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc/art21%282%29-LoveClouds.html Archived version]

;Roach, Catherine, 2010. : 'Getting a Good Man to Love: Popular Romance Fiction and the Problem of Patriarchy', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 1.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2010/08/getting-a-good-man-to-love-popular-romance-fiction-and-the-problem-of-patriarchy-by-catherine-roach/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/JPRS1.1_Roach_GettingGoodMantoLove.pdf as a pdf].]

;Roach, Catherine, 2014. : '“Going Native”: Aca-Fandom and Deep Participant Observation in Popular Romance Studies', ''Mosaic'' 47.2: 33-49. [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/mosaic/v047/47.2.roach.html Abstract and excerpt]

;Roach, Catherine M., 2016. : 'Love as the Practice of Bondage: Popular Romance Narratives and the Conundrum of Erotic Love', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 369-387.

;Roach, Catherine M., 2016. : ''Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture'' (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press).[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gmSjCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth, 2002. : 'Meet Jessica and Elizabeth from Sweet Valley: Who Are the Female Role Models in Popular Romance Novels for Children?', Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (New Orleans, LA, April 1-5, 2002). 21 pgs. ERIC document ED470819.

;Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth, 2010. : "Twenty-five years and counting of Sweet Valley: Jessica and Elizabeth in romance novels for young children?" ''Journal of Research in Childhood Education'' 24.2:123-139. [[http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a920286976~db=all~jumptype=rss Abstract] and [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-245951985.html excerpt].]

;Robinson, Lillian S., 1978. : 'Reading Trash', in ''Sex, Class, and Culture''. Ed. Lillian S. Robinson (Bloomington: Indiana University Press), pp. 200-222. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=090OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA200&lpg=PA200&dq=&source=bl&ots=n_LIlJbPtt&sig=HeERqJr9uAX6Oj7OGEBuJrgNfcg&hl=en&ei=NprSSfPVKdvN-Qa6kvy1BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA200,M1 Excerpt from a later edition] ["Most of this essay will be focused on a contrast between the works of [[Jane Austen]] and those of [[Georgette Heyer]]" (202)]

;[http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=101551297 Romantic Conventions], 1999. : Anne K. Kaler and Rosemary E. Johnson-Kurek, eds. (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press). [Preview of parts of this available [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ja_Ia-oZo4wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=&f=false via Google Books].]

;Rosanowski, Annika, 2019. : "Can She Have It All? Pregnancy Narratives in Contemporary Category Romance", ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 8 (2019). [http://jprstudies.org/2019/03/can-she-have-it-all-pregnancy-narratives-in-contemporary-category-romanceby-annika-rosanowski/]

;Rose, Suzanna, 1985. : "Is Romance Dysfunctional?." ''International Journal of Women's Studies'', 8.3: 250-265. ["Argues that among the forces that shape desire in women and men are the depictions of relationships and sexual expression in popular fiction. [...] It is contended that by encompassing primarily the courtship phase of relationships, the scripts provide little guidance relevant to maintaining long-term relationships."] [http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1986-17217-001 Abstract][http://myweb.fiu.edu/srose/wp-content/uploads/sites/127/2014/08/1985-Rose-IsRomanceDysfunctional-1.pdf pdf]

;Ross, Catherine Sheldrick. 2009. : "Reader on Top: Public Libraries, Pleasure Reading, and Models of Reading." ''Library Trends'' 57.4: 632-656. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lib/summary/v057/57.4.ross.html Abstract.] [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Catherine_Ross3/publication/236705306_Reader_on_Top_Public_Libraries_Pleasure_Reading_and_Models_of_Reading/links/0c960528e844b446cf000000/Reader-on-Top-Public-Libraries-Pleasure-Reading-and-Models-of-Reading&hl=en&sa=X&scisig=AAGBfm1BzGHzUwyFEy2rBdDKyEKkBvmKMQ&nossl=1&oi=scholaralrt Unpaginated version.]

;Ross, Marlon B., 2013. : " 'What’s Love But a Second Hand Emotion?': Man-on-Man Passion in the Contemporary Black Gay Romance Novel." ''Callaloo'' 36.3 (2013): 669-687. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/callaloo/v036/36.3.ross.html Excerpt]. [There's a short summary [http://www.vivanco.me.uk/blog/post/black-gay-romance here].]

;Rudisill, Kristen, 2018. : “Full-Blooded Desi Romance: Contemporary English-Language Romance Novels in India.” ''Journal of Popular Culture''. vol. 51, no. 3, June 2018, pp. 754-775. Online First. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.12652/full Excerpt]

;Ruggiero, Josephine A. and Louise C. Weston. : 'Sex-Role Characterization of Women in "Modern Gothic Novels"', ''Pacific Sociological Review'' 20: 279-300. **

;Ruggiero, Josephine A. and Weston, Louise C., 1983. : 'Conflicting Images Of Women In Romance Novels', ''International Journal of Women's Studies'', 6.1:18-25.

;Russ, Joanna, 1973. : 'Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic', ''Journal of Popular Culture'', 6.4: 666-691.

;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : ‘Amongst Women: Male Romance Authors and Irish Chick Lit Author, Andrew O’Connor’, ''The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture'' 1.2: 209-225. [http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=11989/ Abstract]

;Ryder, Mary Ellen, 1999. : 'Smoke and mirrors: Event patterns in the discourse structure of a romance novel', ''Journal of Pragmatics'', 31.8: 1067-1080. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VCW-3X6BRT2-6&_user=10&_coverDate=08%2F31%2F1999&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=04a8b80871ea922fecd7d9ba3a6b26c9 Abstract] ** [Analysis focuses on "the climax of a novel by [[Barbara Cartland]]."]

==S==

;Sales, Roger, 1999. : "The Loathsome Lord and the Disdainful Dame: Byron, Cartland and the Regency Romance." in ''Byromania: Portraits of the Artist in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Culture.'' ed. Frances Wilson, (Basingstoke, England; New York, NY: Macmillan; St. Martin's) pp. 166-183.

;Salmon, Catherine and Donald Symons, 2003. : ''Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution and Female Sexuality'' (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press). ** [http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300093544 Abstract] ["The stark contrasts between romance novels and pornography underscore how different female and male erotic fantasies are. These differences reflect human evolutionary history [...]. The authors focus particular attention on slash fiction [...] [and] argue that—despite some differences—slash fiction has much in common with romance novels."]

;Salmon, Catherine, 2012. : "The Pop Culture of Sex: An Evolutionary Window on the Worlds of Pornography and Romance." ''Review of General Psychology'' 16.2: 152-60. [http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/gpr/16/2/152/ Abstract]

;Salmon, Catherine, 2016. : "What Do Romance Novels, Pro Wrestling, and Mack Bolan Have in Common?: Consilience and the Pop Culture of Storytelling." ''Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences''. Ed. Joseph Carroll, Dan P. McAdams and Edward O. Wilson. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016. 167-182. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tUUnDAAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA167#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;[[Barbara Samuel|Samuel, Barbara]], 1997. : "The Art of Romance Novels." ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 78-80.

;Sanders, Lise Shapiro, 2006. : ''Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920''. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.[https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/6327/Sanders_T-S_Final.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y] [See Chapters 3 and 4 on "The Failures of the Romance: Boredom and the Production of Consuming Desires" and "Imagining Alternatives to the Romance: Absorption and Distraction as Modes of Reading."]

;Sanders, Lise Shapiro, 2018. : "Making the Modern Girl: Fantasy, Consumption, and Desire in Romance Weeklies of the 1920s". ''Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period''. Ed. Catherine Clay, Maria DiCenzo, Barbara Green, and Fiona Hackney. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TIJ8DwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PT181#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Santaulària, Isabel, 2002. : "The Fallacy of Eternal Love: Romance, Vampires and the Deconstruction of Love in [[Linda Lael Miller]]'s ''Forever and the Night'' and ''For All Eternity''." in ''The Aesthetics of Ageing: Critical Approaches to Literary Representations of the Ageing Process.'' Ed. Maria O’Neill and Carmen Zamorano Llena (Lleida, Spain: Universitat de Lleida), pp. 111-126.

;Schalk, Sami, 2016. : "Happily Ever After for Whom? Blackness and Disability in Romance Narratives." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 49.6: 1241–1260. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.12491/abstract Excerpt]

;Schell, Heather, 2007. : "The Big Bad Wolf: Masculinity and Genetics in Popular Culture." ''Literature and Medicine'' 26.1: 109-125. ([[Christine Feehan]] is the author addressed in this article). [http://www.academia.edu/166481/The_Big_Bad_Wolf_Masculinity_and_Genetic_in_Popular_Culture]

;Schell, Heather, 2010. : "The Love Life of a Fact." ''How Well Do "Facts" Travel?: The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge''. Ed. Peter Howlett and Mary S. Morgan. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP). ** [It's Chapter 16 and an unofficial version is available [http://gwu.academia.edu/HeatherSchell/Papers/181725/The-Love-Life-of-a-Fact here].]

;Schell, Heather, 2013. : "Bringing the Mid-West to the Middle-East: An Analysis of a Harlequin Romance in English and Turkish, in ''The Silk Road of Adaptation: Transformations across Disciplines and Cultures'', ed. Laurence Raw (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars), pp. 160-171. [http://www.academia.edu/5070456/Bringing_the_Mid-West_to_the_Middle_East_An_Analysis_of_a_Harlequin_Romance_in_English_and_Turkish]

;Schell, Heather, 2014. : "Love’s Laborers Lost: Radway, Romance Writers, and Recuperating Our Past." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2.[http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/loves-laborers-lost-radway-romance-writers-and-recuperating-our-pastby-heather-schell/]

;Schiffman, Leon G. and Steven P. Schnaars, 1981. : "The Consumption of Historical Romance Novels: Consumer Aesthetics in Popular Literature." Symbolic Consumer Behavior. (Association for Consumer Research), pp. 46-51.[http://www.acrwebsite.org/volumes/display.asp?id=12226]

;Schwab, Sandra, 2012. : '“It Is Only with One’s Heart That One Can See Clearly”: The Loss of Sight in Teresa Medeiros’s ''The Bride and the Beast'' and ''Yours until Dawn''', ''Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies'' 6.3: 275-289. [http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/2215905617t20842/?p=bd59abac917a43e0bcd2bcdaa775970b&pi=2 Abstract and Excerpt]

;Scott, Alison M. 2002. : 'Romance in the Stacks; or, Popular Romance Fiction Imperiled', in ''Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America'', ed. Lydia Cushman Schurman and Deidre Johnson, Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture, 75 (Westport, CT: Greenwood),pp. 213-224.

;Seale,Maura, 2007. : '"I find some Hindu practices, like burning widows, utterly bizarre": Representation of Sati and Questions of Choice in ''Veils of Silk''.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 129-147. [http://mauraseale.googlepages.com/veils_final_version.doc Unpaginated version]

;[[Kathleen Gilles Seidel | Seidel, Kathleen Gilles]], 1997. : "Half-Risen Venus", ''Paradoxa'' 3.1-2: 250-252. [This is a review of Paul Grescoe's ''Merchants of Venus: Inside Harlequin and the Empire of Romance''.]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2007. : 'Rereading the Romance', ''Contemporary Literature'', 48.2: 307-324.[http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/contemporary_literature/v048/48.2selinger.html] [This is a review article, critiquing earlier works on the romance genre (such as those by Radway and Modleski) and giving more favourable opinions about the newer works under review: Juliet Flesch's ''From Australia with Love: A History of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels''; ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels'', edited by Sally Goade; Deborah Lutz's ''The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative''; Lynn S. Neal's ''Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction''; Pamela Regis's ''A Natural History of the Romance Novel''.]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy and Sarah S. G. Frantz, 2012. : 'Introduction: New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction,' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 1-19. [Includes a brief history of the study of popular romance fiction.] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OSAgWRwoU5YC&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2012. : 'How to Read a Romance Novel (and Fall in Love with Popular Romance),' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 33-46. [Includes analysis of Laura Kinsale's ''Flowers from the Storm''.]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2012. : 'Nothing But Good Times Ahead: A Special Forum on Jennifer Crusie (Editor’s Introduction)', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.2 (2012).[http://jprstudies.org/2012/04/nothing-but-good-times-ahead-a-special-forum-on-jennifer-crusie-editors-introduction/].

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2013. : 'Rebooting the Romance: The Impact of ''A Natural History of the Romance Novel''', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/rebooting-the-romance-the-impact-of-a-natural-history-of-the-romance-novel-by-eric-murphy-selinger/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Selinger_RegisRebooting.pdf as a pdf].]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2014. : 'My Metatextual Romance: Thinking With (and About) ''Jaane Tu Ya Janne Na''', ''Mosaic'' 47.2: 51-66. [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/mosaic/v047/47.2.selinger.html Abstract and excerpt] ["Scholars of popular romance fiction have begun to credit the genre with political and aesthetic self-consciousness, a “metatextual turn” that parallels changes in the academic reception of Hindi popular cinema"]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2015. : 'Editor’s Note: Issue 5.1', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/editors-note-issue-5-1/]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2015. : 'An Interview with Susan Elizabeth Phillips', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/an-interview-with-susan-elizabeth-phillipsby-eric-murphy-selinger/]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy and William A. Gleason, 2016. : "Introduction: Love as the Practice of Freedom?" ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 1-21. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eAckDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT9&ots=aa7Bfg37EE&lr&pg=PT15#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2016. : 'When I Paint My Masterpiece: Bob Dylan, Ekphrasis, and the Art of Susan Elizabeth Phillips', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 297-319.

;Sequeiros, Paula, 2018. : '“Holding the Dream”: Women’s Favorite Reading Matter in a Portuguese Prison', ''Qualitative Sociology Review'' 14.1: 110-128.[Available as a pdf [http://www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/Volume44/QSR_14_1_Sequeiros.pdf from the journal] and also [http://eprints.rclis.org/32292/1/QSR_14_1_leit%20prisao.pdf here].]

;Sewell Matter, Laura, 2007. : “Pursuing the Great Bad Novelist”, ''The Georgia Review'' 61.3 (2007): 444-459. [About Charles Garvice.]

;Serafine, Amelia, 2016. : '"He Filled My Heart with Doubt": The Southern Belle's Love and Duty in the Civil War', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 41-55.

;Serisier, Tanya. 2015. : "On Not Reading Fifty Shades: Feminism and the Fantasy of Romantic Immunity." In ''Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets and Readers,'' 117-132. Jefferson, NC: McFarland,

;Shachar, Hila. 2011. : "A Post-Feminist Romance: Love, Gender and Intertextuality in Stephenie Meyer's Saga." In ''Theorizing Twilight: Critical Essays on What's at Stake in a Post-Vampire World'' 147-161. Eds. Maggie Parke and Natalie Wilson. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011.

;Shapiro, Joan, & Lee Kroeger, 1991. : ‘Is Life a Romantic Novel? The Relationship Between Attitudes About Intimate Relationships and the Popular Media’, ''American Journal of Family Therapy'', 19.3: 226-236. ** [http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a779552378 Abstract]

;Sheehan, Sarah E. and Jen Stevens, 2015. : "Creating a Popular Romance Collection in an Academic Library", ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1. [http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/creating-a-popular-romance-collection-in-an-academic-libraryby-sarah-e-sheehan-and-jen-stevens/]

;Shore, Z. Lesley, 2000. : 'Essay Review', ''Educational Studies'' 31.2: 132-145. [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/S15326993ES3102_4 Abstract], includes the sentence: "The ubiquitous, aggressively marketed series romances that a girl reads in adolescence are read not as mere fantasy or entertainment but as a road map for life. This compelling romantic ideology channels girls narrowly toward heterosexuality and marriage." For similar ideas, expressed at greater length, see Shore's dissertation.]

;Shumway, David R., 1999. : “Romance in the Romance: Love and Marriage in Turn-of-the-Century Best Sellers.” ''Journal of Narrative Theory'' 29.1: 110-134. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/30224546?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Excerpt]

;Sinner, Carsten, 2012. : "Fictional orality in romance novels: Between linguistic reality and editorial requirements." ''The Translation of Fictive Dialogue''. Ed. Jenny Brumme and Anna Espunya. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 119–136.

;Smith, Janet S. Shibamoto. 1999. : "From Hiren to Happi-endo: Romantic Expression in the Japanese Love Story." In ''Languages of Sentiment: Cultural Constructions of Emotional Substrates,'' 131-150. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Benjamins. [[http://benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=AiCR%2018 Extensive excerpt available from Benjamins' website] (click on the "Google Preview" button).]

;Shibamoto Smith, Janet S., 2004. : 'Language and Gender in the (Hetero)Romance: "Reading" the Ideal Hero/ine through Lovers' Dialogue in Japanese Romance Fiction', in ''Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People'', ed. Shigeko Okamoto and Janet S. Shibamoto Smith (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 113-130. ** [http://linguistlist.org/issues/16/16-1676.html Review]

;Shibamoto-Smith, Janet S., 2005. : ‘Translating True Love: Japanese Romantic Fiction, Harlequin-Style’ in ''Gender, Sex and Translation: The Manipulation of Identities'', ed. José Santaemilia (Manchester: St. Jerome Publishing), pp. 97-116. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0EgeCwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA97&ots=_VBVDxRknz&lr=lang_en&pg=PA97#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Shibamoto Smith, Janet S., 2008. : "Changing Lovestyles: Fictional Representations of Contemporary Japanese Men in Love." ''Positions'' 16.2: 359-87. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/positions/summary/v016/16.2.shibamoto-smith.html First Page]

;Simon, Jenni M., 2018. : ''Consuming Agency and Desire in Romance: Stories of Love, Laughter, and Empowerment''. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Q6k7DwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR5&ots=hhP2EqTrMr&sig=r8KErwV2-FueFcFirRZx2xZ9jCQ#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Slušná, Zuzana, 2014. : "Paranormal and Religious as Part of Pop Cultural Consumerism." ''European Journal of Science and Theology'' 10.1: 99-110. [http://www.ejst.tuiasi.ro/Files/48/11_Slusna.pdf]

;Slušná, Zuzana, 2015. : "Postfeminism, Post-romantic and New Patterns of Feminity [sic] in Popular Culture." ''European Journal of Science and Theology'' 11.6: 229-238.[http://www.ejst.tuiasi.ro/Files/55/23_Slusna.pdf]

;Smith, Faith, 1999. :"Beautiful Indians, Troublesome Negroes, and Nice White Men: Caribbean Romances and the Invention of Trinidad." in ''Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation.'' ed. Belinda Edmondson (Charlottesville, VA: UP of Virginia) pp. 163-182. [http://books.google.com/books?id=MxpIIwPyc-sC&lpg=PP1&dq=&pg=PA163#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Snitow, Ann Barr, 1979. : ‘Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women is Different’, ''Radical History Review'' 20 (Spring/Summer 1979):141-61. [http://rhr.dukejournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/1979/20/141?ssource=mfc&rss=1 Excerpt] Republished in ''Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality'' 1983., ed. Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell & Sharon Thompson (New York: Monthly Review Press), pp. 245-263. Excerpt published in "Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader", ed. Mary Eagleton. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MO9xIC7umwwC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA192#v=onepage&q=&f=false of which an excerpt is available online.] [scroll down the page to reach the beginning of the excerpt.] Republished in Ostrov Weisser, ''Women and Romance'' (see above), pp. 307-322.

;Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. 2010. : ''Reading [[Nora Roberts]].'' Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iZb2St4N1oAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false Excerpt]

;Sommer, Doris, 1991. : ''Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America''. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press). [The following two quotes may give an impression of the contents: "Romantic novels go hand in hand with patriotic history in Latin America. The books fueled a desire for domestic happiness that runs over into dreams of national prosperity; and nation-building projects invested private passions with public purpose" ([http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BWAXcZaAEyQC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q&f=false 7]) and "the lovers must imagine their ideal relationship through an alternative society. Once they project that ideal as an image that looks like a wedding portrait, their union [...] becomes the mediating principle that urges the narrative forward like a promise" ([http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BWAXcZaAEyQC&pg=PA18#v=onepage&q&f=false 18]). [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BWAXcZaAEyQC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt].]

;Sonnet, Esther, 1999. : "'Erotic Fiction by Women for Women’: The Pleasures of Post-Feminist Heterosexuality." ''Sexualities,''2.2:167-187. [From the [http://sexualities.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/2/2/167 abstract] [https://www.academia.edu/929962/Erotic_Fiction_by_Women_for_Women_The_Pleasures_of_Post-Feminist_Heterosexuality pdf]: "This article addresses the material construction of female heterosexuality through examination of the mass marketing of women’s pornography - ‘erotic fiction for women by women’ as exemplified by Virgin Publishing’s Black Lace imprint."]

;Sonnet, Esther, 2000. : "What the Woman Reads: Categorising Contemporary Popular Erotica for Women." ''Consuming for Pleasure: Selected Essays on Popular Fiction''. Ed. Julia Hallam and Nickianne Moody. Liverpool: Liverpool John Moores UP and the Association for Research in Popular Fictions. pp. 246-267. [https://www.academia.edu/4305268/What_the_Woman_Reads_Categorising_Contemporary_Popular_Erotica_for_Women pdf] [This article could be considered an expanded version of the previous one, which puts the Black Lace erotica in the context of other fiction for women with sexual content, including romance "bodice-rippers," and discusses the ways in which these texts are classified/assigned to particular genres/subgenres.]

;Sonnet, Esther, 2002. : "'"Just a book", she said ...': Refiguring Ethnography for the Female Readers of Sexual Fiction." ''The Audience Studies Reader''. Ed. Will Brooker & Deborah Jermyn. London: Routledge. pp. 254-273.[https://www.academia.edu/4304721/Just_a_book_she_said..._Reconfiguring_Ethnography_for_the_Female_Readers_of_Sexual_Fiction pdf]

;Spehner, Norbert, 1997. : 'L'Amour, toujours l'amour ...: The Popular Love Story and Romance: A Basic Checklist of Secondary Sources', ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 253-268.

;Spender, Dale, 1986. : "Male Romance." ''Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen'' (London: Pandora), pp. 152-169. [As the title of Spender's book indicates, this is not about modern romance fiction but Spender does mention Harlequin/Mills & Boon and discusses how "romance" has (a) become associated with women and (b) acquired a very low literary status. The title of this chapter reflects a subsidiary definition of "romance" as "picturesque falsehood": "we have in the containment of women, a male romance, a 'picturesque falsehood' constructed in male interest" (162). Some quotes from the chapter can be found [http://teachmetonight.blogspot.com/2011/06/sex-and-sentimentality-on-women-writers.html here].]

;Spigel, Lynn. 1985. : "Detours in the Search for Tomorrow: Tania Modleski's Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women." ''Camera Obscura: A Journal of Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies'' 13-14: 215-234.

;Spillman, K. Elizabeth, 2012. : 'The "Managing Female" in the Novels of Georgette Heyer,' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 84-98.

;Stacey, Jackie & Lynne Pearce, 1995. : 'The Heart of the Matter: Feminists Revisit Romance', in ''Romance Revisited'', ed. Lynne Pearce & Jackie Stacey (New York: New York University Press), pp. 11-45.

;Stafford, Jane. 2016. : "Romance in the Backblocks in New Zealand Popular Fiction, 1930–1950: Mary Scott's Barbara Stories." ''Popular Fiction and Spatiality: Reading Genre Settings,'' Lisa (ed. and introd.) Fletcher, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 63-78

;Stern, Barbara B, 1991. : 'Two Pornographies: A Feminist View of Sex in Advertising', in ''Advances in Consumer Research Volume'' 18. ed. Rebecca H. Holman and Michael R. Solomon (Provo, UT: Association for Consumer Research), pp. 384-391. [http://www.acrwebsite.org/volumes/display.asp?id=7190 Unpaginated version from the Association for Consumer Research's website.]

;Stern, Stephanie C., Brianne Robbins, Jessica E. Black and Jennifer L. Barnes, 2018. : "What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs About Relationships." ''Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts''. Advance online publication. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/aca0000189 Abstract]

;Stieg, Margaret F., 1985. : 'Indian Romances: Tracts for the Times', ''Journal of Popular Culture'', 18.4: 2-15. ['the Indian Romance, flourished between 1890 and 1930. It was a romantic novel set in India, featuring Anglo-Indians (English expatriates living in India) as the leading characters.' (1985: 2)] [http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119508803/abstract Excerpt]

;Still, Julie, 2005. : 'Reading Between the Lines: Librarians as Authors of Fiction', ''LIBRES'' 15.1.[http://libres.curtin.edu.au/libres15n1/Still_2005_02_16.htm] [Discusses Jayne Ann Krentz: "while she does not discuss library issues specifically, the importance of information -- having it, getting it, evaluating it, managing it, using it, and profiting from it, is a clear and present theme in her works"]

;Stoneley, Peter, 1999. : '"Never Love a Cowboy": Romance Fiction and Fantasy Families', ''Writing and Fantasy'', ed. Ceri Sullivan and Barbara White (London: Longman), pp. 223-235. [He argues that since "all desire is fantastical by its very nature" (223), romance is no more unrealistic than many other forms of fiction. He detects an "apparent incommensurability between sexual desire and family values" (226) in Silhouette's "Western Lovers" romances.]

;Stotesbury, John A, 1994. : "Language and Mindstyle in Anglophone Popular Romantic Fiction under Apartheid." ''Logos'' 14: 18-32.

;Stotesbury, John A., 2004 : 'Genre and Islam in Recent Anglophone Romantic Fiction', in ''Refracting the Canon in Contemporary British Literature and Film'', ed. Christian Gutleben & Susana Onega, Postmodern Studies, 35 (Amsterdam: Rodopi), pp. 69-82. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/rodopi/pms/2004/00000035/00000001/art00004 Abstract] **

;Stout, Diana, 2008. : '[[Karen Robards]]', ''Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice'' 2.2/3. [Formerly at [http://www.teachingamericanlit.com/files/Microsoft_Word_-_TALTP-RobardsKaren_not_using.pdf]. Unfortunately this essay appears to have been omitted from a pdf of the entire issue which can be downloaded from [http://www.cpcc.edu/taltp/archives/spring-summer-2008-2-2-3/spring_summer_2008_merged.pdf/at_download/file]].

;Stowers, Eva, 2007. : 'City of Fantasy: Romance Novels in Las Vegas.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 198-205.

;Struve, Laura, 2011. : "Sisters of Sorts: Reading Romantic Fiction and the Bonds Among Female Readers." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 44.6: 1289–1306. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-5931.2011.00901.x/abstract Excerpt][https://www.academia.edu/11965485/Sisters_of_Sorts_Reading_Romantic_Fiction_and_the_Bonds_Among_Female_Readers pdf]

;Sucatre, Conrad V., 2005 : ''Old School Romance'' (Vintage Romance Publishing).** [I have not been able to identify a place of publication, and clearly this is not an academic publisher. The author says that the book is about 'the romance writing industry as it existed prior to 1950. At my fingertips were the books and biographies of such authors as Faith Baldwin, Emilie Loring, Kathleen Norris, Temple Bailey, Elsa Barker and many others. I assembled all these facts into my book'.[http://www.geocities.com/heathpublishing/]]

;Suman [Sigroha], 2018. : "Gendered Migrations and Literary Narratives: Writing Communities in South Asian Diaspora." ''Millennial Asia'' 9.1: 93-108.[http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0976399617753755] [On "educated skilled women from South Asia who migrate as ‘trailing spouses’" and turn to romance-writing as an alternative, portable career.]

;Suwanban, Pauline, 2018. : "From Exhalation to Transformation: The Female Body in the Orientalist Romance". ''Dandelion: Postgraduate Arts Journal & Research Network'' 9.1 [https://dandelionjournal.org/article/doi/10.16995/ddl.686/ Abstract and link to pdf]

;Swaffield, Audrey-Claire, 1981. : "Paperbacks Promoting Passion! What Is Harlequin Really Presenting?." ''Canadian Woman Studies/Les Cahiers de la Femme'' 3.2: 4-6.

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;Pagliassotti, Dru, 2010. : 'Better than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction', ''Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre'', Ed. Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry & Dru Pagliassotti (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 59-83. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9vn7hjM2v4QC&lpg=PA79&pg=PA59#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt.]

;Pagliassotti, Dru, 2013. : "Love and the Machine: Technology and Human Relationships in Steampunk Romance and Erotica," in ''Steaming Into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology'', ed. Julie Anne Taddeo and Cynthia J. Miller (Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow), pp. 65-87. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bYmIZNOHInoC&lpg=PA43&ots=EllchlFAGD&pg=PA65#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Paige, Lori A., 2018. : ''The Gothic Romance Wave: A Critical History of the Mass Market Novels, 1960-1993''. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2018. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-YBvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Paizis, George, 1987. : '"Putting People First" or the contemporary romantic novel, critical discourse and ideology', ''La Chouette'', no 18, March: 38-46. [''[http://www.bbk.ac.uk/llc/forstudents/fs_fr/fr_lc La Chouette]'' is published by the Department of French, School of Languages, Linguistics and Culture, Birkbeck College, University of London] **

;Paizis, George, 1987. : 'That's Romance', ''Socialist Review'', July: 24. **

;Paizis, George, 1994-95. : 'Love, Ideology and Reality: the popular romantic novel and the reader', ''Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies'', 3: 357-68. **

;Paizis, George, 1998. : 'Category Romances - Translation, Realism and Myth', ''The Translator'', 4: 1-24. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13556509.1998.10799004 Abstract]

;Paizis, George, 1998. : ''Love and the Novel: The Poetics and Politics of Romantic Fiction'' (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan). [http://www.powells.com/biblio?show=HARDCOVER:NEW:0312215479:104.50#synopses_and_reviews Some details]

;Paizis, George, 2006. : "Category Romance in the Era of Globalization: The Story of Harlequin." ''The Global Literary Field.'' (Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars)pp. 126-151.

;Palmer, Paulina, 1998. : ‘Girl Meets Girl: Changing Approaches to the Lesbian Romance,’ in ''Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film'', ed. Lynne Pearce & Gina Wisker (London: Pluto), pp. 189-204.

;Parameswaran Radhika, 1999. : 'Western Romance Fiction as English-Language Media in Postcolonial India', ''Journal of Communication'', 49.3: 84-105. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&se=gglsc&d=96458480 Abstract]

;Parameswaran, Radhika, 2002. : 'Reading Fictions of Romance: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in Postcolonial India', ''Journal of Communication'', 52.4: 832-851. [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2002.tb02576.x?journalCode=jcom Abstract]

;Parnell, Claire, 2018. : ‘Models of Publishing and Opportunities for Change: Representations in Harlequin, Montlake and Self-Published Romance Novels.’ ''Australian Literary Studies'' 33.4.[https://www.australianliterarystudies.com.au/articles/models-of-publishing-and-opportunities-for-change-representations-in-harlequin-montlake-and-self-published-romance-novels]

;Pattee, Amy S., 2011. : ''Reading the Adolescent Romance: Sweet Valley High and the Popular Young Adult Romance Novel'' (New York: Routledge). [http://books.google.com/books?id=FC_LKiA94xUC&printsec=frontcover&cd=1&source=gbs_ViewAPI#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [http://jprstudies.org/2011/12/review-reading-the-adolescent-romance-sweet-valley-high-and-the-popular-young-adult-romance-novel-by-amy-s-pattee/ Review]

;Patterson, Janet, 1981. : 'Consuming Passion', ''Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly'', 11: 19-33. Reprinted in ''Fireworks: The Best of Fireweed'', Ed. Makeda Silvera (Toronto: The Women’s Press, 1986), pp. 69-82.**

;Patthey Chavez, GG, and L. Clare, M. Youmans,1996. : 'Watery passion: The struggle between hegemony and sexual liberation in erotic fiction for women.' ''Discourse and Society.'' 7.1: 77-106.

;Peabody, Rebecca, 2016. : 'Kara Walker: American Romance in Black and White', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 131-150. [This article can also be found, in slightly expanded form, in chapter 3, "American Romance in Black and White," of Peabody's ''Consuming Stories: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race'' (Oakland, California: California UP, 2016), pages 84-109. An [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3LIlDQAAQBAJ&lpg=PR1&pg=PA84#v=onepage&q&f=false excerpt is available online].]

;Pearce, Lynne, 2004. : "Popular Romance and Its Readers." in ''A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary.'' ed. Corinne Saunders, (Malden, MA: Blackwell) pp. 521-538.

;Pearce, Lynne, 2007. : '' Romance Writing.'' (Cambridge: Polity Press). Historical treatment looking at romance broadly. Does touch on popular romance, but it is not the whole focus of the book. [http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/id/Romance_Writing/9780745630052 Abstract]

;Pearce, Lynne, 2011. : "Romance and Repetition: Testing the Limits of Love." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%e2%80%9cromance-and-repetition-testing-the-limits-of-love%e2%80%9d-by-lynne-pearce/]

;Peaty, Gwyneth, 2015. : "Rock Hard: Gargoyles in Contemporary Gothic Romance." ''New Directions in 21st Century Gothic: The Gothic Compass''. Ed. Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Donna Lee Brien. New York, NY: Routledge. 54-70. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=lang_en&id=uGahCAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA54&ots=liW5yulIi4&sig=X4X_-HQpus8StmIP28xi2w0qZSk#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Pecora, Norma, 1999. : "Identity by design : the corporate construction of teen romance novels, " in ''Growing Up Girls: Popular Culture and the Construction of Identity.'' Ed. Mazzarella, Sharon R., and Norma Odom Pecora (New York: P. Lang), pp 49-86. ** [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=34675586 Excerpt]

;Pérez Casal, Inmaculada, 2016. : “Love in Times of Crisis: An Approach to Contemporary Romance Novels in Spain.” ''Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research'' 4.2: 62-70.[https://www.ucm.es/data/cont/docs/119-2017-01-02-JACLR%204.2.6.pdf]

;Pérez Casal, Inmaculada, 2018. : “Mass-market romance and the question of genre: N. Sparks, E. L. James and D. Gabaldon.” ''Oceánide'' 10. [http://oceanide.netne.net/articulos/art10-6.pdf]

;Pérez Casal, Inmaculada, 2018. : "The Romance Novel as ''Bildungsroman'' in the Works of Rosamunde Pilcher and Lisa Kleypas". ''Taking Stock to Look Ahead: Celebrating Forty Years of English Studies in Spain''. Ed. María Ferrández San Miguel and Claus-Peter Neumann. Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2018. 139-144.[https://aedean.org/wp-content/uploads/Celebrating-Forty-Years-of-English-Studies-in-Spain.pdf#page=139]

;Pérez‐Gil, María del Mar, 2018. : "Exoticism, Ethnocentrism, and Englishness in Popular Romance Fiction: Constructing the European Other". ''Journal of Popular Culture''. Published online first 19 July 2018. [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jpcu.12710?af=R Excerpt] [Focuses on the Spanish "Other" in the English imagination.]

;Pérez-Gil, María del Mar, 2018. : "Representations of Nation and Spanish Masculinity in Popular Romance Novels: The Alpha Male as “Other”", ''The Journal of Men’s Studies''. Online First September 23, 2018. [https://doi.org/10.1177/1060826518801531 Abstract]

;Pettigrew Brackett, Kim, 2000. : “Facework Strategies among Romance Fiction Readers.” ''Social Science Journal'' 37.3: 347-360.

;Philadelphoff-Puren, Nina, 2005. : "Contextualising Consent: The Problem of Rape and Romance." ''Australian Feminist Studies'' 20.46: 31-42.

;Philadelphoff-Puren, Nina, 2004. : "The Mark of Refusal: Sexual Violence and the Politics of Recontextualization." ''Feminist Theory'' 5.3: 243–256. [http://fty.sagepub.com/content/5/3/243.abstract Abstract]

See also Puren, below.

;Philips, Deborah, 1985. : 'Marketing Moonshine', ''Women's Review'' 2 (December): 16-17. **

;Philips, Deborah, 1990. : 'Mills and Boon: The Marketing of Moonshine,' in ''Consumption, Identity, and Style: Marketing, Meanings, and the Packaging of Pleasure'', ed. Alan Tomlinson (London: Routledge), pp. 139-52. [http://books.google.com/books?id=PvAfLS2QnMwC&pg=RA1-PA139&lpg=RA1-PA139&dq=Deborah+philips+%22marketing+of+moonshine%22&source=web&ots=j6M_s4okbY&sig=zPi4ByZJjzoFXEuJHOq3fUN1UrM Excerpt here.]

;Philips, Deborah, 2000. : 'Shopping for Men: The Single Woman Narrative', ''Women: a Cultural Review'', 11.3: 238-251. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/search/article?title=philips+shopping+for+men&title_type=tka&year_from=1998&year_to=2005&database=1&pageSize=20&index=1 Abstract]

;Philips, Deborah. 2012. : "The Empire of Romance: Love in a Postcolonial Climate." In ''End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945,'' Ed. Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz. 114-133. Manchester, England: Manchester UP, 2012.

;Philips, Deborah. Forthcoming. : "Fifty Shades of Romance." ''International Journal of Cultural Studies''. [https://cris.brighton.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/5900241/palma_50_shades.pdf Manuscript version]

;Philips, Deborah. Forthcoming. : "In defence of reading trash: feminists reading the romance." ''European Journal of Cultural Studies''. [https://cris.brighton.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/506061/In+defence+of+reading+trash+%283%29.pdf Manuscript version]

;Popova, Milena, 2018. : "Rewriting the Romance: Emotion Work and Consent in Arranged Marriage Fanfiction". ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 7. [http://jprstudies.org/2018/07/rewriting-the-romance-emotion-work-and-consent-in-arranged-marriage-fanfictionby-milena-popova/]

;Postma, Kathlene, 1999. : 'American Women Readers Encounter Turkey in the Shadow of Popular Romance', ''Journal of American Studies of Turkey'', 9: 71-82. [http://www.os-ar.com/modules.php?name=Encyclopedia&op=content&tid=501722 Online, unpaginated version.] [The novel under discussion, 'Demetra Vaka's In the Shadow of Islam, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1911', is discussed in the context of the conventions of the romance novel, though it subverts them.]

;Potter, Jane, 1997. : '"A great purifier": The Great War in Women's Romances and Memoirs 1914-1918', ''Women's Fiction and The Great War'', ed. Suzanne Raitt and Trudi Tate (Oxford: Oxford UP), pp. 85-106. [http://books.google.com/books?id=-ikIQ4Zn_XkC&lpg=PP1&ots=PujRPYZru6&dq=&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [The romance authors discussed are Berta Ruck and Ruby M. Ayres.]

;Potter, Jane, 2005. : ''Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918'' (Oxford: Oxford UP). [[http://books.google.com/books?id=VMvwcIQdBZUC&lpg=PP1&ots=rVjglQJVbV&dq=&pg=PA88#v=onepage&q&f=false Chapter 3] is titled "'Putting Things in Their Right Places': The War in Romance Novels" and it considers "only a fraction of the hundreds of 'light fiction' books published between 1914 and 1918: ''My Heart's Right There'' (1914) by Florence Barclay, ''Khaki and Kisses'' (1915) by Berta Ruck, ''Richard Chatterton V. C.'' (1915) by Ruby M. Ayres, ''A Girl Munition Worker'' (1917) by Bessie Marchant, ''Before the Wind'' (1918) by Janet Laing, and ''Good Old Anna'' (1915) by Marie Belloc Lowndes" ([http://books.google.com/books?id=VMvwcIQdBZUC&lpg=PP1&ots=rVjglQJVbV&dq=&pg=PA90#v=onepage&q&f=false 90]).] [http://books.google.com/books?id=VMvwcIQdBZUC&lpg=PP1&ots=rVjglQJVbV&dq=&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Potter, Jane, 2015. : "‘Khaki and Kisses’: Reading the Romance Novel in the Great War." ''Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives''. Ed. Shafquat Towheed and Edmund G. C. King. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 29-44. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jZyhCgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PT45#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Powley, Tammy, 2015. : "Romance Fiction in Florida: The Crisscross of Jane Austen and Angela Hunt." ''Women of Florida Fiction: Essays on 12 Sunshine State Writers''. Ed. Tammy Powley and April Van Camp. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. 123-132. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=lang_en&id=Fvm2BQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA123#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Press, Andrea L., 1986. : 'New Views on the Mass Production of Women's Culture', ''Communication Research'' 13.1: 139-149. [Review essay on Radway's ''Reading the Romance'', Modleski's ''Loving with a Vengeance'' and two books on soap operas.] [http://crx.sagepub.com/content/13/1/139.extract Excerpt].

;Priest, Hannah. 2018. : “Sparkly Vampires and Shimmering Aliens: The Paranormal Romance of Stephenie Meyer.” ''Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction,'' edited by Bernice M. Murphy and Stephen Matterson, Edinburgh University Press, 2018, pp. 182–192

;Proctor, Candice, 2007. : 'The Romance Genre Blues or Why We Don't Get No Respect.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 12-19.

;Puente, Sonia Núñez. 2008.: "The romance novel and popular culture during the early Franco regime in Spain: towards the construction of other discourses of femininity." ''Journal of Gender Studies'' 17, no. 3: 225-236.

;Purdie, Susan, 1992. : 'Janice Radway, Reading the Romance', in ''Reading into Cultural Studies'' ed. Martin Barker and Anne Beezer, (London: Routledge), pp. 148-64.

;Puren, Nina, 1995. : 'Hymeneal Acts: Interrogating the Hegemony of Rape and Romance', ''Australian Feminist Law Journal'' 5: 15-26. [Mentions [[Charlotte Lamb]]'s ''The Sex War'', London: Mills and Boon, 1988.]

;Puri, Jyoti, 1997. : ‘Reading Romance Novels in Postcolonial India’, ''Gender & Society'', 11.4: 434-452. [http://gas.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/4/434?ck=nck Abstract]

==Q==

;Quilliam, Susan, 2011. : ' “He seized her in his manly arms and bent his lips to hers…”. The surprising impact that romantic novels have on our work', ''Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care'' 37.3: 179-181. [http://jfprhc.bmj.com/content/37/3/179.extract Excerpt] [http://press.psprings.co.uk/JFPRH/july/JFPRH1100152.pdf PDF]

==R==

;Rabine, Leslie, 1985. : ''Reading the Romantic Heroine: Text, History, Ideology'', (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press).** [This is described in Williams and Freedman as a "study of the romantic quest from Tristan and Isolde to the Harlequin novel" (145). A chapter each is devoted to the Tristan/Isolde legend, Prévost's ''Manon Lescaut'', Stendhal's ''The Red and the Black'', Charlotte Brontë's ''Shirley'', Alain-Fournier's ''Big Meaulnes'' and Harlequin romances.]

;Rabine, Leslie W., 1985. : ‘Romance in the Age of Electronics: Harlequin Enterprises’, ''Feminist Studies'' 11.1: 39-60. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/3180131 Excerpt]

;Radford, Jean, 1992. : "A Certain Latitude: Romance as Genre." in ''Gender, Language, and Myth: Essays and Popular Narrative.'' ed. Glenwood Irons, (Toronto: U of Toronto P), pp. 3-19.

;Radhika, P., 2004-2005. : "Narratives of Fractured Conjugality: Women’s Romance Novels in Kannada, 1950s-1960s." ''Journal of Karnataka Studies'' 2.1.[http://journalofkarnatakastudies.org/JKS/articles-pdf/JKS%20200411%20to%20200504%20Article%20%284%29.pdf PDF] [As might be deduced from the title, not all of the novels under discussion are "romances" with happy endings: "As is characteristic of all romance novels, the formation of a couple as constituent of romantic love also figures in the post-50s women‘s novels. However, in contrast to the earlier women‘s novels, what is dramatised in the novels of Indira, Triveni, Vani and Anupama is that they significantly articulate the fracturing of the conjugal space and, except for the novels of Anupama (which I will discuss later), have tragic endings." (9)]

;Radhika, P., 2014. : "Inaugurating a (Feminine) Public: Women’s Romances in Kannada, 1950s–1960s." ''Indian Journal of Gender Studies'' 21.1 (2014): 85-110. [http://ijg.sagepub.com/content/21/1/85.short Abstract]

;Radick, Caryn, 2016. : "Romance Writers’ Use of Archives." ''Archivaria, the Journal of the Association of Canadian Archivists'' 81: 45-73. [http://journals.sfu.ca/archivar/index.php/archivaria/article/view/13558 Abstract]

;Radner, Hilary, 1995. : ''Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure'' (New York: Routledge). [See Chapter 3, 'A Dream of Thee,' pages 67-104, which has two sections: 'The Erotic Gag: Reading the Category Romance' and 'Alibis and Cover Stories: Pornography, History, Race, and the Category Romance'.] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LFBy0zINhtkC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA67#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Radway, Janice, 1981. : 'The Utopian Impulse in Popular Literature: Gothic Romances and "Feminist" Protest', ''American Quarterly,'' 33.2 (Summer, 1981): 140-162. [First page available [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0678(198122)33%3A2%3C140%3ATUIIPL%3E2.0.CO;2-2 here]]

;Radway, Janice A, 1982. : 'The Aesthetic in Mass Culture: Reading and the 'Popular' Literary Text', ''Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, Festschrift in Honor of Felix Vodicka'', Ed. Peter Steiner and Ronald Vroon (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, B.V.), pp. 397-429. [Excerpt available from [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TdksXiP6WwQC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA397#v=onepage&q&f=false here]]. [Takes gothic romances as examples.]

;Radway, Janice A., 1983. : ‘Women Read the Romance: The Interaction of Text and Context’, ''Feminist Studies'', 9.1: 53-78. [First page available [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0046-3663(198321)9%3A1%3C53%3AWRTRTI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7 here]] [Rptd. in Ostrov Weisser, ''Women and Romance'', pp. 323-341. **]

;Radway, Janice A., 1984. : 'Interpretive Communities And Variable Literacies: The Functions Of Romance Reading', ''Daedalus'', 113.3:49-73.

;Radway, Janice A., 1991. : ''Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press). First published in 1984. The 1991 edition contains a new introduction by the author.

;Radway, Janice, 1994. : 'Romance and the Work of Fantasy: Struggles over Feminine Sexuality and Subjectivity at Century's End', in ''Viewing, Reading, Listening: Audiences and Cultural Reception'', ed. Jon Cruz and Justin Lewis (Colorado: Westview Press), pp. 213-31. Reprinted in ''Feminism and Cultural Studies'', ed. Morag Shiach (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 395-???. **

;Rani, Mohd. Zariat Abdul, 2012. : "Islam, Romance and Popular Taste in Indonesia." ''Indonesia and the Malay World: '' 40.116 (2012): 59-73. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13639811.2011.648998 Abstract]

;Rani, Mohd Zariat Abdul, 2014. : "The conflict of love and Islam: the main ingredients in the popular Islamic novels of Malaysia." ''South East Asia Research'' 22.3: 417-433. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ip/sear/2014/00000022/00000003/art00008 Abstract] [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ip/sear/2014/00000022/00000003/art00008?crawler=true]

;Rapp, Adrian, Dodgen, Lynda, and Anne K. Kaler, 2000. : "A Romance Writer Gets Away with Murder." ''Clues: A Journal of Detection'' 21.1: 17-21.

;[[Alicia Rasley|Rasley, Alicia]], 1999. :'Paradox in Balance: Some Feminist Themes in Romance', originally published in ''North American Romance Writers'', see above.[http://www.sff.net/people/alicia/artparadox.htm]

;Raub, Patricia, 1992. : "Issues of Passion and Power in E. M. Hull's ''The Sheik''." ''Women's Studies'', 21: 119-128.

;[[Diana Reep|Reep, Diana]], 1982: ''[[The Rescue And Romance: Popular Novels Before World War I]]'', Bowling Green Sate University Popular Press.

;Reeves, Anne R., 2004. : 'Rosa: Fiction as Therapy,' ''Adolescents Talk About Reading: Exploring Resistance to and Engagement with Text''. International Reading Association. 107-156. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FoByTSK_vb8C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA107#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [This chapter of the book explores reading for "escape" through the experiences of Rosa, who "was especially expert in reading romance novels and proud of her expertise" (107) and whose reading allowed her to "dwell on her own troubles, but at a distance made safe by the intervening presence of the story with the happy ending" (115).]

;Regan, Lisa. 2017. : "Women and the 'War Machine' in the Desert Romances of E. M. Hull and Rosita Forbes." ''Women's Writing'', vol. 24, no. 1, Feb. 2017, pp. 109-122. DOI: 10.1080/09699082.2016.1233773 [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09699082.2016.1233773?journalCode=rwow20 Abstract]

;Regis, Pamela, 1997. : 'Complicating Romances and Their Readers: Barrier and Point of Ritual Death in Nora Roberts's Category Fiction.' ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2:145-154.

;Regis, Pamela, 2003. : ''A Natural History of the Romance Novel'' (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press). [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=juPQyVJrsFAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0 Excerpt] [The book is the subject of a Roundtable section in the [http://jprstudies.org/issues/issue-3-2/ ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 (2013)].]

;Regis, Pamela, 2011. : "Female genre fiction in the twentieth century." ''The Cambridge History of the American Novel''. Ed. Leonard Cassuto, Clare Virginia Eby and Benjamin Reiss. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 847-60. [The chapter includes "a definition of the romance novel, some categories to advance its literary analysis, and a first effort to place it in literary history, especially in foundational relation to the sentimental literature of the nineteenth century" (848). It also includes analysis of "seven twentieth-century American romances" (848), among which are [[Kathleen Woodiwiss]]'s ''The Flame and the Flower'', [[Jennifer Crusie]]'s ''Bet Me'', [[Beverly Jenkins]]'s ''Indigo'', [[Ann Herendeen]]'s ''Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander'', and [[Nora Roberts]]' ''Irish Thoroughbred''.] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4ZEPkIzETb0C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA848#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt.]

;Regis, Pamela, 2011. : “What Do Critics Owe the Romance? Keynote Address at the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%E2%80%9Cwhat-do-critics-owe-the-romance-keynote-address-at-the-second-annual-conference-of-the-international-association-for-the-study-of-popular-romance%E2%80%9D-by-pamela-regis/] [There is [http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%E2%80%9Cmatricide-in-romance-scholarship-response-to-pamela-regis%E2%80%99-keynote-address-at-the-second-annual-conference-of-the-international-association-for-the-study-of-popular-romance%E2%80%9D/ a response by An Goris] in the same issue of ''JPRS''].

;Regis, Pamela, 2013. : 'Ten Years After ''A Natural History of the Romance Novel'': Thinking Back, Looking Forward', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/ten-years-after-a-natural-history-of-the-romance-novel-thinking-back-looking-forward-by-pamela-regis/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Regis_ThinkingBack.pdf as a pdf].]

;Regis, Pamela, 2016. : '''Pamela'' Crosses the Atlantic; or, Pamela Andrews's Story Inaugurates the American Romance Novel', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp.25-40. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eAckDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT9&ots=aa7Bfg37EE&lr&pg=PT38#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Reid Boyd, Elizabeth, 2014. : 'Romancing feminism: From women’s studies to women’s fiction.' ''Australasian Journal of Popular Culture'' 3.3: 263-272. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/ajpc/2014/00000003/00000003/art00002 Abstract] [https://www.academia.edu/9400026/Romancing_Feminism_From_Womens_Studies_to_Womens_Fiction Text]

;Rholetter, Wylene, 2008. : '[[Nora Roberts]]', ''Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice'' 2.2/3. [Formerly at [http://www.teachingamericanlit.com/files/Microsoft_Word_-_TALTP-RobertsNora.pdf]. This link no longer works but a pdf of the entire issue can be downloaded from [http://www.cpcc.edu/taltp/archives/spring-summer-2008-2-2-3/spring_summer_2008_merged.pdf/at_download/file]].

;Ricker-Wilson, Carol, 1999. : ‘Busting Textual Bodices: Gender, Reading, and the Popular Romance’, ''English Journal'', 88:3: 57-64. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/821580 Excerpt]

;Rix, Robert W., 2009. : '“Love in the Clouds”: [[Barbara Cartland]]’s Religious Romances', ''The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture'' 21.2. [http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/c935l2276u264262/ Excerpt] [http://web.archive.org/web/20091119103047/http://www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc/art21%282%29-LoveClouds.html Archived version]

;Roach, Catherine, 2010. : 'Getting a Good Man to Love: Popular Romance Fiction and the Problem of Patriarchy', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 1.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2010/08/getting-a-good-man-to-love-popular-romance-fiction-and-the-problem-of-patriarchy-by-catherine-roach/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/JPRS1.1_Roach_GettingGoodMantoLove.pdf as a pdf].]

;Roach, Catherine, 2014. : '“Going Native”: Aca-Fandom and Deep Participant Observation in Popular Romance Studies', ''Mosaic'' 47.2: 33-49. [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/mosaic/v047/47.2.roach.html Abstract and excerpt]

;Roach, Catherine M., 2016. : 'Love as the Practice of Bondage: Popular Romance Narratives and the Conundrum of Erotic Love', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 369-387.

;Roach, Catherine M., 2016. : ''Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture'' (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press).[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gmSjCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth, 2002. : 'Meet Jessica and Elizabeth from Sweet Valley: Who Are the Female Role Models in Popular Romance Novels for Children?', Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (New Orleans, LA, April 1-5, 2002). 21 pgs. ERIC document ED470819.

;Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth, 2010. : "Twenty-five years and counting of Sweet Valley: Jessica and Elizabeth in romance novels for young children?" ''Journal of Research in Childhood Education'' 24.2:123-139. [[http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a920286976~db=all~jumptype=rss Abstract] and [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-245951985.html excerpt].]

;Robinson, Lillian S., 1978. : 'Reading Trash', in ''Sex, Class, and Culture''. Ed. Lillian S. Robinson (Bloomington: Indiana University Press), pp. 200-222. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=090OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA200&lpg=PA200&dq=&source=bl&ots=n_LIlJbPtt&sig=HeERqJr9uAX6Oj7OGEBuJrgNfcg&hl=en&ei=NprSSfPVKdvN-Qa6kvy1BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA200,M1 Excerpt from a later edition] ["Most of this essay will be focused on a contrast between the works of [[Jane Austen]] and those of [[Georgette Heyer]]" (202)]

;[http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=101551297 Romantic Conventions], 1999. : Anne K. Kaler and Rosemary E. Johnson-Kurek, eds. (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press). [Preview of parts of this available [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ja_Ia-oZo4wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=&f=false via Google Books].]

;Rosanowski, Annika, 2019. : "Can She Have It All? Pregnancy Narratives in Contemporary Category Romance", ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 8 (2019). [http://jprstudies.org/2019/03/can-she-have-it-all-pregnancy-narratives-in-contemporary-category-romanceby-annika-rosanowski/]

;Rose, Suzanna, 1985. : "Is Romance Dysfunctional?." ''International Journal of Women's Studies'', 8.3: 250-265. ["Argues that among the forces that shape desire in women and men are the depictions of relationships and sexual expression in popular fiction. [...] It is contended that by encompassing primarily the courtship phase of relationships, the scripts provide little guidance relevant to maintaining long-term relationships."] [http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1986-17217-001 Abstract][http://myweb.fiu.edu/srose/wp-content/uploads/sites/127/2014/08/1985-Rose-IsRomanceDysfunctional-1.pdf pdf]

;Ross, Catherine Sheldrick. 2009. : "Reader on Top: Public Libraries, Pleasure Reading, and Models of Reading." ''Library Trends'' 57.4: 632-656. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lib/summary/v057/57.4.ross.html Abstract.] [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Catherine_Ross3/publication/236705306_Reader_on_Top_Public_Libraries_Pleasure_Reading_and_Models_of_Reading/links/0c960528e844b446cf000000/Reader-on-Top-Public-Libraries-Pleasure-Reading-and-Models-of-Reading&hl=en&sa=X&scisig=AAGBfm1BzGHzUwyFEy2rBdDKyEKkBvmKMQ&nossl=1&oi=scholaralrt Unpaginated version.]

;Ross, Marlon B., 2013. : " 'What’s Love But a Second Hand Emotion?': Man-on-Man Passion in the Contemporary Black Gay Romance Novel." ''Callaloo'' 36.3 (2013): 669-687. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/callaloo/v036/36.3.ross.html Excerpt]. [There's a short summary [http://www.vivanco.me.uk/blog/post/black-gay-romance here].]

;Rudisill, Kristen, 2018. : “Full-Blooded Desi Romance: Contemporary English-Language Romance Novels in India.” ''Journal of Popular Culture''. vol. 51, no. 3, June 2018, pp. 754-775. Online First. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.12652/full Excerpt]

;Ruggiero, Josephine A. and Louise C. Weston. : 'Sex-Role Characterization of Women in "Modern Gothic Novels"', ''Pacific Sociological Review'' 20: 279-300. **

;Ruggiero, Josephine A. and Weston, Louise C., 1983. : 'Conflicting Images Of Women In Romance Novels', ''International Journal of Women's Studies'', 6.1:18-25.

;Russ, Joanna, 1973. : 'Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic', ''Journal of Popular Culture'', 6.4: 666-691.

;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : ‘Amongst Women: Male Romance Authors and Irish Chick Lit Author, Andrew O’Connor’, ''The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture'' 1.2: 209-225. [http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=11989/ Abstract]

;Ryder, Mary Ellen, 1999. : 'Smoke and mirrors: Event patterns in the discourse structure of a romance novel', ''Journal of Pragmatics'', 31.8: 1067-1080. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VCW-3X6BRT2-6&_user=10&_coverDate=08%2F31%2F1999&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=04a8b80871ea922fecd7d9ba3a6b26c9 Abstract] ** [Analysis focuses on "the climax of a novel by [[Barbara Cartland]]."]

==S==

;Sales, Roger, 1999. : "The Loathsome Lord and the Disdainful Dame: Byron, Cartland and the Regency Romance." in ''Byromania: Portraits of the Artist in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Culture.'' ed. Frances Wilson, (Basingstoke, England; New York, NY: Macmillan; St. Martin's) pp. 166-183.

;Salmon, Catherine and Donald Symons, 2003. : ''Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution and Female Sexuality'' (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press). ** [http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300093544 Abstract] ["The stark contrasts between romance novels and pornography underscore how different female and male erotic fantasies are. These differences reflect human evolutionary history [...]. The authors focus particular attention on slash fiction [...] [and] argue that—despite some differences—slash fiction has much in common with romance novels."]

;Salmon, Catherine, 2012. : "The Pop Culture of Sex: An Evolutionary Window on the Worlds of Pornography and Romance." ''Review of General Psychology'' 16.2: 152-60. [http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/gpr/16/2/152/ Abstract]

;Salmon, Catherine, 2016. : "What Do Romance Novels, Pro Wrestling, and Mack Bolan Have in Common?: Consilience and the Pop Culture of Storytelling." ''Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences''. Ed. Joseph Carroll, Dan P. McAdams and Edward O. Wilson. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016. 167-182. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tUUnDAAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA167#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;[[Barbara Samuel|Samuel, Barbara]], 1997. : "The Art of Romance Novels." ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 78-80.

;Sanders, Lise Shapiro, 2006. : ''Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920''. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.[https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/6327/Sanders_T-S_Final.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y] [See Chapters 3 and 4 on "The Failures of the Romance: Boredom and the Production of Consuming Desires" and "Imagining Alternatives to the Romance: Absorption and Distraction as Modes of Reading."]

;Sanders, Lise Shapiro, 2018. : "Making the Modern Girl: Fantasy, Consumption, and Desire in Romance Weeklies of the 1920s". ''Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period''. Ed. Catherine Clay, Maria DiCenzo, Barbara Green, and Fiona Hackney. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TIJ8DwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PT181#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Santaulària, Isabel, 2002. : "The Fallacy of Eternal Love: Romance, Vampires and the Deconstruction of Love in [[Linda Lael Miller]]'s ''Forever and the Night'' and ''For All Eternity''." in ''The Aesthetics of Ageing: Critical Approaches to Literary Representations of the Ageing Process.'' Ed. Maria O’Neill and Carmen Zamorano Llena (Lleida, Spain: Universitat de Lleida), pp. 111-126.

;Schalk, Sami, 2016. : "Happily Ever After for Whom? Blackness and Disability in Romance Narratives." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 49.6: 1241–1260. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.12491/abstract Excerpt]

;Schell, Heather, 2007. : "The Big Bad Wolf: Masculinity and Genetics in Popular Culture." ''Literature and Medicine'' 26.1: 109-125. ([[Christine Feehan]] is the author addressed in this article). [http://www.academia.edu/166481/The_Big_Bad_Wolf_Masculinity_and_Genetic_in_Popular_Culture]

;Schell, Heather, 2010. : "The Love Life of a Fact." ''How Well Do "Facts" Travel?: The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge''. Ed. Peter Howlett and Mary S. Morgan. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP). ** [It's Chapter 16 and an unofficial version is available [http://gwu.academia.edu/HeatherSchell/Papers/181725/The-Love-Life-of-a-Fact here].]

;Schell, Heather, 2013. : "Bringing the Mid-West to the Middle-East: An Analysis of a Harlequin Romance in English and Turkish, in ''The Silk Road of Adaptation: Transformations across Disciplines and Cultures'', ed. Laurence Raw (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars), pp. 160-171. [http://www.academia.edu/5070456/Bringing_the_Mid-West_to_the_Middle_East_An_Analysis_of_a_Harlequin_Romance_in_English_and_Turkish]

;Schell, Heather, 2014. : "Love’s Laborers Lost: Radway, Romance Writers, and Recuperating Our Past." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2.[http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/loves-laborers-lost-radway-romance-writers-and-recuperating-our-pastby-heather-schell/]

;Schiffman, Leon G. and Steven P. Schnaars, 1981. : "The Consumption of Historical Romance Novels: Consumer Aesthetics in Popular Literature." Symbolic Consumer Behavior. (Association for Consumer Research), pp. 46-51.[http://www.acrwebsite.org/volumes/display.asp?id=12226]

;Schwab, Sandra, 2012. : '“It Is Only with One’s Heart That One Can See Clearly”: The Loss of Sight in Teresa Medeiros’s ''The Bride and the Beast'' and ''Yours until Dawn''', ''Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies'' 6.3: 275-289. [http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/2215905617t20842/?p=bd59abac917a43e0bcd2bcdaa775970b&pi=2 Abstract and Excerpt]

;Scott, Alison M. 2002. : 'Romance in the Stacks; or, Popular Romance Fiction Imperiled', in ''Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America'', ed. Lydia Cushman Schurman and Deidre Johnson, Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture, 75 (Westport, CT: Greenwood),pp. 213-224.

;Seale,Maura, 2007. : '"I find some Hindu practices, like burning widows, utterly bizarre": Representation of Sati and Questions of Choice in ''Veils of Silk''.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 129-147. [http://mauraseale.googlepages.com/veils_final_version.doc Unpaginated version]

;[[Kathleen Gilles Seidel | Seidel, Kathleen Gilles]], 1997. : "Half-Risen Venus", ''Paradoxa'' 3.1-2: 250-252. [This is a review of Paul Grescoe's ''Merchants of Venus: Inside Harlequin and the Empire of Romance''.]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2007. : 'Rereading the Romance', ''Contemporary Literature'', 48.2: 307-324.[http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/contemporary_literature/v048/48.2selinger.html] [This is a review article, critiquing earlier works on the romance genre (such as those by Radway and Modleski) and giving more favourable opinions about the newer works under review: Juliet Flesch's ''From Australia with Love: A History of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels''; ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels'', edited by Sally Goade; Deborah Lutz's ''The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative''; Lynn S. Neal's ''Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction''; Pamela Regis's ''A Natural History of the Romance Novel''.]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy and Sarah S. G. Frantz, 2012. : 'Introduction: New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction,' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 1-19. [Includes a brief history of the study of popular romance fiction.] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OSAgWRwoU5YC&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2012. : 'How to Read a Romance Novel (and Fall in Love with Popular Romance),' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 33-46. [Includes analysis of Laura Kinsale's ''Flowers from the Storm''.]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2012. : 'Nothing But Good Times Ahead: A Special Forum on Jennifer Crusie (Editor’s Introduction)', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.2 (2012).[http://jprstudies.org/2012/04/nothing-but-good-times-ahead-a-special-forum-on-jennifer-crusie-editors-introduction/].

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2013. : 'Rebooting the Romance: The Impact of ''A Natural History of the Romance Novel''', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/rebooting-the-romance-the-impact-of-a-natural-history-of-the-romance-novel-by-eric-murphy-selinger/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Selinger_RegisRebooting.pdf as a pdf].]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2014. : 'My Metatextual Romance: Thinking With (and About) ''Jaane Tu Ya Janne Na''', ''Mosaic'' 47.2: 51-66. [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/mosaic/v047/47.2.selinger.html Abstract and excerpt] ["Scholars of popular romance fiction have begun to credit the genre with political and aesthetic self-consciousness, a “metatextual turn” that parallels changes in the academic reception of Hindi popular cinema"]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2015. : 'Editor’s Note: Issue 5.1', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/editors-note-issue-5-1/]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2015. : 'An Interview with Susan Elizabeth Phillips', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/an-interview-with-susan-elizabeth-phillipsby-eric-murphy-selinger/]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy and William A. Gleason, 2016. : "Introduction: Love as the Practice of Freedom?" ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 1-21. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eAckDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT9&ots=aa7Bfg37EE&lr&pg=PT15#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2016. : 'When I Paint My Masterpiece: Bob Dylan, Ekphrasis, and the Art of Susan Elizabeth Phillips', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 297-319.

;Sequeiros, Paula, 2018. : '“Holding the Dream”: Women’s Favorite Reading Matter in a Portuguese Prison', ''Qualitative Sociology Review'' 14.1: 110-128.[Available as a pdf [http://www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/Volume44/QSR_14_1_Sequeiros.pdf from the journal] and also [http://eprints.rclis.org/32292/1/QSR_14_1_leit%20prisao.pdf here].]

;Sewell Matter, Laura, 2007. : “Pursuing the Great Bad Novelist”, ''The Georgia Review'' 61.3 (2007): 444-459. [About Charles Garvice.]

;Serafine, Amelia, 2016. : '"He Filled My Heart with Doubt": The Southern Belle's Love and Duty in the Civil War', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 41-55.

;Serisier, Tanya. 2015. : "On Not Reading Fifty Shades: Feminism and the Fantasy of Romantic Immunity." In ''Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets and Readers,'' 117-132. Jefferson, NC: McFarland,

;Shachar, Hila. 2011. : "A Post-Feminist Romance: Love, Gender and Intertextuality in Stephenie Meyer's Saga." In ''Theorizing Twilight: Critical Essays on What's at Stake in a Post-Vampire World'' 147-161. Eds. Maggie Parke and Natalie Wilson. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011.

;Shapiro, Joan, & Lee Kroeger, 1991. : ‘Is Life a Romantic Novel? The Relationship Between Attitudes About Intimate Relationships and the Popular Media’, ''American Journal of Family Therapy'', 19.3: 226-236. ** [http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a779552378 Abstract]

;Sheehan, Sarah E. and Jen Stevens, 2015. : "Creating a Popular Romance Collection in an Academic Library", ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1. [http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/creating-a-popular-romance-collection-in-an-academic-libraryby-sarah-e-sheehan-and-jen-stevens/]

;Shore, Z. Lesley, 2000. : 'Essay Review', ''Educational Studies'' 31.2: 132-145. [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/S15326993ES3102_4 Abstract], includes the sentence: "The ubiquitous, aggressively marketed series romances that a girl reads in adolescence are read not as mere fantasy or entertainment but as a road map for life. This compelling romantic ideology channels girls narrowly toward heterosexuality and marriage." For similar ideas, expressed at greater length, see Shore's dissertation.]

;Shumway, David R., 1999. : “Romance in the Romance: Love and Marriage in Turn-of-the-Century Best Sellers.” ''Journal of Narrative Theory'' 29.1: 110-134. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/30224546?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Excerpt]

;Sinner, Carsten, 2012. : "Fictional orality in romance novels: Between linguistic reality and editorial requirements." ''The Translation of Fictive Dialogue''. Ed. Jenny Brumme and Anna Espunya. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 119–136.

;Smith, Janet S. Shibamoto. 1999. : "From Hiren to Happi-endo: Romantic Expression in the Japanese Love Story." In ''Languages of Sentiment: Cultural Constructions of Emotional Substrates,'' 131-150. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Benjamins. [[http://benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=AiCR%2018 Extensive excerpt available from Benjamins' website] (click on the "Google Preview" button).]

;Shibamoto Smith, Janet S., 2004. : 'Language and Gender in the (Hetero)Romance: "Reading" the Ideal Hero/ine through Lovers' Dialogue in Japanese Romance Fiction', in ''Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People'', ed. Shigeko Okamoto and Janet S. Shibamoto Smith (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 113-130. ** [http://linguistlist.org/issues/16/16-1676.html Review]

;Shibamoto-Smith, Janet S., 2005. : ‘Translating True Love: Japanese Romantic Fiction, Harlequin-Style’ in ''Gender, Sex and Translation: The Manipulation of Identities'', ed. José Santaemilia (Manchester: St. Jerome Publishing), pp. 97-116. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0EgeCwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA97&ots=_VBVDxRknz&lr=lang_en&pg=PA97#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Shibamoto Smith, Janet S., 2008. : "Changing Lovestyles: Fictional Representations of Contemporary Japanese Men in Love." ''Positions'' 16.2: 359-87. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/positions/summary/v016/16.2.shibamoto-smith.html First Page]

;Simon, Jenni M., 2018. : ''Consuming Agency and Desire in Romance: Stories of Love, Laughter, and Empowerment''. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Q6k7DwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR5&ots=hhP2EqTrMr&sig=r8KErwV2-FueFcFirRZx2xZ9jCQ#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Slušná, Zuzana, 2014. : "Paranormal and Religious as Part of Pop Cultural Consumerism." ''European Journal of Science and Theology'' 10.1: 99-110. [http://www.ejst.tuiasi.ro/Files/48/11_Slusna.pdf]

;Slušná, Zuzana, 2015. : "Postfeminism, Post-romantic and New Patterns of Feminity [sic] in Popular Culture." ''European Journal of Science and Theology'' 11.6: 229-238.[http://www.ejst.tuiasi.ro/Files/55/23_Slusna.pdf]

;Smith, Faith, 1999. :"Beautiful Indians, Troublesome Negroes, and Nice White Men: Caribbean Romances and the Invention of Trinidad." in ''Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation.'' ed. Belinda Edmondson (Charlottesville, VA: UP of Virginia) pp. 163-182. [http://books.google.com/books?id=MxpIIwPyc-sC&lpg=PP1&dq=&pg=PA163#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Snitow, Ann Barr, 1979. : ‘Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women is Different’, ''Radical History Review'' 20 (Spring/Summer 1979):141-61. [http://rhr.dukejournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/1979/20/141?ssource=mfc&rss=1 Excerpt] Republished in ''Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality'' 1983., ed. Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell & Sharon Thompson (New York: Monthly Review Press), pp. 245-263. Excerpt published in "Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader", ed. Mary Eagleton. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MO9xIC7umwwC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA192#v=onepage&q=&f=false of which an excerpt is available online.] [scroll down the page to reach the beginning of the excerpt.] Republished in Ostrov Weisser, ''Women and Romance'' (see above), pp. 307-322.

;Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. 2010. : ''Reading [[Nora Roberts]].'' Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iZb2St4N1oAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false Excerpt]

;Sommer, Doris, 1991. : ''Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America''. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press). [The following two quotes may give an impression of the contents: "Romantic novels go hand in hand with patriotic history in Latin America. The books fueled a desire for domestic happiness that runs over into dreams of national prosperity; and nation-building projects invested private passions with public purpose" ([http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BWAXcZaAEyQC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q&f=false 7]) and "the lovers must imagine their ideal relationship through an alternative society. Once they project that ideal as an image that looks like a wedding portrait, their union [...] becomes the mediating principle that urges the narrative forward like a promise" ([http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BWAXcZaAEyQC&pg=PA18#v=onepage&q&f=false 18]). [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BWAXcZaAEyQC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt].]

;Sonnet, Esther, 1999. : "'Erotic Fiction by Women for Women’: The Pleasures of Post-Feminist Heterosexuality." ''Sexualities,''2.2:167-187. [From the [http://sexualities.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/2/2/167 abstract] [https://www.academia.edu/929962/Erotic_Fiction_by_Women_for_Women_The_Pleasures_of_Post-Feminist_Heterosexuality pdf]: "This article addresses the material construction of female heterosexuality through examination of the mass marketing of women’s pornography - ‘erotic fiction for women by women’ as exemplified by Virgin Publishing’s Black Lace imprint."]

;Sonnet, Esther, 2000. : "What the Woman Reads: Categorising Contemporary Popular Erotica for Women." ''Consuming for Pleasure: Selected Essays on Popular Fiction''. Ed. Julia Hallam and Nickianne Moody. Liverpool: Liverpool John Moores UP and the Association for Research in Popular Fictions. pp. 246-267. [https://www.academia.edu/4305268/What_the_Woman_Reads_Categorising_Contemporary_Popular_Erotica_for_Women pdf] [This article could be considered an expanded version of the previous one, which puts the Black Lace erotica in the context of other fiction for women with sexual content, including romance "bodice-rippers," and discusses the ways in which these texts are classified/assigned to particular genres/subgenres.]

;Sonnet, Esther, 2002. : "'"Just a book", she said ...': Refiguring Ethnography for the Female Readers of Sexual Fiction." ''The Audience Studies Reader''. Ed. Will Brooker & Deborah Jermyn. London: Routledge. pp. 254-273.[https://www.academia.edu/4304721/Just_a_book_she_said..._Reconfiguring_Ethnography_for_the_Female_Readers_of_Sexual_Fiction pdf]

;Spehner, Norbert, 1997. : 'L'Amour, toujours l'amour ...: The Popular Love Story and Romance: A Basic Checklist of Secondary Sources', ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 253-268.

;Spender, Dale, 1986. : "Male Romance." ''Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen'' (London: Pandora), pp. 152-169. [As the title of Spender's book indicates, this is not about modern romance fiction but Spender does mention Harlequin/Mills & Boon and discusses how "romance" has (a) become associated with women and (b) acquired a very low literary status. The title of this chapter reflects a subsidiary definition of "romance" as "picturesque falsehood": "we have in the containment of women, a male romance, a 'picturesque falsehood' constructed in male interest" (162). Some quotes from the chapter can be found [http://teachmetonight.blogspot.com/2011/06/sex-and-sentimentality-on-women-writers.html here].]

;Spigel, Lynn. 1985. : "Detours in the Search for Tomorrow: Tania Modleski's Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women." ''Camera Obscura: A Journal of Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies'' 13-14: 215-234.

;Spillman, K. Elizabeth, 2012. : 'The "Managing Female" in the Novels of Georgette Heyer,' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 84-98.

;Stacey, Jackie & Lynne Pearce, 1995. : 'The Heart of the Matter: Feminists Revisit Romance', in ''Romance Revisited'', ed. Lynne Pearce & Jackie Stacey (New York: New York University Press), pp. 11-45.

;Stafford, Jane. 2016. : "Romance in the Backblocks in New Zealand Popular Fiction, 1930–1950: Mary Scott's Barbara Stories." ''Popular Fiction and Spatiality: Reading Genre Settings,'' Lisa (ed. and introd.) Fletcher, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 63-78

;Stern, Barbara B, 1991. : 'Two Pornographies: A Feminist View of Sex in Advertising', in ''Advances in Consumer Research Volume'' 18. ed. Rebecca H. Holman and Michael R. Solomon (Provo, UT: Association for Consumer Research), pp. 384-391. [http://www.acrwebsite.org/volumes/display.asp?id=7190 Unpaginated version from the Association for Consumer Research's website.]

;Stern, Stephanie C., Brianne Robbins, Jessica E. Black and Jennifer L. Barnes, 2018. : "What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs About Relationships." ''Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts''. Advance online publication. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/aca0000189 Abstract]

;Stieg, Margaret F., 1985. : 'Indian Romances: Tracts for the Times', ''Journal of Popular Culture'', 18.4: 2-15. ['the Indian Romance, flourished between 1890 and 1930. It was a romantic novel set in India, featuring Anglo-Indians (English expatriates living in India) as the leading characters.' (1985: 2)] [http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119508803/abstract Excerpt]

;Still, Julie, 2005. : 'Reading Between the Lines: Librarians as Authors of Fiction', ''LIBRES'' 15.1.[http://libres.curtin.edu.au/libres15n1/Still_2005_02_16.htm] [Discusses Jayne Ann Krentz: "while she does not discuss library issues specifically, the importance of information -- having it, getting it, evaluating it, managing it, using it, and profiting from it, is a clear and present theme in her works"]

;Stoneley, Peter, 1999. : '"Never Love a Cowboy": Romance Fiction and Fantasy Families', ''Writing and Fantasy'', ed. Ceri Sullivan and Barbara White (London: Longman), pp. 223-235. [He argues that since "all desire is fantastical by its very nature" (223), romance is no more unrealistic than many other forms of fiction. He detects an "apparent incommensurability between sexual desire and family values" (226) in Silhouette's "Western Lovers" romances.]

;Stotesbury, John A, 1994. : "Language and Mindstyle in Anglophone Popular Romantic Fiction under Apartheid." ''Logos'' 14: 18-32.

;Stotesbury, John A., 2004 : 'Genre and Islam in Recent Anglophone Romantic Fiction', in ''Refracting the Canon in Contemporary British Literature and Film'', ed. Christian Gutleben & Susana Onega, Postmodern Studies, 35 (Amsterdam: Rodopi), pp. 69-82. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/rodopi/pms/2004/00000035/00000001/art00004 Abstract] **

;Stout, Diana, 2008. : '[[Karen Robards]]', ''Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice'' 2.2/3. [Formerly at [http://www.teachingamericanlit.com/files/Microsoft_Word_-_TALTP-RobardsKaren_not_using.pdf]. Unfortunately this essay appears to have been omitted from a pdf of the entire issue which can be downloaded from [http://www.cpcc.edu/taltp/archives/spring-summer-2008-2-2-3/spring_summer_2008_merged.pdf/at_download/file]].

;Stowers, Eva, 2007. : 'City of Fantasy: Romance Novels in Las Vegas.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 198-205.

;Struve, Laura, 2011. : "Sisters of Sorts: Reading Romantic Fiction and the Bonds Among Female Readers." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 44.6: 1289–1306. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-5931.2011.00901.x/abstract Excerpt][https://www.academia.edu/11965485/Sisters_of_Sorts_Reading_Romantic_Fiction_and_the_Bonds_Among_Female_Readers]

;Sucatre, Conrad V., 2005 : ''Old School Romance'' (Vintage Romance Publishing).** [I have not been able to identify a place of publication, and clearly this is not an academic publisher. The author says that the book is about 'the romance writing industry as it existed prior to 1950. At my fingertips were the books and biographies of such authors as Faith Baldwin, Emilie Loring, Kathleen Norris, Temple Bailey, Elsa Barker and many others. I assembled all these facts into my book'.[http://www.geocities.com/heathpublishing/]]

;Suman [Sigroha], 2018. : "Gendered Migrations and Literary Narratives: Writing Communities in South Asian Diaspora." ''Millennial Asia'' 9.1: 93-108.[http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0976399617753755] [On "educated skilled women from South Asia who migrate as ‘trailing spouses’" and turn to romance-writing as an alternative, portable career.]

;Suwanban, Pauline, 2018. : "From Exhalation to Transformation: The Female Body in the Orientalist Romance". ''Dandelion: Postgraduate Arts Journal & Research Network'' 9.1 [https://dandelionjournal.org/article/doi/10.16995/ddl.686/ Abstract and link to pdf]

;Swaffield, Audrey-Claire, 1981. : "Paperbacks Promoting Passion! What Is Harlequin Really Presenting?." ''Canadian Woman Studies/Les Cahiers de la Femme'' 3.2: 4-6.

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;Dalsgaard, Inger H. 2009. : "Consumed by Romance: Narration, Branding, and Participation in the Digital Marketplace." In ''Internet Fictions,'' 128-146. (Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars). [In the [http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/978-1-4438-0108-9-sample.pdf introduction to this volume of essays] the editors mention that "Inger H. Dalsgaard [...] investigates the practices of romance fiction writers and readers on the net through the lense [sic] of late capitalist marketing strategies and ideologies which seek to market products as goods designed by the customer rather than as prefabricated objects: romance sites, she contends, and the marketing of toys for children have a lot more in common than one might suppose."]

;Daly, Brenda O. 1989. : 'Laughing WITH, or Laughing AT the Young-Adult Romance', ''The English Journal'', 78.6: 50-60.

;Danaher, Mike and Margaret Jamieson, 2016. : “On Manoeuvre: Navigating Practice-Led Methodology in a Creative Writing PhD for the First Time.” ''Constructing Methodology for Qualitative Research: Researching Education and Social Practices''. Ed. Bobby Harreveld, Mike Danaher, Celeste Lawson, Bruce Allan Knight and Gillian Busch. London: Palgrave, 2016. 155-169. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lrXsDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [It’s about a Australian PhD on historical romance being written by a mature student who was in prison herself and believes historical romance can empower women.]

;Dandridge, Rita B., 2003. : 'The Race, Gender, Romance Connection: A Black Feminist Reading of African American Women's Historical Romances', in ''Doubled Plots: Romance and History'', see below, pp. 185-201. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lqx4qPr6uroC&pg=PA185&dq=&hl=en&ei=8fsZTPX2H8iosQaVwMzDBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Dandridge, Rita B., 2003. : 'African American Women's Historical Romances: Race and Gender Revisited', ''The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference'', Ed. Leslie Fife, pp. 42-56. [http://robertleston.com/my-files/PAF/2000-2003%20SW-Texas%20PCA-ACA%20Proceedings.pdf Whole proceedings online here.]

;Dandridge, Rita B., 2004. : ''Black Women's Activism: Reading African American Women's Historical Romances'', African-American Literature and Culture, 5 (New York: Peter Lang). [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=106433704 Index and extracts]

;Dandridge, Rita B., 2010. : 'The African American Historical Romance: An Interview with [[Beverly Jenkins]]', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 1.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2010/08/interview-beverly-jenkins-by-rita-b-dandridge/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/JPRS1.1_Dandridge_InterviewBeverlyJenkins.pdf as a pdf].]

;Dandridge, Rita B., 2016. : 'Love Prevailed Despite What American History Said: Agape and Eros in Beverly Jenkins's ''Night Song'' and ''Through the Storm''', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 151-166.

;Dannenberg, Hilary P. 2008. : "Nadine Gordimer's The Pickup and the Desert Romance Tradition in Post/Colonial Anglophone Fiction." ''Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa'' 20, no. 1: 69-88.

;Darbyshire, Peter, 2000. : ‘Romancing the World: [[Harlequin]] Romances, the Capitalist Dream, and the Conquest of Europe and Asia’, ''Studies in Popular Culture'' 23.1 [http://www.pcasacas.org/SPC/spcissues/23.1/darbyshire.htm] [If that link is broken, the article should still be available [http://web.archive.org/web/20050417053043/http://pcasacas.org/SPC/spcissues/23.1/darbyshire.htm via the Internet Archive].]

;Darbyshire, Peter, 2002. : ‘The Politics of Love: [[Harlequin]] Romances and the Christian Right’, ''Journal of Popular Culture'' (Popular Culture Center, Bowling Green State Univ., OH) (35:4) [Spring 2002]: 75-87.

;Dascăl, Reghina, 2012. : 'Raj Matriarchs: Women Authors of Anglo-Indian Romance' In ''Romance: The History of a Genre,'' 179-200. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars. [Excerpt available [http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Romance--The-History-of-a-Genre1-4438-3734-2.htm from here]]

;Davis, Sara N., 2005. : 'Values and the Romance Novel: Journeys of the Reader', in ''Education, Arts and Morality: Creative Journeys'', ed. Doris B. Wallace (Kluwer: New York), pp. 45-62. [http://books.google.com/books?id=VjaK5lke2BUC&pg=PA45&dq=%22values+and+the+romance+novel%22&sig=LMnmHha92Ijpdlb5tll8XuTo7us Excerpt] [This paper "examines the ways in which reader responses are constructed in dialogue with cultural discourses. These provide the context when students read romance novels. Readers enter the process with many negative evaluations of romance novels which conflict with other prevalent discourses valuing romance for women."] [http://www.springerlink.com/content/p117u4m521658t82/?p=cff70741729244d0828f5b65af2b3e0a&pi=2 Details here.]

;Deal, Clare H., 2015. : "‘Throbb[ing] with a consciousness of a knowledge that appalled her’: Embodiment and Female Subjectivity in the Desert Romance", ''Women: A Cultural Review'' 26.1-2: 75-95. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09574042.2015.1035049?src=recsys#.VdNvq7P7s_t Abstract]

;Deffenbacher, Kristina, 2014. : "Rape Myths' Twilight and Women's Paranormal Revenge in Romantic and Urban Fantasy Fiction." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 47.5: 923-936. [http://www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.12179/abstract Abstract]

;De Geest, D., and A. Goris. 2010. : "Constrained writing, creative writing: The case of handbooks for writing romances." ''Poetics Today'' 31, (1): 81-106.[https://www.academia.edu/9990200/Constrained_Writing_Creative_Writing_The_Case_of_Handbooks_for_Writing_Romances]

;Delamoir, Jeanette, 2003. : "Marie Bjelke Petersen's 'Virile Story': ''Jewelled Nights'', Gender Instability, and the Bush", ''Hecate'' 29.1: 115-131. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6655/is_1_29/ai_n29018696/pg_2/?tag=content;col1 Unofficial version]

;Delany, Samuel R., 1987. : “The Gestation of Genres: Literature, Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy ...” ''Intersections: Fantasy and Science Fiction'', eds George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP), pp. 63-73. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Zao2IFNhvQkC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA63#v=onepage&q&f=false]

;DeVries, Susan, Margaret Dunlop, Suzanne Goopy, Wendy Moyle, and Diane Sutherland-Lockhart, 1995. : 'Discipline and Passion: Meaning, Masochism and Mythology in Popular Medical Romances', ''Nursing Inquiry'' 2.4: 203-210. [http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119256839/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 Abstract]

;Diamond, Geneva, 2015. : "Medievalism and the Courtship Plot in Julie Garwood's Popular Romance Novels", in ''The Middle Ages in Popular Culture: Medievalism and Genre'', ed. Helen Young (Amhurst, NY: Cambria). [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vQ1HCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT51&lpg=PT51&source=bl&ots=_PQEh3U222&sig=j9ZJVpa2AjSEeQONOafVm_dfW-A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAGoVChMI-cm8uY3WxwIVBPEUCh1CyQgx#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Diekman, Amanda B., McDonald, Mary, & Gardner, Wendi L., 2000. : 'Love Means Never Having To Be Careful: The Relationship Between Reading Romance Novels and Safe Sex Behavior', ''Psychology of Women Quarterly'', 24.2: 179-188. [http://serials.cib.unibo.it/cgi-ser/start/it/spogli/df-s.tcl?prog_art=3106218&language=ITALIANO&view=articoli Abstract]

;Dillon, George L., 2007. : 'The Genres Speak; Using Large Corpora to Profile Generic Registers.' ''Journal of Literary Semantics,'' 36.2: 159-187. Part II looks at romance fiction. [http://www.msh-reseau.prd.fr/RevuesSom/detailrevue.jsp?Drevue=%22Journalx032;ofx032;literaryx032;semantics%22 Abstract available via this page]

;Dixon, jay, 1987. : 'Fantasy Unlimited: the World of Mills and Boon', ''Women's Review'', 21 (July): 18-19.**

;Dixon, jay, 1999. : ''The Romance Fiction of [[Mills and Boon|Mills & Boon]] 1909-1990s'' (London: UCL Press). [http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1857282663/ref=sib_rdr_toc/103-7667421-4472612?%5Fencoding=UTF8&p=S00A&j=0#reader-page Contents page and excerpt]

;Dixon, Peter, and Marisa Bortolussi. 2009. : "Readers' Knowledge of Popular Genre." ''Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal'' 46, no. 6: 541-571. [http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all?content=10.1080/01638530902959570 Abstract]

;[http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/278 Doubled Plots: Romance and History], 2003. : eds. Susan Strehle and Mary Paniccia Carden (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi).

;Douglas, Ann, 1980. : 'Soft-Porn Culture: Punishing the Liberated Woman.' ''The New Republic'' Vol.183, No.9 （August 30, 1980): 25-29.

;Doyle, Marsha Vanderford, 1985. : "The Rhetoric of Romance: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Barbara Cartland Novels." ''Southern Speech Communication Journal'' 51: 24-48. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10417948509372645#.VQxTdmPNbHI Abstract]

;Dreimane, Jana, 2015. : "Authors, Publishers and Readers of Popular Literature in Latvia in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s." ''Interlitteraria'' 20.2: 56–70. [https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/IL/article/view/IL.2015.20.2.6 Abstract] [http://kleio.ee/index.php/IL/article/viewFile/IL.2015.20.2.6/7604 Full text]

;Driscoll, Beth, 2014. : "Genre, Author, Text, Reader: Teaching Nora Roberts’s ''Spellbound''." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2. [http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/genre-author-text-reader-teaching-nora-robertss-spellboundby-beth-driscoll/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/GATR_Driscoll.pdf as a pdf file]]

;Driscoll, Beth, Lisa Fletcher and Kim Wilkins, 2016. : "Women, Akubras and Ereaders: Romance Fiction and Australian Publishing." ''The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing''. Ed. Emmett Stinson and Aaron Mannion. Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing. 67-87. [https://www.academia.edu/34113634/Women_Akubras_and_Ereaders_Romance_Fiction_and_Australian_Publishing]

;Driscoll, Beth, Lisa Fletcher, Kim Wilkins and David Carter, 2018. : "The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction." ''Creative Industries Journal'' 11.2: 203-221. [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17510694.2018.1480851?scroll=top&needAccess=true Abstract]

;Driscoll, Beth, 2019. : 'Book Blogs as Tastemakers', ''Participations'' 16.1: 280-305.[http://www.participations.org/Volume%2016/Issue%201/14.pdf] [Looks at romance fiction blogs Smart Bitches, Trashy Books (SBTB), Natasha is a Book Junkie (NIABJ), and Joyfully Jay.]

;Driscoll, Catherine, 2006. : "One True Pairing: The Romance of Pornography and the Pornography of Romance." Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays, eds. Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse (Jefferson, NC: McFarland): 79–96. [http://karenhellekson.com/?page_id=38 Abstract] [Pdf can be downloaded [http://usyd.academia.edu/CatherineDriscoll/Papers/649414/One_True_Pairing_The_Romance_of_Pornography_and_the_Pornography_of_Romance from Academia.edu].]

;Dubino, Jeanne. 1993. : “The Cinderella Complex: Romance Fiction, Patriarchy, and Capitalism.” ''Journal of Popular Culture'', 27.3: 103-118.

;Duder, C. J. D., 1991. : “Love and the Lions: The Image of White Settlement in Kenya in Popular Fiction, 1919-1939.” ''African Affairs'', 90.360: 427-38. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/722940 First page.]

;Dudovitz, Resa L., 1990. : ''The Myth of Superwoman: Women's Bestsellers in France and the United States.'' (New York: Routledge). Chapter 4 is 'The boundary between the romance and the bestseller: Harlequins, historical novels and family.'

;Dugger, Julie M., 2014. : "“I’m a Feminist, But…” Popular Romance in the Women’s Literature Classroom." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2. [http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/im-a-feminist-but-popular-romance-in-the-womens-literature-classroomby-julie-m-dugger/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/IAFB_Dugger.pdf as a pdf]]

;Dyhouse, Carol, 2017. : ''Hearthrobs: A History of Women and Desire''. Oxford: Oxford UP. [https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Heartthrobs.html?id=RCuhDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

==E==

;Ebert, Teresa L., 1988. : 'The Romance of Patriarchy: Ideology, Subjectivity, and Postmodern Feminist Cultural Theory', ''Cultural Critique'', 10: 19-57.

;Ebert, Teresa L., 2009. : "Chick Lit: 'Not Your Mother's Romance Novels'." ''The Task of Cultural Critique'' (Urbana: University of Illinois Press), pp. 97-117. [This is Chapter 5 of the book and in order to discuss chick lit Ebert engages in a fair amount of analysis of the romance genre. An excerpt is available [http://books.google.com/books?id=OEYGxoLGApYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA97#v=onepage&q&f=false here].]

;Ebert, Teresa L., 2012. : ‘Hegel's “picture-thinking” as the interpretive logic of the popular’, ''Textual Practice''. [This was first published as an iFirst article so at the time of adding the entry it hadn't yet been been allocated to a particular issue of the journal. "The paper examines Hegel's concept of ‘picture-thinking’ and demonstrates how it has become the commonsense of contemporary popular culture through a close reading of women's romances as exemplary of a popular knowing that emphasizes the sensual concrete and cancels the abstract."[http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2012.719712 Click here for more details.]]

;Edmondson, Belinda, 2007.: 'The Black romance.' " ''Women's Studies Quarterly'' 35.1/2: 191-211. [http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/27649661?uid=3738032&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21100798892481 Excerpt]

;Egan, Jesi, 2016. : 'Cultural Futurity and the Politics of Recovery: Mary Renault's Ambivalent Romances.' ''MFS Modern Fiction Studies'' 62.3: 462-80. [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/631176/summary Abstract]

;Eike, Ann M., 1986. : ‘An Investigation of the Market for Paperback Romance Novels’, ''Journal of Cultural Economics'', 10:1: 25-36.

;Ehnenn, Jill, 1998. : 'Desperately Seeking Susan Among the Trash: Reinscription, Subversion and Visibility in the Lesbian Romance Novel', ''Atlantis'', special issue on "Sexualities and Feminisms", 23.1: 120-127. [http://journals.msvu.ca/index.php/atlantis/article/view/1698 Abstract and link to full text]

;Elliott, Jack, 2014. : 'Patterns and Trends in Harlequin Category Romance', ''Advancing Digital Humanities: Research, Methods, Theories'', Ed. Katherine Bode and Paul Longley Arthur. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9LMaBgAAQBAJ&lpg=PT15&ots=0CaEEtS6Pl&lr&pg=PT69#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Elliott, Jack, 2014. : 'Vocabulary Decay in Category Romance'. ''Digital Scholarship in the Humanities'', Online, December 2014. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqu069 Abstract]

;Elliott, Jack, 2015. : 'Whole Genre Sequencing', ''Digital Scholarship in the Humanities'', Online, August 2015. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqv034 Abstract]

;Emrys, A. B., 1994. : "Magic Regencies: How Fantasy Forms a Hybrid." ''Popular Culture Review'' 5.1: 85-93.

;Engler, Sandra, 2005. :'' "A Career's Wonderful, but Love is More Wonderful Still" : Femininity and Masculinity in the Fiction of Mills & Boon.'' Tübingen: Francke.

;English Studies Group, 1978-9, 1980. : 'Recent Developments in English Studies at the Centre', ''Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 1972-79'', ed. Stuart Hall, Dorothy Hobson, Andrew Lowe and Paul Willis. 1980. London: Taylor & Francis, 2005. 227-262. [See pages 250-262 which "suggest analogies between certain narratives - the novels of [[Barbara Cartland]] - and a particular grammar practised within an historical institution: English teaching from the 1930s to the 1950s" and draws parallels between romance and "Gramsci's characterisation of common sense".]

;Erwin, Lee. 2002. : "Genre and Authority in Some Popular Nigerian Women's Novels." ''Research in African Literatures'' 33, no. 2: 81-99. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/3820975 Excerpt]

;Escolar, Marisa, 2015. : "Marry the Allies? Luciana Peverelli’s ‘True’ ''Romanzo Rosa'' in ‘Liberated’ Rome." ''Italian Culture'' 70.2: 228-248. [http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/0075163415Z.00000000097 Abstract]

;Esquibel, Catrióna Rueda, 1992. : "A Duel of Wits and the Lesbian Romance Novel: Or, Verbal Intercourse in Fictional Regency England." in ''New Perspectives on Women and Comedy.'' Ed. Regina Barreca, (Philadelphia, PA: Gordon and Breach) pp. 123-133.

;Esser, L. G., Adkins, D., & Velasquez, D. L., 2008. : "“The Red Dot District”: Uncommon Ground in Reader Advisory Education and Professional Practice." in ''Educational Media and Technology Yearbook'' 33. Ed. Michael Orey, V. J. McClendon, Robert Maribe Branch. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited. 105–111. **

==F==

;Faktorovich, Anna, 2014. : ''The Formulas of Popular Fiction: Elements of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Religious and Mystery Novels''. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BVeDBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Faktorovich, Anna, 2015. : ''Gender Bias in Mystery and Romance Novel Publishing: Mimicking Masculinity and Femininity''. (Stone Mountain, GA: Anaphora Literary P).

;Faktorovich, Anna, 2015. : "Interview with Mary Jo Putney, Best-Selling Romance Author." ''Pennsylvania Literary Journal'' 7.2:10-24.[http://anaphoraliterary.com/plj/plj-excerpts/interview-with-mary-jo-putney-best-selling-romance-author/ Available in full]

;Fahnestock-Thomas, Mary, 2001. : ''[[Georgette Heyer]]: a Critical Retrospective.'' Saraland,AL: PrinnyWorld Press. [[http://www.amazon.com/Georgette-Heyer-Retrospective-Mary-Fahnestock-Thomas/dp/0966800532 Excerpt available] via Amazon's "Look Inside!" feature. [http://www.biggerbooks.com/bk_detail.aspx?ISBN=9780966800531 Index]]

;Farooqui, Javaria and Rabia Ashraf, 2019. : ‘Reconnaissance of “Difference” in Cognitive Maps: Authenticating Happily Ever After in Julia Quinn’s ''To Sir Philip with Love''’, ''Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences'' 22.2: 71-82. [https://jhss-khazar.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Reconnaissance-of-%E2%80%98Difference%E2%80%99-in-Cognitive-Maps-Authenticating-Happily-Ever-After-in-Julia-Quinn%E2%80%99s-To-Sir-Philip-with-Love.pdf]

;Faura, Salvador, Shelley Godsland, and Nickianne Moody, 2004. : "The Romance Novel, or, the Generalisimo's Control of the Popular Imagination." in ''Reading the Popular in Contemporary Spanish Texts.'' pp. 46-58. (Newark, DE: U of Delaware P.)(About Corin Tellado, Spanish romance novelist) [[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=twRJwNrGreIC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA46,M1 Excerpt here].]

;Felski, Rita, 1990. : 'Kitsch, Romance Fiction And Male Paranoia: Stephen King meets the Frankfurt School', ''Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture'', 4.1.[http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/4.1/Felski.html]

;Feng, Jin, 2011. : 'Men Conquer the World and Women Save Mankind: Rewriting Patriarchal Traditions through Web-based Matriarchal Romances', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 1.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2011/03/men-conquer-the-world-and-women-save-mankind/] ["This article examines one Chinese women's literature website by the name of Jinjiang, and focuses especially on a particular type of popular romance, nüzun, or matriarchal narratives."].

;Feng, Jin, 2013. : ''Romancing the Internet: Producing and Consuming Chinese Web Romance.'' Leiden: Brill. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yQGaAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina, 2019. : "Chamorro WWII Romances: Combating Erasure with Tales of Survival and Vitality", ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 8.[http://jprstudies.org/2019/07/chamorro-wwii-romances-combating-erasure-with-tales-of-survival-and-vitalityby-carolina-fernandez-rodriguez/]

;Finn, Geraldine, 1988. : 'Women, Fantasy, and Popular Culture: The Wonderful World of Harlequin Romance', ''Popular Cultures and Political Practices'', Ed. Richard Gruneau (Toronto: Garamond Press), 51-67.** [A review by Herman Gray in ''Contemporary Sociology'' 19.1 (1990) describes Finn's article as "The real joy of the volume" and there are further details as follows: "Consistent with the Cultural Studies approach, Finn convincingly demonstrates how Harlequin texts and women's experiences of them express the contradictions that structure women's lives. She argues that women readers find refuge in the Harlequin novels, while at the same time such refuge helps to maintain and reproduce structures of domination that women experience" (74). Another summary of Finn's essay can be found in [http://irs.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/25/3/248 a review in the ''International Review for the Sociology of Sport'', 25.3, 248-249 (1990).]

;Fisher, Maryanne and Anthony Cox, 2010. : 'Man Change Thyself: Hero Versus Heroine Development in Harlequin Romance Novels', ''Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology'' 4.4: 305-316. [http://137.140.1.71/jsec/articles/volume4/issue4/FisherVol4Iss4.pdf] or [http://www.maryannefisher.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Fisher_Cox_Neeps2010.pdf].

;Fisher, Maryanne L., and Tami M. Meredith. 2012. : "The Success behind the Candy-Colored Covers: An Evolutionary Perspective on Romance Novels." ''Evolutionary Review'' 3, no. 1: 155-167.

;Flegel, Monica and Jenny Roth, 2010. : 'Annihilating love and heterosexuality without women: Romance, generic difference, and queer politics in "Supernatural" fan fiction', Transformative Works and Cultures 4. [http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/133/147 Available online].

;Flesch, Juliet, 1996. : 'A Labour of Love? Compiling a Bibliography of Twentieth Century Australian Romance Novels', ''APLIS'', 9.3-4: 170-78.

;Flesch, Juliet, 1997. : 'Not just housewives and old maids', ''Collection Building'', 16.3: 119-124. [Describes the content of The Romance Fiction Collection in the University of Melbourne Library, 'the reasons for its establishment and some special aspects of its housing and bibliographical control. Also suggests some of the uses to which it may be put'.] [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mcb/171/1997/00000016/00000003/art00003 Abstract]

;Flesch, Juliet, 2004. : ''From Australia With Love: A History of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels'' (Fremantle, W.A.: Curtin University Books).

;Flesch, Juliet, 2005. : ‘Blushing Bride to Bush Matriarch: Women in the Fiction of [[Lucy Walker]].’ ''Journal of Publishing''. Australian Special Issue. 1 (October 2005): 37-52.**

;Flesch, Juliet, 2007. : 'Love under the Coolabah: Australian Romance Publishing since 1990', in ''Making books: Contemporary Australian Publishing''. Ed. David Carter and Anne Galligan. St. Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press. 279-285. ** [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=p4wu8G4XgH0C&lpg=PP1&ots=XhPwRmBzdP&dq=Making%20books%3A%20Contemporary%20Australian%20Publishing&pg=PA280 Excerpt]

;Flesch, Juliet, 2009. : ‘”Feminists Talk about Sisterhood: I Do Not Know How Deeply They Feel It”: Australian Mass Market Romance Novels and Their Critics,’ ''Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader'', Ed. Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal (New Delhi: SSS Publications, 2009). pp. 419-??. **

;Flesch, Juliet, 2012. : 'The Wide Brown Land and the Big Smoke: The Setting of Australian Popular Romance', ''Sold by the Millions: Australia's Bestsellers''. Ed. Toni Johnson-Woods and Amit Sarwal (Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars), pp. 82-95. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XDIsBwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA82#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [The introduction to this volume of essays can be found [http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Sold-by-the-Millions--Australia-s-Bestsellers1-4438-3584-6.htm here].]

;Fletcher, Lisa, 2003. : "Historical Romance, Gender and Heterosexuality: John Fowles's ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'' and A.S. Byatt's ''Possession''." ''Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies'' 7.1-2: 26-42. [http://eprints.utas.edu.au/540/1/jigs_LF.pdf PDF]

;Fletcher, Lisa, 2004. : ‘“Mere Costumery”? Georgette Heyer’s Cross-Dressing Novels,’ in ''Masquerades: Disguise in English Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present'', Eds. Pilar Sánchez Calle and Jesús López-Paláez Casellas, (Gdansk: University of Gdansk Press), pp. 196-212. [http://eprints.utas.edu.au/538/ Abstract][https://www.academia.edu/1904046/_Mere_costumery_Georgette_Heyers_cross-dressing_novels Download]

;Fletcher, Lisa, 2008. : ''Historical Romance Fiction and Heterosexuality: Heterosexuality and Performativity'', (Ashgate). [Fletcher examines "the connections between popular “classics” by [...] Georgette Heyer, a selection of mass market historical romances published between 1980 and 2005," John Fowles’s ''The French Lieutenant’s Woman'' and A.S. Byatt’s ''Possession''.] [https://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=9945&edition_id=10544 Abstract, Index and Excerpt] and [http://books.google.com/books?id=GK3m60_Q6WIC&dq=&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=I0c5aQHGTM&sig=JjYPIXBRcP6YrWE7-AJxzKOMl5g&hl=en&ei=F40aSuTBI8irjAfz_fDwDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPP1,M1 Excerpts via Google Books].

;Fletcher, Lisa, Rosemary Gaby, and Jennifer Kloester, 2011. : 'Pedagogy Report: Embedding Popular Romance Studies in Undergraduate English Units: Teaching [[Georgette Heyer]]’s ''Sylvester''', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 1.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2011/03/pedagogy-report-embedding-popular-romance-studies-in-undergraduate-english/].

; Fletcher, Lisa, 2013. : 'The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Popular Romance Studies: What is it, and why does it matter?', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/the-scholarship-of-teaching-and-learning-popular-romance-studies-what-is-it-and-why-does-it-matter-by-lisa-fletcher/]. [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Fletcher_Scholarship.pdf as a pdf].]

;Fletcher, Lisa, 2014. : 'Writing the Happy Ever After: An Interview with Anne Gracie', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2. [http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/writing-the-happy-ever-after-an-interview-with-anne-gracieby-lisa-fletcher/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/WTHEA_Fletcher1.pdf as a pdf].]

;Fletcher, Lisa, Beth Driscoll, and Kim Wilkins, 2018. : "Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance", ''Journal of Popular Culture''. Online First 16 July 2018. [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jpcu.12706 Excerpt]

;Fong, Katrina, Justin B. Mullin and Raymond A. Mar, 2013. : "What You Read Matters: The Role of Fiction Genre in Predicting Interpersonal Sensitivity". ''Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts'' 7.4 (2013): 370-376.[http://www.yorku.ca/mar/fong%20et%20al%202013_PACA_what%20you%20read%20matters.pdf]

;Fong, Katrina, Justin B. Mullin, and Raymond A. Mar, 2015. : "How Exposure to Literary Genres Relates to Attitudes Toward Gender Roles and Sexual Behavior." ''Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts''. Advance online publication. 27 April 2015. [http://www.yorku.ca/mar/Fong%20et%20al_PACA_Genre%20and%20sexual%20attitudes.pdf]

;Forbes, Curdella, 2006. : 'X Press Publications: Pop Culture, “Pop Lit” and Caribbean Literary Criticism: An Essay of Provocation', ''Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal'' 4.1. [http://anthurium.miami.edu/volume_4/issue_1/forbes-xpress.html]

;Fordham, Helen, 2014. : '‘That’s love for you’: Destabilizing divides and re-imaging subjectivities in the romantic fiction of Eloisa James.' ''Australasian Journal of Popular Culture'' 3.3: 273-284. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/ajpc/2014/00000003/00000003/art00003 Abstract]

;Foster, Guy Mark, 2007. : 'How Dare a Black Woman Make Love to a White Man! Black Women Romance Novelists and the Taboo of Interracial Desire.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 103-128. [http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1academicnews/004466.shtml Article about Foster's research and this item.]

;Foster, Guy Mark, 2015. : 'What To Do If Your Inner Tomboy Is a Homo: Straight Women, Bisexuality, and Pleasure in M/M Gay Romance Fictions', ''Journal of Bisexuality'', Published online first. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15299716.2015.1092910 Abstract]

;Fox, Pamela, 1994. : 'The "Revolt of the Gentle": Romance and the Politics of Resistance in Working-Class Women's Writing', ''NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction'', 27.2: 140-160. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/1345818 Excerpt]

;Fowler, Bridget, 1979. : ' "True to Me Always": An Analysis of Women's Magazine Fiction', ''The British Journal of Sociology'' 30.1: 91-119. [http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/589503 Abstract] [Fowler takes "for analysis stories published in popular twopenny magazines and sampled them at four-weekly intervals for the period mid-1929 to mid-1930".]

;Fowler, Bridget, 1991. : ''The Alienated Reader: Women and Popular Romantic Literature in the Twentieth Century'' (Brighton: Harvester Wheatsheaf).

;Francis, Conseula and Alison Piepmeier, 2011. : 'Interview: Joanna Russ,' ''Journal of Popular romance Studies'' 1.2. [http://jprstudies.org/2011/03/interview-joanna-russ/] ["In this interview, Russ reflects on her initial responses to slash fandom and considers its political and social meanings in the 1980s and today."]

;Francis, Conseula, 2016. : 'Flipping the Script: Romancing Zane's Urban Erotica', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 167-180.

;Franco, Jean, 1986. : "The Incorporation of Women: A Comparison of North American and Mexican Popular Narrative." in ''Studies in Entertainment: Critical Approaches to Mass Culture.'' Ed. Tania Modleski, (Bloomington: Indiana UP), pp. 119-138. [Especially Harlequin Romances; treatment of women; compared to photonovel. Franco says that "While there is an obvious risk in laying too much emphasis on a single example, I am now going to do precisely that" and chooses to take as a specific example of a Harlequin romance ''[[Moon Witch |Moonwitch]]'' [sic] by [[Anne Mather |Ann Mather]] [sic]."] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7uRtV1ZzHY8C&lpg=PR18&ots=X8_Sf_8M6H&dq=&pg=PA126#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Franco, Jean, 2004. : "Plotting Women: Popular Narratives for Women in the United States and in Latin America." in ''The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader.'' Eds. Ana Del Sarto, Alicia Ríos, and Abril Trigo, (Durham, NC: Duke UP) pp. 183-202.

;Franssen, Thomas and Olav Velthuis, 2014. : 'Making materiality matter: a sociological analysis of prices on the Dutch fiction book market, 1980–2009.' ''Socio-Economic Review''. [http://ser.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/08/07/ser.mwu025.abstract Abstract] ["in terms of size, romance books are smaller than all other books: on average 18.48 cm, which is 1.5 cm less than the other genres. This implies that each romance novel is, just because of its size, 24% cheaper than other genres."]

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2002. : "'Expressing' Herself: The Romance Novel and the Feminine Will to Power," in ''Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America.'' Eds. Lydia Cushman Schurman and Deidre Johnson. (Connecticut: Greenwood Press) pp. 17-36. [http://www.academia.edu/411174/_Expressing_Herself_The_Romance_Novel_and_the_Feminine_Will_to_Power Abstract]

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2008. : '[[Suzanne Brockmann]]', ''Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice'' 2.2/3. [Formerly at [http://www.teachingamericanlit.com/files/Microsoft_Word_-_TALTP-BrockmannSuzanne.pdf]. This link no longer works but a pdf of the entire issue can be downloaded from [http://www.cpcc.edu/taltp/archives/spring-summer-2008-2-2-3/spring_summer_2008_merged.pdf/at_download/file]].

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2009. : 'Darcy’s Vampiric Descendants: Austen’s Perfect Romance Hero and J. R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood', ''Persuasions On-line'' 30.1. [http://jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol30no1/frantz.html]

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2009. : "'I’ve tried my entire life to be a good man': [[Suzanne Brockmann]]’s Sam Starrett, Ideal Romance Hero." ''Women Constructing Men: Female Novelists and their Male Characters, 1750-2000''. Ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Katharina Rennhak. (Lanham, MD: Lexington), pp. 227-247. [http://books.google.com/books?id=ByCOQZD0WeYC&pg=PA227#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2012. : ' "How we love ''is'' our soul": Joey W. Hill's BDSM Romance ''Holding the Cards'',' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 47-59.

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2012. : “The History of BDSM Fiction and Romance,” ''Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey'', ed. Lori Perkins (Dallas, TX: BenBella Books), pp. 159-172.

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2013. : 'On the Tenth Anniversary of Pamela Regis’s ''A Natural History of the Romance Novel''', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/on-the-tenth-anniversary-of-pamela-regiss-a-natural-history-of-the-romance-novel-by-sarah-s-g-frantz/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Frantz_RegisOnTenth.pdf as a pdf].]

;Frantz Lyons, Sarah and Eric Murphy Selinger, 2016. : 'Strange Stirrings, Strange Yearnings: ''The Flame and the Flower'', ''Sweet Savage Love'', and the Lost Diversities of Blockbuster Historical Romance', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 89-110.

;Frederick, Rhonda. 2013.: "Making Jamaican Love: Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain and Romance-ified Diaspora Identities." ''Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal Of Criticism'' 17, no. 3: 63-84.

;Frenier, Mariam Darce, 1988. : ''Good-bye Heathcliff: Changing Heroes, Heroines, Roles, and Values in Women’s [[Category]] Romances'', Contributions in Women’s Studies, no. 94. (New York: Greenwood Press). [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=27366802 Contents page and excerpts]

;Friedman, Lenemaja, 1990. : ''Mary Stewart'', Twayne's English Authors Series, 474 (Boston: Twayne). [Chapters 1-4 discuss Mary Stewart's romantic suspense novels, giving the reader what is, in effect, a detailed synopsis and review of each novel.]

;Frolund, Tina, 2007.: ''Genrefied Classics: A Guide to Reading Interests in Classic Literature.'' (Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited) Has a section on Romance Literature. [According to [http://doi.contentdirections.com/mr/greenwood.jsp?doi=10.1336/1591581729 the abstract], "By identifying the genre characteristics of more than 400 classic fiction works, and organizing titles according to those features, it helps readers find the types of books they enjoy; and it helps you promote classics to teen (and adult!) readers."]

;Fuchs, Barbara, 2004. : ''Romance''. The New Critical Idiom. Ed. John Drakakis. New York: Routledge. [See the chapter on "Romance and 'genre' literature," on pages 124-130]. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QZGMt8gSaasC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA124#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] and [http://www.routledgeliterature.com/books/Romance-isbn9780415212618 Index and excerpt available via the "View Inside" feature at Routledge's website]

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;Gagne-Hawes, Genevieve. 2006. : "Anatomy of a Romance: Questioning genre conventions in the novels of Nora Roberts." ''Modern Mask'' 1.2.[http://modernmask.org/Issue_II/modernmask_literature/anatomy.html]

;Ganguly, Keya. 1991. : 'Alien(ated) Readers: Harlequin Romances and the Politics of Popular Culture', ''Communication'', 12.2: 129-50.

;Gardner, Jeanne Emerson. 2013. : "She Got Her Man, but Could She Keep Him? Love and Marriage in American Romance Comics, 1947–1954." ''Journal Of American Culture'' 36, no. 1: 16-24. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jacc.12009/abstract Excerpt]

;Gardner, Jeanne. 2012. : "Girls Who Sinned in Secret and Paid in Public: Romance Comics, 1949-1954." In ''Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns'', 92-102. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012

;Gardner, Jeanne. 2011. :"'True-To-Life': Romance Comics and Teen-Age Desire, 1947-1954." ''Forum for World Literature Studies,'' vol. 3, no. 1, Apr. 2011, pp. 118-128.

;Gargano, Elizabeth, 2006. : ' "English Sheiks" and Arab Stereotypes: E. M. Hull, T. E. Lawrence, and the Imperial Masquerade', ''Texas Studies in Literature and Language'' 48.2: 171-186. [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/texas_studies_in_literature_and_language/v048/48.2gargano.html Excerpt]

;Garland, Sarah, 2012. : 'Ornamentalism: Desire, Disavowal, and Displacement in E. M. Hull's ''The Sheik''', ''Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers from Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code'', ed. Sarah Churchwell and Thomas Ruys Smith (London: Continuum), pp. 197-216.

;Garton, Stephen, 2008. : "'Fit Only for the Scrap Heap': Rebuilding Returned Soldier Manhood in Australia After 1945." ''Gender & History'' 20.1: 48-67. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/gend/2008/00000020/00000001/art00004?crawler=true Abstract]

;Gates, Sarah, 2016. : "Feminism, NASCAR and the Italian billionaire's secret baby: Defending the romance genre." ''Voiceworks'' 103 (Autumn): 95-101. [https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=310777771841114;res=IELLCC Abstract]

;Geest, Dirk de, and An Goris, 2010. : "Constrained Writing, Creative Writing: The Case of Handbooks for Writing Romances." ''Poetics Today'' 31, no. 1: 81-106. [http://poeticstoday.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/31/1/81 Abstract]

;Gelder, Ken, 2004. : ''Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field'' (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge). [See the section on "Romance, formula, industry, subgenres" on pages 43-52.] [http://books.google.com/books?id=7VHERzW1-LMC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA43#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt.]

;Gelder, Ken and Rachael Weaver, 2010. : "Louise Mack and Colonial Pseudo Literature." ''Southerly'' 70.2: 82-95.[https://www.academia.edu/29357278/Louise_Mack_and_Colonial_Pseudo_Literature_2010_]

;Gehrmann, Susanne, 2018. : “Remediating Romance: Forms and Functions of New Media in Contemporary Love Stories from Togo and South Africa”. ''Africa Today'' 65.1: 65-84. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/africatoday.65.1.05?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Abstract]

;Gifford, James, 2017. : “Mary Stewart’s Greek Novels: Hellenism, Orientalism and the Cultural Politics of Pulp Presentation.” ''Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013''. Ed. Eleni Papargyriou, Semele Assinder and David Holton. New York: Peter Lang, 2017. 99-118. [https://www.peterlang.com/view/9781433140488/chapter06.xhtml Excerpt]

;Gilbert, Pam and Sandra Taylor, 1993. : "Reading the Romance," ''Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies''. Ed. Graeme Turner. London: Routledge. 246-??? ** [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=suAOAAAAQAAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA246#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Gill, Rosalind and Elena Herdieckerhoff. 2006. : “Rewriting the Romance: New Femininities in Chick Lit?” ''Feminist Media Studies'' 6.4 (2006): 487-504.[http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a768577256~db=all] Rpt. in ''LSE Research Online''. 2007. LSE Lib., London School of Economics and Political Science. <http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/2514>.

;Gillis, Bryan and Joanna Simpson, 2015. : ''Sexual Content in Young Adult Literature: Reading between the Sheets'' (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield). [See Chapter 6 on "Sexual Content in Young Adult Romance".] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uVamBgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA101#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Gillis, Stacy, 2015. : "The Cross-Dresser, the Thief, His Daughter and Her Lover: Queer Desire and Romance in Georgette Heyer’s ''These Old Shades''", ''Women: A Cultural Review'' 26.1-2: 57-74. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09574042.2015.1035024#.VdNvqLP7s_t Abstract]

;Gillis, Stacy, 2018. : “Manners, Money, and Marriage: Austen, Heyer, and the Literary Genealogy of the Regency Romance”. ''After Austen: Reinventions, Rewritings, Revisitings''. Ed. Lisa Hopkins. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 81-101.

;Glass, E. R., and A. Mineo. 1986. : "Georgette Heyer and the Uses of Regency." In Marucci, Franco (ed.); Bruttini, Adriano (ed.) ''La performance del testo,'' 283-292. Siena: Ticci.

;Gleason, William, 2011. : “Belles, Beaux, and Paratexts: American Story Papers and the Project of Romance.” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1 [http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%E2%80%9Cbelles-beaux-and-paratexts-american-story-papers-and-the-project-of-romance%E2%80%9D-by-william-gleason/]

;Gleason, William A, 2016. : 'Postbellum, Pre-Harlequin: American Romance Publishing in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 57-70.

;Gleason, William, 2016. : "The Inside Story: Jennifer Crusie and the Architecture of Love." ''Popular Fiction and Spatiality: Reading Genre Settings''. Ed. Lisa Fletcher. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 79-93. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pz5rDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA80#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-137-56902-8_6 Abstract]

;Goade, Sally, 2007. : 'Introduction' pp. 1-11 and 'Understanding the Pleasure: An Undergraduate Romance Reading Community.' pp. 206-230 in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing). Edited by Goade. [pdf of table of contents, introduction and first chapter [http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Empowerment-versus-Oppression--Twenty-First-Century-Views-of-Popular-Romance-Novels.htm here]]

;Goldman, Crystal, 2012. : “Love in the Stacks: Popular Romance Collection Development in Academic Libraries,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2012/10/love-in-the-stacks-popular-romance-collection-development-in-academic-libraries-by-crystal-goldman/]

;Goldman, Crystal, 2015. : “Special Issue: Romancing the Library (Editor’s Introduction),” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/special-issue-romancing-the-library-editors-introductionby-crystal-goldman/]

;Golubov, Nattie, 2017. : "Reading the Romance Writer as an Author-Entrepreneur," ''Interférences littéraires/Literaire interferenties'' 21 (December), "Gendered Authorial Corpographies", Ed. Aina Pérez Fontdevila & Meri Torras Francès, 131-160. [http://www.interferenceslitteraires.be/node/748 Abstract and link to pdf]

;Gómez Calderón, María José. : “Romancing the Dark Ages: The Viking Hero in Sentimental Narrative.” ''Boletín Millares Carlo'' 26 (2007): 287-97.[http://mdc.ulpgc.es/cdm/ref/collection/bolmc/id/374]

;González-Cruz, Maria-Isabel. 2015. : "Love in Paradise: Visions of the Canaries in a Corpus of Popular Romance Fiction Novels". ''Oceánide'', Journal of the Spanish Society for the Study of Popular Culture SELICUP, vol. 7.[http://oceanide.netne.net/articulos/art7-4.pdf]

;González-Cruz, Maria-Isabel, 2016. : "Discourse Types and Functions in Popular Romance Fiction Novels ("Work in Progress")." ''On the move: Glancing Backwards To Build a Future in English Studies'' Ed. Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz and Jon Ortiz de Urbina Arruabarrena. Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto. 265-271.

;González Cruz, Maria Isabel, 2017. : 'Exploring the dynamics of English/Spanish codeswitching in a written corpus', ''Alicante Journal of English Studies / Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses'' 30: 331-355. [http://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/72178 Abstract and link to pdf]

;González Mínguez, M. Teresa, 2010. : "Who is more fragile? A study of heroes and heroines in the twentieth century romantic fiction of [[Mills and Boon]]." ''Cuadernos Kóre'' [http://hosting01.uc3m.es/ojs/index.php/KORE/issue/view/22 1.2]: 179-192. [[http://hosting01.uc3m.es/ojs/index.php/KORE/article/view/225 Abstract] and [http://kusan.uc3m.es/CIAN/index.php/CK/article/view/1044/485 PDF].]

;Goodwin, Sarah Webster, 1997. : "Romance and Change: Teaching the Romance to Undergraduates.", ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 233-241.

;Gordis, Lisa M., 2016. : '"Jesus loves your girl more than you do": Marriage as Triangle in Evangelical Romance and Puritan Narratives', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 323-346.

;Goris, An, 2009. : "Romance the World Over," in ''Global Cultures''. Ed. Frank A. Salamone. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars. pp. 59-?? ** [Discusses the worldwide translation, production and distribution of Harlequins.] [http://kuleuven.academia.edu/AnGoris/Papers/88815/Romance-the-World-Over Abstract]

;Goris, An, 2011. : “Matricide in Romance Scholarship? Response to Pamela Regis’ Keynote Address at the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%E2%80%9Cmatricide-in-romance-scholarship-response-to-pamela-regis%E2%80%99-keynote-address-at-the-second-annual-conference-of-the-international-association-for-the-study-of-popular-romance%E2%80%9D/]

;Goris, An, 2012. : "Loving by the Book: Voice and Romance Authorship," in ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction. Critical Essays.'' Ed. Frantz, Sarah S.G. and Selinger, Eric Murphy. Jefferson: McFarland. pp. 73-83.

;Goris, An, 2012. : "Mind, Body, Love: Nora Roberts and the Evolution of Popular Romance Studies," ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2012/10/mind-body-love-nora-roberts-and-the-evolution-of-popular-romance-studies-by-an-goris/]

;Goris, An, 2013. : '''A Natural History of the Romance Novel''’s Enduring Romance with Popular Romance Studies', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/a-natural-history-of-the-romance-novels-enduring-romance-with-popular-romance-studies-by-an-goris/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Goris_RegisEnduring.pdf as a pdf].]

;Goris, An, 2013. : "Happily Ever After ... And After: Serialization and the Popular Romance Novel." ''Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present)'' 12.1 [http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/articles/spring_2013/goris.htm]

;Goris, An, 2015. : "Hidden Codes of Love : The Materiality of the Category Romance Novel." ''Belphégor''.[http://belphegor.revues.org/616]

;Goșa, Codruța. 2012. : "Sex and the Genre: The Role of Sex in Popular Romance." In ''Romance: The History of a Genre,'' 14-28. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars. [Nora Roberts, Sandra Brown, Judith McNaught] [Excerpt available [http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Romance--The-History-of-a-Genre1-4438-3734-2.htm from here]]

;Graham, Robert J., 1989. : “Media Literacy and Cultural Politics.” ''Adult Education Quarterly'' 39.3: 152-60. [http://aeq.sagepub.com/content/39/3/152.short Abstract] ["Through an analysis of two representative media-romance fiction and television news programs-this article argues for the production of a more media-literate citizenry. The section on women's romances addresses the confluence of a commercial, institutional and ideological matrix that poses crucial problems of a socio-cultural nature." The section on romance is mostly based on Radway's ''Reading the Romance''.]

;Graves, Joanne, 2014. : 'Beyond Valentine's Day: The romance novel in the evolving world of publishing', LIANZA Conference 2014, 12-15 October, Auckland, New Zealand: Pou Whakairo: Connect and Thrive. [LIANZA is the Library and Information Association of New Zealand. The article discusses New Zealand libraries and romance authors.][http://www.lianza.org.nz/sites/default/files/Graves_J_Beyond_Valentines_Day.pdf]

;Graybill, Beth. 2010. : "Chasing the Bonnet: The Premise and Popularity of Writing Amish Women." ''Journal of the Center for Mennonite Writing'' 2, no. 4: 1-6. [http://www.mennonitewriting.org/journal/2/4/bonnet-fiction/]

;Greenfeld-Benovitz, Miriam, 2012. : 'The Interactive Romance Community: The Case of "Covers Gone Wild",' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 195-205.

;Greenwood, Alice. 1983. : "Language Stereotypes in Mass Market Romances." ''CUNYForum: Papers in Linguistics'' 9: 157-173.

;Greer, Germaine, 1971. : ''The Female Eunuch'' (London: Paladin). [First published in 1970, there is a chapter on romance (pages 171-189in this edition) in which she critiques [[Georgette Heyer]]'s ''Regency Buck'', [[Barbara Cartland]]'s ''The Wings of Love'' and [[Lucy Walker]]'s ''The Loving Heart''.]

;Grescoe, Paul, 1996. : ''The Merchants of Venus: Inside [[Harlequin]] and the Empire of Romance'' (Vancouver: Raincoast). [ [[Kathleen Gilles Seidel]]'s "Half-Risen Venus", ''Paradoxa'' 3.1-2 (1997): 250-252 is a review of this book.]

;Griffin, Susan E., 1997. : "Resistance and Reinvention in Sandra Cisneros' ''Woman Hollering Creek''." ''Ethnicity and the American Short Story'', ed. Julie Brown (New York: Garland), pp. 85-96. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vT_7cLnnUlUC&lpg=PA85&lr=lang_en&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] ["Cisneros' [...] 'Woman Hollering Creek,' is the story in which she most clearly illustrates the negative effects of popular romance genres' portrayal of women, and it is also the story in which she begins to illustrate how women can resist the romance narrative" (87).]

;Griswold, Wendy, and Misty Bastian, 1987. : “Continuities and Reconstructions in Cross-cultural Literary Transmission: The Case of the Nigerian Romance Novel.” ''Poetics'' 16.3-4: 327-351. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0304-422X(87)90010-6 Abstract]

;Griswold, Wendy, 1989. : "Formulaic Fiction: The Author as Agent of Elective Affinity." ''Comparative Social Research.'' 11: 75-130.

;Gruner, Elisabeth Rose, 2019. : ''Constructing the Adolescent Reader in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction''. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/978-1-137-53924-3 Abstract] [See in particular Chapter 3, "Misreading the Classics: Gender, Genre, and Agency in YA Romance", pp. 51-84.]

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* '''Bibliography'''
** [[Bibliography A-C]] - the first part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
** [[Bibliography H-L]] - the third part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
** [[Bibliography M-O]] - the fourth part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
** [[Bibliography P-S]] - the fifth of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
** [[Bibliography T-Z]] - the last part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
* [[Scholarship in Languages Other than English|Bibliography of Scholarship in Languages Other than English]].
* [[Dissertation Abstracts]]
* [[Guides to the Genre]]
* '''Romance in the Media''' - lists news items/features items about romance.
** [[Romance in the Media A-I]]
** [[Romance in the Media J-Z]]
* [[Romance Resources for Academics|Romance Resources for Academics]] - lists romance-related resources which may be of interest to academics.
* [[Writers on Romance]] - lists items written about the genre by romance authors but not published in academic journals or books.

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==D==
;Dalsgaard, Inger H. 2009. : "Consumed by Romance: Narration, Branding, and Participation in the Digital Marketplace." In ''Internet Fictions,'' 128-146. (Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars). [In the [http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/978-1-4438-0108-9-sample.pdf introduction to this volume of essays] the editors mention that "Inger H. Dalsgaard [...] investigates the practices of romance fiction writers and readers on the net through the lense [sic] of late capitalist marketing strategies and ideologies which seek to market products as goods designed by the customer rather than as prefabricated objects: romance sites, she contends, and the marketing of toys for children have a lot more in common than one might suppose."]

;Daly, Brenda O. 1989. : 'Laughing WITH, or Laughing AT the Young-Adult Romance', ''The English Journal'', 78.6: 50-60.

;Danaher, Mike and Margaret Jamieson, 2016. : “On Manoeuvre: Navigating Practice-Led Methodology in a Creative Writing PhD for the First Time.” ''Constructing Methodology for Qualitative Research: Researching Education and Social Practices''. Ed. Bobby Harreveld, Mike Danaher, Celeste Lawson, Bruce Allan Knight and Gillian Busch. London: Palgrave, 2016. 155-169. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lrXsDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [It’s about a Australian PhD on historical romance being written by a mature student who was in prison herself and believes historical romance can empower women.]

;Dandridge, Rita B., 2003. : 'The Race, Gender, Romance Connection: A Black Feminist Reading of African American Women's Historical Romances', in ''Doubled Plots: Romance and History'', see below, pp. 185-201. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lqx4qPr6uroC&pg=PA185&dq=&hl=en&ei=8fsZTPX2H8iosQaVwMzDBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Dandridge, Rita B., 2003. : 'African American Women's Historical Romances: Race and Gender Revisited', ''The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference'', Ed. Leslie Fife, pp. 42-56. [http://robertleston.com/my-files/PAF/2000-2003%20SW-Texas%20PCA-ACA%20Proceedings.pdf Whole proceedings online here.]

;Dandridge, Rita B., 2004. : ''Black Women's Activism: Reading African American Women's Historical Romances'', African-American Literature and Culture, 5 (New York: Peter Lang). [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=106433704 Index and extracts]

;Dandridge, Rita B., 2010. : 'The African American Historical Romance: An Interview with [[Beverly Jenkins]]', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 1.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2010/08/interview-beverly-jenkins-by-rita-b-dandridge/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/JPRS1.1_Dandridge_InterviewBeverlyJenkins.pdf as a pdf].]

;Dandridge, Rita B., 2016. : 'Love Prevailed Despite What American History Said: Agape and Eros in Beverly Jenkins's ''Night Song'' and ''Through the Storm''', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 151-166.

;Dannenberg, Hilary P. 2008. : "Nadine Gordimer's The Pickup and the Desert Romance Tradition in Post/Colonial Anglophone Fiction." ''Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa'' 20, no. 1: 69-88.

;Darbyshire, Peter, 2000. : ‘Romancing the World: [[Harlequin]] Romances, the Capitalist Dream, and the Conquest of Europe and Asia’, ''Studies in Popular Culture'' 23.1 [http://www.pcasacas.org/SPC/spcissues/23.1/darbyshire.htm] [If that link is broken, the article should still be available [http://web.archive.org/web/20050417053043/http://pcasacas.org/SPC/spcissues/23.1/darbyshire.htm via the Internet Archive].]

;Darbyshire, Peter, 2002. : ‘The Politics of Love: [[Harlequin]] Romances and the Christian Right’, ''Journal of Popular Culture'' (Popular Culture Center, Bowling Green State Univ., OH) (35:4) [Spring 2002]: 75-87.

;Dascăl, Reghina, 2012. : 'Raj Matriarchs: Women Authors of Anglo-Indian Romance' In ''Romance: The History of a Genre,'' 179-200. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars. [Excerpt available [http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Romance--The-History-of-a-Genre1-4438-3734-2.htm from here]]

;Davis, Sara N., 2005. : 'Values and the Romance Novel: Journeys of the Reader', in ''Education, Arts and Morality: Creative Journeys'', ed. Doris B. Wallace (Kluwer: New York), pp. 45-62. [http://books.google.com/books?id=VjaK5lke2BUC&pg=PA45&dq=%22values+and+the+romance+novel%22&sig=LMnmHha92Ijpdlb5tll8XuTo7us Excerpt] [This paper "examines the ways in which reader responses are constructed in dialogue with cultural discourses. These provide the context when students read romance novels. Readers enter the process with many negative evaluations of romance novels which conflict with other prevalent discourses valuing romance for women."] [http://www.springerlink.com/content/p117u4m521658t82/?p=cff70741729244d0828f5b65af2b3e0a&pi=2 Details here.]

;Deal, Clare H., 2015. : "‘Throbb[ing] with a consciousness of a knowledge that appalled her’: Embodiment and Female Subjectivity in the Desert Romance", ''Women: A Cultural Review'' 26.1-2: 75-95. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09574042.2015.1035049?src=recsys#.VdNvq7P7s_t Abstract]

;Deffenbacher, Kristina, 2014. : "Rape Myths' Twilight and Women's Paranormal Revenge in Romantic and Urban Fantasy Fiction." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 47.5: 923-936. [http://www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.12179/abstract Abstract]

;De Geest, D., and A. Goris. 2010. : "Constrained writing, creative writing: The case of handbooks for writing romances." ''Poetics Today'' 31, (1): 81-106.[https://www.academia.edu/9990200/Constrained_Writing_Creative_Writing_The_Case_of_Handbooks_for_Writing_Romances]

;Delamoir, Jeanette, 2003. : "Marie Bjelke Petersen's 'Virile Story': ''Jewelled Nights'', Gender Instability, and the Bush", ''Hecate'' 29.1: 115-131. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6655/is_1_29/ai_n29018696/pg_2/?tag=content;col1 Unofficial version]

;Delany, Samuel R., 1987. : “The Gestation of Genres: Literature, Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy ...” ''Intersections: Fantasy and Science Fiction'', eds George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP), pp. 63-73. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Zao2IFNhvQkC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA63#v=onepage&q&f=false]

;DeVries, Susan, Margaret Dunlop, Suzanne Goopy, Wendy Moyle, and Diane Sutherland-Lockhart, 1995. : 'Discipline and Passion: Meaning, Masochism and Mythology in Popular Medical Romances', ''Nursing Inquiry'' 2.4: 203-210. [http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119256839/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 Abstract]

;Diamond, Geneva, 2015. : "Medievalism and the Courtship Plot in Julie Garwood's Popular Romance Novels", in ''The Middle Ages in Popular Culture: Medievalism and Genre'', ed. Helen Young (Amhurst, NY: Cambria). [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vQ1HCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT51&lpg=PT51&source=bl&ots=_PQEh3U222&sig=j9ZJVpa2AjSEeQONOafVm_dfW-A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAGoVChMI-cm8uY3WxwIVBPEUCh1CyQgx#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Diekman, Amanda B., McDonald, Mary, & Gardner, Wendi L., 2000. : 'Love Means Never Having To Be Careful: The Relationship Between Reading Romance Novels and Safe Sex Behavior', ''Psychology of Women Quarterly'', 24.2: 179-188. [http://serials.cib.unibo.it/cgi-ser/start/it/spogli/df-s.tcl?prog_art=3106218&language=ITALIANO&view=articoli Abstract]

;Dillon, George L., 2007. : 'The Genres Speak; Using Large Corpora to Profile Generic Registers.' ''Journal of Literary Semantics,'' 36.2: 159-187. Part II looks at romance fiction. [http://www.msh-reseau.prd.fr/RevuesSom/detailrevue.jsp?Drevue=%22Journalx032;ofx032;literaryx032;semantics%22 Abstract available via this page]

;Dixon, jay, 1987. : 'Fantasy Unlimited: the World of Mills and Boon', ''Women's Review'', 21 (July): 18-19.**

;Dixon, jay, 1999. : ''The Romance Fiction of [[Mills and Boon|Mills & Boon]] 1909-1990s'' (London: UCL Press). [http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1857282663/ref=sib_rdr_toc/103-7667421-4472612?%5Fencoding=UTF8&p=S00A&j=0#reader-page Contents page and excerpt]

;Dixon, Peter, and Marisa Bortolussi. 2009. : "Readers' Knowledge of Popular Genre." ''Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal'' 46, no. 6: 541-571. [http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all?content=10.1080/01638530902959570 Abstract]

;[http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/278 Doubled Plots: Romance and History], 2003. : eds. Susan Strehle and Mary Paniccia Carden (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi).

;Douglas, Ann, 1980. : 'Soft-Porn Culture: Punishing the Liberated Woman.' ''The New Republic'' Vol.183, No.9 （August 30, 1980): 25-29.

;Doyle, Marsha Vanderford, 1985. : "The Rhetoric of Romance: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Barbara Cartland Novels." ''Southern Speech Communication Journal'' 51: 24-48. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10417948509372645#.VQxTdmPNbHI Abstract]

;Dreimane, Jana, 2015. : "Authors, Publishers and Readers of Popular Literature in Latvia in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s." ''Interlitteraria'' 20.2: 56–70. [https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/IL/article/view/IL.2015.20.2.6 Abstract] [http://kleio.ee/index.php/IL/article/viewFile/IL.2015.20.2.6/7604 Full text]

;Driscoll, Beth, 2014. : "Genre, Author, Text, Reader: Teaching Nora Roberts’s ''Spellbound''." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2. [http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/genre-author-text-reader-teaching-nora-robertss-spellboundby-beth-driscoll/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/GATR_Driscoll.pdf as a pdf file]]

;Driscoll, Beth, Lisa Fletcher and Kim Wilkins, 2016. : "Women, Akubras and Ereaders: Romance Fiction and Australian Publishing." ''The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing''. Ed. Emmett Stinson and Aaron Mannion. Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing. 67-87. [https://www.academia.edu/34113634/Women_Akubras_and_Ereaders_Romance_Fiction_and_Australian_Publishing]

;Driscoll, Beth, Lisa Fletcher, Kim Wilkins and David Carter, 2018. : "The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction." ''Creative Industries Journal'' 11.2: 203-221. [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17510694.2018.1480851?scroll=top&needAccess=true Abstract]

;Driscoll, Beth, 2019. : 'Book Blogs as Tastemakers', ''Participations'' 16.1: 280-305.[http://www.participations.org/Volume%2016/Issue%201/14.pdf] [Looks at romance fiction blogs Smart Bitches, Trashy Books (SBTB), Natasha is a Book Junkie (NIABJ), and Joyfully Jay.]

;Driscoll, Catherine, 2006. : "One True Pairing: The Romance of Pornography and the Pornography of Romance." Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays, eds. Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse (Jefferson, NC: McFarland): 79–96. [http://karenhellekson.com/?page_id=38 Abstract] [Pdf can be downloaded [http://usyd.academia.edu/CatherineDriscoll/Papers/649414/One_True_Pairing_The_Romance_of_Pornography_and_the_Pornography_of_Romance from Academia.edu].]

;Dubino, Jeanne. 1993. : “The Cinderella Complex: Romance Fiction, Patriarchy, and Capitalism.” ''Journal of Popular Culture'', 27.3: 103-118.

;Duder, C. J. D., 1991. : “Love and the Lions: The Image of White Settlement in Kenya in Popular Fiction, 1919-1939.” ''African Affairs'', 90.360: 427-38. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/722940 First page.]

;Dudovitz, Resa L., 1990. : ''The Myth of Superwoman: Women's Bestsellers in France and the United States.'' (New York: Routledge). Chapter 4 is 'The boundary between the romance and the bestseller: Harlequins, historical novels and family.'

;Dugger, Julie M., 2014. : "“I’m a Feminist, But…” Popular Romance in the Women’s Literature Classroom." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2. [http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/im-a-feminist-but-popular-romance-in-the-womens-literature-classroomby-julie-m-dugger/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/IAFB_Dugger.pdf as a pdf]]

;Dyhouse, Carol, 2017. : ''Hearthrobs: A History of Women and Desire''. Oxford: Oxford UP. [https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Heartthrobs.html?id=RCuhDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

==E==

;Ebert, Teresa L., 1988. : 'The Romance of Patriarchy: Ideology, Subjectivity, and Postmodern Feminist Cultural Theory', ''Cultural Critique'', 10: 19-57.

;Ebert, Teresa L., 2009. : "Chick Lit: 'Not Your Mother's Romance Novels'." ''The Task of Cultural Critique'' (Urbana: University of Illinois Press), pp. 97-117. [This is Chapter 5 of the book and in order to discuss chick lit Ebert engages in a fair amount of analysis of the romance genre. An excerpt is available [http://books.google.com/books?id=OEYGxoLGApYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA97#v=onepage&q&f=false here].]

;Ebert, Teresa L., 2012. : ‘Hegel's “picture-thinking” as the interpretive logic of the popular’, ''Textual Practice''. [This was first published as an iFirst article so at the time of adding the entry it hadn't yet been been allocated to a particular issue of the journal. "The paper examines Hegel's concept of ‘picture-thinking’ and demonstrates how it has become the commonsense of contemporary popular culture through a close reading of women's romances as exemplary of a popular knowing that emphasizes the sensual concrete and cancels the abstract."[http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2012.719712 Click here for more details.]]

;Edmondson, Belinda, 2007.: 'The Black romance.' " ''Women's Studies Quarterly'' 35.1/2: 191-211. [http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/27649661?uid=3738032&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21100798892481 Excerpt]

;Egan, Jesi, 2016. : 'Cultural Futurity and the Politics of Recovery: Mary Renault's Ambivalent Romances.' ''MFS Modern Fiction Studies'' 62.3: 462-80. [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/631176/summary Abstract]

;Eike, Ann M., 1986. : ‘An Investigation of the Market for Paperback Romance Novels’, ''Journal of Cultural Economics'', 10:1: 25-36.

;Ehnenn, Jill, 1998. : 'Desperately Seeking Susan Among the Trash: Reinscription, Subversion and Visibility in the Lesbian Romance Novel', ''Atlantis'', special issue on "Sexualities and Feminisms", 23.1: 120-127. [http://journals.msvu.ca/index.php/atlantis/article/view/1698 Abstract and link to full text]

;Elliott, Jack, 2014. : 'Patterns and Trends in Harlequin Category Romance', ''Advancing Digital Humanities: Research, Methods, Theories'', Ed. Katherine Bode and Paul Longley Arthur. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9LMaBgAAQBAJ&lpg=PT15&ots=0CaEEtS6Pl&lr&pg=PT69#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Elliott, Jack, 2014. : 'Vocabulary Decay in Category Romance'. ''Digital Scholarship in the Humanities'', Online, December 2014. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqu069 Abstract]

;Elliott, Jack, 2015. : 'Whole Genre Sequencing', ''Digital Scholarship in the Humanities'', Online, August 2015. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqv034 Abstract]

;Emrys, A. B., 1994. : "Magic Regencies: How Fantasy Forms a Hybrid." ''Popular Culture Review'' 5.1: 85-93.

;Engler, Sandra, 2005. :'' "A Career's Wonderful, but Love is More Wonderful Still" : Femininity and Masculinity in the Fiction of Mills & Boon.'' Tübingen: Francke.

;English Studies Group, 1978-9, 1980. : 'Recent Developments in English Studies at the Centre', ''Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 1972-79'', ed. Stuart Hall, Dorothy Hobson, Andrew Lowe and Paul Willis. 1980. London: Taylor & Francis, 2005. 227-262. [See pages 250-262 which "suggest analogies between certain narratives - the novels of [[Barbara Cartland]] - and a particular grammar practised within an historical institution: English teaching from the 1930s to the 1950s" and draws parallels between romance and "Gramsci's characterisation of common sense".]

;Erwin, Lee. 2002. : "Genre and Authority in Some Popular Nigerian Women's Novels." ''Research in African Literatures'' 33, no. 2: 81-99. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/3820975 Excerpt]

;Escolar, Marisa, 2015. : "Marry the Allies? Luciana Peverelli’s ‘True’ ''Romanzo Rosa'' in ‘Liberated’ Rome." ''Italian Culture'' 70.2: 228-248. [http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/0075163415Z.00000000097 Abstract]

;Esquibel, Catrióna Rueda, 1992. : "A Duel of Wits and the Lesbian Romance Novel: Or, Verbal Intercourse in Fictional Regency England." in ''New Perspectives on Women and Comedy.'' Ed. Regina Barreca, (Philadelphia, PA: Gordon and Breach) pp. 123-133.

;Esser, L. G., Adkins, D., & Velasquez, D. L., 2008. : "“The Red Dot District”: Uncommon Ground in Reader Advisory Education and Professional Practice." in ''Educational Media and Technology Yearbook'' 33. Ed. Michael Orey, V. J. McClendon, Robert Maribe Branch. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited. 105–111. **

==F==

;Faktorovich, Anna, 2014. : ''The Formulas of Popular Fiction: Elements of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Religious and Mystery Novels''. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BVeDBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Faktorovich, Anna, 2015. : ''Gender Bias in Mystery and Romance Novel Publishing: Mimicking Masculinity and Femininity''. (Stone Mountain, GA: Anaphora Literary P).

;Faktorovich, Anna, 2015. : "Interview with Mary Jo Putney, Best-Selling Romance Author." ''Pennsylvania Literary Journal'' 7.2:10-24.[http://anaphoraliterary.com/plj/plj-excerpts/interview-with-mary-jo-putney-best-selling-romance-author/ Available in full]

;Fahnestock-Thomas, Mary, 2001. : ''[[Georgette Heyer]]: a Critical Retrospective.'' Saraland,AL: PrinnyWorld Press. [[http://www.amazon.com/Georgette-Heyer-Retrospective-Mary-Fahnestock-Thomas/dp/0966800532 Excerpt available] via Amazon's "Look Inside!" feature. [http://www.biggerbooks.com/bk_detail.aspx?ISBN=9780966800531 Index]]

;Farooqui, Javaria and Rabia Ashraf, 2019. : ‘Reconnaissance of “Difference” in Cognitive Maps: Authenticating Happily Ever After in Julia Quinn’s ''To Sir Philip with Love''’, ''Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences'' 22.2: 71-82. [https://jhss-khazar.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Reconnaissance-of-%E2%80%98Difference%E2%80%99-in-Cognitive-Maps-Authenticating-Happily-Ever-After-in-Julia-Quinn%E2%80%99s-To-Sir-Philip-with-Love.pdf]

;Faura, Salvador, Shelley Godsland, and Nickianne Moody, 2004. : "The Romance Novel, or, the Generalisimo's Control of the Popular Imagination." in ''Reading the Popular in Contemporary Spanish Texts.'' pp. 46-58. (Newark, DE: U of Delaware P.)(About Corin Tellado, Spanish romance novelist) [[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=twRJwNrGreIC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA46,M1 Excerpt here].]

;Felski, Rita, 1990. : 'Kitsch, Romance Fiction And Male Paranoia: Stephen King meets the Frankfurt School', ''Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture'', 4.1.[http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/4.1/Felski.html]

;Feng, Jin, 2011. : 'Men Conquer the World and Women Save Mankind: Rewriting Patriarchal Traditions through Web-based Matriarchal Romances', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 1.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2011/03/men-conquer-the-world-and-women-save-mankind/] ["This article examines one Chinese women's literature website by the name of Jinjiang, and focuses especially on a particular type of popular romance, nüzun, or matriarchal narratives."].

;Feng, Jin, 2013. : ''Romancing the Internet: Producing and Consuming Chinese Web Romance.'' Leiden: Brill. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yQGaAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina, 2019. : "Chamorro WWII Romances: Combating Erasure with Tales of Survival and Vitality", Journal of Popular Romance Studies 8.[http://jprstudies.org/2019/07/chamorro-wwii-romances-combating-erasure-with-tales-of-survival-and-vitalityby-carolina-fernandez-rodriguez/]

;Finn, Geraldine, 1988. : 'Women, Fantasy, and Popular Culture: The Wonderful World of Harlequin Romance', ''Popular Cultures and Political Practices'', Ed. Richard Gruneau (Toronto: Garamond Press), 51-67.** [A review by Herman Gray in ''Contemporary Sociology'' 19.1 (1990) describes Finn's article as "The real joy of the volume" and there are further details as follows: "Consistent with the Cultural Studies approach, Finn convincingly demonstrates how Harlequin texts and women's experiences of them express the contradictions that structure women's lives. She argues that women readers find refuge in the Harlequin novels, while at the same time such refuge helps to maintain and reproduce structures of domination that women experience" (74). Another summary of Finn's essay can be found in [http://irs.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/25/3/248 a review in the ''International Review for the Sociology of Sport'', 25.3, 248-249 (1990).]

;Fisher, Maryanne and Anthony Cox, 2010. : 'Man Change Thyself: Hero Versus Heroine Development in Harlequin Romance Novels', ''Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology'' 4.4: 305-316. [http://137.140.1.71/jsec/articles/volume4/issue4/FisherVol4Iss4.pdf] or [http://www.maryannefisher.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Fisher_Cox_Neeps2010.pdf].

;Fisher, Maryanne L., and Tami M. Meredith. 2012. : "The Success behind the Candy-Colored Covers: An Evolutionary Perspective on Romance Novels." ''Evolutionary Review'' 3, no. 1: 155-167.

;Flegel, Monica and Jenny Roth, 2010. : 'Annihilating love and heterosexuality without women: Romance, generic difference, and queer politics in "Supernatural" fan fiction', Transformative Works and Cultures 4. [http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/133/147 Available online].

;Flesch, Juliet, 1996. : 'A Labour of Love? Compiling a Bibliography of Twentieth Century Australian Romance Novels', ''APLIS'', 9.3-4: 170-78.

;Flesch, Juliet, 1997. : 'Not just housewives and old maids', ''Collection Building'', 16.3: 119-124. [Describes the content of The Romance Fiction Collection in the University of Melbourne Library, 'the reasons for its establishment and some special aspects of its housing and bibliographical control. Also suggests some of the uses to which it may be put'.] [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mcb/171/1997/00000016/00000003/art00003 Abstract]

;Flesch, Juliet, 2004. : ''From Australia With Love: A History of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels'' (Fremantle, W.A.: Curtin University Books).

;Flesch, Juliet, 2005. : ‘Blushing Bride to Bush Matriarch: Women in the Fiction of [[Lucy Walker]].’ ''Journal of Publishing''. Australian Special Issue. 1 (October 2005): 37-52.**

;Flesch, Juliet, 2007. : 'Love under the Coolabah: Australian Romance Publishing since 1990', in ''Making books: Contemporary Australian Publishing''. Ed. David Carter and Anne Galligan. St. Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press. 279-285. ** [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=p4wu8G4XgH0C&lpg=PP1&ots=XhPwRmBzdP&dq=Making%20books%3A%20Contemporary%20Australian%20Publishing&pg=PA280 Excerpt]

;Flesch, Juliet, 2009. : ‘”Feminists Talk about Sisterhood: I Do Not Know How Deeply They Feel It”: Australian Mass Market Romance Novels and Their Critics,’ ''Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader'', Ed. Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal (New Delhi: SSS Publications, 2009). pp. 419-??. **

;Flesch, Juliet, 2012. : 'The Wide Brown Land and the Big Smoke: The Setting of Australian Popular Romance', ''Sold by the Millions: Australia's Bestsellers''. Ed. Toni Johnson-Woods and Amit Sarwal (Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars), pp. 82-95. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XDIsBwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA82#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [The introduction to this volume of essays can be found [http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Sold-by-the-Millions--Australia-s-Bestsellers1-4438-3584-6.htm here].]

;Fletcher, Lisa, 2003. : "Historical Romance, Gender and Heterosexuality: John Fowles's ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'' and A.S. Byatt's ''Possession''." ''Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies'' 7.1-2: 26-42. [http://eprints.utas.edu.au/540/1/jigs_LF.pdf PDF]

;Fletcher, Lisa, 2004. : ‘“Mere Costumery”? Georgette Heyer’s Cross-Dressing Novels,’ in ''Masquerades: Disguise in English Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present'', Eds. Pilar Sánchez Calle and Jesús López-Paláez Casellas, (Gdansk: University of Gdansk Press), pp. 196-212. [http://eprints.utas.edu.au/538/ Abstract][https://www.academia.edu/1904046/_Mere_costumery_Georgette_Heyers_cross-dressing_novels Download]

;Fletcher, Lisa, 2008. : ''Historical Romance Fiction and Heterosexuality: Heterosexuality and Performativity'', (Ashgate). [Fletcher examines "the connections between popular “classics” by [...] Georgette Heyer, a selection of mass market historical romances published between 1980 and 2005," John Fowles’s ''The French Lieutenant’s Woman'' and A.S. Byatt’s ''Possession''.] [https://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=9945&edition_id=10544 Abstract, Index and Excerpt] and [http://books.google.com/books?id=GK3m60_Q6WIC&dq=&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=I0c5aQHGTM&sig=JjYPIXBRcP6YrWE7-AJxzKOMl5g&hl=en&ei=F40aSuTBI8irjAfz_fDwDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPP1,M1 Excerpts via Google Books].

;Fletcher, Lisa, Rosemary Gaby, and Jennifer Kloester, 2011. : 'Pedagogy Report: Embedding Popular Romance Studies in Undergraduate English Units: Teaching [[Georgette Heyer]]’s ''Sylvester''', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 1.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2011/03/pedagogy-report-embedding-popular-romance-studies-in-undergraduate-english/].

; Fletcher, Lisa, 2013. : 'The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Popular Romance Studies: What is it, and why does it matter?', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/the-scholarship-of-teaching-and-learning-popular-romance-studies-what-is-it-and-why-does-it-matter-by-lisa-fletcher/]. [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Fletcher_Scholarship.pdf as a pdf].]

;Fletcher, Lisa, 2014. : 'Writing the Happy Ever After: An Interview with Anne Gracie', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2. [http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/writing-the-happy-ever-after-an-interview-with-anne-gracieby-lisa-fletcher/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/WTHEA_Fletcher1.pdf as a pdf].]

;Fletcher, Lisa, Beth Driscoll, and Kim Wilkins, 2018. : "Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance", ''Journal of Popular Culture''. Online First 16 July 2018. [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jpcu.12706 Excerpt]

;Fong, Katrina, Justin B. Mullin and Raymond A. Mar, 2013. : "What You Read Matters: The Role of Fiction Genre in Predicting Interpersonal Sensitivity". ''Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts'' 7.4 (2013): 370-376.[http://www.yorku.ca/mar/fong%20et%20al%202013_PACA_what%20you%20read%20matters.pdf]

;Fong, Katrina, Justin B. Mullin, and Raymond A. Mar, 2015. : "How Exposure to Literary Genres Relates to Attitudes Toward Gender Roles and Sexual Behavior." ''Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts''. Advance online publication. 27 April 2015. [http://www.yorku.ca/mar/Fong%20et%20al_PACA_Genre%20and%20sexual%20attitudes.pdf]

;Forbes, Curdella, 2006. : 'X Press Publications: Pop Culture, “Pop Lit” and Caribbean Literary Criticism: An Essay of Provocation', ''Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal'' 4.1. [http://anthurium.miami.edu/volume_4/issue_1/forbes-xpress.html]

;Fordham, Helen, 2014. : '‘That’s love for you’: Destabilizing divides and re-imaging subjectivities in the romantic fiction of Eloisa James.' ''Australasian Journal of Popular Culture'' 3.3: 273-284. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/ajpc/2014/00000003/00000003/art00003 Abstract]

;Foster, Guy Mark, 2007. : 'How Dare a Black Woman Make Love to a White Man! Black Women Romance Novelists and the Taboo of Interracial Desire.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 103-128. [http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1academicnews/004466.shtml Article about Foster's research and this item.]

;Foster, Guy Mark, 2015. : 'What To Do If Your Inner Tomboy Is a Homo: Straight Women, Bisexuality, and Pleasure in M/M Gay Romance Fictions', ''Journal of Bisexuality'', Published online first. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15299716.2015.1092910 Abstract]

;Fox, Pamela, 1994. : 'The "Revolt of the Gentle": Romance and the Politics of Resistance in Working-Class Women's Writing', ''NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction'', 27.2: 140-160. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/1345818 Excerpt]

;Fowler, Bridget, 1979. : ' "True to Me Always": An Analysis of Women's Magazine Fiction', ''The British Journal of Sociology'' 30.1: 91-119. [http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/589503 Abstract] [Fowler takes "for analysis stories published in popular twopenny magazines and sampled them at four-weekly intervals for the period mid-1929 to mid-1930".]

;Fowler, Bridget, 1991. : ''The Alienated Reader: Women and Popular Romantic Literature in the Twentieth Century'' (Brighton: Harvester Wheatsheaf).

;Francis, Conseula and Alison Piepmeier, 2011. : 'Interview: Joanna Russ,' ''Journal of Popular romance Studies'' 1.2. [http://jprstudies.org/2011/03/interview-joanna-russ/] ["In this interview, Russ reflects on her initial responses to slash fandom and considers its political and social meanings in the 1980s and today."]

;Francis, Conseula, 2016. : 'Flipping the Script: Romancing Zane's Urban Erotica', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 167-180.

;Franco, Jean, 1986. : "The Incorporation of Women: A Comparison of North American and Mexican Popular Narrative." in ''Studies in Entertainment: Critical Approaches to Mass Culture.'' Ed. Tania Modleski, (Bloomington: Indiana UP), pp. 119-138. [Especially Harlequin Romances; treatment of women; compared to photonovel. Franco says that "While there is an obvious risk in laying too much emphasis on a single example, I am now going to do precisely that" and chooses to take as a specific example of a Harlequin romance ''[[Moon Witch |Moonwitch]]'' [sic] by [[Anne Mather |Ann Mather]] [sic]."] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7uRtV1ZzHY8C&lpg=PR18&ots=X8_Sf_8M6H&dq=&pg=PA126#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Franco, Jean, 2004. : "Plotting Women: Popular Narratives for Women in the United States and in Latin America." in ''The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader.'' Eds. Ana Del Sarto, Alicia Ríos, and Abril Trigo, (Durham, NC: Duke UP) pp. 183-202.

;Franssen, Thomas and Olav Velthuis, 2014. : 'Making materiality matter: a sociological analysis of prices on the Dutch fiction book market, 1980–2009.' ''Socio-Economic Review''. [http://ser.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/08/07/ser.mwu025.abstract Abstract] ["in terms of size, romance books are smaller than all other books: on average 18.48 cm, which is 1.5 cm less than the other genres. This implies that each romance novel is, just because of its size, 24% cheaper than other genres."]

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2002. : "'Expressing' Herself: The Romance Novel and the Feminine Will to Power," in ''Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America.'' Eds. Lydia Cushman Schurman and Deidre Johnson. (Connecticut: Greenwood Press) pp. 17-36. [http://www.academia.edu/411174/_Expressing_Herself_The_Romance_Novel_and_the_Feminine_Will_to_Power Abstract]

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2008. : '[[Suzanne Brockmann]]', ''Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice'' 2.2/3. [Formerly at [http://www.teachingamericanlit.com/files/Microsoft_Word_-_TALTP-BrockmannSuzanne.pdf]. This link no longer works but a pdf of the entire issue can be downloaded from [http://www.cpcc.edu/taltp/archives/spring-summer-2008-2-2-3/spring_summer_2008_merged.pdf/at_download/file]].

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2009. : 'Darcy’s Vampiric Descendants: Austen’s Perfect Romance Hero and J. R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood', ''Persuasions On-line'' 30.1. [http://jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol30no1/frantz.html]

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2009. : "'I’ve tried my entire life to be a good man': [[Suzanne Brockmann]]’s Sam Starrett, Ideal Romance Hero." ''Women Constructing Men: Female Novelists and their Male Characters, 1750-2000''. Ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Katharina Rennhak. (Lanham, MD: Lexington), pp. 227-247. [http://books.google.com/books?id=ByCOQZD0WeYC&pg=PA227#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2012. : ' "How we love ''is'' our soul": Joey W. Hill's BDSM Romance ''Holding the Cards'',' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 47-59.

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2012. : “The History of BDSM Fiction and Romance,” ''Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey'', ed. Lori Perkins (Dallas, TX: BenBella Books), pp. 159-172.

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2013. : 'On the Tenth Anniversary of Pamela Regis’s ''A Natural History of the Romance Novel''', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/on-the-tenth-anniversary-of-pamela-regiss-a-natural-history-of-the-romance-novel-by-sarah-s-g-frantz/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Frantz_RegisOnTenth.pdf as a pdf].]

;Frantz Lyons, Sarah and Eric Murphy Selinger, 2016. : 'Strange Stirrings, Strange Yearnings: ''The Flame and the Flower'', ''Sweet Savage Love'', and the Lost Diversities of Blockbuster Historical Romance', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 89-110.

;Frederick, Rhonda. 2013.: "Making Jamaican Love: Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain and Romance-ified Diaspora Identities." ''Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal Of Criticism'' 17, no. 3: 63-84.

;Frenier, Mariam Darce, 1988. : ''Good-bye Heathcliff: Changing Heroes, Heroines, Roles, and Values in Women’s [[Category]] Romances'', Contributions in Women’s Studies, no. 94. (New York: Greenwood Press). [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=27366802 Contents page and excerpts]

;Friedman, Lenemaja, 1990. : ''Mary Stewart'', Twayne's English Authors Series, 474 (Boston: Twayne). [Chapters 1-4 discuss Mary Stewart's romantic suspense novels, giving the reader what is, in effect, a detailed synopsis and review of each novel.]

;Frolund, Tina, 2007.: ''Genrefied Classics: A Guide to Reading Interests in Classic Literature.'' (Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited) Has a section on Romance Literature. [According to [http://doi.contentdirections.com/mr/greenwood.jsp?doi=10.1336/1591581729 the abstract], "By identifying the genre characteristics of more than 400 classic fiction works, and organizing titles according to those features, it helps readers find the types of books they enjoy; and it helps you promote classics to teen (and adult!) readers."]

;Fuchs, Barbara, 2004. : ''Romance''. The New Critical Idiom. Ed. John Drakakis. New York: Routledge. [See the chapter on "Romance and 'genre' literature," on pages 124-130]. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QZGMt8gSaasC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA124#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] and [http://www.routledgeliterature.com/books/Romance-isbn9780415212618 Index and excerpt available via the "View Inside" feature at Routledge's website]

==G==

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;Ganguly, Keya. 1991. : 'Alien(ated) Readers: Harlequin Romances and the Politics of Popular Culture', ''Communication'', 12.2: 129-50.

;Gardner, Jeanne Emerson. 2013. : "She Got Her Man, but Could She Keep Him? Love and Marriage in American Romance Comics, 1947–1954." ''Journal Of American Culture'' 36, no. 1: 16-24. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jacc.12009/abstract Excerpt]

;Gardner, Jeanne. 2012. : "Girls Who Sinned in Secret and Paid in Public: Romance Comics, 1949-1954." In ''Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns'', 92-102. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012

;Gardner, Jeanne. 2011. :"'True-To-Life': Romance Comics and Teen-Age Desire, 1947-1954." ''Forum for World Literature Studies,'' vol. 3, no. 1, Apr. 2011, pp. 118-128.

;Gargano, Elizabeth, 2006. : ' "English Sheiks" and Arab Stereotypes: E. M. Hull, T. E. Lawrence, and the Imperial Masquerade', ''Texas Studies in Literature and Language'' 48.2: 171-186. [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/texas_studies_in_literature_and_language/v048/48.2gargano.html Excerpt]

;Garland, Sarah, 2012. : 'Ornamentalism: Desire, Disavowal, and Displacement in E. M. Hull's ''The Sheik''', ''Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers from Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code'', ed. Sarah Churchwell and Thomas Ruys Smith (London: Continuum), pp. 197-216.

;Garton, Stephen, 2008. : "'Fit Only for the Scrap Heap': Rebuilding Returned Soldier Manhood in Australia After 1945." ''Gender & History'' 20.1: 48-67. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/gend/2008/00000020/00000001/art00004?crawler=true Abstract]

;Gates, Sarah, 2016. : "Feminism, NASCAR and the Italian billionaire's secret baby: Defending the romance genre." ''Voiceworks'' 103 (Autumn): 95-101. [https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=310777771841114;res=IELLCC Abstract]

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;Gelder, Ken, 2004. : ''Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field'' (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge). [See the section on "Romance, formula, industry, subgenres" on pages 43-52.] [http://books.google.com/books?id=7VHERzW1-LMC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA43#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt.]

;Gelder, Ken and Rachael Weaver, 2010. : "Louise Mack and Colonial Pseudo Literature." ''Southerly'' 70.2: 82-95.[https://www.academia.edu/29357278/Louise_Mack_and_Colonial_Pseudo_Literature_2010_]

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;Gifford, James, 2017. : “Mary Stewart’s Greek Novels: Hellenism, Orientalism and the Cultural Politics of Pulp Presentation.” ''Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013''. Ed. Eleni Papargyriou, Semele Assinder and David Holton. New York: Peter Lang, 2017. 99-118. [https://www.peterlang.com/view/9781433140488/chapter06.xhtml Excerpt]

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;Gill, Rosalind and Elena Herdieckerhoff. 2006. : “Rewriting the Romance: New Femininities in Chick Lit?” ''Feminist Media Studies'' 6.4 (2006): 487-504.[http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a768577256~db=all] Rpt. in ''LSE Research Online''. 2007. LSE Lib., London School of Economics and Political Science. <http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/2514>.

;Gillis, Bryan and Joanna Simpson, 2015. : ''Sexual Content in Young Adult Literature: Reading between the Sheets'' (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield). [See Chapter 6 on "Sexual Content in Young Adult Romance".] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uVamBgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA101#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Gillis, Stacy, 2015. : "The Cross-Dresser, the Thief, His Daughter and Her Lover: Queer Desire and Romance in Georgette Heyer’s ''These Old Shades''", ''Women: A Cultural Review'' 26.1-2: 57-74. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09574042.2015.1035024#.VdNvqLP7s_t Abstract]

;Gillis, Stacy, 2018. : “Manners, Money, and Marriage: Austen, Heyer, and the Literary Genealogy of the Regency Romance”. ''After Austen: Reinventions, Rewritings, Revisitings''. Ed. Lisa Hopkins. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 81-101.

;Glass, E. R., and A. Mineo. 1986. : "Georgette Heyer and the Uses of Regency." In Marucci, Franco (ed.); Bruttini, Adriano (ed.) ''La performance del testo,'' 283-292. Siena: Ticci.

;Gleason, William, 2011. : “Belles, Beaux, and Paratexts: American Story Papers and the Project of Romance.” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1 [http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%E2%80%9Cbelles-beaux-and-paratexts-american-story-papers-and-the-project-of-romance%E2%80%9D-by-william-gleason/]

;Gleason, William A, 2016. : 'Postbellum, Pre-Harlequin: American Romance Publishing in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 57-70.

;Gleason, William, 2016. : "The Inside Story: Jennifer Crusie and the Architecture of Love." ''Popular Fiction and Spatiality: Reading Genre Settings''. Ed. Lisa Fletcher. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 79-93. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pz5rDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA80#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-137-56902-8_6 Abstract]

;Goade, Sally, 2007. : 'Introduction' pp. 1-11 and 'Understanding the Pleasure: An Undergraduate Romance Reading Community.' pp. 206-230 in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing). Edited by Goade. [pdf of table of contents, introduction and first chapter [http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Empowerment-versus-Oppression--Twenty-First-Century-Views-of-Popular-Romance-Novels.htm here]]

;Goldman, Crystal, 2012. : “Love in the Stacks: Popular Romance Collection Development in Academic Libraries,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2012/10/love-in-the-stacks-popular-romance-collection-development-in-academic-libraries-by-crystal-goldman/]

;Goldman, Crystal, 2015. : “Special Issue: Romancing the Library (Editor’s Introduction),” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/special-issue-romancing-the-library-editors-introductionby-crystal-goldman/]

;Golubov, Nattie, 2017. : "Reading the Romance Writer as an Author-Entrepreneur," ''Interférences littéraires/Literaire interferenties'' 21 (December), "Gendered Authorial Corpographies", Ed. Aina Pérez Fontdevila & Meri Torras Francès, 131-160. [http://www.interferenceslitteraires.be/node/748 Abstract and link to pdf]

;Gómez Calderón, María José. : “Romancing the Dark Ages: The Viking Hero in Sentimental Narrative.” ''Boletín Millares Carlo'' 26 (2007): 287-97.[http://mdc.ulpgc.es/cdm/ref/collection/bolmc/id/374]

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;González-Cruz, Maria-Isabel, 2016. : "Discourse Types and Functions in Popular Romance Fiction Novels ("Work in Progress")." ''On the move: Glancing Backwards To Build a Future in English Studies'' Ed. Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz and Jon Ortiz de Urbina Arruabarrena. Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto. 265-271.

;González Cruz, Maria Isabel, 2017. : 'Exploring the dynamics of English/Spanish codeswitching in a written corpus', ''Alicante Journal of English Studies / Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses'' 30: 331-355. [http://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/72178 Abstract and link to pdf]

;González Mínguez, M. Teresa, 2010. : "Who is more fragile? A study of heroes and heroines in the twentieth century romantic fiction of [[Mills and Boon]]." ''Cuadernos Kóre'' [http://hosting01.uc3m.es/ojs/index.php/KORE/issue/view/22 1.2]: 179-192. [[http://hosting01.uc3m.es/ojs/index.php/KORE/article/view/225 Abstract] and [http://kusan.uc3m.es/CIAN/index.php/CK/article/view/1044/485 PDF].]

;Goodwin, Sarah Webster, 1997. : "Romance and Change: Teaching the Romance to Undergraduates.", ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 233-241.

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;Goris, An, 2009. : "Romance the World Over," in ''Global Cultures''. Ed. Frank A. Salamone. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars. pp. 59-?? ** [Discusses the worldwide translation, production and distribution of Harlequins.] [http://kuleuven.academia.edu/AnGoris/Papers/88815/Romance-the-World-Over Abstract]

;Goris, An, 2011. : “Matricide in Romance Scholarship? Response to Pamela Regis’ Keynote Address at the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%E2%80%9Cmatricide-in-romance-scholarship-response-to-pamela-regis%E2%80%99-keynote-address-at-the-second-annual-conference-of-the-international-association-for-the-study-of-popular-romance%E2%80%9D/]

;Goris, An, 2012. : "Loving by the Book: Voice and Romance Authorship," in ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction. Critical Essays.'' Ed. Frantz, Sarah S.G. and Selinger, Eric Murphy. Jefferson: McFarland. pp. 73-83.

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;Goris, An, 2013. : "Happily Ever After ... And After: Serialization and the Popular Romance Novel." ''Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present)'' 12.1 [http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/articles/spring_2013/goris.htm]

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;Goșa, Codruța. 2012. : "Sex and the Genre: The Role of Sex in Popular Romance." In ''Romance: The History of a Genre,'' 14-28. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars. [Nora Roberts, Sandra Brown, Judith McNaught] [Excerpt available [http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Romance--The-History-of-a-Genre1-4438-3734-2.htm from here]]

;Graham, Robert J., 1989. : “Media Literacy and Cultural Politics.” ''Adult Education Quarterly'' 39.3: 152-60. [http://aeq.sagepub.com/content/39/3/152.short Abstract] ["Through an analysis of two representative media-romance fiction and television news programs-this article argues for the production of a more media-literate citizenry. The section on women's romances addresses the confluence of a commercial, institutional and ideological matrix that poses crucial problems of a socio-cultural nature." The section on romance is mostly based on Radway's ''Reading the Romance''.]

;Graves, Joanne, 2014. : 'Beyond Valentine's Day: The romance novel in the evolving world of publishing', LIANZA Conference 2014, 12-15 October, Auckland, New Zealand: Pou Whakairo: Connect and Thrive. [LIANZA is the Library and Information Association of New Zealand. The article discusses New Zealand libraries and romance authors.][http://www.lianza.org.nz/sites/default/files/Graves_J_Beyond_Valentines_Day.pdf]

;Graybill, Beth. 2010. : "Chasing the Bonnet: The Premise and Popularity of Writing Amish Women." ''Journal of the Center for Mennonite Writing'' 2, no. 4: 1-6. [http://www.mennonitewriting.org/journal/2/4/bonnet-fiction/]

;Greenfeld-Benovitz, Miriam, 2012. : 'The Interactive Romance Community: The Case of "Covers Gone Wild",' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 195-205.

;Greenwood, Alice. 1983. : "Language Stereotypes in Mass Market Romances." ''CUNYForum: Papers in Linguistics'' 9: 157-173.

;Greer, Germaine, 1971. : ''The Female Eunuch'' (London: Paladin). [First published in 1970, there is a chapter on romance (pages 171-189in this edition) in which she critiques [[Georgette Heyer]]'s ''Regency Buck'', [[Barbara Cartland]]'s ''The Wings of Love'' and [[Lucy Walker]]'s ''The Loving Heart''.]

;Grescoe, Paul, 1996. : ''The Merchants of Venus: Inside [[Harlequin]] and the Empire of Romance'' (Vancouver: Raincoast). [ [[Kathleen Gilles Seidel]]'s "Half-Risen Venus", ''Paradoxa'' 3.1-2 (1997): 250-252 is a review of this book.]

;Griffin, Susan E., 1997. : "Resistance and Reinvention in Sandra Cisneros' ''Woman Hollering Creek''." ''Ethnicity and the American Short Story'', ed. Julie Brown (New York: Garland), pp. 85-96. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vT_7cLnnUlUC&lpg=PA85&lr=lang_en&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] ["Cisneros' [...] 'Woman Hollering Creek,' is the story in which she most clearly illustrates the negative effects of popular romance genres' portrayal of women, and it is also the story in which she begins to illustrate how women can resist the romance narrative" (87).]

;Griswold, Wendy, and Misty Bastian, 1987. : “Continuities and Reconstructions in Cross-cultural Literary Transmission: The Case of the Nigerian Romance Novel.” ''Poetics'' 16.3-4: 327-351. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0304-422X(87)90010-6 Abstract]

;Griswold, Wendy, 1989. : "Formulaic Fiction: The Author as Agent of Elective Affinity." ''Comparative Social Research.'' 11: 75-130.

;Gruner, Elisabeth Rose, 2019. : ''Constructing the Adolescent Reader in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction''. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/978-1-137-53924-3 Abstract] [See in particular Chapter 3, "Misreading the Classics: Gender, Genre, and Agency in YA Romance", pp. 51-84.]

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==H==
;Haddad, Emily A., 2007. : 'Bound to Love: Captivity in Harlequin Sheikh Novels.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 42-64.

;Haefner, Margaret J., 2009. : "Challenging the -isms: Gender and Race in Brockmann's Troubleshooters, Inc. Romance Novels", ''Journal of Media Sociology'' 1.3/4 (2009): 182-201.[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.461.4162&rep=rep1&type=pdf#page=52]

;Hagemann, Susanne, 1996. : "Gendering Places: [[Georgette Heyer]]'s Cultural Topography." ''Scotland to Slovenia: European Identities and Transcultural Communication. Proceedings of the Fourth International Scottish Studies Symposium''. Ed. Horst W. Drescher and Susanne Hagemann. Scottish Studies International 21. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1996. 187–199. [Reprinted in: ''Georgette Heyer: A Critical Retrospective''. Ed. Mary Fahnestock-Thomas. Saraland, AL: PrinnyWorld Press, 2001. 480–492.] **

;Hague, Euan, 2014. : “Mass Market Romance Fiction and the Representation of Scotland in the United States.” ''The Modern Scottish Diaspora: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives''. Ed. Murray Stewart Leith and Duncan Sim (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP): 171-190. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JpGlBgAAQBAJ&lpg=PR7&ots=wb_mTDikBD&lr&pg=PA171#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Hague, Euan and David Stenhouse, 2007. : "A very interesting place: representing Scotland in American romance novels, " in ''The Edinburgh companion to contemporary Scottish literature'' Ed. by Berthold Schoene-Harwood (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press): 354-361.

;Hains, Maryellen, 1989. : “Beauty and the Beast: 20th Century Romance?” ''Merveilles & contes'' 3: 75–83.** [The journal seems to go under the name [http://www.langlab.wayne.edu/marvelsHome/mcindfk.html ''Marvels & Tales''] now]

;Hall, Glinda Fountain, 2008. : "Inverting the Southern Belle: Romance Writers Redefine Gender Myths. " ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 41.1: 37-55.

;Hall, Glinda F., 2010. : ''The Creators of Women’s Popular Romance Fiction: The Authors Who Gave Women a Genre of Their Own''. [http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=7895&pc=9 Edwin Mellen Press.]

;Hallam, Julia, 2000. : ''Nursing the Image: Media, Culture and Professional Identity'' (London: Routledge). [See pages [http://books.google.com/books?id=zl-vibuIaMIC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q&f=false 62]-73 for discussion of Mills & Boon medical romances and changes in women's roles in the 1950s and 1960s and page 187 for a very brief summary about Mills & Boon romances in later decades.] [Excerpts available [http://books.google.com/books?id=7aRjbKJQNpkC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false here] and [http://books.google.com/books?id=zl-vibuIaMIC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false here].]

;Hamilton, Cristen, 2013. : “Vindicating the Historical Romance.” ''Plaza: Dialogues in Language and Literature'' 3.2: 140-156. [http://journals.tdl.org/plaza/index.php/plaza/article/view/7021 Abstract] and [http://journals.tdl.org/plaza/index.php/plaza/article/view/7021/pdf PDF]. [This journal only "publishes works by graduate students."]

;Hammill, Faye, 2003. : '''The Republic of Love'' and Popular Romance,' ''Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction'', ed. Edward Eden and Dee Goertz (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), pp. 61-83. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Y8GfXeH9AUEC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA61#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Hapgood, Lynne, 2005. : ''Margins of Desire: The Suburbs in Fiction and Culture, 1880-1925'' (Manchester: Manchester UP). [See Chapter 5, 'The feminine suburb/1: Women readers and romance fiction' and Chapter 6, 'The feminine suburb/2: [[Sophie Cole]], Alice Askew, [[Louise Gerard]], Mary Hamilton'. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mMdFEGZ33A8C&lpg=PP1&ots=vB7CH0vAkJ&dq=&pg=PA114#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt].]

;Harders, Robin, 2012. : 'Borderlands of Desire: Captivity, Romance, and the Revolutionary Power of Love,' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 133-152.

;Harris, Marlene, 2013. : "A New Breed of Romance." ''Library Journal'' 138.17: 49-49. ["Romance authors who find themselves publishing via both traditional contracts and the new world of the self-published are living a hybrid life"]

;Harris, Racheal, 2018. : “Really Romantic? Pirates in Romantic Fiction.” ''Pirates in History and Popular Culture,'' edited by Antonio Sanna (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company Publishing), pp. 109–119. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JXJuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA109&lpg=PA109#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Hashim, Ruzy Suliza, and Shahizah Ismail Hamdan. 2010. : "Facets of Women in Malay Romance Fiction." ''Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing'' 32, no. 1-2: 67-79.[http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1255&context=kunapipi]

;Hassencahl, Fran, 1980. : "Persecutors, Victims and Rescuers in Harlequin Romances." Paper presented at the combined Annual Meeting of the Midwest Popular Culture Association and the Midwest American Culture Association (Kalamazoo, MI, October 23-25, 1980). 20 pgs. ERIC document ED207086.

;Haynsworth, Leslie, 2008. : '[[Janet Evanovich]]', ''Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice'' 2.2/3. [Formerly at [http://www.teachingamericanlit.com/files/Microsoft_Word_-_TALTP-EvanovichJanetuse.pdf]. This link no longer works but a pdf of the entire issue can be downloaded from [http://www.cpcc.edu/taltp/archives/spring-summer-2008-2-2-3/spring_summer_2008_merged.pdf/at_download/file]].

;Hayton, Christopher J., and Sheila Hayton. 2012. : "The Girls in White: Nurse Images in Early Cold War Era Romance and War Comics." In ''Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns'', 129-145. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012.

;Hazen, Helen, 1983. : ''Endless Rapture; Rape, Romance, and the Female Imagination.'' New York:: Scribner's. (Chapter 1 - Romance Novels)

;Hee Chung, June, 2016. : 'Henry James's "The Velvet Glove" and the Iron Fist: Transatlantic Cultural Exchange and the Romance Tradition', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 225-239.

;Heinecken, Dawn, 1999. : 'Changing Ideologies in Romance Fiction', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 149-72.

;Heiss, Karin, 2015. : '14 Weeks of Love and Labour: Teaching Regency and Desert Romance to Undergraduate Students', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/14-weeks-of-love-and-labour-teaching-regency-and-desert-romance-to-undergraduate-studentsby-karin-heiss/] [Focus of the course was on "Georgette Heyer’s ''Bath Tangle'' (1955), E.M. Hull’s ''The Sheik'' (1919), and a recent Mills & Boon category romance, Marguerite Kaye's ''The Governess and the Sheikh'' (2011)"]

;Heller, Tamar, 1997. : 'Having It All: Consumption and Ideological Tension in an Innovative Romance Novel.' ''Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture'' 30.3:243-264. [The article focuses on ''Free Spirit'' by [[Fern Michael|Fern Michael]]]

;Herendeen, Ann, 2012. : “The Upper-Class Bisexual Top as Romantic Hero: (Pre)dominant in the Social Structure and in the Bedroom,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2012/10/the-upper-class-bisexual-top-as-romantic-hero-predominant-in-the-social-structure-and-in-the-bedroom-by-ann-herendeen/]

;Herendeen, Ann, 2016. : 'Having it Both Ways; or, Writing from the Third Perspective: The Revolutionary M/M/F Ménage Romance Novel', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 405-419.

;Hermes, Joke, 1992. : ‘Sexuality in Lesbian Romance Fiction’, ''Feminist Review'', 42: 49-66. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Yb2vlW3656sC&lpg=PA49&ots=THNcySvQzc&dq=%22some%20pulp%20sappho%22%20koski&pg=PA49 Excerpts]

;Hermes, Joke, 1992. : 'Entertainment or Enlightenment - Sexuality In Lesbian Romance Novels', ''Argument'', 34.3:389-402.

;Hess, Jonathan M., 2010. : ''Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity''. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. [See Chapter 3: "Middlebrow Culture in Pursuit of Romance: Love, Fiction, and the Virtues of Marrying In"] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dYlIwNRoNGEC&lpg=PA157&ots=zsKPocUVyX&pg=PA111#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Hey, Valerie, 1983. : ''The Necessity of Romance'', Women’s Studies Occasional Papers, 3 (Canterbury: University of Kent).

;Higashi, Sumiko, 2017. : 'Adapting Middlebrow Taste to Sell Stars, Romance, and Consumption', ''Feminist Media Histories'' 3.4 (2017): 126-161. [[http://fmh.ucpress.edu/content/3/4/126 Abstract] which mentions that ''Photoplay'' magazine, which began in 1911, "published serialized romance fiction that featured daring, unconventional modern heroines."]

;Hinnant, Charles H., 2003. : "Desire and the Marketplace: A Reading of Kathleen Woodiwiss's The Flame and the Flower," in ''Doubled Plots: Romance and History'', see above, pp. 147-164. [http://books.google.com/books?id=3B-byRPo2WMC&dq=&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=zfstjNM05P&sig=DTg9qdbOWddx4BwwPEZa4SUuHY0&hl=en&ei=_bnwSfmDMYKUjAfvlPW_DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#PPA147,M1 Excerpt]

;Hipsky, Martin, 2011. : ''Modernism and the Women’s Popular Romance in Britain, 1885–1925'' (Ohio University Press). [[http://www.ohioswallow.com/book/Modernism+and+the+Women%E2%80%99s+Popular+Romance+in+Britain%2C+1885%E2%80%931925 More details] and [http://teachmetonight.blogspot.com/2011/11/modernism-and-womens-popular-romance-in.html a blog post by Hipsky about the book].]

;Hirdman, Anja, 2016. : "Speaking through the flesh: Affective encounters, gazes and desire in Harlequin romances," ''MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research'' 32.61: 42-57. [http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/mediekultur/article/view/22382 Abstract and pdf]

;Holden, Stacy E. and Charity Tabol, 2015. : 'In Sickness and In Health: Representations of PTSD in Post-9/11 Romance Novels', ''albeit'' 2.1. [http://albeitjournal.com/in-sickness-and-in-health-representations-of-ptsd-in-post-911-romance-novels/]

;Holden, Stacy E., 2015. : 'Love in the Desert: Images of Arab-American Reconciliation in Contemporary Sheikh Romance Novels', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/love-in-the-desert-images-of-arab-american-reconciliation-in-contemporary-sheikh-romance-novelsby-stacy-e-holden/] [See also Megan Crane's response in the same issue of the journal. Details under Crane or [http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/stacy-holdens-love-in-the-desert-an-authors-responseby-megan-crane/ use this direct link]]

;Hollows, Joanne, 2000. : ''Feminism, Femininity and Popular Culture'' (Manchester: Manchester University Press). [[http://books.google.com/books?id=sXWjnG5LWO0C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA68#v=onepage&q=&f=false Chapter 4] is about "Reading Romantic Fiction."]

;Holmes, Diana, 2003. : 'Decadent Love: Rachilde and the Popular Romance', ''Dix-Neuf: Journal of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes'', 1: 16-28. [http://www.sdn.ac.uk/dixneuf/september03/Holmes/Decadent%20Love%20-%20Formatted.pdf pdf available here] [Holmes argues that Rachilde's work, particularly ''Le Dessous'' (1904), 'performs the feat of providing simultaneously the pleasures of romance and a derisive critique of the genre']

;Holmes, Diana, 2005. : "The Return to Romance: Love Stories in Recent French Women's Writing." ''Esprit Créateur'' 45, no. 1: 97-109.

;Holmes, Diana, 2006. : ''Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France; Love Stories.'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press). [http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199249848 Description] and [http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-924984-9.pdf pdf of the first chapter.] [http://books.google.com/books?id=7dQfAwHT6XEC Description and more excerpts.]

;Holmes, D. 2010. : "The comfortable reader: Romantic bestsellers and critical disdain." '' French Cultural Studies'' 21, (4): 287-296. [http://frc.sagepub.com/content/21/4/287.abstract Abstract.]

;Hopkins, Lisa, 2017/2018. : ‘Waltzing with Wellington, Biting with Byron: Heroes in Austen Tribute Texts’. ''Jane Austen and Masculinity''. Ed. Michael Kramp. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press. 173-189. [http://shura.shu.ac.uk/18145/ Abstract] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8S1BDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA173#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Hopkins, Lisa, 2018. : "Georgette Heyer: What Austen Left Out". ''After Austen: Reinventions, Rewritings, Revisitings''. Ed. Lisa Hopkins. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 61-79. [This chapter looks in detail at military metaphors/language used by Heyer, as well as her allusions to Austen.]

;Hubbard, Rita C., 1983. : 'The Changing-Unchanging Heroines and Heroes of Harlequin Romances, 1950-1979. in ''The Hero in Transition.'',ed. Ray B. Browne and Marshall W. Fishwick, (Bowling Green, OH: Popular), pp. 171-179. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&id=eP1y6zjqWucC&dq=&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=gG9wNZPwho&sig=YrmDc2hksnAKS1uHRMI1lbIcLNY&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA171,M1 Excerpt]

;Hubbard, Rita C., 1985. : 'Relationship Styles in Popular Romance Novels, 1950-1983', ''Communication Quarterly'', 33.2: 113-25.** Republished in ''Methods of Rhetorical Criticism: A Twentieth-Century Perspective'', ed. Bernard L. Brock, Robert L. Scott and James W. Chesebro, Third Edition, Revised, 1990 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press), pp. 223-233. [http://books.google.com/books?id=g9_oe6rGv9oC&lpg=PP1&dq=&pg=PA223#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Hubbard, Rita C., 1992. : 'Magic and Transformation: Relationships in Popular Romance Novels, 1950 to the 1980s', in ''Popular Culture: An Introductory Text'', ed. Kevin Lause & Jack Nachbar (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press), pp. 476-488. ** [http://books.google.com/books?id=BEkB2J-Wb4sC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA476#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [http://www.questia.com/read/101089968?title=Magic%20and%20Transformation%3a%20Relationships%20in%20Popular%20Romance%20Novels%2c%201950%20to%20the%201980s Abstract]. [In the excerpt it is stated that "A slightly different version of this essay appeared in ''Communication Quarterly'' 33 (Spring 1985)" (476). More precise bibliographical details for that item are given in the entry above this one.]

;Hughes, Helen, 1993. : '' The Historical Romance.'' (London:Routledge) [http://www.routledge.com/books/The-Historical-Romance-isbn9780415058124 Synopsis]. [http://books.google.com/books?id=cL0OAAAAQAAJ Abstract] and [http://books.google.com/books?id=FwEhzGDKZKYC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpts]

;Huntwork, Mary M., 1990. : "Why Girls Flock to Sweet Valley High." ''School Library Journal'' 36.3 : 137-140.

;Huq, Maimuna, 1999. : “From Piety to Romance: Islam-Oriented Texts in Bangladesh.” ''New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere'', ed. Dale F. Eickelman and Jon W. Anderson. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP), pp. 133-161. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Moh2l5d85OYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA129#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt from the 2003 edition, where it appears on pages 129-57.]

;Hurst, Rochelle, 2009. : “The Barrister’s Bedmate: Harlequin Mills & Boon and the Bridget Jones Debate” ''Australian Feminist Studies'' 24.62: 453-468. [Feminist critique of Harlequin Mills & Boons (especially a selection by [[Emma Darcy]]) and comparison with Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones novels. For a discussion of why many aspects of this essay's methodology are troubling, from an academic perspective, see [https://web.archive.org/web/20101220080559/http://www.readreactreview.com:80/2010/02/10/feminist-critique-of-romance-ur-doin-it-wrong/ this article] by Jessica at Read React Review].

==I==
;Iesue, Renata. 1990. : "Romance and Reality: Popular Writing by Nigerian Women." ''Commonwealth Essays and Studies'' 13, no. 1: 28-37.

;Illouz, Eva. 2014. : ''Hard-Core Romance: "Fifty Shades of Grey," Best-Sellers, and Society.'' Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

;Iqbal, Kundan, 2014. : "The impact of romance novels on women's sexual and reproductive health." ''Journal of Family Planning & Reproductive Health Care''. Margaret Jackson Prize Essay 2014. Published Online First: 17 July 2014. [http://jfprhc.bmj.com/content/early/2014/07/17/jfprhc-2014-100995.short Excerpt]

;Iwai, Gaku, 2015. : "Wartime Ideology in 'The Thimble': A Comparative Study of Popular Wartime Romance and the Anti-romance of D. H. Lawrence." ''Études Lawrenciennes'' 46.[http://lawrence.revues.org/236]

==J==

;Jackson, Cia, 2017. : "Harlequin Romance: The Power of Parody and Subversion." ''The Ascendance of Harley Quinn: Essays on DC's Enigmatic Villain''. Ed. Shelley E. Barba and Joy M. Perrin. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2017. 16-??. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zNg5DwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PT26#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [This is about how the DC comics parody romance novel conventions via the figure of Harley Quinn.]

;Jackson, Elaine, 2008. : '''Sievier’s Monthly'' (1909): Pseudonyms and Readership in Early Twentieth Century Popular Fiction,' ''Book Trade Connections from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries'', ed. John Hinks and Catherine Armstrong (Newcastle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press), pp. 245-???. [In the [http://www.oakknoll.com/resources/bookexcerpts/096655.pdf introduction to the volume] Catherine Armstrong writes that 'In the final chapter of this volume, Elaine Jackson explores the colourful publishing career of Marguerite Jervis, known variously under pseudonyms such as Countess Barcynska and Oliver Sandys. Her contributions of popular fiction to journals in the early twentieth century are surveyed, as are the techniques she used to convey sexually and politically suggestive material' (viii). In Jackson's PhD thesis she wrote about "the production and distribution of popular romance between the two World Wars" and focused on three authors, one of whom was Marguerite Jervis.]

;Jackson, Stevi, 1995. : 'Women and Heterosexual Love: Complicity, Resistance and Change', in ''Romance Revisited'' , ed. Jackie Stacey and Lynne Pearce (New York: New York UP), pp. 49-62.

;Jagodzinski, Mallory, 2014. : "We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: Reflecting Thirty Years after ''Reading the Romance''." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2.[http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/weve-come-a-long-way-baby-reflecting-thirty-years-after-reading-the-romanceby-mallory-jagodzinski/]

;Jarmakani, Amira, 2010. : '“The Sheik Who Loved Me”: Romancing the War on Terror', ''Signs'' 35.4: 993-1017. [http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/651044?journalCode=signs Abstract]

;Jarmakani, Amira. 2011. : "Desiring the Big Bad Blade: Racing the Sheikh in Desert Romances." ''American Quarterly'' 63, no. 4: 895-928. [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/american_quarterly/v063/63.4.jarmakani.html Abstract] [https://womensstudies.sdsu.edu/people/bios/docs/jarmakani/desiring%20big%20bad%20blade.pdf Pdf]

;Jarmakani, Amira, 2015. : ''An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror''. New York: New York UP, 2015. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=k5HwCQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [http://jprstudies.org/2016/07/review-an-imperialist-love-story-desert-romances-and-the-war-on-terror-by-amira-jarmakani/ See also the review by Heather Schell in the ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'']

;Jarvis, Christine, 1995. : 'Romancing the Curriculum: Empowerment through Popular Culture',''Convergence'', 28.3: 71-7. [http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=Romancing+the+Curriculum&searchtype=basic&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=kw&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&objectId=0900019b800fd401&accno=EJ515606&_nfls=false Abstract]

;Jarvis, Christine, 1999. : 'Love Changes Everything: The Transformative Potential of Popular Romantic Fiction', ''Studies in the Education of Adults'', 31.2:109-122. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/niace/stea/1999/00000031/00000002/art00002 Abstract]

;Jarvis, Christine, 2000. : 'Hungry Heroines: The Exploration of a "Generative Theme" in Romantic Fiction,' ''Consuming for Pleasure: Selected Essays on Popular Fiction'' ed. Julia Hallam and Nickianne Moody (Liverpool: Liverpool John Moores University; Association for Research in Popular Fictions), pp. 171-???.

;Jarvis, Christine, 2006. : "Using Fiction for Transformation." ''New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education'' 109: 69-77. [https://doi.org/10.1002/ace.209 Abstract]

;Jenkins, Jacqueline, 2004. : 'Reading Women Reading: Feminism, Culture, and Memory', ''Maistresse of My Wit: Medieval Women, Modern Scholars'', ed. Louise D'Arcens and Juanita Feros Ruys (Turnhout: Brepols), pp. 317-334. ["Jenkins first debates the fascinating possibility of a cultural memory, a number of shared common norms, conventions, and practices that would link the otherwise non-contiguous reading experiences of medieval and contemporary women. Drawing on the results of modern romance studies, she wonders if the otherwise forbidden self-realization of women through the reading of romances could not also be the cause of the popularity of vernacular devotional literature among high-status women in the Middle Ages. In the end, however, she considers the sobering possibility that she might have accepted the results of modern romance studies precisely because of her (formerly unrecognized) investment in attributing some form of resistance to the medieval women readers of devotional texts." ([https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/5967/05.02.16.html?sequence=1 Review by Richard Utz])]

;Jensen, Margaret Ann, 1984. : ''Love's $weet Return: The [[Harlequin]] Story'' (Toronto: Women's Educational Press, 1984). [[http://books.google.com/books?id=yQJUhW3lNVUC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPP1,M1 Excerpts] (possibly from different publisher, as details on Google Books say it was published by the Popular Press)]

;Joannou, Maroula, 2012. : ''Women's Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity: The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice, 1938-1962'' (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan). [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ok8vuVKHR50C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [See pages [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ok8vuVKHR50C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA75#v=onepage&q&f=false 75], [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ok8vuVKHR50C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA76#v=onepage&q&f=false 76], [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ok8vuVKHR50C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA77#v=onepage&q&f=false 77], [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ok8vuVKHR50C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA78#v=onepage&q&f=false 78], [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ok8vuVKHR50C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA79#v=onepage&q&f=false 79] and [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ok8vuVKHR50C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA80#v=onepage&q&f=false 80] for the section on [[Georgette Heyer]].]

;Johnson, Heather., 2017. : "Yorkshire English in Georgette Heyer's ''The Unknown Ajax''." ''Schwa: Language and Linguistics'' 14: 57-70. [http://schwa.byu.edu/files/2017/05/Schwa_14_Winter_2017.pdf#page=57]

;Johnson, Naomi R., 2010. : 'Consuming Desires: Consumption, Romance, and Sexuality in Best-Selling Teen Romance Novels', ''Women's Studies in Communication'' 33.1: 54-73. [http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a921878460 Abstract]

;Johnson, Valerie B., 2018. : "What a Canon Wants: Robin Hood, Romance Novels, and Carrie Lofty’s ''What a Scoundrel Wants''", ''Robin Hood and the Outlaw/ed Literary Canon'', ed. Lesley Coote and Alexander L. Kaufman. ???: Routledge, 2018. 184-??? [https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429810060/chapters/10.4324%2F9780429442766-14 Excerpt]

;Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E., 1999. : ' "I Am Not a Bimbo": Persona, Promotion, and the Fabulous Fabio', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 35-50. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ja_Ia-oZo4wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA35#v=onepage&q=&f=false Excerpt]

;Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E., 1999. : 'Leading Us into Temptation: The Language of Sex and the Power of Love', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 113-48. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ja_Ia-oZo4wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA113#v=onepage&q=&f=false Excerpt]

;Johnson-Woods, Toni, 2004. : ''Pulp: A Collector's Book of Australian Pulp Fiction Covers'' (Canberra: National Library of Australia). [http://books.google.com/books?id=wWU0w2gWfoIC&lpg=PA47&ots=DzPRIaAjl7&dq=&pg=PA47#v=onepage&q&f=false One chapter is on romance covers.]

;Johnson-Woods, T., 2005. : 'From Australia With Love: A History Of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels,' ''Australian Literary Studies,'' 22.1:119-120. [This is a book review of Juliet Flesch's book, listed elsewhere in this bibliography]

;Jones, Ann Rosalind, 1986. : ‘[[Mills and Boon|Mills & Boon]] Meets Feminism’, in ''The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction'', ed. Jean Radford (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul), pp. 195-218. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Sb4OAAAAQAAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA195#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Joshi, S. T. 2009. : ''Junk fiction: America's obsession with bestsellers.'' [Rockville, MD]: Borgo Press. Chapter on "Queens of romance: Danielle Steele, Barbara Taylor Bradford, and Nora Roberts." [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vD35eCfVGCsC&lpg=PP1&ots=pYTAywlfbU&dq=&pg=PA27#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Juhasz, Suzanne, 1988. : ‘Texts to Grow On: Reading Women’s Romance Fiction’, ''Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature'', 7:2: 239-259.

;Juhasz, Suzanne, 1998. : 'Lesbian Romance Fiction and the Plotting of Desire: Narrative Theory, Lesbian Identity, and Reading Practice', ''Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature'', 17.1: 65-82. [Rptd. in Ostrov Weisser, ''Women and Romance'', pp. 276-291. **]

==K==

;Kahn, Laurie, director, 2015. : ''Love Between the Covers''. Blueberry Hill Productions. [This is a documentary about popular romance fiction and a [http://jprstudies.org/2016/07/review-love-between-the-covers-produced-written-and-directed-by-laurie-kahn/ review of it by Beth Driscoll was published in the ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies''.]]

;Kaler, Anne K., 2000. : "Dysfunctional Detectives and Romantic P. I.s: Impediments to the Happy Marriage of Mystery and Romance." ''Clues: A Journal of Detection'', 21.1: 61-72.

;Kaler, Anne K., 1999. : 'Conventions of Captivity in Romance Novels', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 86-99. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ja_Ia-oZo4wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA86#v=onepage&q=&f=false Excerpt]

;Kaler, Anne K., 1999. : ' Hero, Heroine, or HERA: A New Name for an Old Problem', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 187-92. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ja_Ia-oZo4wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA187#v=onepage&q=&f=false Excerpt]

;Kamble, Jayashree, 2007. : 'Female Enfranchisement and the Popular Romance: Employing an Indian Perspective.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 148-173.

;Kamble, Jayashree, 2012. : 'Patriotism, Passion, and PTSD: The Critique of War in Popular Romance Fiction,' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 153-163.

;Kamble, Jayashree, 2013. : 'How to Tame a Dragon: Ten years after ''A Natural History of the Romance Novel''', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/how-to-tame-a-dragon-ten-years-after-a-natural-history-of-the-romance-novel-by-jayashree-kamble/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Kamble_RegisDragon.pdf as a pdf].]

;Kamble, Jayashree, 2014. : ''Making Meaning in Popular Romance Fiction: An Epistemology''. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/making-meaning-in-popular-romance-fiction-jayashree-kambl%E9/?K=9781137395047 Abstract] and [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uz9vBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Kamblé, Jayashree, 2016. : 'Branding a Genre: A Brief Transatlantic History of Romance Novel Cover Art', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 241-272.

;Kamble, Jayashree, 2017. : "From Barbarized to Disneyfied: Viewing 1990s New York City Through Eve Dallas, J.D. Robb’s Futuristic Homicide Detective." ''Forum for Interamerican Research'' 10.1 (May 2017): 72-86. [http://interamerica.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/0_fiar-Vol.-10.1-Capital-Crimes-in-the-Americas-Complete-Issue.pdf#page=72]

;Kanerick, Caroline, 2010. : " 'A Jazzed and Patchwork Modern': 'future' girls and modern masculinities in the early popular romances of Berta Ruck", ''Women's History Review'' 19.5: 685-702. [http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a929118395~db=all~jumptype=rss Abstract]

;Kania, Richard R. E., 2014. : "Pirates and Piracy in American Popular Culture." ''Romanian Journal of English Studies'' 11.1: 183–194. [http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/rjes.2014.11.issue-1/rjes-2014-0022/rjes-2014-0022.xml?format=INT Abstract and Pdf available here.] [Includes a section on "Daphné du Maurier and the Romance Novel Pirate"]

;Kapell, Matthew, and Suzanne Becker., 2005. : 'Patriarchy, the Christian Romance Novel, and the 'Ecosystem of Sex'.' ''Popular Culture Review'' 16.1:147-155.

;Kapila, Shuchi, 2010. : ''Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule'' (Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State UP). [https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/45316/Kapila_Book4CD.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y]

;Kaplan, Deborah, 2012. : ' "Why would any woman want to read such stories?": The Distinctions Between Genre Romances and Slash Fiction,' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 121-132.

;Kebadze, Nino, 2009. : ''Romance and Exemplarity in Post-War Spanish Women's Narratives'' (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Tamesis). [[http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=11664 Abstract and link to excerpt]. Discusses novels by Luisa-María Linares, Concha Linares-Becerra, Carmen de Icaza and María Mercedes Ortoll.]

;Keegan, Faye, 2017. : "‘Snob Value’: Gender and Literary Value in Mary Stewart." ''Women: A Cultural Review'' 28:3: 240-261. [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09574042.2017.1355679 Abstract]

;Keen, Suzanne, 2018. : "Probable Impossibilities: Historical Romance Readers Talk Back." ''Style: A Quarterly Journal of Aesthetics, Poetics, Stylistics, and Literary Criticism,'' vol. 52, no. 1-2, 2018, pp. 127-132.[https://muse.jhu.edu/article/689266 Excerpt] [This is about readers of Diana Gabaldon's ''Outlander'' series, which is not necessarily considered to be composed of "romance novels".]

;Kelly, Brendan D., 2007. : “Medical Romance.” ''The Lancet'' 370.9597: 1482.

;Kelso, Sylvia, 1997. : 'Stitching Time: Feminism(s) and Thirty Years of Gothic Romance,' ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 164-179.

;Kemppinen, Anne, 1989. : “Translation for Popular Literature with Special Reference to Harlequin Books and their Finnish Translation”, in ''Empirical Studies in Translation and Linguistics'', Studies in Languages, nº 17, ed. Sonja Tirkkonen-Condit & Stephen Condit (Savonlinna: University of Joensuu, Faculty of Arts), pp. 25-36.**

;Kerr, Ashley Elizabeth, 2019. : “Indigenous Lovers and Villainous Scientists: Rewriting Nineteenth-Century Ideas of Race in Argentine Romance Novels”, ''Chasqui'' 48.1: 293-310. [https://search.proquest.com/openview/d4c56f1feacb03adcd0136a8f32d9353/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=27737 Excerpt.] [This is about three novels (written in 2005 and 2010) by Argentinian authors and set in the nineteenth century.]

;Killeen, Jarlath, 2018. : 'Nora Roberts: the Power of Love', in ''Twenty-First Century Popular Fiction'', ed. Bernice M. Murphy and Stephen Matterson (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), pp.53-65.

;Killing, Peter, 1978. : ''Harlequin Enterprises Limited: Case Material of the Western School of Business Administration'' (London, Ontario: University of Western Ontario). **

;King, Laura, 2015. : ‘The Perfect Man: Fatherhood, Masculinity and Romance in Popular Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain’, in ''Love and Romance in Britain, 1918-1970'', ed. Alana Harris and Timothy Willem Jones (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), pp.41–60. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vsCpBQAAQBAJ&lpg=PR7&ots=oeXrlFyNyT&pg=PA41#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Kitchen, Veronica, 2016. : "Veterans and Military Masculinity in Popular Romance Fiction." ''Critical Military Studies''. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23337486.2016.1235761 Abstract]

;Kloester, Jennifer V., 2004. : "Images of England: Georgette Heyer's Regency World in the Dominions," in ''Exploring the British World: Identity, Cultural Production, Institutions,'' Ed. Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw, Kiera Lindsey, and Stuart Mcintyre (Melbourne: RMIT Publishing): 598-608.[http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=873295189866956;res=IELHSS]

;Kloester, Jennifer, 2006. : "Georgette Heyer and the Great Jane," ''Sensibilities'' 32: 101-117. [http://www.jasa.net.au/sens/sensextjun06.htm#story9 Excerpt]

;Kohlman, Marla H. and Samantha N. Simpson, 2017. : "For the Sake of Hearth and Home: Gender Schematicity in the Romance Novel." ''Discourses on Gender and Sexual Inequality: The Legacy of Sandra L. Bem''. Ed. Marla H. Kohlman and Dana B. Krieg. Bingley, UK: Emerald, 2017. 115-128. [http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1108/S1529-212620170000023006 Abstract]

;Kokkola, L. 2011. : "Virtuous vampires and voluptuous vamps: Romance conventions reconsidered in Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" series." ''Children's Literature in Education'' 42.2 : 165-179.

;Koski, Patricia, Lori Holyfield, and [[Marcella Thompson]], 1997. : "Romance Novels as Women's Myths." ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 219-232.

;Kramer, Daniela & Moore, Michael, 2001. : ‘Gender Roles, Romantic Fiction and Family Therapy’, ''Psycoloquy'' 12,#24 [http://www.cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?12.024]

;Kramer, Daniela & Moore, Michael, 2001. : 'Family Myths in Romantic Fiction', ''Psychological Reports'', 88.1:29-41.[http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/pr0.2001.88.1.29?journalCode=prxa Abstract] [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12041102_Family_myths_in_romantic_fiction Source for an unpaginated version]

;Kramer, Kyra, 2011. : "Raising Veils and other Bold Acts: The Heroine's Agency in Female Gothic Novels." ''Studies in Gothic Fiction'' 1.2: 24-37. [http://studiesingothicfiction.weebly.com/uploads/2/2/8/8/22885250/sgf_oct_10.pdf Pdf of whole issue]. Kramer argues that "Female Gothic novels that have been written in the last thirty or so years are often labeled and sold as «romances» or «romantic suspense»" and focuses on a number of novels by [[Elizabeth Lowell]].]

;Kramer, Kyra, 2012. : 'Getting Laid, Getting Old, and Getting Fed: The Cultural Resistance of Jennifer Crusie’s Romance Heroines', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.2.[http://jprstudies.org/2012/04/getting-laid-getting-old-and-getting-fed-the-cultural-resistance-of-jennifer-crusies-romance-heroines-by-kyra-kramer/]

;Kray, Susan. 1987. : "Deconstructive Laughter: Romance Author as Subject, The Pleasure of Writing the Text." ''Journal of Communication Inquiry'' 11.2: 26-46. [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/019685998701100203 Excerpt]

;[[Jayne Ann Krentz|Krentz, Jayne Ann]], Ed. : [[Dangerous Men And Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance|''Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance'']] (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992). [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TRAoV_RN0CgC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false Contents and Excerpts via Google Books]

;Kress, Gunther, 1988. : “Textual Matters: The Social Effectiveness of Style.” ''Functions of Style''. Ed. David Birch and Michael O’Toole. London: Pinter Publishers. 126-141. [Kress exploration of style is "organized around (excerpts from) two texts: the first is part of an advertising brochure for medical practitioners, describing the drug Fluphenazine; the second is from a Mills and Boon novel, a doctor-nurse romance entitled ''A Candle In The Dark''" (127). More details are not given about this novel, but it seems likely that it is the one listed [[Mills and Boon Medical Romance 101 - 200|here]] as Doctor Nurse Romance #137 - ''A Candle In The Dark'' - Grace Read, November 1982.]

;Kroeg, Susan M. 2012. : "'Truly Our Contemporary Jane Austen': Thinking Like an Austen Fan about Regency Romances." ''Kentucky Philological Review'' 27, 50-58.

;Kundin, Susan G., 1985. : "Romance versus Reality: A Look at YA Romantic Fiction." ''Top of the News'' 41.4: 361-368.

;Kunne, Regina. 2015. : ''Eternally Yours - Challenge and Response: Contemporary US American Romance Novels by Jayne Ann Krentz and Barbara Delinsky''. Lit Verlag.

;Kustritz, Anne, 2003. : "Slashing the Romance Narrative." ''The Journal of American Culture'' 26.3: 371-384.[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1542-734X.00098/abstract Excerpt.]

;Kutzer, M. Daphne, 1986. : ""I Won't Grow up"—Yet: Teen Formula Romance." ''Children's Literature Association Quarterly'' 11.2: 90-95. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/childrens_literature_association_quarterly/summary/v011/11.2.kutzer.html Abstract]

;Kuznets, Lois and Eve Zarin, 1982. : "Sweet Dreams for Sleeping Beauties: Pre-Teen Romances." ''Children's Literature Association Quarterly'' 7.1: 28-32. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/childrens_literature_association_quarterly/summary/v007/7.1.kuznets.html Abstract]

==L==

;Labanyi, Jo, 2004. : 'Romancing the Early Franco Regime: the Novelas Románticas of Concha Linares-Becerra and Luisa-María Linares', ''Institute of European Studies: Occasional Papers'', Working Paper OP-13 (March 5, 2004). [http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4pw1d4j7]

;Lamprinou, Artemis, 2011. : “Translated Romances: the Effect of Cultural Textual Norms on the Communication of Emotions.” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%e2%80%9ctranslated-romances-the-effect-of-cultural-textual-norms-on-the-communication-of-emotions%e2%80%9d-by-artemis-lamprinou/]

;Lang, Miriam. 2003. : "Taiwanese Romance: San Mao and Qiong Yao." In ''The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature,'' 515-519. New York, NY: Columbia UP, 2003.

;Laquintano, Timothy, 2013. : "The Legacy of the Vanity Press and Digital Transitions," ''The Journal of Electronic Publishing'' 16.1.[http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0016.104] [This includes a description of Harlequin's attempt to set up Harlequin Horizons and the backlash against this proposed vanity press.]

;Larcombe, Wendy, 2005. : ''Compelling Engagements : Feminism, Rape Law and Romance Fiction.'' (Annandale, N.S.W. : Federation Press) [http://www.federationpress.com.au/bookstore/book.asp?isbn=1862875251 Description and Contents] and [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MWPgf55QUH0C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0 Excerpt via Google Books]

;Larrier, Renée. 2007. : "'Quand la lecture devient passion': Romance Novels and Literacy in Abidjan." In ''African Literatures at the Millennium,'' ed. Arthur D. Drayton, Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka & I. Peter Ukpokodu: 315-324. Trenton, NJ: Africa World.

;Larsen, Katherine, 2014. : "Radway Roundtable Remarks." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2.[http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/radway-roundtable-remarksby-katherine-larsen/]

;Lawrence, Kelli-an and Edward S. Herold, 1988. : "Women's Attitudes toward and Experience with Sexually Explicit Materials." ''Journal of Sex Research'' 24:161-169. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/3812830 Excerpt]

;Leavenworth, Maria Lindgren. 2009. : "Lover Revamped: Sexualities and Romance in the Black Dagger Brotherhood and Slash Fan Fiction." Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 50, no. 3: 442-462.

;Ledford-Miller, Linda, 2011. : 'Gender and Genre Bending: The Futuristic Detective Fiction of J.D. Robb.' ''Reconstruction'' 11.3.[http://reconstruction.eserver.org/113/Ledford-Miller_Linda.shtml]

;Lee, Amy, 2007. : 'Forming a Local Identity: Romance Novels in Hong Kong.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 174-197.

;Lee, Linda J., 2008. : 'Guilty Pleasures: Reading Romance Novels as Reworked Fairy Tales,' ''Marvels & Tales'', 22.1: 52-66. [http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/marvels/vol22/iss1/4/ Abstract]

;Lee, Zi-Ying and Min-Hsiu Liao, 2018. : 'The “Second” Bride: The Retranslation of Romance Novels'. ''Babel''. Published online first 27 August 2018. [http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/babel.00030.lee Abstract] and [https://pureapps2.hw.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/22925728/2018_Babel_The_retranslation_of_romance_novels.pdf full pre-publication version]

;Leedy, Helen, 1985. : 'The Portrayal of Women in Romance Novels, ''Michigan Sociological Review'' 1:61-71. **

;Lennard, John, 2007. : 'Of Pseudonyms and Sentiment: [[Nora Roberts]], J. D. Robb, and the Imperative Mood', ''Of Modern Dragons and other essays on Genre Fiction'', Tirril: Humanities-Ebooks, pp. 56-86. [The essay on Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb is [http://books.google.com/books?id=PuBlqzKuZYwC&lpg=PA1&ots=hc8stUMzrW&dq=&pg=PA56#v=onepage&q&f=false Chapter 3] of the book] [Another excerpt from the book, though not from this chapter, [http://www.humanities-ebooks.co.uk/files/pdf/Pages_from_LennardDragons.pdf is available via the publisher].]

;Lennard, John, 2010. : ''Of Sex and Faerie: Further Essays on Genre Fiction'', Tirril: Humanities-Ebooks. [Includes a chapter on "[[Lois McMaster Bujold]] and the Several Lives of Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan" and on [[Laurell K. Hamilton]]’s "Meredith Gentry’s Improbable Code of Orgasm and other Paranormal Romance."]

;Leonzini, Alexandra, 2018. : ‘“All the Better to Eat You With”: The Eroticization of the Werewolf and the Rise of Monster Porn in the Digital Age.’ ''Exploring the Fantastic: Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture''. Ed. Ina Batzke, Eric C. Erbacher, Linda M. Heß, Corinna Lenhardt. Bielefeld: transcript. 269-294. [“Starting her analysis with 19th-century horror fiction before moving to 20th-century films and 21-century romance and erotic literature, Leonzini traces the changes in the construction of the gendered and sexualized body of the figure of the werewolf” (12) and there is therefore quite a lot of reference to romance, which is deemed to have laid the groundwork for modern monster porn. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=usVTDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA269&lpg=PA269#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt].]

;Levina, Mariia, 2003-4. : "Readers of Mass Literature, 1994-200: From Paternalism to Individualism?" ''Russian Studies in Literature'' 40.1: 79-95. ["This article is based on surveys conducted throughout Russia by the Russian Center for Public Opinion Research (VTsIOM) in 1994, 1997, and 2000; on an analysis of approximately one hundred detective, adventure, and romance novels from Russian publishers’ most popular series; and on four years of market research for a leading Russian publishing house. That research involved, among other things, focus groups of, and in-depth interviews with, readers of romance and detective novels and expert opinion surveys distributed to booksellers (both wholesale and retail)" (79).]

;Liffen, Jane, 2008. : ""A very Glamorized Picture, that": Images of Scottish Female Herring Workers on Romance Novel Covers." ''Social Semiotics'' 18.3: 349-61. [http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1035-0330&volume=18&issue=3&spage=349 Abstract]

;Light, Alison. 1984. : ‘Returning to Manderley – Romance Fiction, Female Sexuality and Class’, ''Feminist Review'', 16: 7-25.

;Lindfors, Bernth, 1993. : "Romances for the Office Worker: Aubrey Kalitera and Malawi's White-Collar Reading Public" in ''Major Minorities: English Literatures in Transit'', ed. Raoul Granqvist (Amsterdam: Rodopi): pp. 77-88. [Sizeable excerpt available [http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=CC+11 via Rodopi's webpage]. Click on the "Google Preview" button. Using the link from the index within the book may take you to the beginning of the next essay in the volume. You may need to scroll back. This would appear to be almost identical to Lindfors, Bernth. 2002. : "Romances for the Office Worker: Aubrey Kalitera and Malawi's White-Collar Reading Public." In ''Readings in African Popular Fiction,'' 89-94. London, England: International African Institute with Indiana UP. It is stated there that the essay was also published in ''Loaded Vehicles: Studies in African Literary Media''. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 1996. pp. 73-90.]

;Linke, Gabriele, 1997.: "Local Color in Contemporary Harlequin and Silhouette Romances: Popular Imagery of the American South and West." ''Mid-Atlantic Almanack: The Journal of the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association'' 6: 14-30

;Linke, Gabriele, 1997. :"Contemporary Mass Market Romances as National and International Culture: A Comparative Study of Mills & Boon and Harlequin Romances." ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 195-213.

;Linke, Gabriele, 2000. : "Visions and Versions of Parenthood in British and American Series Romances". ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'', No. 6 (Spring 2000), 18-29.

;Litton, Joyce A., 1994. : 'From Seventeenth Summer to Miss Teen Sweet Valley: Female and Male Sex Roles in Teen Romances, 1942-91', in ''Images of the Child'', ed. Harry Eiss (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press), pp. 19-34. [http://books.google.com/books?id=R6d-0zUTtbsC&lpg=PA317&ots=n6SbOldnqA&dq=&pg=PA19#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Livingston, Eric, 2006. : "The Textuality of Pleasure." ''New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation'' 37.3: 655-672.(narrative technique; relationship to reading; pleasure; compared to [[Gina Wilkins | Wilkins, Gina]]: ''Seductively Yours'' (2000) [[Harlequin_Temptation_701_-_800 | Harlequin Temptation #792]]) [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/new_literary_history/v037/37.3livingston.html Abstract and excerpt]

;Lois, Jennifer and Joanna Gregson, 2015. : "Sneers and Leers: Romance Writers and Gendered Sexual Stigma." ''Gender & Society'' 29.4: 459-483. [[http://gas.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/05/14/0891243215584603.abstract Abstract] and [http://teachmetonight.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/sneers-and-leers-sociologists-on.html some excerpts].]

;Lois, Jennifer and Joanna Gregson, 2018. : "Aspirational Emotion Work: Calling, Emotional Capital, and Becoming a 'Real' Writer." ''Journal of Contemporary Ethnography''. Online First 1 January 2018. [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0891241617749011 Abstract]

;Losano, Antonia, 2015. : "Sneaking It In at the End: Teaching Popular Romance in the Liberal Arts Classroom," ''Teaching Tainted Lit: Popular American Fiction in Today's Classroom'', ed. Janet G. Casey (Iowa City: U of Iowa P), pp. 77-88. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HnmJCgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP6&ots=_1DxPZrqfO&pg=PA80#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Lowery, Karalyne, 2018. : "The Militarized Shapeshifter: Authorized Violence and Military Connections as an Antidote to Monstrosity." ''University of Toronto Quarterly'' 87.1: 196-213. [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/689098 Abstract.]

;Lutz, Deborah, 2003. : “The Erotics of Ontology: Failed Presence in Heidegger and the Mass-Market Romance.” ''Comparative Literature and Culture'' 5.3, 2003. [http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol5/iss3/5/ Abstract and pdf.]

;Lutz, Deborah, 2006. :''The Dangerous Lover; Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative.''(Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press).[https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/24173/Lutz_T-S_Final.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y] [Includes a chapter on the contemporary historical romance]

;Lutz, Deborah, 2007. : 'The Haunted Space of the Mind: The Revival of the Gothic Romance in the Twenty-First Century.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 81-92.

;Lynch, Katherine E., Ruth E. Sternglantz, and Len Barot, 2012. : “Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2012/10/queering-the-romantic-heroine-where-her-power-lies-by-katherine-e-lynch-ruth-e-sternglantz-and-len-barot/]

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==H==
;Haddad, Emily A., 2007. : 'Bound to Love: Captivity in Harlequin Sheikh Novels.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 42-64.

;Haefner, Margaret J., 2009. : "Challenging the -isms: Gender and Race in Brockmann's Troubleshooters, Inc. Romance Novels", ''Journal of Media Sociology'' 1.3/4 (2009): 182-201.[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.461.4162&rep=rep1&type=pdf#page=52]

;Hagemann, Susanne, 1996. : "Gendering Places: [[Georgette Heyer]]'s Cultural Topography." ''Scotland to Slovenia: European Identities and Transcultural Communication. Proceedings of the Fourth International Scottish Studies Symposium''. Ed. Horst W. Drescher and Susanne Hagemann. Scottish Studies International 21. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1996. 187–199. [Reprinted in: ''Georgette Heyer: A Critical Retrospective''. Ed. Mary Fahnestock-Thomas. Saraland, AL: PrinnyWorld Press, 2001. 480–492.] **

;Hague, Euan, 2014. : “Mass Market Romance Fiction and the Representation of Scotland in the United States.” ''The Modern Scottish Diaspora: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives''. Ed. Murray Stewart Leith and Duncan Sim (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP): 171-190. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JpGlBgAAQBAJ&lpg=PR7&ots=wb_mTDikBD&lr&pg=PA171#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Hague, Euan and David Stenhouse, 2007. : "A very interesting place: representing Scotland in American romance novels, " in ''The Edinburgh companion to contemporary Scottish literature'' Ed. by Berthold Schoene-Harwood (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press): 354-361.

;Hains, Maryellen, 1989. : “Beauty and the Beast: 20th Century Romance?” ''Merveilles & contes'' 3: 75–83.** [The journal seems to go under the name [http://www.langlab.wayne.edu/marvelsHome/mcindfk.html ''Marvels & Tales''] now]

;Hall, Glinda Fountain, 2008. : "Inverting the Southern Belle: Romance Writers Redefine Gender Myths. " ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 41.1: 37-55.

;Hall, Glinda F., 2010. : ''The Creators of Women’s Popular Romance Fiction: The Authors Who Gave Women a Genre of Their Own''. [http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=7895&pc=9 Edwin Mellen Press.]

;Hallam, Julia, 2000. : ''Nursing the Image: Media, Culture and Professional Identity'' (London: Routledge). [See pages [http://books.google.com/books?id=zl-vibuIaMIC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q&f=false 62]-73 for discussion of Mills & Boon medical romances and changes in women's roles in the 1950s and 1960s and page 187 for a very brief summary about Mills & Boon romances in later decades.] [Excerpts available [http://books.google.com/books?id=7aRjbKJQNpkC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false here] and [http://books.google.com/books?id=zl-vibuIaMIC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false here].]

;Hamilton, Cristen, 2013. : “Vindicating the Historical Romance.” ''Plaza: Dialogues in Language and Literature'' 3.2: 140-156. [http://journals.tdl.org/plaza/index.php/plaza/article/view/7021 Abstract] and [http://journals.tdl.org/plaza/index.php/plaza/article/view/7021/pdf PDF]. [This journal only "publishes works by graduate students."]

;Hammill, Faye, 2003. : '''The Republic of Love'' and Popular Romance,' ''Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction'', ed. Edward Eden and Dee Goertz (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), pp. 61-83. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Y8GfXeH9AUEC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA61#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Hapgood, Lynne, 2005. : ''Margins of Desire: The Suburbs in Fiction and Culture, 1880-1925'' (Manchester: Manchester UP). [See Chapter 5, 'The feminine suburb/1: Women readers and romance fiction' and Chapter 6, 'The feminine suburb/2: [[Sophie Cole]], Alice Askew, [[Louise Gerard]], Mary Hamilton'. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mMdFEGZ33A8C&lpg=PP1&ots=vB7CH0vAkJ&dq=&pg=PA114#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt].]

;Harders, Robin, 2012. : 'Borderlands of Desire: Captivity, Romance, and the Revolutionary Power of Love,' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 133-152.

;Harris, Marlene, 2013. : "A New Breed of Romance." ''Library Journal'' 138.17: 49-49. ["Romance authors who find themselves publishing via both traditional contracts and the new world of the self-published are living a hybrid life"]

;Harris, Racheal, 2018. : “Really Romantic? Pirates in Romantic Fiction.” ''Pirates in History and Popular Culture,'' edited by Antonio Sanna (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company Publishing), pp. 109–119. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JXJuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA109&lpg=PA109#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Hashim, Ruzy Suliza, and Shahizah Ismail Hamdan. 2010. : "Facets of Women in Malay Romance Fiction." ''Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing'' 32, no. 1-2: 67-79.[http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1255&context=kunapipi]

;Hassencahl, Fran, 1980. : "Persecutors, Victims and Rescuers in Harlequin Romances." Paper presented at the combined Annual Meeting of the Midwest Popular Culture Association and the Midwest American Culture Association (Kalamazoo, MI, October 23-25, 1980). 20 pgs. ERIC document ED207086.

;Haynsworth, Leslie, 2008. : '[[Janet Evanovich]]', ''Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice'' 2.2/3. [Formerly at [http://www.teachingamericanlit.com/files/Microsoft_Word_-_TALTP-EvanovichJanetuse.pdf]. This link no longer works but a pdf of the entire issue can be downloaded from [http://www.cpcc.edu/taltp/archives/spring-summer-2008-2-2-3/spring_summer_2008_merged.pdf/at_download/file]].

;Hayton, Christopher J., and Sheila Hayton. 2012. : "The Girls in White: Nurse Images in Early Cold War Era Romance and War Comics." In ''Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns'', 129-145. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012.

;Hazen, Helen, 1983. : ''Endless Rapture; Rape, Romance, and the Female Imagination.'' New York:: Scribner's. (Chapter 1 - Romance Novels)

;Hee Chung, June, 2016. : 'Henry James's "The Velvet Glove" and the Iron Fist: Transatlantic Cultural Exchange and the Romance Tradition', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 225-239.

;Heinecken, Dawn, 1999. : 'Changing Ideologies in Romance Fiction', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 149-72.

;Heiss, Karin, 2015. : '14 Weeks of Love and Labour: Teaching Regency and Desert Romance to Undergraduate Students', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/14-weeks-of-love-and-labour-teaching-regency-and-desert-romance-to-undergraduate-studentsby-karin-heiss/] [Focus of the course was on "Georgette Heyer’s ''Bath Tangle'' (1955), E.M. Hull’s ''The Sheik'' (1919), and a recent Mills & Boon category romance, Marguerite Kaye's ''The Governess and the Sheikh'' (2011)"]

;Heller, Tamar, 1997. : 'Having It All: Consumption and Ideological Tension in an Innovative Romance Novel.' ''Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture'' 30.3:243-264. [The article focuses on ''Free Spirit'' by [[Fern Michael|Fern Michael]]]

;Herendeen, Ann, 2012. : “The Upper-Class Bisexual Top as Romantic Hero: (Pre)dominant in the Social Structure and in the Bedroom,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2012/10/the-upper-class-bisexual-top-as-romantic-hero-predominant-in-the-social-structure-and-in-the-bedroom-by-ann-herendeen/]

;Herendeen, Ann, 2016. : 'Having it Both Ways; or, Writing from the Third Perspective: The Revolutionary M/M/F Ménage Romance Novel', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 405-419.

;Hermes, Joke, 1992. : ‘Sexuality in Lesbian Romance Fiction’, ''Feminist Review'', 42: 49-66. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Yb2vlW3656sC&lpg=PA49&ots=THNcySvQzc&dq=%22some%20pulp%20sappho%22%20koski&pg=PA49 Excerpts]

;Hermes, Joke, 1992. : 'Entertainment or Enlightenment - Sexuality In Lesbian Romance Novels', ''Argument'', 34.3:389-402.

;Hess, Jonathan M., 2010. : ''Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity''. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. [See Chapter 3: "Middlebrow Culture in Pursuit of Romance: Love, Fiction, and the Virtues of Marrying In"] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dYlIwNRoNGEC&lpg=PA157&ots=zsKPocUVyX&pg=PA111#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Hey, Valerie, 1983. : ''The Necessity of Romance'', Women’s Studies Occasional Papers, 3 (Canterbury: University of Kent).

;Higashi, Sumiko, 2017. : 'Adapting Middlebrow Taste to Sell Stars, Romance, and Consumption', ''Feminist Media Histories'' 3.4 (2017): 126-161. [[http://fmh.ucpress.edu/content/3/4/126 Abstract] which mentions that ''Photoplay'' magazine, which began in 1911, "published serialized romance fiction that featured daring, unconventional modern heroines."]

;Hinnant, Charles H., 2003. : "Desire and the Marketplace: A Reading of Kathleen Woodiwiss's The Flame and the Flower," in ''Doubled Plots: Romance and History'', see above, pp. 147-164. [http://books.google.com/books?id=3B-byRPo2WMC&dq=&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=zfstjNM05P&sig=DTg9qdbOWddx4BwwPEZa4SUuHY0&hl=en&ei=_bnwSfmDMYKUjAfvlPW_DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#PPA147,M1 Excerpt]

;Hipsky, Martin, 2011. : ''Modernism and the Women’s Popular Romance in Britain, 1885–1925'' (Ohio University Press). [[http://www.ohioswallow.com/book/Modernism+and+the+Women%E2%80%99s+Popular+Romance+in+Britain%2C+1885%E2%80%931925 More details] and [http://teachmetonight.blogspot.com/2011/11/modernism-and-womens-popular-romance-in.html a blog post by Hipsky about the book].]

;Hirdman, Anja, 2016. : "Speaking through the flesh: Affective encounters, gazes and desire in Harlequin romances," ''MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research'' 32.61: 42-57. [http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/mediekultur/article/view/22382 Abstract and pdf]

;Holden, Stacy E. and Charity Tabol, 2015. : 'In Sickness and In Health: Representations of PTSD in Post-9/11 Romance Novels', ''albeit'' 2.1. [http://albeitjournal.com/in-sickness-and-in-health-representations-of-ptsd-in-post-911-romance-novels/]

;Holden, Stacy E., 2015. : 'Love in the Desert: Images of Arab-American Reconciliation in Contemporary Sheikh Romance Novels', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/love-in-the-desert-images-of-arab-american-reconciliation-in-contemporary-sheikh-romance-novelsby-stacy-e-holden/] [See also Megan Crane's response in the same issue of the journal. Details under Crane or [http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/stacy-holdens-love-in-the-desert-an-authors-responseby-megan-crane/ use this direct link]]

;Hollows, Joanne, 2000. : ''Feminism, Femininity and Popular Culture'' (Manchester: Manchester University Press). [[http://books.google.com/books?id=sXWjnG5LWO0C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA68#v=onepage&q=&f=false Chapter 4] is about "Reading Romantic Fiction."]

;Holmes, Diana, 2003. : 'Decadent Love: Rachilde and the Popular Romance', ''Dix-Neuf: Journal of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes'', 1: 16-28. [http://www.sdn.ac.uk/dixneuf/september03/Holmes/Decadent%20Love%20-%20Formatted.pdf pdf available here] [Holmes argues that Rachilde's work, particularly ''Le Dessous'' (1904), 'performs the feat of providing simultaneously the pleasures of romance and a derisive critique of the genre']

;Holmes, Diana, 2005. : "The Return to Romance: Love Stories in Recent French Women's Writing." ''Esprit Créateur'' 45, no. 1: 97-109.

;Holmes, Diana, 2006. : ''Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France; Love Stories.'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press). [http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199249848 Description] and [http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-924984-9.pdf pdf of the first chapter.] [http://books.google.com/books?id=7dQfAwHT6XEC Description and more excerpts.]

;Holmes, D. 2010. : "The comfortable reader: Romantic bestsellers and critical disdain." '' French Cultural Studies'' 21, (4): 287-296. [http://frc.sagepub.com/content/21/4/287.abstract Abstract.]

;Hopkins, Lisa, 2017/2018. : ‘Waltzing with Wellington, Biting with Byron: Heroes in Austen Tribute Texts’. ''Jane Austen and Masculinity''. Ed. Michael Kramp. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press. 173-189. [http://shura.shu.ac.uk/18145/ Abstract] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8S1BDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA173#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Hopkins, Lisa, 2018. : "Georgette Heyer: What Austen Left Out". ''After Austen: Reinventions, Rewritings, Revisitings''. Ed. Lisa Hopkins. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 61-79. [This chapter looks in detail at military metaphors/language used by Heyer, as well as her allusions to Austen.]

;Hubbard, Rita C., 1983. : 'The Changing-Unchanging Heroines and Heroes of Harlequin Romances, 1950-1979. in ''The Hero in Transition.'',ed. Ray B. Browne and Marshall W. Fishwick, (Bowling Green, OH: Popular), pp. 171-179. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&id=eP1y6zjqWucC&dq=&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=gG9wNZPwho&sig=YrmDc2hksnAKS1uHRMI1lbIcLNY&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA171,M1 Excerpt]

;Hubbard, Rita C., 1985. : 'Relationship Styles in Popular Romance Novels, 1950-1983', ''Communication Quarterly'', 33.2: 113-25.** Republished in ''Methods of Rhetorical Criticism: A Twentieth-Century Perspective'', ed. Bernard L. Brock, Robert L. Scott and James W. Chesebro, Third Edition, Revised, 1990 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press), pp. 223-233. [http://books.google.com/books?id=g9_oe6rGv9oC&lpg=PP1&dq=&pg=PA223#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Hubbard, Rita C., 1992. : 'Magic and Transformation: Relationships in Popular Romance Novels, 1950 to the 1980s', in ''Popular Culture: An Introductory Text'', ed. Kevin Lause & Jack Nachbar (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press), pp. 476-488. ** [http://books.google.com/books?id=BEkB2J-Wb4sC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA476#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [http://www.questia.com/read/101089968?title=Magic%20and%20Transformation%3a%20Relationships%20in%20Popular%20Romance%20Novels%2c%201950%20to%20the%201980s Abstract]. [In the excerpt it is stated that "A slightly different version of this essay appeared in ''Communication Quarterly'' 33 (Spring 1985)" (476). More precise bibliographical details for that item are given in the entry above this one.]

;Hughes, Helen, 1993. : '' The Historical Romance.'' (London:Routledge) [http://www.routledge.com/books/The-Historical-Romance-isbn9780415058124 Synopsis]. [http://books.google.com/books?id=cL0OAAAAQAAJ Abstract] and [http://books.google.com/books?id=FwEhzGDKZKYC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpts]

;Huntwork, Mary M., 1990. : "Why Girls Flock to Sweet Valley High." ''School Library Journal'' 36.3 : 137-140.

;Huq, Maimuna, 1999. : “From Piety to Romance: Islam-Oriented Texts in Bangladesh.” ''New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere'', ed. Dale F. Eickelman and Jon W. Anderson. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP), pp. 133-161. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Moh2l5d85OYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA129#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt from the 2003 edition, where it appears on pages 129-57.]

;Hurst, Rochelle, 2009. : “The Barrister’s Bedmate: Harlequin Mills & Boon and the Bridget Jones Debate” ''Australian Feminist Studies'' 24.62: 453-468. [Feminist critique of Harlequin Mills & Boons (especially a selection by [[Emma Darcy]]) and comparison with Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones novels. For a discussion of why many aspects of this essay's methodology are troubling, from an academic perspective, see [https://web.archive.org/web/20101220080559/http://www.readreactreview.com:80/2010/02/10/feminist-critique-of-romance-ur-doin-it-wrong/ this article] by Jessica at Read React Review].

==I==
;Iesue, Renata. 1990. : "Romance and Reality: Popular Writing by Nigerian Women." ''Commonwealth Essays and Studies'' 13, no. 1: 28-37.

;Illouz, Eva. 2014. : ''Hard-Core Romance: "Fifty Shades of Grey," Best-Sellers, and Society.'' Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

;Iqbal, Kundan, 2014. : "The impact of romance novels on women's sexual and reproductive health." ''Journal of Family Planning & Reproductive Health Care''. Margaret Jackson Prize Essay 2014. Published Online First: 17 July 2014. [http://jfprhc.bmj.com/content/early/2014/07/17/jfprhc-2014-100995.short Excerpt]

;Iwai, Gaku, 2015. : "Wartime Ideology in 'The Thimble': A Comparative Study of Popular Wartime Romance and the Anti-romance of D. H. Lawrence." ''Études Lawrenciennes'' 46.[http://lawrence.revues.org/236]

==J==

;Jackson, Cia, 2017. : "Harlequin Romance: The Power of Parody and Subversion." ''The Ascendance of Harley Quinn: Essays on DC's Enigmatic Villain''. Ed. Shelley E. Barba and Joy M. Perrin. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2017. 16-??. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zNg5DwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PT26#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [This is about how the DC comics parody romance novel conventions via the figure of Harley Quinn.]

;Jackson, Elaine, 2008. : '''Sievier’s Monthly'' (1909): Pseudonyms and Readership in Early Twentieth Century Popular Fiction,' ''Book Trade Connections from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries'', ed. John Hinks and Catherine Armstrong (Newcastle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press), pp. 245-???. [In the [http://www.oakknoll.com/resources/bookexcerpts/096655.pdf introduction to the volume] Catherine Armstrong writes that 'In the final chapter of this volume, Elaine Jackson explores the colourful publishing career of Marguerite Jervis, known variously under pseudonyms such as Countess Barcynska and Oliver Sandys. Her contributions of popular fiction to journals in the early twentieth century are surveyed, as are the techniques she used to convey sexually and politically suggestive material' (viii). In Jackson's PhD thesis she wrote about "the production and distribution of popular romance between the two World Wars" and focused on three authors, one of whom was Marguerite Jervis.]

;Jackson, Stevi, 1995. : 'Women and Heterosexual Love: Complicity, Resistance and Change', in ''Romance Revisited'' , ed. Jackie Stacey and Lynne Pearce (New York: New York UP), pp. 49-62.

;Jagodzinski, Mallory, 2014. : "We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: Reflecting Thirty Years after ''Reading the Romance''." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2.[http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/weve-come-a-long-way-baby-reflecting-thirty-years-after-reading-the-romanceby-mallory-jagodzinski/]

;Jarmakani, Amira, 2010. : '“The Sheik Who Loved Me”: Romancing the War on Terror', ''Signs'' 35.4: 993-1017. [http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/651044?journalCode=signs Abstract]

;Jarmakani, Amira. 2011. : "Desiring the Big Bad Blade: Racing the Sheikh in Desert Romances." ''American Quarterly'' 63, no. 4: 895-928. [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/american_quarterly/v063/63.4.jarmakani.html Abstract] [https://womensstudies.sdsu.edu/people/bios/docs/jarmakani/desiring%20big%20bad%20blade.pdf Pdf]

;Jarmakani, Amira, 2015. : ''An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror''. New York: New York UP, 2015. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=k5HwCQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [http://jprstudies.org/2016/07/review-an-imperialist-love-story-desert-romances-and-the-war-on-terror-by-amira-jarmakani/ See also the review by Heather Schell in the ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'']

;Jarvis, Christine, 1995. : 'Romancing the Curriculum: Empowerment through Popular Culture',''Convergence'', 28.3: 71-7. [http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=Romancing+the+Curriculum&searchtype=basic&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=kw&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&objectId=0900019b800fd401&accno=EJ515606&_nfls=false Abstract]

;Jarvis, Christine, 1999. : 'Love Changes Everything: The Transformative Potential of Popular Romantic Fiction', ''Studies in the Education of Adults'', 31.2:109-122. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/niace/stea/1999/00000031/00000002/art00002 Abstract]

;Jarvis, Christine, 2000. : 'Hungry Heroines: The Exploration of a "Generative Theme" in Romantic Fiction,' ''Consuming for Pleasure: Selected Essays on Popular Fiction'' ed. Julia Hallam and Nickianne Moody (Liverpool: Liverpool John Moores University; Association for Research in Popular Fictions), pp. 171-???.

;Jarvis, Christine, 2006. : "Using Fiction for Transformation." New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education 109: 69-77. [https://doi.org/10.1002/ace.209 Abstract]

;Jenkins, Jacqueline, 2004. : 'Reading Women Reading: Feminism, Culture, and Memory', ''Maistresse of My Wit: Medieval Women, Modern Scholars'', ed. Louise D'Arcens and Juanita Feros Ruys (Turnhout: Brepols), pp. 317-334. ["Jenkins first debates the fascinating possibility of a cultural memory, a number of shared common norms, conventions, and practices that would link the otherwise non-contiguous reading experiences of medieval and contemporary women. Drawing on the results of modern romance studies, she wonders if the otherwise forbidden self-realization of women through the reading of romances could not also be the cause of the popularity of vernacular devotional literature among high-status women in the Middle Ages. In the end, however, she considers the sobering possibility that she might have accepted the results of modern romance studies precisely because of her (formerly unrecognized) investment in attributing some form of resistance to the medieval women readers of devotional texts." ([https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/5967/05.02.16.html?sequence=1 Review by Richard Utz])]

;Jensen, Margaret Ann, 1984. : ''Love's $weet Return: The [[Harlequin]] Story'' (Toronto: Women's Educational Press, 1984). [[http://books.google.com/books?id=yQJUhW3lNVUC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPP1,M1 Excerpts] (possibly from different publisher, as details on Google Books say it was published by the Popular Press)]

;Joannou, Maroula, 2012. : ''Women's Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity: The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice, 1938-1962'' (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan). [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ok8vuVKHR50C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [See pages [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ok8vuVKHR50C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA75#v=onepage&q&f=false 75], [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ok8vuVKHR50C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA76#v=onepage&q&f=false 76], [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ok8vuVKHR50C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA77#v=onepage&q&f=false 77], [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ok8vuVKHR50C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA78#v=onepage&q&f=false 78], [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ok8vuVKHR50C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA79#v=onepage&q&f=false 79] and [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ok8vuVKHR50C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA80#v=onepage&q&f=false 80] for the section on [[Georgette Heyer]].]

;Johnson, Heather., 2017. : "Yorkshire English in Georgette Heyer's ''The Unknown Ajax''." ''Schwa: Language and Linguistics'' 14: 57-70. [http://schwa.byu.edu/files/2017/05/Schwa_14_Winter_2017.pdf#page=57]

;Johnson, Naomi R., 2010. : 'Consuming Desires: Consumption, Romance, and Sexuality in Best-Selling Teen Romance Novels', ''Women's Studies in Communication'' 33.1: 54-73. [http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a921878460 Abstract]

;Johnson, Valerie B., 2018. : "What a Canon Wants: Robin Hood, Romance Novels, and Carrie Lofty’s ''What a Scoundrel Wants''", ''Robin Hood and the Outlaw/ed Literary Canon'', ed. Lesley Coote and Alexander L. Kaufman. ???: Routledge, 2018. 184-??? [https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429810060/chapters/10.4324%2F9780429442766-14 Excerpt]

;Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E., 1999. : ' "I Am Not a Bimbo": Persona, Promotion, and the Fabulous Fabio', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 35-50. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ja_Ia-oZo4wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA35#v=onepage&q=&f=false Excerpt]

;Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E., 1999. : 'Leading Us into Temptation: The Language of Sex and the Power of Love', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 113-48. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ja_Ia-oZo4wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA113#v=onepage&q=&f=false Excerpt]

;Johnson-Woods, Toni, 2004. : ''Pulp: A Collector's Book of Australian Pulp Fiction Covers'' (Canberra: National Library of Australia). [http://books.google.com/books?id=wWU0w2gWfoIC&lpg=PA47&ots=DzPRIaAjl7&dq=&pg=PA47#v=onepage&q&f=false One chapter is on romance covers.]

;Johnson-Woods, T., 2005. : 'From Australia With Love: A History Of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels,' ''Australian Literary Studies,'' 22.1:119-120. [This is a book review of Juliet Flesch's book, listed elsewhere in this bibliography]

;Jones, Ann Rosalind, 1986. : ‘[[Mills and Boon|Mills & Boon]] Meets Feminism’, in ''The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction'', ed. Jean Radford (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul), pp. 195-218. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Sb4OAAAAQAAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA195#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Joshi, S. T. 2009. : ''Junk fiction: America's obsession with bestsellers.'' [Rockville, MD]: Borgo Press. Chapter on "Queens of romance: Danielle Steele, Barbara Taylor Bradford, and Nora Roberts." [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vD35eCfVGCsC&lpg=PP1&ots=pYTAywlfbU&dq=&pg=PA27#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Juhasz, Suzanne, 1988. : ‘Texts to Grow On: Reading Women’s Romance Fiction’, ''Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature'', 7:2: 239-259.

;Juhasz, Suzanne, 1998. : 'Lesbian Romance Fiction and the Plotting of Desire: Narrative Theory, Lesbian Identity, and Reading Practice', ''Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature'', 17.1: 65-82. [Rptd. in Ostrov Weisser, ''Women and Romance'', pp. 276-291. **]

==K==

;Kahn, Laurie, director, 2015. : ''Love Between the Covers''. Blueberry Hill Productions. [This is a documentary about popular romance fiction and a [http://jprstudies.org/2016/07/review-love-between-the-covers-produced-written-and-directed-by-laurie-kahn/ review of it by Beth Driscoll was published in the ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies''.]]

;Kaler, Anne K., 2000. : "Dysfunctional Detectives and Romantic P. I.s: Impediments to the Happy Marriage of Mystery and Romance." ''Clues: A Journal of Detection'', 21.1: 61-72.

;Kaler, Anne K., 1999. : 'Conventions of Captivity in Romance Novels', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 86-99. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ja_Ia-oZo4wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA86#v=onepage&q=&f=false Excerpt]

;Kaler, Anne K., 1999. : ' Hero, Heroine, or HERA: A New Name for an Old Problem', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 187-92. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ja_Ia-oZo4wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA187#v=onepage&q=&f=false Excerpt]

;Kamble, Jayashree, 2007. : 'Female Enfranchisement and the Popular Romance: Employing an Indian Perspective.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 148-173.

;Kamble, Jayashree, 2012. : 'Patriotism, Passion, and PTSD: The Critique of War in Popular Romance Fiction,' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 153-163.

;Kamble, Jayashree, 2013. : 'How to Tame a Dragon: Ten years after ''A Natural History of the Romance Novel''', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/how-to-tame-a-dragon-ten-years-after-a-natural-history-of-the-romance-novel-by-jayashree-kamble/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Kamble_RegisDragon.pdf as a pdf].]

;Kamble, Jayashree, 2014. : ''Making Meaning in Popular Romance Fiction: An Epistemology''. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/making-meaning-in-popular-romance-fiction-jayashree-kambl%E9/?K=9781137395047 Abstract] and [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uz9vBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Kamblé, Jayashree, 2016. : 'Branding a Genre: A Brief Transatlantic History of Romance Novel Cover Art', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 241-272.

;Kamble, Jayashree, 2017. : "From Barbarized to Disneyfied: Viewing 1990s New York City Through Eve Dallas, J.D. Robb’s Futuristic Homicide Detective." ''Forum for Interamerican Research'' 10.1 (May 2017): 72-86. [http://interamerica.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/0_fiar-Vol.-10.1-Capital-Crimes-in-the-Americas-Complete-Issue.pdf#page=72]

;Kanerick, Caroline, 2010. : " 'A Jazzed and Patchwork Modern': 'future' girls and modern masculinities in the early popular romances of Berta Ruck", ''Women's History Review'' 19.5: 685-702. [http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a929118395~db=all~jumptype=rss Abstract]

;Kania, Richard R. E., 2014. : "Pirates and Piracy in American Popular Culture." ''Romanian Journal of English Studies'' 11.1: 183–194. [http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/rjes.2014.11.issue-1/rjes-2014-0022/rjes-2014-0022.xml?format=INT Abstract and Pdf available here.] [Includes a section on "Daphné du Maurier and the Romance Novel Pirate"]

;Kapell, Matthew, and Suzanne Becker., 2005. : 'Patriarchy, the Christian Romance Novel, and the 'Ecosystem of Sex'.' ''Popular Culture Review'' 16.1:147-155.

;Kapila, Shuchi, 2010. : ''Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule'' (Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State UP). [https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/45316/Kapila_Book4CD.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y]

;Kaplan, Deborah, 2012. : ' "Why would any woman want to read such stories?": The Distinctions Between Genre Romances and Slash Fiction,' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 121-132.

;Kebadze, Nino, 2009. : ''Romance and Exemplarity in Post-War Spanish Women's Narratives'' (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Tamesis). [[http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=11664 Abstract and link to excerpt]. Discusses novels by Luisa-María Linares, Concha Linares-Becerra, Carmen de Icaza and María Mercedes Ortoll.]

;Keegan, Faye, 2017. : "‘Snob Value’: Gender and Literary Value in Mary Stewart." ''Women: A Cultural Review'' 28:3: 240-261. [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09574042.2017.1355679 Abstract]

;Keen, Suzanne, 2018. : "Probable Impossibilities: Historical Romance Readers Talk Back." ''Style: A Quarterly Journal of Aesthetics, Poetics, Stylistics, and Literary Criticism,'' vol. 52, no. 1-2, 2018, pp. 127-132.[https://muse.jhu.edu/article/689266 Excerpt] [This is about readers of Diana Gabaldon's ''Outlander'' series, which is not necessarily considered to be composed of "romance novels".]

;Kelly, Brendan D., 2007. : “Medical Romance.” ''The Lancet'' 370.9597: 1482.

;Kelso, Sylvia, 1997. : 'Stitching Time: Feminism(s) and Thirty Years of Gothic Romance,' ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 164-179.

;Kemppinen, Anne, 1989. : “Translation for Popular Literature with Special Reference to Harlequin Books and their Finnish Translation”, in ''Empirical Studies in Translation and Linguistics'', Studies in Languages, nº 17, ed. Sonja Tirkkonen-Condit & Stephen Condit (Savonlinna: University of Joensuu, Faculty of Arts), pp. 25-36.**

;Kerr, Ashley Elizabeth, 2019. : “Indigenous Lovers and Villainous Scientists: Rewriting Nineteenth-Century Ideas of Race in Argentine Romance Novels”, ''Chasqui'' 48.1: 293-310. [https://search.proquest.com/openview/d4c56f1feacb03adcd0136a8f32d9353/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=27737 Excerpt.] [This is about three novels (written in 2005 and 2010) by Argentinian authors and set in the nineteenth century.]

;Killeen, Jarlath, 2018. : 'Nora Roberts: the Power of Love', in ''Twenty-First Century Popular Fiction'', ed. Bernice M. Murphy and Stephen Matterson (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), pp.53-65.

;Killing, Peter, 1978. : ''Harlequin Enterprises Limited: Case Material of the Western School of Business Administration'' (London, Ontario: University of Western Ontario). **

;King, Laura, 2015. : ‘The Perfect Man: Fatherhood, Masculinity and Romance in Popular Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain’, in ''Love and Romance in Britain, 1918-1970'', ed. Alana Harris and Timothy Willem Jones (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), pp.41–60. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vsCpBQAAQBAJ&lpg=PR7&ots=oeXrlFyNyT&pg=PA41#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Kitchen, Veronica, 2016. : "Veterans and Military Masculinity in Popular Romance Fiction." ''Critical Military Studies''. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23337486.2016.1235761 Abstract]

;Kloester, Jennifer V., 2004. : "Images of England: Georgette Heyer's Regency World in the Dominions," in ''Exploring the British World: Identity, Cultural Production, Institutions,'' Ed. Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw, Kiera Lindsey, and Stuart Mcintyre (Melbourne: RMIT Publishing): 598-608.[http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=873295189866956;res=IELHSS]

;Kloester, Jennifer, 2006. : "Georgette Heyer and the Great Jane," ''Sensibilities'' 32: 101-117. [http://www.jasa.net.au/sens/sensextjun06.htm#story9 Excerpt]

;Kohlman, Marla H. and Samantha N. Simpson, 2017. : "For the Sake of Hearth and Home: Gender Schematicity in the Romance Novel." ''Discourses on Gender and Sexual Inequality: The Legacy of Sandra L. Bem''. Ed. Marla H. Kohlman and Dana B. Krieg. Bingley, UK: Emerald, 2017. 115-128. [http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1108/S1529-212620170000023006 Abstract]

;Kokkola, L. 2011. : "Virtuous vampires and voluptuous vamps: Romance conventions reconsidered in Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" series." ''Children's Literature in Education'' 42.2 : 165-179.

;Koski, Patricia, Lori Holyfield, and [[Marcella Thompson]], 1997. : "Romance Novels as Women's Myths." ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 219-232.

;Kramer, Daniela & Moore, Michael, 2001. : ‘Gender Roles, Romantic Fiction and Family Therapy’, ''Psycoloquy'' 12,#24 [http://www.cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?12.024]

;Kramer, Daniela & Moore, Michael, 2001. : 'Family Myths in Romantic Fiction', ''Psychological Reports'', 88.1:29-41.[http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/pr0.2001.88.1.29?journalCode=prxa Abstract] [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12041102_Family_myths_in_romantic_fiction Source for an unpaginated version]

;Kramer, Kyra, 2011. : "Raising Veils and other Bold Acts: The Heroine's Agency in Female Gothic Novels." ''Studies in Gothic Fiction'' 1.2: 24-37. [http://studiesingothicfiction.weebly.com/uploads/2/2/8/8/22885250/sgf_oct_10.pdf Pdf of whole issue]. Kramer argues that "Female Gothic novels that have been written in the last thirty or so years are often labeled and sold as «romances» or «romantic suspense»" and focuses on a number of novels by [[Elizabeth Lowell]].]

;Kramer, Kyra, 2012. : 'Getting Laid, Getting Old, and Getting Fed: The Cultural Resistance of Jennifer Crusie’s Romance Heroines', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.2.[http://jprstudies.org/2012/04/getting-laid-getting-old-and-getting-fed-the-cultural-resistance-of-jennifer-crusies-romance-heroines-by-kyra-kramer/]

;Kray, Susan. 1987. : "Deconstructive Laughter: Romance Author as Subject, The Pleasure of Writing the Text." ''Journal of Communication Inquiry'' 11.2: 26-46. [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/019685998701100203 Excerpt]

;[[Jayne Ann Krentz|Krentz, Jayne Ann]], Ed. : [[Dangerous Men And Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance|''Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance'']] (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992). [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TRAoV_RN0CgC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false Contents and Excerpts via Google Books]

;Kress, Gunther, 1988. : “Textual Matters: The Social Effectiveness of Style.” ''Functions of Style''. Ed. David Birch and Michael O’Toole. London: Pinter Publishers. 126-141. [Kress exploration of style is "organized around (excerpts from) two texts: the first is part of an advertising brochure for medical practitioners, describing the drug Fluphenazine; the second is from a Mills and Boon novel, a doctor-nurse romance entitled ''A Candle In The Dark''" (127). More details are not given about this novel, but it seems likely that it is the one listed [[Mills and Boon Medical Romance 101 - 200|here]] as Doctor Nurse Romance #137 - ''A Candle In The Dark'' - Grace Read, November 1982.]

;Kroeg, Susan M. 2012. : "'Truly Our Contemporary Jane Austen': Thinking Like an Austen Fan about Regency Romances." ''Kentucky Philological Review'' 27, 50-58.

;Kundin, Susan G., 1985. : "Romance versus Reality: A Look at YA Romantic Fiction." ''Top of the News'' 41.4: 361-368.

;Kunne, Regina. 2015. : ''Eternally Yours - Challenge and Response: Contemporary US American Romance Novels by Jayne Ann Krentz and Barbara Delinsky''. Lit Verlag.

;Kustritz, Anne, 2003. : "Slashing the Romance Narrative." ''The Journal of American Culture'' 26.3: 371-384.[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1542-734X.00098/abstract Excerpt.]

;Kutzer, M. Daphne, 1986. : ""I Won't Grow up"—Yet: Teen Formula Romance." ''Children's Literature Association Quarterly'' 11.2: 90-95. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/childrens_literature_association_quarterly/summary/v011/11.2.kutzer.html Abstract]

;Kuznets, Lois and Eve Zarin, 1982. : "Sweet Dreams for Sleeping Beauties: Pre-Teen Romances." ''Children's Literature Association Quarterly'' 7.1: 28-32. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/childrens_literature_association_quarterly/summary/v007/7.1.kuznets.html Abstract]

==L==

;Labanyi, Jo, 2004. : 'Romancing the Early Franco Regime: the Novelas Románticas of Concha Linares-Becerra and Luisa-María Linares', ''Institute of European Studies: Occasional Papers'', Working Paper OP-13 (March 5, 2004). [http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4pw1d4j7]

;Lamprinou, Artemis, 2011. : “Translated Romances: the Effect of Cultural Textual Norms on the Communication of Emotions.” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%e2%80%9ctranslated-romances-the-effect-of-cultural-textual-norms-on-the-communication-of-emotions%e2%80%9d-by-artemis-lamprinou/]

;Lang, Miriam. 2003. : "Taiwanese Romance: San Mao and Qiong Yao." In ''The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature,'' 515-519. New York, NY: Columbia UP, 2003.

;Laquintano, Timothy, 2013. : "The Legacy of the Vanity Press and Digital Transitions," ''The Journal of Electronic Publishing'' 16.1.[http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0016.104] [This includes a description of Harlequin's attempt to set up Harlequin Horizons and the backlash against this proposed vanity press.]

;Larcombe, Wendy, 2005. : ''Compelling Engagements : Feminism, Rape Law and Romance Fiction.'' (Annandale, N.S.W. : Federation Press) [http://www.federationpress.com.au/bookstore/book.asp?isbn=1862875251 Description and Contents] and [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MWPgf55QUH0C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0 Excerpt via Google Books]

;Larrier, Renée. 2007. : "'Quand la lecture devient passion': Romance Novels and Literacy in Abidjan." In ''African Literatures at the Millennium,'' ed. Arthur D. Drayton, Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka & I. Peter Ukpokodu: 315-324. Trenton, NJ: Africa World.

;Larsen, Katherine, 2014. : "Radway Roundtable Remarks." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2.[http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/radway-roundtable-remarksby-katherine-larsen/]

;Lawrence, Kelli-an and Edward S. Herold, 1988. : "Women's Attitudes toward and Experience with Sexually Explicit Materials." ''Journal of Sex Research'' 24:161-169. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/3812830 Excerpt]

;Leavenworth, Maria Lindgren. 2009. : "Lover Revamped: Sexualities and Romance in the Black Dagger Brotherhood and Slash Fan Fiction." Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 50, no. 3: 442-462.

;Ledford-Miller, Linda, 2011. : 'Gender and Genre Bending: The Futuristic Detective Fiction of J.D. Robb.' ''Reconstruction'' 11.3.[http://reconstruction.eserver.org/113/Ledford-Miller_Linda.shtml]

;Lee, Amy, 2007. : 'Forming a Local Identity: Romance Novels in Hong Kong.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 174-197.

;Lee, Linda J., 2008. : 'Guilty Pleasures: Reading Romance Novels as Reworked Fairy Tales,' ''Marvels & Tales'', 22.1: 52-66. [http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/marvels/vol22/iss1/4/ Abstract]

;Lee, Zi-Ying and Min-Hsiu Liao, 2018. : 'The “Second” Bride: The Retranslation of Romance Novels'. ''Babel''. Published online first 27 August 2018. [http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/babel.00030.lee Abstract] and [https://pureapps2.hw.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/22925728/2018_Babel_The_retranslation_of_romance_novels.pdf full pre-publication version]

;Leedy, Helen, 1985. : 'The Portrayal of Women in Romance Novels, ''Michigan Sociological Review'' 1:61-71. **

;Lennard, John, 2007. : 'Of Pseudonyms and Sentiment: [[Nora Roberts]], J. D. Robb, and the Imperative Mood', ''Of Modern Dragons and other essays on Genre Fiction'', Tirril: Humanities-Ebooks, pp. 56-86. [The essay on Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb is [http://books.google.com/books?id=PuBlqzKuZYwC&lpg=PA1&ots=hc8stUMzrW&dq=&pg=PA56#v=onepage&q&f=false Chapter 3] of the book] [Another excerpt from the book, though not from this chapter, [http://www.humanities-ebooks.co.uk/files/pdf/Pages_from_LennardDragons.pdf is available via the publisher].]

;Lennard, John, 2010. : ''Of Sex and Faerie: Further Essays on Genre Fiction'', Tirril: Humanities-Ebooks. [Includes a chapter on "[[Lois McMaster Bujold]] and the Several Lives of Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan" and on [[Laurell K. Hamilton]]’s "Meredith Gentry’s Improbable Code of Orgasm and other Paranormal Romance."]

;Leonzini, Alexandra, 2018. : ‘“All the Better to Eat You With”: The Eroticization of the Werewolf and the Rise of Monster Porn in the Digital Age.’ ''Exploring the Fantastic: Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture''. Ed. Ina Batzke, Eric C. Erbacher, Linda M. Heß, Corinna Lenhardt. Bielefeld: transcript. 269-294. [“Starting her analysis with 19th-century horror fiction before moving to 20th-century films and 21-century romance and erotic literature, Leonzini traces the changes in the construction of the gendered and sexualized body of the figure of the werewolf” (12) and there is therefore quite a lot of reference to romance, which is deemed to have laid the groundwork for modern monster porn. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=usVTDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA269&lpg=PA269#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt].]

;Levina, Mariia, 2003-4. : "Readers of Mass Literature, 1994-200: From Paternalism to Individualism?" ''Russian Studies in Literature'' 40.1: 79-95. ["This article is based on surveys conducted throughout Russia by the Russian Center for Public Opinion Research (VTsIOM) in 1994, 1997, and 2000; on an analysis of approximately one hundred detective, adventure, and romance novels from Russian publishers’ most popular series; and on four years of market research for a leading Russian publishing house. That research involved, among other things, focus groups of, and in-depth interviews with, readers of romance and detective novels and expert opinion surveys distributed to booksellers (both wholesale and retail)" (79).]

;Liffen, Jane, 2008. : ""A very Glamorized Picture, that": Images of Scottish Female Herring Workers on Romance Novel Covers." ''Social Semiotics'' 18.3: 349-61. [http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1035-0330&volume=18&issue=3&spage=349 Abstract]

;Light, Alison. 1984. : ‘Returning to Manderley – Romance Fiction, Female Sexuality and Class’, ''Feminist Review'', 16: 7-25.

;Lindfors, Bernth, 1993. : "Romances for the Office Worker: Aubrey Kalitera and Malawi's White-Collar Reading Public" in ''Major Minorities: English Literatures in Transit'', ed. Raoul Granqvist (Amsterdam: Rodopi): pp. 77-88. [Sizeable excerpt available [http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=CC+11 via Rodopi's webpage]. Click on the "Google Preview" button. Using the link from the index within the book may take you to the beginning of the next essay in the volume. You may need to scroll back. This would appear to be almost identical to Lindfors, Bernth. 2002. : "Romances for the Office Worker: Aubrey Kalitera and Malawi's White-Collar Reading Public." In ''Readings in African Popular Fiction,'' 89-94. London, England: International African Institute with Indiana UP. It is stated there that the essay was also published in ''Loaded Vehicles: Studies in African Literary Media''. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 1996. pp. 73-90.]

;Linke, Gabriele, 1997.: "Local Color in Contemporary Harlequin and Silhouette Romances: Popular Imagery of the American South and West." ''Mid-Atlantic Almanack: The Journal of the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association'' 6: 14-30

;Linke, Gabriele, 1997. :"Contemporary Mass Market Romances as National and International Culture: A Comparative Study of Mills & Boon and Harlequin Romances." ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 195-213.

;Linke, Gabriele, 2000. : "Visions and Versions of Parenthood in British and American Series Romances". ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'', No. 6 (Spring 2000), 18-29.

;Litton, Joyce A., 1994. : 'From Seventeenth Summer to Miss Teen Sweet Valley: Female and Male Sex Roles in Teen Romances, 1942-91', in ''Images of the Child'', ed. Harry Eiss (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press), pp. 19-34. [http://books.google.com/books?id=R6d-0zUTtbsC&lpg=PA317&ots=n6SbOldnqA&dq=&pg=PA19#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Livingston, Eric, 2006. : "The Textuality of Pleasure." ''New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation'' 37.3: 655-672.(narrative technique; relationship to reading; pleasure; compared to [[Gina Wilkins | Wilkins, Gina]]: ''Seductively Yours'' (2000) [[Harlequin_Temptation_701_-_800 | Harlequin Temptation #792]]) [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/new_literary_history/v037/37.3livingston.html Abstract and excerpt]

;Lois, Jennifer and Joanna Gregson, 2015. : "Sneers and Leers: Romance Writers and Gendered Sexual Stigma." ''Gender & Society'' 29.4: 459-483. [[http://gas.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/05/14/0891243215584603.abstract Abstract] and [http://teachmetonight.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/sneers-and-leers-sociologists-on.html some excerpts].]

;Lois, Jennifer and Joanna Gregson, 2018. : "Aspirational Emotion Work: Calling, Emotional Capital, and Becoming a 'Real' Writer." ''Journal of Contemporary Ethnography''. Online First 1 January 2018. [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0891241617749011 Abstract]

;Losano, Antonia, 2015. : "Sneaking It In at the End: Teaching Popular Romance in the Liberal Arts Classroom," ''Teaching Tainted Lit: Popular American Fiction in Today's Classroom'', ed. Janet G. Casey (Iowa City: U of Iowa P), pp. 77-88. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HnmJCgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP6&ots=_1DxPZrqfO&pg=PA80#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Lowery, Karalyne, 2018. : "The Militarized Shapeshifter: Authorized Violence and Military Connections as an Antidote to Monstrosity." ''University of Toronto Quarterly'' 87.1: 196-213. [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/689098 Abstract.]

;Lutz, Deborah, 2003. : “The Erotics of Ontology: Failed Presence in Heidegger and the Mass-Market Romance.” ''Comparative Literature and Culture'' 5.3, 2003. [http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol5/iss3/5/ Abstract and pdf.]

;Lutz, Deborah, 2006. :''The Dangerous Lover; Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative.''(Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press).[https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/24173/Lutz_T-S_Final.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y] [Includes a chapter on the contemporary historical romance]

;Lutz, Deborah, 2007. : 'The Haunted Space of the Mind: The Revival of the Gothic Romance in the Twenty-First Century.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 81-92.

;Lynch, Katherine E., Ruth E. Sternglantz, and Len Barot, 2012. : “Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2012/10/queering-the-romantic-heroine-where-her-power-lies-by-katherine-e-lynch-ruth-e-sternglantz-and-len-barot/]

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;Haddad, Emily A., 2007. : 'Bound to Love: Captivity in Harlequin Sheikh Novels.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 42-64.

;Haefner, Margaret J., 2009. : "Challenging the -isms: Gender and Race in Brockmann's Troubleshooters, Inc. Romance Novels", ''Journal of Media Sociology'' 1.3/4 (2009): 182-201.[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.461.4162&rep=rep1&type=pdf#page=52]

;Hagemann, Susanne, 1996. : "Gendering Places: [[Georgette Heyer]]'s Cultural Topography." ''Scotland to Slovenia: European Identities and Transcultural Communication. Proceedings of the Fourth International Scottish Studies Symposium''. Ed. Horst W. Drescher and Susanne Hagemann. Scottish Studies International 21. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1996. 187–199. [Reprinted in: ''Georgette Heyer: A Critical Retrospective''. Ed. Mary Fahnestock-Thomas. Saraland, AL: PrinnyWorld Press, 2001. 480–492.] **

;Hague, Euan, 2014. : “Mass Market Romance Fiction and the Representation of Scotland in the United States.” ''The Modern Scottish Diaspora: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives''. Ed. Murray Stewart Leith and Duncan Sim (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP): 171-190. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JpGlBgAAQBAJ&lpg=PR7&ots=wb_mTDikBD&lr&pg=PA171#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Hague, Euan and David Stenhouse, 2007. : "A very interesting place: representing Scotland in American romance novels, " in ''The Edinburgh companion to contemporary Scottish literature'' Ed. by Berthold Schoene-Harwood (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press): 354-361.

;Hains, Maryellen, 1989. : “Beauty and the Beast: 20th Century Romance?” ''Merveilles & contes'' 3: 75–83.** [The journal seems to go under the name [http://www.langlab.wayne.edu/marvelsHome/mcindfk.html ''Marvels & Tales''] now]

;Hall, Glinda Fountain, 2008. : "Inverting the Southern Belle: Romance Writers Redefine Gender Myths. " ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 41.1: 37-55.

;Hall, Glinda F., 2010. : ''The Creators of Women’s Popular Romance Fiction: The Authors Who Gave Women a Genre of Their Own''. [http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=7895&pc=9 Edwin Mellen Press.]

;Hallam, Julia, 2000. : ''Nursing the Image: Media, Culture and Professional Identity'' (London: Routledge). [See pages [http://books.google.com/books?id=zl-vibuIaMIC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q&f=false 62]-73 for discussion of Mills & Boon medical romances and changes in women's roles in the 1950s and 1960s and page 187 for a very brief summary about Mills & Boon romances in later decades.] [Excerpts available [http://books.google.com/books?id=7aRjbKJQNpkC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false here] and [http://books.google.com/books?id=zl-vibuIaMIC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false here].]

;Hamilton, Cristen, 2013. : “Vindicating the Historical Romance.” ''Plaza: Dialogues in Language and Literature'' 3.2: 140-156. [http://journals.tdl.org/plaza/index.php/plaza/article/view/7021 Abstract] and [http://journals.tdl.org/plaza/index.php/plaza/article/view/7021/pdf PDF]. [This journal only "publishes works by graduate students."]

;Hammill, Faye, 2003. : '''The Republic of Love'' and Popular Romance,' ''Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction'', ed. Edward Eden and Dee Goertz (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), pp. 61-83. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Y8GfXeH9AUEC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA61#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Hapgood, Lynne, 2005. : ''Margins of Desire: The Suburbs in Fiction and Culture, 1880-1925'' (Manchester: Manchester UP). [See Chapter 5, 'The feminine suburb/1: Women readers and romance fiction' and Chapter 6, 'The feminine suburb/2: [[Sophie Cole]], Alice Askew, [[Louise Gerard]], Mary Hamilton'. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mMdFEGZ33A8C&lpg=PP1&ots=vB7CH0vAkJ&dq=&pg=PA114#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt].]

;Harders, Robin, 2012. : 'Borderlands of Desire: Captivity, Romance, and the Revolutionary Power of Love,' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 133-152.

;Harris, Marlene, 2013. : "A New Breed of Romance." ''Library Journal'' 138.17: 49-49. ["Romance authors who find themselves publishing via both traditional contracts and the new world of the self-published are living a hybrid life"]

;Harris, Racheal, 2018. : “Really Romantic? Pirates in Romantic Fiction.” ''Pirates in History and Popular Culture,'' edited by Antonio Sanna (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company Publishing), pp. 109–119. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JXJuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA109&lpg=PA109#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Hashim, Ruzy Suliza, and Shahizah Ismail Hamdan. 2010. : "Facets of Women in Malay Romance Fiction." ''Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing'' 32, no. 1-2: 67-79.[http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1255&context=kunapipi]

;Hassencahl, Fran, 1980. : "Persecutors, Victims and Rescuers in Harlequin Romances." Paper presented at the combined Annual Meeting of the Midwest Popular Culture Association and the Midwest American Culture Association (Kalamazoo, MI, October 23-25, 1980). 20 pgs. ERIC document ED207086.

;Haynsworth, Leslie, 2008. : '[[Janet Evanovich]]', ''Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice'' 2.2/3. [Formerly at [http://www.teachingamericanlit.com/files/Microsoft_Word_-_TALTP-EvanovichJanetuse.pdf]. This link no longer works but a pdf of the entire issue can be downloaded from [http://www.cpcc.edu/taltp/archives/spring-summer-2008-2-2-3/spring_summer_2008_merged.pdf/at_download/file]].

;Hayton, Christopher J., and Sheila Hayton. 2012. : "The Girls in White: Nurse Images in Early Cold War Era Romance and War Comics." In ''Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns'', 129-145. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012.

;Hazen, Helen, 1983. : ''Endless Rapture; Rape, Romance, and the Female Imagination.'' New York:: Scribner's. (Chapter 1 - Romance Novels)

;Hee Chung, June, 2016. : 'Henry James's "The Velvet Glove" and the Iron Fist: Transatlantic Cultural Exchange and the Romance Tradition', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 225-239.

;Heinecken, Dawn, 1999. : 'Changing Ideologies in Romance Fiction', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 149-72.

;Heiss, Karin, 2015. : '14 Weeks of Love and Labour: Teaching Regency and Desert Romance to Undergraduate Students', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/14-weeks-of-love-and-labour-teaching-regency-and-desert-romance-to-undergraduate-studentsby-karin-heiss/] [Focus of the course was on "Georgette Heyer’s ''Bath Tangle'' (1955), E.M. Hull’s ''The Sheik'' (1919), and a recent Mills & Boon category romance, Marguerite Kaye's ''The Governess and the Sheikh'' (2011)"]

;Heller, Tamar, 1997. : 'Having It All: Consumption and Ideological Tension in an Innovative Romance Novel.' ''Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture'' 30.3:243-264. [The article focuses on ''Free Spirit'' by [[Fern Michael|Fern Michael]]]

;Herendeen, Ann, 2012. : “The Upper-Class Bisexual Top as Romantic Hero: (Pre)dominant in the Social Structure and in the Bedroom,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2012/10/the-upper-class-bisexual-top-as-romantic-hero-predominant-in-the-social-structure-and-in-the-bedroom-by-ann-herendeen/]

;Herendeen, Ann, 2016. : 'Having it Both Ways; or, Writing from the Third Perspective: The Revolutionary M/M/F Ménage Romance Novel', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 405-419.

;Hermes, Joke, 1992. : ‘Sexuality in Lesbian Romance Fiction’, ''Feminist Review'', 42: 49-66. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Yb2vlW3656sC&lpg=PA49&ots=THNcySvQzc&dq=%22some%20pulp%20sappho%22%20koski&pg=PA49 Excerpts]

;Hermes, Joke, 1992. : 'Entertainment or Enlightenment - Sexuality In Lesbian Romance Novels', ''Argument'', 34.3:389-402.

;Hess, Jonathan M., 2010. : ''Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity''. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. [See Chapter 3: "Middlebrow Culture in Pursuit of Romance: Love, Fiction, and the Virtues of Marrying In"] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dYlIwNRoNGEC&lpg=PA157&ots=zsKPocUVyX&pg=PA111#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Hey, Valerie, 1983. : ''The Necessity of Romance'', Women’s Studies Occasional Papers, 3 (Canterbury: University of Kent).

;Higashi, Sumiko, 2017. : 'Adapting Middlebrow Taste to Sell Stars, Romance, and Consumption', ''Feminist Media Histories'' 3.4 (2017): 126-161. [[http://fmh.ucpress.edu/content/3/4/126 Abstract] which mentions that ''Photoplay'' magazine, which began in 1911, "published serialized romance fiction that featured daring, unconventional modern heroines."]

;Hinnant, Charles H., 2003. : "Desire and the Marketplace: A Reading of Kathleen Woodiwiss's The Flame and the Flower," in ''Doubled Plots: Romance and History'', see above, pp. 147-164. [http://books.google.com/books?id=3B-byRPo2WMC&dq=&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=zfstjNM05P&sig=DTg9qdbOWddx4BwwPEZa4SUuHY0&hl=en&ei=_bnwSfmDMYKUjAfvlPW_DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#PPA147,M1 Excerpt]

;Hipsky, Martin, 2011. : ''Modernism and the Women’s Popular Romance in Britain, 1885–1925'' (Ohio University Press). [[http://www.ohioswallow.com/book/Modernism+and+the+Women%E2%80%99s+Popular+Romance+in+Britain%2C+1885%E2%80%931925 More details] and [http://teachmetonight.blogspot.com/2011/11/modernism-and-womens-popular-romance-in.html a blog post by Hipsky about the book].]

;Hirdman, Anja, 2016. : "Speaking through the flesh: Affective encounters, gazes and desire in Harlequin romances," ''MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research'' 32.61: 42-57. [http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/mediekultur/article/view/22382 Abstract and pdf]

;Holden, Stacy E. and Charity Tabol, 2015. : 'In Sickness and In Health: Representations of PTSD in Post-9/11 Romance Novels', ''albeit'' 2.1. [http://albeitjournal.com/in-sickness-and-in-health-representations-of-ptsd-in-post-911-romance-novels/]

;Holden, Stacy E., 2015. : 'Love in the Desert: Images of Arab-American Reconciliation in Contemporary Sheikh Romance Novels', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/love-in-the-desert-images-of-arab-american-reconciliation-in-contemporary-sheikh-romance-novelsby-stacy-e-holden/] [See also Megan Crane's response in the same issue of the journal. Details under Crane or [http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/stacy-holdens-love-in-the-desert-an-authors-responseby-megan-crane/ use this direct link]]

;Hollows, Joanne, 2000. : ''Feminism, Femininity and Popular Culture'' (Manchester: Manchester University Press). [[http://books.google.com/books?id=sXWjnG5LWO0C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA68#v=onepage&q=&f=false Chapter 4] is about "Reading Romantic Fiction."]

;Holmes, Diana, 2003. : 'Decadent Love: Rachilde and the Popular Romance', ''Dix-Neuf: Journal of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes'', 1: 16-28. [http://www.sdn.ac.uk/dixneuf/september03/Holmes/Decadent%20Love%20-%20Formatted.pdf pdf available here] [Holmes argues that Rachilde's work, particularly ''Le Dessous'' (1904), 'performs the feat of providing simultaneously the pleasures of romance and a derisive critique of the genre']

;Holmes, Diana, 2005. : "The Return to Romance: Love Stories in Recent French Women's Writing." ''Esprit Créateur'' 45, no. 1: 97-109.

;Holmes, Diana, 2006. : ''Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France; Love Stories.'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press). [http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199249848 Description] and [http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-924984-9.pdf pdf of the first chapter.] [http://books.google.com/books?id=7dQfAwHT6XEC Description and more excerpts.]

;Holmes, D. 2010. : "The comfortable reader: Romantic bestsellers and critical disdain." '' French Cultural Studies'' 21, (4): 287-296. [http://frc.sagepub.com/content/21/4/287.abstract Abstract.]

;Hopkins, Lisa, 2017/2018. : ‘Waltzing with Wellington, Biting with Byron: Heroes in Austen Tribute Texts’. ''Jane Austen and Masculinity''. Ed. Michael Kramp. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press. 173-189. [http://shura.shu.ac.uk/18145/ Abstract] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8S1BDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA173#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Hopkins, Lisa, 2018. : "Georgette Heyer: What Austen Left Out". ''After Austen: Reinventions, Rewritings, Revisitings''. Ed. Lisa Hopkins. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 61-79. [This chapter looks in detail at military metaphors/language used by Heyer, as well as her allusions to Austen.]

;Hubbard, Rita C., 1983. : 'The Changing-Unchanging Heroines and Heroes of Harlequin Romances, 1950-1979. in ''The Hero in Transition.'',ed. Ray B. Browne and Marshall W. Fishwick, (Bowling Green, OH: Popular), pp. 171-179. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&id=eP1y6zjqWucC&dq=&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=gG9wNZPwho&sig=YrmDc2hksnAKS1uHRMI1lbIcLNY&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA171,M1 Excerpt]

;Hubbard, Rita C., 1985. : 'Relationship Styles in Popular Romance Novels, 1950-1983', ''Communication Quarterly'', 33.2: 113-25.** Republished in ''Methods of Rhetorical Criticism: A Twentieth-Century Perspective'', ed. Bernard L. Brock, Robert L. Scott and James W. Chesebro, Third Edition, Revised, 1990 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press), pp. 223-233. [http://books.google.com/books?id=g9_oe6rGv9oC&lpg=PP1&dq=&pg=PA223#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Hubbard, Rita C., 1992. : 'Magic and Transformation: Relationships in Popular Romance Novels, 1950 to the 1980s', in ''Popular Culture: An Introductory Text'', ed. Kevin Lause & Jack Nachbar (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press), pp. 476-488. ** [http://books.google.com/books?id=BEkB2J-Wb4sC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA476#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [http://www.questia.com/read/101089968?title=Magic%20and%20Transformation%3a%20Relationships%20in%20Popular%20Romance%20Novels%2c%201950%20to%20the%201980s Abstract]. [In the excerpt it is stated that "A slightly different version of this essay appeared in ''Communication Quarterly'' 33 (Spring 1985)" (476). More precise bibliographical details for that item are given in the entry above this one.]

;Hughes, Helen, 1993. : '' The Historical Romance.'' (London:Routledge) [http://www.routledge.com/books/The-Historical-Romance-isbn9780415058124 Synopsis]. [http://books.google.com/books?id=cL0OAAAAQAAJ Abstract] and [http://books.google.com/books?id=FwEhzGDKZKYC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpts]

;Huntwork, Mary M., 1990. : "Why Girls Flock to Sweet Valley High." ''School Library Journal'' 36.3 : 137-140.

;Huq, Maimuna, 1999. : “From Piety to Romance: Islam-Oriented Texts in Bangladesh.” ''New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere'', ed. Dale F. Eickelman and Jon W. Anderson. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP), pp. 133-161. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Moh2l5d85OYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA129#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt from the 2003 edition, where it appears on pages 129-57.]

;Hurst, Rochelle, 2009. : “The Barrister’s Bedmate: Harlequin Mills & Boon and the Bridget Jones Debate” ''Australian Feminist Studies'' 24.62: 453-468. [Feminist critique of Harlequin Mills & Boons (especially a selection by [[Emma Darcy]]) and comparison with Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones novels. For a discussion of why many aspects of this essay's methodology are troubling, from an academic perspective, see [https://web.archive.org/web/20101220080559/http://www.readreactreview.com:80/2010/02/10/feminist-critique-of-romance-ur-doin-it-wrong/ this article] by Jessica at Read React Review].

==I==
;Iesue, Renata. 1990. : "Romance and Reality: Popular Writing by Nigerian Women." ''Commonwealth Essays and Studies'' 13, no. 1: 28-37.

;Illouz, Eva. 2014. : ''Hard-Core Romance: "Fifty Shades of Grey," Best-Sellers, and Society.'' Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

;Iqbal, Kundan, 2014. : "The impact of romance novels on women's sexual and reproductive health." ''Journal of Family Planning & Reproductive Health Care''. Margaret Jackson Prize Essay 2014. Published Online First: 17 July 2014. [http://jfprhc.bmj.com/content/early/2014/07/17/jfprhc-2014-100995.short Excerpt]

;Iwai, Gaku, 2015. : "Wartime Ideology in 'The Thimble': A Comparative Study of Popular Wartime Romance and the Anti-romance of D. H. Lawrence." ''Études Lawrenciennes'' 46.[http://lawrence.revues.org/236]

==J==

;Jackson, Cia, 2017. : "Harlequin Romance: The Power of Parody and Subversion." ''The Ascendance of Harley Quinn: Essays on DC's Enigmatic Villain''. Ed. Shelley E. Barba and Joy M. Perrin. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2017. 16-??. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zNg5DwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PT26#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [This is about how the DC comics parody romance novel conventions via the figure of Harley Quinn.]

;Jackson, Elaine, 2008. : '''Sievier’s Monthly'' (1909): Pseudonyms and Readership in Early Twentieth Century Popular Fiction,' ''Book Trade Connections from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries'', ed. John Hinks and Catherine Armstrong (Newcastle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press), pp. 245-???. [In the [http://www.oakknoll.com/resources/bookexcerpts/096655.pdf introduction to the volume] Catherine Armstrong writes that 'In the final chapter of this volume, Elaine Jackson explores the colourful publishing career of Marguerite Jervis, known variously under pseudonyms such as Countess Barcynska and Oliver Sandys. Her contributions of popular fiction to journals in the early twentieth century are surveyed, as are the techniques she used to convey sexually and politically suggestive material' (viii). In Jackson's PhD thesis she wrote about "the production and distribution of popular romance between the two World Wars" and focused on three authors, one of whom was Marguerite Jervis.]

;Jackson, Stevi, 1995. : 'Women and Heterosexual Love: Complicity, Resistance and Change', in ''Romance Revisited'' , ed. Jackie Stacey and Lynne Pearce (New York: New York UP), pp. 49-62.

;Jagodzinski, Mallory, 2014. : "We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: Reflecting Thirty Years after ''Reading the Romance''." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2.[http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/weve-come-a-long-way-baby-reflecting-thirty-years-after-reading-the-romanceby-mallory-jagodzinski/]

;Jarmakani, Amira, 2010. : '“The Sheik Who Loved Me”: Romancing the War on Terror', ''Signs'' 35.4: 993-1017. [http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/651044?journalCode=signs Abstract]

;Jarmakani, Amira. 2011. : "Desiring the Big Bad Blade: Racing the Sheikh in Desert Romances." ''American Quarterly'' 63, no. 4: 895-928. [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/american_quarterly/v063/63.4.jarmakani.html Abstract] [https://womensstudies.sdsu.edu/people/bios/docs/jarmakani/desiring%20big%20bad%20blade.pdf Pdf]

;Jarmakani, Amira, 2015. : ''An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror''. New York: New York UP, 2015. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=k5HwCQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [http://jprstudies.org/2016/07/review-an-imperialist-love-story-desert-romances-and-the-war-on-terror-by-amira-jarmakani/ See also the review by Heather Schell in the ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'']

;Jarvis, Christine, 1995. : 'Romancing the Curriculum: Empowerment through Popular Culture',''Convergence'', 28.3: 71-7. [http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=Romancing+the+Curriculum&searchtype=basic&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=kw&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&objectId=0900019b800fd401&accno=EJ515606&_nfls=false Abstract]

;Jarvis, Christine, 1999. : 'Love Changes Everything: The Transformative Potential of Popular Romantic Fiction', ''Studies in the Education of Adults'', 31.2:109-122. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/niace/stea/1999/00000031/00000002/art00002 Abstract]

;Jarvis, Christine, 2000. : 'Hungry Heroines: The Exploration of a "Generative Theme" in Romantic Fiction,' ''Consuming for Pleasure: Selected Essays on Popular Fiction'' ed. Julia Hallam and Nickianne Moody (Liverpool: Liverpool John Moores University; Association for Research in Popular Fictions), pp. 171-???.

;Jenkins, Jacqueline, 2004. : 'Reading Women Reading: Feminism, Culture, and Memory', ''Maistresse of My Wit: Medieval Women, Modern Scholars'', ed. Louise D'Arcens and Juanita Feros Ruys (Turnhout: Brepols), pp. 317-334. ["Jenkins first debates the fascinating possibility of a cultural memory, a number of shared common norms, conventions, and practices that would link the otherwise non-contiguous reading experiences of medieval and contemporary women. Drawing on the results of modern romance studies, she wonders if the otherwise forbidden self-realization of women through the reading of romances could not also be the cause of the popularity of vernacular devotional literature among high-status women in the Middle Ages. In the end, however, she considers the sobering possibility that she might have accepted the results of modern romance studies precisely because of her (formerly unrecognized) investment in attributing some form of resistance to the medieval women readers of devotional texts." ([https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/5967/05.02.16.html?sequence=1 Review by Richard Utz])]

;Jensen, Margaret Ann, 1984. : ''Love's $weet Return: The [[Harlequin]] Story'' (Toronto: Women's Educational Press, 1984). [[http://books.google.com/books?id=yQJUhW3lNVUC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPP1,M1 Excerpts] (possibly from different publisher, as details on Google Books say it was published by the Popular Press)]

;Joannou, Maroula, 2012. : ''Women's Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity: The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice, 1938-1962'' (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan). [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ok8vuVKHR50C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [See pages [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ok8vuVKHR50C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA75#v=onepage&q&f=false 75], [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ok8vuVKHR50C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA76#v=onepage&q&f=false 76], [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ok8vuVKHR50C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA77#v=onepage&q&f=false 77], [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ok8vuVKHR50C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA78#v=onepage&q&f=false 78], [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ok8vuVKHR50C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA79#v=onepage&q&f=false 79] and [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ok8vuVKHR50C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA80#v=onepage&q&f=false 80] for the section on [[Georgette Heyer]].]

;Johnson, Heather., 2017. : "Yorkshire English in Georgette Heyer's ''The Unknown Ajax''." ''Schwa: Language and Linguistics'' 14: 57-70. [http://schwa.byu.edu/files/2017/05/Schwa_14_Winter_2017.pdf#page=57]

;Johnson, Naomi R., 2010. : 'Consuming Desires: Consumption, Romance, and Sexuality in Best-Selling Teen Romance Novels', ''Women's Studies in Communication'' 33.1: 54-73. [http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a921878460 Abstract]

;Johnson, Valerie B., 2018. : "What a Canon Wants: Robin Hood, Romance Novels, and Carrie Lofty’s ''What a Scoundrel Wants''", ''Robin Hood and the Outlaw/ed Literary Canon'', ed. Lesley Coote and Alexander L. Kaufman. ???: Routledge, 2018. 184-??? [https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429810060/chapters/10.4324%2F9780429442766-14 Excerpt]

;Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E., 1999. : ' "I Am Not a Bimbo": Persona, Promotion, and the Fabulous Fabio', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 35-50. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ja_Ia-oZo4wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA35#v=onepage&q=&f=false Excerpt]

;Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E., 1999. : 'Leading Us into Temptation: The Language of Sex and the Power of Love', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 113-48. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ja_Ia-oZo4wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA113#v=onepage&q=&f=false Excerpt]

;Johnson-Woods, Toni, 2004. : ''Pulp: A Collector's Book of Australian Pulp Fiction Covers'' (Canberra: National Library of Australia). [http://books.google.com/books?id=wWU0w2gWfoIC&lpg=PA47&ots=DzPRIaAjl7&dq=&pg=PA47#v=onepage&q&f=false One chapter is on romance covers.]

;Johnson-Woods, T., 2005. : 'From Australia With Love: A History Of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels,' ''Australian Literary Studies,'' 22.1:119-120. [This is a book review of Juliet Flesch's book, listed elsewhere in this bibliography]

;Jones, Ann Rosalind, 1986. : ‘[[Mills and Boon|Mills & Boon]] Meets Feminism’, in ''The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction'', ed. Jean Radford (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul), pp. 195-218. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Sb4OAAAAQAAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA195#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Joshi, S. T. 2009. : ''Junk fiction: America's obsession with bestsellers.'' [Rockville, MD]: Borgo Press. Chapter on "Queens of romance: Danielle Steele, Barbara Taylor Bradford, and Nora Roberts." [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vD35eCfVGCsC&lpg=PP1&ots=pYTAywlfbU&dq=&pg=PA27#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Juhasz, Suzanne, 1988. : ‘Texts to Grow On: Reading Women’s Romance Fiction’, ''Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature'', 7:2: 239-259.

;Juhasz, Suzanne, 1998. : 'Lesbian Romance Fiction and the Plotting of Desire: Narrative Theory, Lesbian Identity, and Reading Practice', ''Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature'', 17.1: 65-82. [Rptd. in Ostrov Weisser, ''Women and Romance'', pp. 276-291. **]

==K==

;Kahn, Laurie, director, 2015. : ''Love Between the Covers''. Blueberry Hill Productions. [This is a documentary about popular romance fiction and a [http://jprstudies.org/2016/07/review-love-between-the-covers-produced-written-and-directed-by-laurie-kahn/ review of it by Beth Driscoll was published in the ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies''.]]

;Kaler, Anne K., 2000. : "Dysfunctional Detectives and Romantic P. I.s: Impediments to the Happy Marriage of Mystery and Romance." ''Clues: A Journal of Detection'', 21.1: 61-72.

;Kaler, Anne K., 1999. : 'Conventions of Captivity in Romance Novels', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 86-99. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ja_Ia-oZo4wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA86#v=onepage&q=&f=false Excerpt]

;Kaler, Anne K., 1999. : ' Hero, Heroine, or HERA: A New Name for an Old Problem', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 187-92. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ja_Ia-oZo4wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA187#v=onepage&q=&f=false Excerpt]

;Kamble, Jayashree, 2007. : 'Female Enfranchisement and the Popular Romance: Employing an Indian Perspective.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 148-173.

;Kamble, Jayashree, 2012. : 'Patriotism, Passion, and PTSD: The Critique of War in Popular Romance Fiction,' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 153-163.

;Kamble, Jayashree, 2013. : 'How to Tame a Dragon: Ten years after ''A Natural History of the Romance Novel''', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/how-to-tame-a-dragon-ten-years-after-a-natural-history-of-the-romance-novel-by-jayashree-kamble/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Kamble_RegisDragon.pdf as a pdf].]

;Kamble, Jayashree, 2014. : ''Making Meaning in Popular Romance Fiction: An Epistemology''. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/making-meaning-in-popular-romance-fiction-jayashree-kambl%E9/?K=9781137395047 Abstract] and [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uz9vBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Kamblé, Jayashree, 2016. : 'Branding a Genre: A Brief Transatlantic History of Romance Novel Cover Art', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 241-272.

;Kamble, Jayashree, 2017. : "From Barbarized to Disneyfied: Viewing 1990s New York City Through Eve Dallas, J.D. Robb’s Futuristic Homicide Detective." ''Forum for Interamerican Research'' 10.1 (May 2017): 72-86. [http://interamerica.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/0_fiar-Vol.-10.1-Capital-Crimes-in-the-Americas-Complete-Issue.pdf#page=72]

;Kanerick, Caroline, 2010. : " 'A Jazzed and Patchwork Modern': 'future' girls and modern masculinities in the early popular romances of Berta Ruck", ''Women's History Review'' 19.5: 685-702. [http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a929118395~db=all~jumptype=rss Abstract]

;Kania, Richard R. E., 2014. : "Pirates and Piracy in American Popular Culture." ''Romanian Journal of English Studies'' 11.1: 183–194. [http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/rjes.2014.11.issue-1/rjes-2014-0022/rjes-2014-0022.xml?format=INT Abstract and Pdf available here.] [Includes a section on "Daphné du Maurier and the Romance Novel Pirate"]

;Kapell, Matthew, and Suzanne Becker., 2005. : 'Patriarchy, the Christian Romance Novel, and the 'Ecosystem of Sex'.' ''Popular Culture Review'' 16.1:147-155.

;Kapila, Shuchi, 2010. : ''Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule'' (Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State UP). [https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/45316/Kapila_Book4CD.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y]

;Kaplan, Deborah, 2012. : ' "Why would any woman want to read such stories?": The Distinctions Between Genre Romances and Slash Fiction,' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 121-132.

;Kebadze, Nino, 2009. : ''Romance and Exemplarity in Post-War Spanish Women's Narratives'' (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Tamesis). [[http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=11664 Abstract and link to excerpt]. Discusses novels by Luisa-María Linares, Concha Linares-Becerra, Carmen de Icaza and María Mercedes Ortoll.]

;Keegan, Faye, 2017. : "‘Snob Value’: Gender and Literary Value in Mary Stewart." ''Women: A Cultural Review'' 28:3: 240-261. [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09574042.2017.1355679 Abstract]

;Keen, Suzanne, 2018. : "Probable Impossibilities: Historical Romance Readers Talk Back." ''Style: A Quarterly Journal of Aesthetics, Poetics, Stylistics, and Literary Criticism,'' vol. 52, no. 1-2, 2018, pp. 127-132.[https://muse.jhu.edu/article/689266 Excerpt] [This is about readers of Diana Gabaldon's ''Outlander'' series, which is not necessarily considered to be composed of "romance novels".]

;Kelly, Brendan D., 2007. : “Medical Romance.” ''The Lancet'' 370.9597: 1482.

;Kelso, Sylvia, 1997. : 'Stitching Time: Feminism(s) and Thirty Years of Gothic Romance,' ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 164-179.

;Kemppinen, Anne, 1989. : “Translation for Popular Literature with Special Reference to Harlequin Books and their Finnish Translation”, in ''Empirical Studies in Translation and Linguistics'', Studies in Languages, nº 17, ed. Sonja Tirkkonen-Condit & Stephen Condit (Savonlinna: University of Joensuu, Faculty of Arts), pp. 25-36.**

;Kerr, Ashley Elizabeth, 2019. : “Indigenous Lovers and Villainous Scientists: Rewriting Nineteenth-Century Ideas of Race in Argentine Romance Novels”, ''Chasqui'' 48.1: 293-310. [https://search.proquest.com/openview/d4c56f1feacb03adcd0136a8f32d9353/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=27737 Excerpt.] [This is about three novels (written in 2005 and 2010) by Argentinian authors and set in the nineteenth century.]

;Killeen, Jarlath, 2018. : 'Nora Roberts: the Power of Love', in ''Twenty-First Century Popular Fiction'', ed. Bernice M. Murphy and Stephen Matterson (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), pp.53-65.

;Killing, Peter, 1978. : ''Harlequin Enterprises Limited: Case Material of the Western School of Business Administration'' (London, Ontario: University of Western Ontario). **

;King, Laura, 2015. : ‘The Perfect Man: Fatherhood, Masculinity and Romance in Popular Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain’, in ''Love and Romance in Britain, 1918-1970'', ed. Alana Harris and Timothy Willem Jones (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), pp.41–60. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vsCpBQAAQBAJ&lpg=PR7&ots=oeXrlFyNyT&pg=PA41#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Kitchen, Veronica, 2016. : "Veterans and Military Masculinity in Popular Romance Fiction." ''Critical Military Studies''. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23337486.2016.1235761 Abstract]

;Kloester, Jennifer V., 2004. : "Images of England: Georgette Heyer's Regency World in the Dominions," in ''Exploring the British World: Identity, Cultural Production, Institutions,'' Ed. Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw, Kiera Lindsey, and Stuart Mcintyre (Melbourne: RMIT Publishing): 598-608.[http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=873295189866956;res=IELHSS]

;Kloester, Jennifer, 2006. : "Georgette Heyer and the Great Jane," ''Sensibilities'' 32: 101-117. [http://www.jasa.net.au/sens/sensextjun06.htm#story9 Excerpt]

;Kohlman, Marla H. and Samantha N. Simpson, 2017. : "For the Sake of Hearth and Home: Gender Schematicity in the Romance Novel." ''Discourses on Gender and Sexual Inequality: The Legacy of Sandra L. Bem''. Ed. Marla H. Kohlman and Dana B. Krieg. Bingley, UK: Emerald, 2017. 115-128. [http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1108/S1529-212620170000023006 Abstract]

;Kokkola, L. 2011. : "Virtuous vampires and voluptuous vamps: Romance conventions reconsidered in Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" series." ''Children's Literature in Education'' 42.2 : 165-179.

;Koski, Patricia, Lori Holyfield, and [[Marcella Thompson]], 1997. : "Romance Novels as Women's Myths." ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 219-232.

;Kramer, Daniela & Moore, Michael, 2001. : ‘Gender Roles, Romantic Fiction and Family Therapy’, ''Psycoloquy'' 12,#24 [http://www.cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?12.024]

;Kramer, Daniela & Moore, Michael, 2001. : 'Family Myths in Romantic Fiction', ''Psychological Reports'', 88.1:29-41.[http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/pr0.2001.88.1.29?journalCode=prxa Abstract] [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12041102_Family_myths_in_romantic_fiction Source for an unpaginated version]

;Kramer, Kyra, 2011. : "Raising Veils and other Bold Acts: The Heroine's Agency in Female Gothic Novels." ''Studies in Gothic Fiction'' 1.2: 24-37. [http://studiesingothicfiction.weebly.com/uploads/2/2/8/8/22885250/sgf_oct_10.pdf Pdf of whole issue]. Kramer argues that "Female Gothic novels that have been written in the last thirty or so years are often labeled and sold as «romances» or «romantic suspense»" and focuses on a number of novels by [[Elizabeth Lowell]].]

;Kramer, Kyra, 2012. : 'Getting Laid, Getting Old, and Getting Fed: The Cultural Resistance of Jennifer Crusie’s Romance Heroines', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.2.[http://jprstudies.org/2012/04/getting-laid-getting-old-and-getting-fed-the-cultural-resistance-of-jennifer-crusies-romance-heroines-by-kyra-kramer/]

;Kray, Susan. 1987. : "Deconstructive Laughter: Romance Author as Subject, The Pleasure of Writing the Text." ''Journal of Communication Inquiry'' 11.2: 26-46. [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/019685998701100203 Excerpt]

;[[Jayne Ann Krentz|Krentz, Jayne Ann]], Ed. : [[Dangerous Men And Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance|''Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance'']] (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992). [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TRAoV_RN0CgC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false Contents and Excerpts via Google Books]

;Kress, Gunther, 1988. : “Textual Matters: The Social Effectiveness of Style.” ''Functions of Style''. Ed. David Birch and Michael O’Toole. London: Pinter Publishers. 126-141. [Kress exploration of style is "organized around (excerpts from) two texts: the first is part of an advertising brochure for medical practitioners, describing the drug Fluphenazine; the second is from a Mills and Boon novel, a doctor-nurse romance entitled ''A Candle In The Dark''" (127). More details are not given about this novel, but it seems likely that it is the one listed [[Mills and Boon Medical Romance 101 - 200|here]] as Doctor Nurse Romance #137 - ''A Candle In The Dark'' - Grace Read, November 1982.]

;Kroeg, Susan M. 2012. : "'Truly Our Contemporary Jane Austen': Thinking Like an Austen Fan about Regency Romances." ''Kentucky Philological Review'' 27, 50-58.

;Kundin, Susan G., 1985. : "Romance versus Reality: A Look at YA Romantic Fiction." ''Top of the News'' 41.4: 361-368.

;Kunne, Regina. 2015. : ''Eternally Yours - Challenge and Response: Contemporary US American Romance Novels by Jayne Ann Krentz and Barbara Delinsky''. Lit Verlag.

;Kustritz, Anne, 2003. : "Slashing the Romance Narrative." ''The Journal of American Culture'' 26.3: 371-384.[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1542-734X.00098/abstract Excerpt.]

;Kutzer, M. Daphne, 1986. : ""I Won't Grow up"—Yet: Teen Formula Romance." ''Children's Literature Association Quarterly'' 11.2: 90-95. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/childrens_literature_association_quarterly/summary/v011/11.2.kutzer.html Abstract]

;Kuznets, Lois and Eve Zarin, 1982. : "Sweet Dreams for Sleeping Beauties: Pre-Teen Romances." ''Children's Literature Association Quarterly'' 7.1: 28-32. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/childrens_literature_association_quarterly/summary/v007/7.1.kuznets.html Abstract]

==L==

;Labanyi, Jo, 2004. : 'Romancing the Early Franco Regime: the Novelas Románticas of Concha Linares-Becerra and Luisa-María Linares', ''Institute of European Studies: Occasional Papers'', Working Paper OP-13 (March 5, 2004). [http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4pw1d4j7]

;Lamprinou, Artemis, 2011. : “Translated Romances: the Effect of Cultural Textual Norms on the Communication of Emotions.” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%e2%80%9ctranslated-romances-the-effect-of-cultural-textual-norms-on-the-communication-of-emotions%e2%80%9d-by-artemis-lamprinou/]

;Lang, Miriam. 2003. : "Taiwanese Romance: San Mao and Qiong Yao." In ''The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature,'' 515-519. New York, NY: Columbia UP, 2003.

;Laquintano, Timothy, 2013. : "The Legacy of the Vanity Press and Digital Transitions," ''The Journal of Electronic Publishing'' 16.1.[http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0016.104] [This includes a description of Harlequin's attempt to set up Harlequin Horizons and the backlash against this proposed vanity press.]

;Larcombe, Wendy, 2005. : ''Compelling Engagements : Feminism, Rape Law and Romance Fiction.'' (Annandale, N.S.W. : Federation Press) [http://www.federationpress.com.au/bookstore/book.asp?isbn=1862875251 Description and Contents] and [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MWPgf55QUH0C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0 Excerpt via Google Books]

;Larrier, Renée. 2007. : "'Quand la lecture devient passion': Romance Novels and Literacy in Abidjan." In ''African Literatures at the Millennium,'' ed. Arthur D. Drayton, Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka & I. Peter Ukpokodu: 315-324. Trenton, NJ: Africa World.

;Larsen, Katherine, 2014. : "Radway Roundtable Remarks." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2.[http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/radway-roundtable-remarksby-katherine-larsen/]

;Lawrence, Kelli-an and Edward S. Herold, 1988. : "Women's Attitudes toward and Experience with Sexually Explicit Materials." ''Journal of Sex Research'' 24:161-169. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/3812830 Excerpt]

;Leavenworth, Maria Lindgren. 2009. : "Lover Revamped: Sexualities and Romance in the Black Dagger Brotherhood and Slash Fan Fiction." Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 50, no. 3: 442-462.

;Ledford-Miller, Linda, 2011. : 'Gender and Genre Bending: The Futuristic Detective Fiction of J.D. Robb.' ''Reconstruction'' 11.3.[http://reconstruction.eserver.org/113/Ledford-Miller_Linda.shtml]

;Lee, Amy, 2007. : 'Forming a Local Identity: Romance Novels in Hong Kong.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 174-197.

;Lee, Linda J., 2008. : 'Guilty Pleasures: Reading Romance Novels as Reworked Fairy Tales,' ''Marvels & Tales'', 22.1: 52-66. [http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/marvels/vol22/iss1/4/ Abstract]

;Lee, Zi-Ying and Min-Hsiu Liao, 2018. : 'The “Second” Bride: The Retranslation of Romance Novels'. ''Babel''. Published online first 27 August 2018. [http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/babel.00030.lee Abstract] and [https://pureapps2.hw.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/22925728/2018_Babel_The_retranslation_of_romance_novels.pdf full pre-publication version]

;Leedy, Helen, 1985. : 'The Portrayal of Women in Romance Novels, ''Michigan Sociological Review'' 1:61-71. **

;Lennard, John, 2007. : 'Of Pseudonyms and Sentiment: [[Nora Roberts]], J. D. Robb, and the Imperative Mood', ''Of Modern Dragons and other essays on Genre Fiction'', Tirril: Humanities-Ebooks, pp. 56-86. [The essay on Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb is [http://books.google.com/books?id=PuBlqzKuZYwC&lpg=PA1&ots=hc8stUMzrW&dq=&pg=PA56#v=onepage&q&f=false Chapter 3] of the book] [Another excerpt from the book, though not from this chapter, [http://www.humanities-ebooks.co.uk/files/pdf/Pages_from_LennardDragons.pdf is available via the publisher].]

;Lennard, John, 2010. : ''Of Sex and Faerie: Further Essays on Genre Fiction'', Tirril: Humanities-Ebooks. [Includes a chapter on "[[Lois McMaster Bujold]] and the Several Lives of Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan" and on [[Laurell K. Hamilton]]’s "Meredith Gentry’s Improbable Code of Orgasm and other Paranormal Romance."]

;Leonzini, Alexandra, 2018. : ‘“All the Better to Eat You With”: The Eroticization of the Werewolf and the Rise of Monster Porn in the Digital Age.’ ''Exploring the Fantastic: Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture''. Ed. Ina Batzke, Eric C. Erbacher, Linda M. Heß, Corinna Lenhardt. Bielefeld: transcript. 269-294. [“Starting her analysis with 19th-century horror fiction before moving to 20th-century films and 21-century romance and erotic literature, Leonzini traces the changes in the construction of the gendered and sexualized body of the figure of the werewolf” (12) and there is therefore quite a lot of reference to romance, which is deemed to have laid the groundwork for modern monster porn. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=usVTDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA269&lpg=PA269#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt].]

;Levina, Mariia, 2003-4. : "Readers of Mass Literature, 1994-200: From Paternalism to Individualism?" ''Russian Studies in Literature'' 40.1: 79-95. ["This article is based on surveys conducted throughout Russia by the Russian Center for Public Opinion Research (VTsIOM) in 1994, 1997, and 2000; on an analysis of approximately one hundred detective, adventure, and romance novels from Russian publishers’ most popular series; and on four years of market research for a leading Russian publishing house. That research involved, among other things, focus groups of, and in-depth interviews with, readers of romance and detective novels and expert opinion surveys distributed to booksellers (both wholesale and retail)" (79).]

;Liffen, Jane, 2008. : ""A very Glamorized Picture, that": Images of Scottish Female Herring Workers on Romance Novel Covers." ''Social Semiotics'' 18.3: 349-61. [http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1035-0330&volume=18&issue=3&spage=349 Abstract]

;Light, Alison. 1984. : ‘Returning to Manderley – Romance Fiction, Female Sexuality and Class’, ''Feminist Review'', 16: 7-25.

;Lindfors, Bernth, 1993. : "Romances for the Office Worker: Aubrey Kalitera and Malawi's White-Collar Reading Public" in ''Major Minorities: English Literatures in Transit'', ed. Raoul Granqvist (Amsterdam: Rodopi): pp. 77-88. [Sizeable excerpt available [http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=CC+11 via Rodopi's webpage]. Click on the "Google Preview" button. Using the link from the index within the book may take you to the beginning of the next essay in the volume. You may need to scroll back. This would appear to be almost identical to Lindfors, Bernth. 2002. : "Romances for the Office Worker: Aubrey Kalitera and Malawi's White-Collar Reading Public." In ''Readings in African Popular Fiction,'' 89-94. London, England: International African Institute with Indiana UP. It is stated there that the essay was also published in ''Loaded Vehicles: Studies in African Literary Media''. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 1996. pp. 73-90.]

;Linke, Gabriele, 1997.: "Local Color in Contemporary Harlequin and Silhouette Romances: Popular Imagery of the American South and West." ''Mid-Atlantic Almanack: The Journal of the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association'' 6: 14-30

;Linke, Gabriele, 1997. :"Contemporary Mass Market Romances as National and International Culture: A Comparative Study of Mills & Boon and Harlequin Romances." ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 195-213.

;Linke, Gabriele, 2000. : "Visions and Versions of Parenthood in British and American Series Romances". ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'', No. 6 (Spring 2000), 18-29.

;Litton, Joyce A., 1994. : 'From Seventeenth Summer to Miss Teen Sweet Valley: Female and Male Sex Roles in Teen Romances, 1942-91', in ''Images of the Child'', ed. Harry Eiss (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press), pp. 19-34. [http://books.google.com/books?id=R6d-0zUTtbsC&lpg=PA317&ots=n6SbOldnqA&dq=&pg=PA19#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Livingston, Eric, 2006. : "The Textuality of Pleasure." ''New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation'' 37.3: 655-672.(narrative technique; relationship to reading; pleasure; compared to [[Gina Wilkins | Wilkins, Gina]]: ''Seductively Yours'' (2000) [[Harlequin_Temptation_701_-_800 | Harlequin Temptation #792]]) [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/new_literary_history/v037/37.3livingston.html Abstract and excerpt]

;Lois, Jennifer and Joanna Gregson, 2015. : "Sneers and Leers: Romance Writers and Gendered Sexual Stigma." ''Gender & Society'' 29.4: 459-483. [[http://gas.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/05/14/0891243215584603.abstract Abstract] and [http://teachmetonight.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/sneers-and-leers-sociologists-on.html some excerpts].]

;Lois, Jennifer and Joanna Gregson, 2018. : "Aspirational Emotion Work: Calling, Emotional Capital, and Becoming a 'Real' Writer." ''Journal of Contemporary Ethnography''. Online First 1 January 2018. [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0891241617749011 Abstract]

;Losano, Antonia, 2015. : "Sneaking It In at the End: Teaching Popular Romance in the Liberal Arts Classroom," ''Teaching Tainted Lit: Popular American Fiction in Today's Classroom'', ed. Janet G. Casey (Iowa City: U of Iowa P), pp. 77-88. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HnmJCgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP6&ots=_1DxPZrqfO&pg=PA80#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Lowery, Karalyne, 2018. : "The Militarized Shapeshifter: Authorized Violence and Military Connections as an Antidote to Monstrosity." ''University of Toronto Quarterly'' 87.1: 196-213. [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/689098 Abstract.]

;Lutz, Deborah, 2003. : “The Erotics of Ontology: Failed Presence in Heidegger and the Mass-Market Romance.” ''Comparative Literature and Culture'' 5.3, 2003. [http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol5/iss3/5/ Abstract and pdf.]

;Lutz, Deborah, 2006. :''The Dangerous Lover; Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative.''(Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press).[https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/24173/Lutz_T-S_Final.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y] [Includes a chapter on the contemporary historical romance]

;Lutz, Deborah, 2007. : 'The Haunted Space of the Mind: The Revival of the Gothic Romance in the Twenty-First Century.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 81-92.

;Lynch, Katherine E., Ruth E. Sternglantz, and Len Barot, 2012. : “Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2012/10/queering-the-romantic-heroine-where-her-power-lies-by-katherine-e-lynch-ruth-e-sternglantz-and-len-barot/]

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;Haddad, Emily A., 2007. : 'Bound to Love: Captivity in Harlequin Sheikh Novels.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 42-64.

;Haefner, Margaret J., 2009. : "Challenging the -isms: Gender and Race in Brockmann's Troubleshooters, Inc. Romance Novels", ''Journal of Media Sociology'' 1.3/4 (2009): 182-201.[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.461.4162&rep=rep1&type=pdf#page=52]

;Hagemann, Susanne, 1996. : "Gendering Places: [[Georgette Heyer]]'s Cultural Topography." ''Scotland to Slovenia: European Identities and Transcultural Communication. Proceedings of the Fourth International Scottish Studies Symposium''. Ed. Horst W. Drescher and Susanne Hagemann. Scottish Studies International 21. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1996. 187–199. [Reprinted in: ''Georgette Heyer: A Critical Retrospective''. Ed. Mary Fahnestock-Thomas. Saraland, AL: PrinnyWorld Press, 2001. 480–492.] **

;Hague, Euan, 2014. : “Mass Market Romance Fiction and the Representation of Scotland in the United States.” ''The Modern Scottish Diaspora: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives''. Ed. Murray Stewart Leith and Duncan Sim (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP): 171-190. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JpGlBgAAQBAJ&lpg=PR7&ots=wb_mTDikBD&lr&pg=PA171#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Hague, Euan and David Stenhouse, 2007. : "A very interesting place: representing Scotland in American romance novels, " in ''The Edinburgh companion to contemporary Scottish literature'' Ed. by Berthold Schoene-Harwood (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press): 354-361.

;Hains, Maryellen, 1989. : “Beauty and the Beast: 20th Century Romance?” ''Merveilles & contes'' 3: 75–83.** [The journal seems to go under the name [http://www.langlab.wayne.edu/marvelsHome/mcindfk.html ''Marvels & Tales''] now]

;Hall, Glinda Fountain, 2008. : "Inverting the Southern Belle: Romance Writers Redefine Gender Myths. " ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 41.1: 37-55.

;Hall, Glinda F., 2010. : ''The Creators of Women’s Popular Romance Fiction: The Authors Who Gave Women a Genre of Their Own''. [http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=7895&pc=9 Edwin Mellen Press.]

;Hallam, Julia, 2000. : ''Nursing the Image: Media, Culture and Professional Identity'' (London: Routledge). [See pages [http://books.google.com/books?id=zl-vibuIaMIC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q&f=false 62]-73 for discussion of Mills & Boon medical romances and changes in women's roles in the 1950s and 1960s and page 187 for a very brief summary about Mills & Boon romances in later decades.] [Excerpts available [http://books.google.com/books?id=7aRjbKJQNpkC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false here] and [http://books.google.com/books?id=zl-vibuIaMIC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false here].]

;Hamilton, Cristen, 2013. : “Vindicating the Historical Romance.” ''Plaza: Dialogues in Language and Literature'' 3.2: 140-156. [http://journals.tdl.org/plaza/index.php/plaza/article/view/7021 Abstract] and [http://journals.tdl.org/plaza/index.php/plaza/article/view/7021/pdf PDF]. [This journal only "publishes works by graduate students."]

;Hammill, Faye, 2003. : '''The Republic of Love'' and Popular Romance,' ''Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction'', ed. Edward Eden and Dee Goertz (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), pp. 61-83. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Y8GfXeH9AUEC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA61#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Hapgood, Lynne, 2005. : ''Margins of Desire: The Suburbs in Fiction and Culture, 1880-1925'' (Manchester: Manchester UP). [See Chapter 5, 'The feminine suburb/1: Women readers and romance fiction' and Chapter 6, 'The feminine suburb/2: [[Sophie Cole]], Alice Askew, [[Louise Gerard]], Mary Hamilton'. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mMdFEGZ33A8C&lpg=PP1&ots=vB7CH0vAkJ&dq=&pg=PA114#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt].]

;Harders, Robin, 2012. : 'Borderlands of Desire: Captivity, Romance, and the Revolutionary Power of Love,' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 133-152.

;Harris, Marlene, 2013. : "A New Breed of Romance." ''Library Journal'' 138.17: 49-49. ["Romance authors who find themselves publishing via both traditional contracts and the new world of the self-published are living a hybrid life"]

;Harris, Racheal, 2018. : “Really Romantic? Pirates in Romantic Fiction.” ''Pirates in History and Popular Culture,'' edited by Antonio Sanna (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company Publishing), pp. 109–119. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JXJuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA109&lpg=PA109#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Hashim, Ruzy Suliza, and Shahizah Ismail Hamdan. 2010. : "Facets of Women in Malay Romance Fiction." ''Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing'' 32, no. 1-2: 67-79.[http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1255&context=kunapipi]

;Hassencahl, Fran, 1980. : "Persecutors, Victims and Rescuers in Harlequin Romances." Paper presented at the combined Annual Meeting of the Midwest Popular Culture Association and the Midwest American Culture Association (Kalamazoo, MI, October 23-25, 1980). 20 pgs. ERIC document ED207086.

;Haynsworth, Leslie, 2008. : '[[Janet Evanovich]]', ''Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice'' 2.2/3. [Formerly at [http://www.teachingamericanlit.com/files/Microsoft_Word_-_TALTP-EvanovichJanetuse.pdf]. This link no longer works but a pdf of the entire issue can be downloaded from [http://www.cpcc.edu/taltp/archives/spring-summer-2008-2-2-3/spring_summer_2008_merged.pdf/at_download/file]].

;Hayton, Christopher J., and Sheila Hayton. 2012. : "The Girls in White: Nurse Images in Early Cold War Era Romance and War Comics." In ''Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns'', 129-145. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012.

;Hazen, Helen, 1983. : ''Endless Rapture; Rape, Romance, and the Female Imagination.'' New York:: Scribner's. (Chapter 1 - Romance Novels)

;Hee Chung, June, 2016. : 'Henry James's "The Velvet Glove" and the Iron Fist: Transatlantic Cultural Exchange and the Romance Tradition', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 225-239.

;Heinecken, Dawn, 1999. : 'Changing Ideologies in Romance Fiction', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 149-72.

;Heiss, Karin, 2015. : '14 Weeks of Love and Labour: Teaching Regency and Desert Romance to Undergraduate Students', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/14-weeks-of-love-and-labour-teaching-regency-and-desert-romance-to-undergraduate-studentsby-karin-heiss/] [Focus of the course was on "Georgette Heyer’s ''Bath Tangle'' (1955), E.M. Hull’s ''The Sheik'' (1919), and a recent Mills & Boon category romance, Marguerite Kaye's ''The Governess and the Sheikh'' (2011)"]

;Heller, Tamar, 1997. : 'Having It All: Consumption and Ideological Tension in an Innovative Romance Novel.' ''Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture'' 30.3:243-264. [The article focuses on ''Free Spirit'' by [[Fern Michael|Fern Michael]]]

;Herendeen, Ann, 2012. : “The Upper-Class Bisexual Top as Romantic Hero: (Pre)dominant in the Social Structure and in the Bedroom,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2012/10/the-upper-class-bisexual-top-as-romantic-hero-predominant-in-the-social-structure-and-in-the-bedroom-by-ann-herendeen/]

;Herendeen, Ann, 2016. : 'Having it Both Ways; or, Writing from the Third Perspective: The Revolutionary M/M/F Ménage Romance Novel', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 405-419.

;Hermes, Joke, 1992. : ‘Sexuality in Lesbian Romance Fiction’, ''Feminist Review'', 42: 49-66. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Yb2vlW3656sC&lpg=PA49&ots=THNcySvQzc&dq=%22some%20pulp%20sappho%22%20koski&pg=PA49 Excerpts]

;Hermes, Joke, 1992. : 'Entertainment or Enlightenment - Sexuality In Lesbian Romance Novels', ''Argument'', 34.3:389-402.

;Hess, Jonathan M., 2010. : ''Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity''. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. [See Chapter 3: "Middlebrow Culture in Pursuit of Romance: Love, Fiction, and the Virtues of Marrying In"] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dYlIwNRoNGEC&lpg=PA157&ots=zsKPocUVyX&pg=PA111#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Hey, Valerie, 1983. : ''The Necessity of Romance'', Women’s Studies Occasional Papers, 3 (Canterbury: University of Kent).

;Higashi, Sumiko, 2017. : 'Adapting Middlebrow Taste to Sell Stars, Romance, and Consumption', ''Feminist Media Histories'' 3.4 (2017): 126-161. [[http://fmh.ucpress.edu/content/3/4/126 Abstract] which mentions that ''Photoplay'' magazine, which began in 1911, "published serialized romance fiction that featured daring, unconventional modern heroines."]

;Hinnant, Charles H., 2003. : "Desire and the Marketplace: A Reading of Kathleen Woodiwiss's The Flame and the Flower," in ''Doubled Plots: Romance and History'', see above, pp. 147-164. [http://books.google.com/books?id=3B-byRPo2WMC&dq=&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=zfstjNM05P&sig=DTg9qdbOWddx4BwwPEZa4SUuHY0&hl=en&ei=_bnwSfmDMYKUjAfvlPW_DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#PPA147,M1 Excerpt]

;Hipsky, Martin, 2011. : ''Modernism and the Women’s Popular Romance in Britain, 1885–1925'' (Ohio University Press). [[http://www.ohioswallow.com/book/Modernism+and+the+Women%E2%80%99s+Popular+Romance+in+Britain%2C+1885%E2%80%931925 More details] and [http://teachmetonight.blogspot.com/2011/11/modernism-and-womens-popular-romance-in.html a blog post by Hipsky about the book].]

;Hirdman, Anja, 2016. : "Speaking through the flesh: Affective encounters, gazes and desire in Harlequin romances," ''MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research'' 32.61: 42-57. [http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/mediekultur/article/view/22382 Abstract and pdf]

;Holden, Stacy E. and Charity Tabol, 2015. : 'In Sickness and In Health: Representations of PTSD in Post-9/11 Romance Novels', ''albeit'' 2.1. [http://albeitjournal.com/in-sickness-and-in-health-representations-of-ptsd-in-post-911-romance-novels/]

;Holden, Stacy E., 2015. : 'Love in the Desert: Images of Arab-American Reconciliation in Contemporary Sheikh Romance Novels', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/love-in-the-desert-images-of-arab-american-reconciliation-in-contemporary-sheikh-romance-novelsby-stacy-e-holden/] [See also Megan Crane's response in the same issue of the journal. Details under Crane or [http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/stacy-holdens-love-in-the-desert-an-authors-responseby-megan-crane/ use this direct link]]

;Hollows, Joanne, 2000. : ''Feminism, Femininity and Popular Culture'' (Manchester: Manchester University Press). [[http://books.google.com/books?id=sXWjnG5LWO0C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA68#v=onepage&q=&f=false Chapter 4] is about "Reading Romantic Fiction."]

;Holmes, Diana, 2003. : 'Decadent Love: Rachilde and the Popular Romance', ''Dix-Neuf: Journal of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes'', 1: 16-28. [http://www.sdn.ac.uk/dixneuf/september03/Holmes/Decadent%20Love%20-%20Formatted.pdf pdf available here] [Holmes argues that Rachilde's work, particularly ''Le Dessous'' (1904), 'performs the feat of providing simultaneously the pleasures of romance and a derisive critique of the genre']

;Holmes, Diana, 2005. : "The Return to Romance: Love Stories in Recent French Women's Writing." ''Esprit Créateur'' 45, no. 1: 97-109.

;Holmes, Diana, 2006. : ''Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France; Love Stories.'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press). [http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199249848 Description] and [http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-924984-9.pdf pdf of the first chapter.] [http://books.google.com/books?id=7dQfAwHT6XEC Description and more excerpts.]

;Holmes, D. 2010. : "The comfortable reader: Romantic bestsellers and critical disdain." '' French Cultural Studies'' 21, (4): 287-296. [http://frc.sagepub.com/content/21/4/287.abstract Abstract.]

;Hopkins, Lisa, 2017/2018. : ‘Waltzing with Wellington, Biting with Byron: Heroes in Austen Tribute Texts’. ''Jane Austen and Masculinity''. Ed. Michael Kramp. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press. 173-189. [http://shura.shu.ac.uk/18145/ Abstract] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8S1BDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA173#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Hopkins, Lisa, 2018. : "Georgette Heyer: What Austen Left Out". ''After Austen: Reinventions, Rewritings, Revisitings''. Ed. Lisa Hopkins. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 61-79. [This chapter looks in detail at military metaphors/language used by Heyer, as well as her allusions to Austen.]

;Hubbard, Rita C., 1983. : 'The Changing-Unchanging Heroines and Heroes of Harlequin Romances, 1950-1979. in ''The Hero in Transition.'',ed. Ray B. Browne and Marshall W. Fishwick, (Bowling Green, OH: Popular), pp. 171-179. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&id=eP1y6zjqWucC&dq=&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=gG9wNZPwho&sig=YrmDc2hksnAKS1uHRMI1lbIcLNY&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA171,M1 Excerpt]

;Hubbard, Rita C., 1985. : 'Relationship Styles in Popular Romance Novels, 1950-1983', ''Communication Quarterly'', 33.2: 113-25.** Republished in ''Methods of Rhetorical Criticism: A Twentieth-Century Perspective'', ed. Bernard L. Brock, Robert L. Scott and James W. Chesebro, Third Edition, Revised, 1990 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press), pp. 223-233. [http://books.google.com/books?id=g9_oe6rGv9oC&lpg=PP1&dq=&pg=PA223#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Hubbard, Rita C., 1992. : 'Magic and Transformation: Relationships in Popular Romance Novels, 1950 to the 1980s', in ''Popular Culture: An Introductory Text'', ed. Kevin Lause & Jack Nachbar (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press), pp. 476-488. ** [http://books.google.com/books?id=BEkB2J-Wb4sC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA476#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [http://www.questia.com/read/101089968?title=Magic%20and%20Transformation%3a%20Relationships%20in%20Popular%20Romance%20Novels%2c%201950%20to%20the%201980s Abstract]. [In the excerpt it is stated that "A slightly different version of this essay appeared in ''Communication Quarterly'' 33 (Spring 1985)" (476). More precise bibliographical details for that item are given in the entry above this one.]

;Hughes, Helen, 1993. : '' The Historical Romance.'' (London:Routledge) [http://www.routledge.com/books/The-Historical-Romance-isbn9780415058124 Synopsis]. [http://books.google.com/books?id=cL0OAAAAQAAJ Abstract] and [http://books.google.com/books?id=FwEhzGDKZKYC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpts]

;Huntwork, Mary M., 1990. : "Why Girls Flock to Sweet Valley High." ''School Library Journal'' 36.3 : 137-140.

;Huq, Maimuna, 1999. : “From Piety to Romance: Islam-Oriented Texts in Bangladesh.” ''New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere'', ed. Dale F. Eickelman and Jon W. Anderson. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP), pp. 133-161. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Moh2l5d85OYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA129#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt from the 2003 edition, where it appears on pages 129-57.]

;Hurst, Rochelle, 2009. : “The Barrister’s Bedmate: Harlequin Mills & Boon and the Bridget Jones Debate” ''Australian Feminist Studies'' 24.62: 453-468. [Feminist critique of Harlequin Mills & Boons (especially a selection by [[Emma Darcy]]) and comparison with Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones novels. For a discussion of why many aspects of this essay's methodology are troubling, from an academic perspective, see [https://web.archive.org/web/20101220080559/http://www.readreactreview.com:80/2010/02/10/feminist-critique-of-romance-ur-doin-it-wrong/ this article] by Jessica at Read React Review].

==I==
;Iesue, Renata. 1990. : "Romance and Reality: Popular Writing by Nigerian Women." ''Commonwealth Essays and Studies'' 13, no. 1: 28-37.

;Illouz, Eva. 2014. : ''Hard-Core Romance: "Fifty Shades of Grey," Best-Sellers, and Society.'' Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

;Iqbal, Kundan, 2014. : "The impact of romance novels on women's sexual and reproductive health." ''Journal of Family Planning & Reproductive Health Care''. Margaret Jackson Prize Essay 2014. Published Online First: 17 July 2014. [http://jfprhc.bmj.com/content/early/2014/07/17/jfprhc-2014-100995.short Excerpt]

;Iwai, Gaku, 2015. : "Wartime Ideology in 'The Thimble': A Comparative Study of Popular Wartime Romance and the Anti-romance of D. H. Lawrence." ''Études Lawrenciennes'' 46.[http://lawrence.revues.org/236]

==J==

;Jackson, Cia, 2017. : "Harlequin Romance: The Power of Parody and Subversion." ''The Ascendance of Harley Quinn: Essays on DC's Enigmatic Villain''. Ed. Shelley E. Barba and Joy M. Perrin. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2017. 16-??. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zNg5DwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PT26#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [This is about how the DC comics parody romance novel conventions via the figure of Harley Quinn.]

;Jackson, Elaine, 2008. : '''Sievier’s Monthly'' (1909): Pseudonyms and Readership in Early Twentieth Century Popular Fiction,' ''Book Trade Connections from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries'', ed. John Hinks and Catherine Armstrong (Newcastle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press), pp. 245-???. [In the [http://www.oakknoll.com/resources/bookexcerpts/096655.pdf introduction to the volume] Catherine Armstrong writes that 'In the final chapter of this volume, Elaine Jackson explores the colourful publishing career of Marguerite Jervis, known variously under pseudonyms such as Countess Barcynska and Oliver Sandys. Her contributions of popular fiction to journals in the early twentieth century are surveyed, as are the techniques she used to convey sexually and politically suggestive material' (viii). In Jackson's PhD thesis she wrote about "the production and distribution of popular romance between the two World Wars" and focused on three authors, one of whom was Marguerite Jervis.]

;Jackson, Stevi, 1995. : 'Women and Heterosexual Love: Complicity, Resistance and Change', in ''Romance Revisited'' , ed. Jackie Stacey and Lynne Pearce (New York: New York UP), pp. 49-62.

;Jagodzinski, Mallory, 2014. : "We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: Reflecting Thirty Years after ''Reading the Romance''." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2.[http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/weve-come-a-long-way-baby-reflecting-thirty-years-after-reading-the-romanceby-mallory-jagodzinski/]

;Jarmakani, Amira, 2010. : '“The Sheik Who Loved Me”: Romancing the War on Terror', ''Signs'' 35.4: 993-1017. [http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/651044?journalCode=signs Abstract]

;Jarmakani, Amira. 2011. : "Desiring the Big Bad Blade: Racing the Sheikh in Desert Romances." ''American Quarterly'' 63, no. 4: 895-928. [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/american_quarterly/v063/63.4.jarmakani.html Abstract] [https://womensstudies.sdsu.edu/people/bios/docs/jarmakani/desiring%20big%20bad%20blade.pdf Pdf]

;Jarmakani, Amira, 2015. : ''An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror''. New York: New York UP, 2015. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=k5HwCQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [http://jprstudies.org/2016/07/review-an-imperialist-love-story-desert-romances-and-the-war-on-terror-by-amira-jarmakani/ See also the review by Heather Schell in the ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'']

;Jarvis, Christine, 1995. : 'Romancing the Curriculum: Empowerment through Popular Culture',''Convergence'', 28.3: 71-7. [http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=Romancing+the+Curriculum&searchtype=basic&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=kw&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&objectId=0900019b800fd401&accno=EJ515606&_nfls=false Abstract]

;Jarvis, Christine, 1999. : 'Love Changes Everything: The Transformative Potential of Popular Romantic Fiction', ''Studies in the Education of Adults'', 31.2:109-122. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/niace/stea/1999/00000031/00000002/art00002 Abstract]

;Jarvis, Christine, 2000. : 'Hungry Heroines: The Exploration of a "Generative Theme" in Romantic Fiction,' ''Consuming for Pleasure: Selected Essays on Popular Fiction'' ed. Julia Hallam and Nickianne Moody (Liverpool: Liverpool John Moores University; Association for Research in Popular Fictions), pp. 171-???.

;Jenkins, Jacqueline, 2004. : 'Reading Women Reading: Feminism, Culture, and Memory', ''Maistresse of My Wit: Medieval Women, Modern Scholars'', ed. Louise D'Arcens and Juanita Feros Ruys (Turnhout: Brepols), pp. 317-334. ["Jenkins first debates the fascinating possibility of a cultural memory, a number of shared common norms, conventions, and practices that would link the otherwise non-contiguous reading experiences of medieval and contemporary women. Drawing on the results of modern romance studies, she wonders if the otherwise forbidden self-realization of women through the reading of romances could not also be the cause of the popularity of vernacular devotional literature among high-status women in the Middle Ages. In the end, however, she considers the sobering possibility that she might have accepted the results of modern romance studies precisely because of her (formerly unrecognized) investment in attributing some form of resistance to the medieval women readers of devotional texts." ([https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/5967/05.02.16.html?sequence=1 Review by Richard Utz])]

;Jensen, Margaret Ann, 1984. : ''Love's $weet Return: The [[Harlequin]] Story'' (Toronto: Women's Educational Press, 1984). [[http://books.google.com/books?id=yQJUhW3lNVUC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPP1,M1 Excerpts] (possibly from different publisher, as details on Google Books say it was published by the Popular Press)]

;Joannou, Maroula, 2012. : ''Women's Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity: The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice, 1938-1962'' (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan). [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ok8vuVKHR50C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [See pages [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ok8vuVKHR50C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA75#v=onepage&q&f=false 75], [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ok8vuVKHR50C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA76#v=onepage&q&f=false 76], [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ok8vuVKHR50C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA77#v=onepage&q&f=false 77], [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ok8vuVKHR50C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA78#v=onepage&q&f=false 78], [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ok8vuVKHR50C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA79#v=onepage&q&f=false 79] and [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ok8vuVKHR50C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA80#v=onepage&q&f=false 80] for the section on [[Georgette Heyer]].]

;Johnson, Heather., 2017. : "Yorkshire English in Georgette Heyer's ''The Unknown Ajax''." ''Schwa: Language and Linguistics'' 14: 57-70. [http://schwa.byu.edu/files/2017/05/Schwa_14_Winter_2017.pdf#page=57]

;Johnson, Naomi R., 2010. : 'Consuming Desires: Consumption, Romance, and Sexuality in Best-Selling Teen Romance Novels', ''Women's Studies in Communication'' 33.1: 54-73. [http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a921878460 Abstract]

;Johnson, Valerie B., 2018. : "What a Canon Wants: Robin Hood, Romance Novels, and Carrie Lofty’s ''What a Scoundrel Wants''", ''Robin Hood and the Outlaw/ed Literary Canon'', ed. Lesley Coote and Alexander L. Kaufman. ???: Routledge, 2018. 184-??? [https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429810060/chapters/10.4324%2F9780429442766-14 Excerpt]

;Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E., 1999. : ' "I Am Not a Bimbo": Persona, Promotion, and the Fabulous Fabio', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 35-50. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ja_Ia-oZo4wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA35#v=onepage&q=&f=false Excerpt]

;Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E., 1999. : 'Leading Us into Temptation: The Language of Sex and the Power of Love', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 113-48. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ja_Ia-oZo4wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA113#v=onepage&q=&f=false Excerpt]

;Johnson-Woods, Toni, 2004. : ''Pulp: A Collector's Book of Australian Pulp Fiction Covers'' (Canberra: National Library of Australia). [http://books.google.com/books?id=wWU0w2gWfoIC&lpg=PA47&ots=DzPRIaAjl7&dq=&pg=PA47#v=onepage&q&f=false One chapter is on romance covers.]

;Johnson-Woods, T., 2005. : 'From Australia With Love: A History Of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels,' ''Australian Literary Studies,'' 22.1:119-120. [This is a book review of Juliet Flesch's book, listed elsewhere in this bibliography]

;Jones, Ann Rosalind, 1986. : ‘[[Mills and Boon|Mills & Boon]] Meets Feminism’, in ''The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction'', ed. Jean Radford (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul), pp. 195-218. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Sb4OAAAAQAAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA195#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Joshi, S. T. 2009. : ''Junk fiction: America's obsession with bestsellers.'' [Rockville, MD]: Borgo Press. Chapter on "Queens of romance: Danielle Steele, Barbara Taylor Bradford, and Nora Roberts." [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vD35eCfVGCsC&lpg=PP1&ots=pYTAywlfbU&dq=&pg=PA27#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Juhasz, Suzanne, 1988. : ‘Texts to Grow On: Reading Women’s Romance Fiction’, ''Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature'', 7:2: 239-259.

;Juhasz, Suzanne, 1998. : 'Lesbian Romance Fiction and the Plotting of Desire: Narrative Theory, Lesbian Identity, and Reading Practice', ''Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature'', 17.1: 65-82. [Rptd. in Ostrov Weisser, ''Women and Romance'', pp. 276-291. **]

==K==

;Kahn, Laurie, director, 2015. : ''Love Between the Covers''. Blueberry Hill Productions. [This is a documentary about popular romance fiction and a [http://jprstudies.org/2016/07/review-love-between-the-covers-produced-written-and-directed-by-laurie-kahn/ review of it by Beth Driscoll was published in the ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies''.]]

;Kaler, Anne K., 2000. : "Dysfunctional Detectives and Romantic P. I.s: Impediments to the Happy Marriage of Mystery and Romance." ''Clues: A Journal of Detection'', 21.1: 61-72.

;Kaler, Anne K., 1999. : 'Conventions of Captivity in Romance Novels', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 86-99. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ja_Ia-oZo4wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA86#v=onepage&q=&f=false Excerpt]

;Kaler, Anne K., 1999. : ' Hero, Heroine, or HERA: A New Name for an Old Problem', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 187-92. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ja_Ia-oZo4wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA187#v=onepage&q=&f=false Excerpt]

;Kamble, Jayashree, 2007. : 'Female Enfranchisement and the Popular Romance: Employing an Indian Perspective.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 148-173.

;Kamble, Jayashree, 2012. : 'Patriotism, Passion, and PTSD: The Critique of War in Popular Romance Fiction,' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 153-163.

;Kamble, Jayashree, 2013. : 'How to Tame a Dragon: Ten years after ''A Natural History of the Romance Novel''', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/how-to-tame-a-dragon-ten-years-after-a-natural-history-of-the-romance-novel-by-jayashree-kamble/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Kamble_RegisDragon.pdf as a pdf].]

;Kamble, Jayashree, 2014. : ''Making Meaning in Popular Romance Fiction: An Epistemology''. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/making-meaning-in-popular-romance-fiction-jayashree-kambl%E9/?K=9781137395047 Abstract] and [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uz9vBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Kamblé, Jayashree, 2016. : 'Branding a Genre: A Brief Transatlantic History of Romance Novel Cover Art', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 241-272.

;Kamble, Jayashree, 2017. : "From Barbarized to Disneyfied: Viewing 1990s New York City Through Eve Dallas, J.D. Robb’s Futuristic Homicide Detective." ''Forum for Interamerican Research'' 10.1 (May 2017): 72-86. [http://interamerica.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/0_fiar-Vol.-10.1-Capital-Crimes-in-the-Americas-Complete-Issue.pdf#page=72]

;Kanerick, Caroline, 2010. : " 'A Jazzed and Patchwork Modern': 'future' girls and modern masculinities in the early popular romances of Berta Ruck", ''Women's History Review'' 19.5: 685-702. [http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a929118395~db=all~jumptype=rss Abstract]

;Kania, Richard R. E., 2014. : "Pirates and Piracy in American Popular Culture." ''Romanian Journal of English Studies'' 11.1: 183–194. [http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/rjes.2014.11.issue-1/rjes-2014-0022/rjes-2014-0022.xml?format=INT Abstract and Pdf available here.] [Includes a section on "Daphné du Maurier and the Romance Novel Pirate"]

;Kapell, Matthew, and Suzanne Becker., 2005. : 'Patriarchy, the Christian Romance Novel, and the 'Ecosystem of Sex'.' ''Popular Culture Review'' 16.1:147-155.

;Kapila, Shuchi, 2010. : ''Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule'' (Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State UP). [https://ohiostatepress.org/Books/Book%20PDFs/Kapila%20Educating.pdf Excerpt]

;Kaplan, Deborah, 2012. : ' "Why would any woman want to read such stories?": The Distinctions Between Genre Romances and Slash Fiction,' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 121-132.

;Kebadze, Nino, 2009. : ''Romance and Exemplarity in Post-War Spanish Women's Narratives'' (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Tamesis). [[http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=11664 Abstract and link to excerpt]. Discusses novels by Luisa-María Linares, Concha Linares-Becerra, Carmen de Icaza and María Mercedes Ortoll.]

;Keegan, Faye, 2017. : "‘Snob Value’: Gender and Literary Value in Mary Stewart." ''Women: A Cultural Review'' 28:3: 240-261. [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09574042.2017.1355679 Abstract]

;Keen, Suzanne, 2018. : "Probable Impossibilities: Historical Romance Readers Talk Back." ''Style: A Quarterly Journal of Aesthetics, Poetics, Stylistics, and Literary Criticism,'' vol. 52, no. 1-2, 2018, pp. 127-132.[https://muse.jhu.edu/article/689266 Excerpt] [This is about readers of Diana Gabaldon's ''Outlander'' series, which is not necessarily considered to be composed of "romance novels".]

;Kelly, Brendan D., 2007. : “Medical Romance.” ''The Lancet'' 370.9597: 1482.

;Kelso, Sylvia, 1997. : 'Stitching Time: Feminism(s) and Thirty Years of Gothic Romance,' ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 164-179.

;Kemppinen, Anne, 1989. : “Translation for Popular Literature with Special Reference to Harlequin Books and their Finnish Translation”, in ''Empirical Studies in Translation and Linguistics'', Studies in Languages, nº 17, ed. Sonja Tirkkonen-Condit & Stephen Condit (Savonlinna: University of Joensuu, Faculty of Arts), pp. 25-36.**

;Kerr, Ashley Elizabeth, 2019. : “Indigenous Lovers and Villainous Scientists: Rewriting Nineteenth-Century Ideas of Race in Argentine Romance Novels”, ''Chasqui'' 48.1: 293-310. [https://search.proquest.com/openview/d4c56f1feacb03adcd0136a8f32d9353/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=27737 Excerpt.] [This is about three novels (written in 2005 and 2010) by Argentinian authors and set in the nineteenth century.]

;Killeen, Jarlath, 2018. : 'Nora Roberts: the Power of Love', in ''Twenty-First Century Popular Fiction'', ed. Bernice M. Murphy and Stephen Matterson (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), pp.53-65.

;Killing, Peter, 1978. : ''Harlequin Enterprises Limited: Case Material of the Western School of Business Administration'' (London, Ontario: University of Western Ontario). **

;King, Laura, 2015. : ‘The Perfect Man: Fatherhood, Masculinity and Romance in Popular Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain’, in ''Love and Romance in Britain, 1918-1970'', ed. Alana Harris and Timothy Willem Jones (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), pp.41–60. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vsCpBQAAQBAJ&lpg=PR7&ots=oeXrlFyNyT&pg=PA41#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Kitchen, Veronica, 2016. : "Veterans and Military Masculinity in Popular Romance Fiction." ''Critical Military Studies''. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23337486.2016.1235761 Abstract]

;Kloester, Jennifer V., 2004. : "Images of England: Georgette Heyer's Regency World in the Dominions," in ''Exploring the British World: Identity, Cultural Production, Institutions,'' Ed. Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw, Kiera Lindsey, and Stuart Mcintyre (Melbourne: RMIT Publishing): 598-608.[http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=873295189866956;res=IELHSS]

;Kloester, Jennifer, 2006. : "Georgette Heyer and the Great Jane," ''Sensibilities'' 32: 101-117. [http://www.jasa.net.au/sens/sensextjun06.htm#story9 Excerpt]

;Kohlman, Marla H. and Samantha N. Simpson, 2017. : "For the Sake of Hearth and Home: Gender Schematicity in the Romance Novel." ''Discourses on Gender and Sexual Inequality: The Legacy of Sandra L. Bem''. Ed. Marla H. Kohlman and Dana B. Krieg. Bingley, UK: Emerald, 2017. 115-128. [http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1108/S1529-212620170000023006 Abstract]

;Kokkola, L. 2011. : "Virtuous vampires and voluptuous vamps: Romance conventions reconsidered in Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" series." ''Children's Literature in Education'' 42.2 : 165-179.

;Koski, Patricia, Lori Holyfield, and [[Marcella Thompson]], 1997. : "Romance Novels as Women's Myths." ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 219-232.

;Kramer, Daniela & Moore, Michael, 2001. : ‘Gender Roles, Romantic Fiction and Family Therapy’, ''Psycoloquy'' 12,#24 [http://www.cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?12.024]

;Kramer, Daniela & Moore, Michael, 2001. : 'Family Myths in Romantic Fiction', ''Psychological Reports'', 88.1:29-41.[http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/pr0.2001.88.1.29?journalCode=prxa Abstract] [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12041102_Family_myths_in_romantic_fiction Source for an unpaginated version]

;Kramer, Kyra, 2011. : "Raising Veils and other Bold Acts: The Heroine's Agency in Female Gothic Novels." ''Studies in Gothic Fiction'' 1.2: 24-37. [http://studiesingothicfiction.weebly.com/uploads/2/2/8/8/22885250/sgf_oct_10.pdf Pdf of whole issue]. Kramer argues that "Female Gothic novels that have been written in the last thirty or so years are often labeled and sold as «romances» or «romantic suspense»" and focuses on a number of novels by [[Elizabeth Lowell]].]

;Kramer, Kyra, 2012. : 'Getting Laid, Getting Old, and Getting Fed: The Cultural Resistance of Jennifer Crusie’s Romance Heroines', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.2.[http://jprstudies.org/2012/04/getting-laid-getting-old-and-getting-fed-the-cultural-resistance-of-jennifer-crusies-romance-heroines-by-kyra-kramer/]

;Kray, Susan. 1987. : "Deconstructive Laughter: Romance Author as Subject, The Pleasure of Writing the Text." ''Journal of Communication Inquiry'' 11.2: 26-46. [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/019685998701100203 Excerpt]

;[[Jayne Ann Krentz|Krentz, Jayne Ann]], Ed. : [[Dangerous Men And Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance|''Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance'']] (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992). [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TRAoV_RN0CgC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false Contents and Excerpts via Google Books]

;Kress, Gunther, 1988. : “Textual Matters: The Social Effectiveness of Style.” ''Functions of Style''. Ed. David Birch and Michael O’Toole. London: Pinter Publishers. 126-141. [Kress exploration of style is "organized around (excerpts from) two texts: the first is part of an advertising brochure for medical practitioners, describing the drug Fluphenazine; the second is from a Mills and Boon novel, a doctor-nurse romance entitled ''A Candle In The Dark''" (127). More details are not given about this novel, but it seems likely that it is the one listed [[Mills and Boon Medical Romance 101 - 200|here]] as Doctor Nurse Romance #137 - ''A Candle In The Dark'' - Grace Read, November 1982.]

;Kroeg, Susan M. 2012. : "'Truly Our Contemporary Jane Austen': Thinking Like an Austen Fan about Regency Romances." ''Kentucky Philological Review'' 27, 50-58.

;Kundin, Susan G., 1985. : "Romance versus Reality: A Look at YA Romantic Fiction." ''Top of the News'' 41.4: 361-368.

;Kunne, Regina. 2015. : ''Eternally Yours - Challenge and Response: Contemporary US American Romance Novels by Jayne Ann Krentz and Barbara Delinsky''. Lit Verlag.

;Kustritz, Anne, 2003. : "Slashing the Romance Narrative." ''The Journal of American Culture'' 26.3: 371-384.[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1542-734X.00098/abstract Excerpt.]

;Kutzer, M. Daphne, 1986. : ""I Won't Grow up"—Yet: Teen Formula Romance." ''Children's Literature Association Quarterly'' 11.2: 90-95. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/childrens_literature_association_quarterly/summary/v011/11.2.kutzer.html Abstract]

;Kuznets, Lois and Eve Zarin, 1982. : "Sweet Dreams for Sleeping Beauties: Pre-Teen Romances." ''Children's Literature Association Quarterly'' 7.1: 28-32. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/childrens_literature_association_quarterly/summary/v007/7.1.kuznets.html Abstract]

==L==

;Labanyi, Jo, 2004. : 'Romancing the Early Franco Regime: the Novelas Románticas of Concha Linares-Becerra and Luisa-María Linares', ''Institute of European Studies: Occasional Papers'', Working Paper OP-13 (March 5, 2004). [http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4pw1d4j7]

;Lamprinou, Artemis, 2011. : “Translated Romances: the Effect of Cultural Textual Norms on the Communication of Emotions.” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%e2%80%9ctranslated-romances-the-effect-of-cultural-textual-norms-on-the-communication-of-emotions%e2%80%9d-by-artemis-lamprinou/]

;Lang, Miriam. 2003. : "Taiwanese Romance: San Mao and Qiong Yao." In ''The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature,'' 515-519. New York, NY: Columbia UP, 2003.

;Laquintano, Timothy, 2013. : "The Legacy of the Vanity Press and Digital Transitions," ''The Journal of Electronic Publishing'' 16.1.[http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0016.104] [This includes a description of Harlequin's attempt to set up Harlequin Horizons and the backlash against this proposed vanity press.]

;Larcombe, Wendy, 2005. : ''Compelling Engagements : Feminism, Rape Law and Romance Fiction.'' (Annandale, N.S.W. : Federation Press) [http://www.federationpress.com.au/bookstore/book.asp?isbn=1862875251 Description and Contents] and [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MWPgf55QUH0C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0 Excerpt via Google Books]

;Larrier, Renée. 2007. : "'Quand la lecture devient passion': Romance Novels and Literacy in Abidjan." In ''African Literatures at the Millennium,'' ed. Arthur D. Drayton, Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka & I. Peter Ukpokodu: 315-324. Trenton, NJ: Africa World.

;Larsen, Katherine, 2014. : "Radway Roundtable Remarks." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2.[http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/radway-roundtable-remarksby-katherine-larsen/]

;Lawrence, Kelli-an and Edward S. Herold, 1988. : "Women's Attitudes toward and Experience with Sexually Explicit Materials." ''Journal of Sex Research'' 24:161-169. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/3812830 Excerpt]

;Leavenworth, Maria Lindgren. 2009. : "Lover Revamped: Sexualities and Romance in the Black Dagger Brotherhood and Slash Fan Fiction." Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 50, no. 3: 442-462.

;Ledford-Miller, Linda, 2011. : 'Gender and Genre Bending: The Futuristic Detective Fiction of J.D. Robb.' ''Reconstruction'' 11.3.[http://reconstruction.eserver.org/113/Ledford-Miller_Linda.shtml]

;Lee, Amy, 2007. : 'Forming a Local Identity: Romance Novels in Hong Kong.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 174-197.

;Lee, Linda J., 2008. : 'Guilty Pleasures: Reading Romance Novels as Reworked Fairy Tales,' ''Marvels & Tales'', 22.1: 52-66. [http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/marvels/vol22/iss1/4/ Abstract]

;Lee, Zi-Ying and Min-Hsiu Liao, 2018. : 'The “Second” Bride: The Retranslation of Romance Novels'. ''Babel''. Published online first 27 August 2018. [http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/babel.00030.lee Abstract] and [https://pureapps2.hw.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/22925728/2018_Babel_The_retranslation_of_romance_novels.pdf full pre-publication version]

;Leedy, Helen, 1985. : 'The Portrayal of Women in Romance Novels, ''Michigan Sociological Review'' 1:61-71. **

;Lennard, John, 2007. : 'Of Pseudonyms and Sentiment: [[Nora Roberts]], J. D. Robb, and the Imperative Mood', ''Of Modern Dragons and other essays on Genre Fiction'', Tirril: Humanities-Ebooks, pp. 56-86. [The essay on Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb is [http://books.google.com/books?id=PuBlqzKuZYwC&lpg=PA1&ots=hc8stUMzrW&dq=&pg=PA56#v=onepage&q&f=false Chapter 3] of the book] [Another excerpt from the book, though not from this chapter, [http://www.humanities-ebooks.co.uk/files/pdf/Pages_from_LennardDragons.pdf is available via the publisher].]

;Lennard, John, 2010. : ''Of Sex and Faerie: Further Essays on Genre Fiction'', Tirril: Humanities-Ebooks. [Includes a chapter on "[[Lois McMaster Bujold]] and the Several Lives of Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan" and on [[Laurell K. Hamilton]]’s "Meredith Gentry’s Improbable Code of Orgasm and other Paranormal Romance."]

;Leonzini, Alexandra, 2018. : ‘“All the Better to Eat You With”: The Eroticization of the Werewolf and the Rise of Monster Porn in the Digital Age.’ ''Exploring the Fantastic: Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture''. Ed. Ina Batzke, Eric C. Erbacher, Linda M. Heß, Corinna Lenhardt. Bielefeld: transcript. 269-294. [“Starting her analysis with 19th-century horror fiction before moving to 20th-century films and 21-century romance and erotic literature, Leonzini traces the changes in the construction of the gendered and sexualized body of the figure of the werewolf” (12) and there is therefore quite a lot of reference to romance, which is deemed to have laid the groundwork for modern monster porn. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=usVTDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA269&lpg=PA269#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt].]

;Levina, Mariia, 2003-4. : "Readers of Mass Literature, 1994-200: From Paternalism to Individualism?" ''Russian Studies in Literature'' 40.1: 79-95. ["This article is based on surveys conducted throughout Russia by the Russian Center for Public Opinion Research (VTsIOM) in 1994, 1997, and 2000; on an analysis of approximately one hundred detective, adventure, and romance novels from Russian publishers’ most popular series; and on four years of market research for a leading Russian publishing house. That research involved, among other things, focus groups of, and in-depth interviews with, readers of romance and detective novels and expert opinion surveys distributed to booksellers (both wholesale and retail)" (79).]

;Liffen, Jane, 2008. : ""A very Glamorized Picture, that": Images of Scottish Female Herring Workers on Romance Novel Covers." ''Social Semiotics'' 18.3: 349-61. [http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1035-0330&volume=18&issue=3&spage=349 Abstract]

;Light, Alison. 1984. : ‘Returning to Manderley – Romance Fiction, Female Sexuality and Class’, ''Feminist Review'', 16: 7-25.

;Lindfors, Bernth, 1993. : "Romances for the Office Worker: Aubrey Kalitera and Malawi's White-Collar Reading Public" in ''Major Minorities: English Literatures in Transit'', ed. Raoul Granqvist (Amsterdam: Rodopi): pp. 77-88. [Sizeable excerpt available [http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=CC+11 via Rodopi's webpage]. Click on the "Google Preview" button. Using the link from the index within the book may take you to the beginning of the next essay in the volume. You may need to scroll back. This would appear to be almost identical to Lindfors, Bernth. 2002. : "Romances for the Office Worker: Aubrey Kalitera and Malawi's White-Collar Reading Public." In ''Readings in African Popular Fiction,'' 89-94. London, England: International African Institute with Indiana UP. It is stated there that the essay was also published in ''Loaded Vehicles: Studies in African Literary Media''. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 1996. pp. 73-90.]

;Linke, Gabriele, 1997.: "Local Color in Contemporary Harlequin and Silhouette Romances: Popular Imagery of the American South and West." ''Mid-Atlantic Almanack: The Journal of the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association'' 6: 14-30

;Linke, Gabriele, 1997. :"Contemporary Mass Market Romances as National and International Culture: A Comparative Study of Mills & Boon and Harlequin Romances." ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 195-213.

;Linke, Gabriele, 2000. : "Visions and Versions of Parenthood in British and American Series Romances". ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'', No. 6 (Spring 2000), 18-29.

;Litton, Joyce A., 1994. : 'From Seventeenth Summer to Miss Teen Sweet Valley: Female and Male Sex Roles in Teen Romances, 1942-91', in ''Images of the Child'', ed. Harry Eiss (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press), pp. 19-34. [http://books.google.com/books?id=R6d-0zUTtbsC&lpg=PA317&ots=n6SbOldnqA&dq=&pg=PA19#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Livingston, Eric, 2006. : "The Textuality of Pleasure." ''New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation'' 37.3: 655-672.(narrative technique; relationship to reading; pleasure; compared to [[Gina Wilkins | Wilkins, Gina]]: ''Seductively Yours'' (2000) [[Harlequin_Temptation_701_-_800 | Harlequin Temptation #792]]) [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/new_literary_history/v037/37.3livingston.html Abstract and excerpt]

;Lois, Jennifer and Joanna Gregson, 2015. : "Sneers and Leers: Romance Writers and Gendered Sexual Stigma." ''Gender & Society'' 29.4: 459-483. [[http://gas.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/05/14/0891243215584603.abstract Abstract] and [http://teachmetonight.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/sneers-and-leers-sociologists-on.html some excerpts].]

;Lois, Jennifer and Joanna Gregson, 2018. : "Aspirational Emotion Work: Calling, Emotional Capital, and Becoming a 'Real' Writer." ''Journal of Contemporary Ethnography''. Online First 1 January 2018. [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0891241617749011 Abstract]

;Losano, Antonia, 2015. : "Sneaking It In at the End: Teaching Popular Romance in the Liberal Arts Classroom," ''Teaching Tainted Lit: Popular American Fiction in Today's Classroom'', ed. Janet G. Casey (Iowa City: U of Iowa P), pp. 77-88. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HnmJCgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP6&ots=_1DxPZrqfO&pg=PA80#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Lowery, Karalyne, 2018. : "The Militarized Shapeshifter: Authorized Violence and Military Connections as an Antidote to Monstrosity." ''University of Toronto Quarterly'' 87.1: 196-213. [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/689098 Abstract.]

;Lutz, Deborah, 2003. : “The Erotics of Ontology: Failed Presence in Heidegger and the Mass-Market Romance.” ''Comparative Literature and Culture'' 5.3, 2003. [http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol5/iss3/5/ Abstract and pdf.]

;Lutz, Deborah, 2006. :''The Dangerous Lover; Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative.''(Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press).[https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/24173/Lutz_T-S_Final.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y] [Includes a chapter on the contemporary historical romance]

;Lutz, Deborah, 2007. : 'The Haunted Space of the Mind: The Revival of the Gothic Romance in the Twenty-First Century.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 81-92.

;Lynch, Katherine E., Ruth E. Sternglantz, and Len Barot, 2012. : “Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2012/10/queering-the-romantic-heroine-where-her-power-lies-by-katherine-e-lynch-ruth-e-sternglantz-and-len-barot/]

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==P==
;Pagliassotti, Dru, 2010. : 'Better than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction', ''Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre'', Ed. Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry & Dru Pagliassotti (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 59-83. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9vn7hjM2v4QC&lpg=PA79&pg=PA59#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt.]

;Pagliassotti, Dru, 2013. : "Love and the Machine: Technology and Human Relationships in Steampunk Romance and Erotica," in ''Steaming Into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology'', ed. Julie Anne Taddeo and Cynthia J. Miller (Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow), pp. 65-87. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bYmIZNOHInoC&lpg=PA43&ots=EllchlFAGD&pg=PA65#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Paige, Lori A., 2018. : ''The Gothic Romance Wave: A Critical History of the Mass Market Novels, 1960-1993''. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2018. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-YBvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Paizis, George, 1987. : '"Putting People First" or the contemporary romantic novel, critical discourse and ideology', ''La Chouette'', no 18, March: 38-46. [''[http://www.bbk.ac.uk/llc/forstudents/fs_fr/fr_lc La Chouette]'' is published by the Department of French, School of Languages, Linguistics and Culture, Birkbeck College, University of London] **

;Paizis, George, 1987. : 'That's Romance', ''Socialist Review'', July: 24. **

;Paizis, George, 1994-95. : 'Love, Ideology and Reality: the popular romantic novel and the reader', ''Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies'', 3: 357-68. **

;Paizis, George, 1998. : 'Category Romances - Translation, Realism and Myth', ''The Translator'', 4: 1-24. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13556509.1998.10799004 Abstract]

;Paizis, George, 1998. : ''Love and the Novel: The Poetics and Politics of Romantic Fiction'' (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan). [http://www.powells.com/biblio?show=HARDCOVER:NEW:0312215479:104.50#synopses_and_reviews Some details]

;Paizis, George, 2006. : "Category Romance in the Era of Globalization: The Story of Harlequin." ''The Global Literary Field.'' (Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars)pp. 126-151.

;Palmer, Paulina, 1998. : ‘Girl Meets Girl: Changing Approaches to the Lesbian Romance,’ in ''Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film'', ed. Lynne Pearce & Gina Wisker (London: Pluto), pp. 189-204.

;Parameswaran Radhika, 1999. : 'Western Romance Fiction as English-Language Media in Postcolonial India', ''Journal of Communication'', 49.3: 84-105. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&se=gglsc&d=96458480 Abstract]

;Parameswaran, Radhika, 2002. : 'Reading Fictions of Romance: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in Postcolonial India', ''Journal of Communication'', 52.4: 832-851. [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2002.tb02576.x?journalCode=jcom Abstract]

;Parnell, Claire, 2018. : ‘Models of Publishing and Opportunities for Change: Representations in Harlequin, Montlake and Self-Published Romance Novels.’ ''Australian Literary Studies'' 33.4.[https://www.australianliterarystudies.com.au/articles/models-of-publishing-and-opportunities-for-change-representations-in-harlequin-montlake-and-self-published-romance-novels]

;Pattee, Amy S., 2011. : ''Reading the Adolescent Romance: Sweet Valley High and the Popular Young Adult Romance Novel'' (New York: Routledge). [http://books.google.com/books?id=FC_LKiA94xUC&printsec=frontcover&cd=1&source=gbs_ViewAPI#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [http://jprstudies.org/2011/12/review-reading-the-adolescent-romance-sweet-valley-high-and-the-popular-young-adult-romance-novel-by-amy-s-pattee/ Review]

;Patterson, Janet, 1981. : 'Consuming Passion', ''Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly'', 11: 19-33. Reprinted in ''Fireworks: The Best of Fireweed'', Ed. Makeda Silvera (Toronto: The Women’s Press, 1986), pp. 69-82.**

;Patthey Chavez, GG, and L. Clare, M. Youmans,1996. : 'Watery passion: The struggle between hegemony and sexual liberation in erotic fiction for women.' ''Discourse and Society.'' 7.1: 77-106.

;Peabody, Rebecca, 2016. : 'Kara Walker: American Romance in Black and White', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 131-150. [This article can also be found, in slightly expanded form, in chapter 3, "American Romance in Black and White," of Peabody's ''Consuming Stories: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race'' (Oakland, California: California UP, 2016), pages 84-109. An [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3LIlDQAAQBAJ&lpg=PR1&pg=PA84#v=onepage&q&f=false excerpt is available online].]

;Pearce, Lynne, 2004. : "Popular Romance and Its Readers." in ''A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary.'' ed. Corinne Saunders, (Malden, MA: Blackwell) pp. 521-538.

;Pearce, Lynne, 2007. : '' Romance Writing.'' (Cambridge: Polity Press). Historical treatment looking at romance broadly. Does touch on popular romance, but it is not the whole focus of the book. [http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/id/Romance_Writing/9780745630052 Abstract]

;Pearce, Lynne, 2011. : "Romance and Repetition: Testing the Limits of Love." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%e2%80%9cromance-and-repetition-testing-the-limits-of-love%e2%80%9d-by-lynne-pearce/]

;Peaty, Gwyneth, 2015. : "Rock Hard: Gargoyles in Contemporary Gothic Romance." ''New Directions in 21st Century Gothic: The Gothic Compass''. Ed. Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Donna Lee Brien. New York, NY: Routledge. 54-70. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=lang_en&id=uGahCAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA54&ots=liW5yulIi4&sig=X4X_-HQpus8StmIP28xi2w0qZSk#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Pecora, Norma, 1999. : "Identity by design : the corporate construction of teen romance novels, " in ''Growing Up Girls: Popular Culture and the Construction of Identity.'' Ed. Mazzarella, Sharon R., and Norma Odom Pecora (New York: P. Lang), pp 49-86. ** [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=34675586 Excerpt]

;Pérez Casal, Inmaculada, 2016. : “Love in Times of Crisis: An Approach to Contemporary Romance Novels in Spain.” ''Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research'' 4.2: 62-70.[https://www.ucm.es/data/cont/docs/119-2017-01-02-JACLR%204.2.6.pdf]

;Pérez Casal, Inmaculada, 2018. : “Mass-market romance and the question of genre: N. Sparks, E. L. James and D. Gabaldon.” ''Oceánide'' 10. [http://oceanide.netne.net/articulos/art10-6.pdf]

;Pérez Casal, Inmaculada, 2018. : "The Romance Novel as ''Bildungsroman'' in the Works of Rosamunde Pilcher and Lisa Kleypas". ''Taking Stock to Look Ahead: Celebrating Forty Years of English Studies in Spain''. Ed. María Ferrández San Miguel and Claus-Peter Neumann. Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2018. 139-144.[https://aedean.org/wp-content/uploads/Celebrating-Forty-Years-of-English-Studies-in-Spain.pdf#page=139]

;Pérez‐Gil, María del Mar, 2018. : "Exoticism, Ethnocentrism, and Englishness in Popular Romance Fiction: Constructing the European Other". ''Journal of Popular Culture''. Published online first 19 July 2018. [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jpcu.12710?af=R Excerpt] [Focuses on the Spanish "Other" in the English imagination.]

;Pérez-Gil, María del Mar, 2018. : "Representations of Nation and Spanish Masculinity in Popular Romance Novels: The Alpha Male as “Other”", ''The Journal of Men’s Studies''. Online First September 23, 2018. [https://doi.org/10.1177/1060826518801531 Abstract]

;Pettigrew Brackett, Kim, 2000. : “Facework Strategies among Romance Fiction Readers.” ''Social Science Journal'' 37.3: 347-360.

;Philadelphoff-Puren, Nina, 2005. : "Contextualising Consent: The Problem of Rape and Romance." ''Australian Feminist Studies'' 20.46: 31-42.

;Philadelphoff-Puren, Nina, 2004. : "The Mark of Refusal: Sexual Violence and the Politics of Recontextualization." ''Feminist Theory'' 5.3: 243–256. [http://fty.sagepub.com/content/5/3/243.abstract Abstract]

See also Puren, below.

;Philips, Deborah, 1985. : 'Marketing Moonshine', ''Women's Review'' 2 (December): 16-17. **

;Philips, Deborah, 1990. : 'Mills and Boon: The Marketing of Moonshine,' in ''Consumption, Identity, and Style: Marketing, Meanings, and the Packaging of Pleasure'', ed. Alan Tomlinson (London: Routledge), pp. 139-52. [http://books.google.com/books?id=PvAfLS2QnMwC&pg=RA1-PA139&lpg=RA1-PA139&dq=Deborah+philips+%22marketing+of+moonshine%22&source=web&ots=j6M_s4okbY&sig=zPi4ByZJjzoFXEuJHOq3fUN1UrM Excerpt here.]

;Philips, Deborah, 2000. : 'Shopping for Men: The Single Woman Narrative', ''Women: a Cultural Review'', 11.3: 238-251. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/search/article?title=philips+shopping+for+men&title_type=tka&year_from=1998&year_to=2005&database=1&pageSize=20&index=1 Abstract]

;Philips, Deborah. 2012. : "The Empire of Romance: Love in a Postcolonial Climate." In ''End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945,'' Ed. Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz. 114-133. Manchester, England: Manchester UP, 2012.

;Philips, Deborah. Forthcoming. : "Fifty Shades of Romance." ''International Journal of Cultural Studies''. [https://cris.brighton.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/5900241/palma_50_shades.pdf Manuscript version]

;Philips, Deborah. Forthcoming. : "In defence of reading trash: feminists reading the romance." ''European Journal of Cultural Studies''. [https://cris.brighton.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/506061/In+defence+of+reading+trash+%283%29.pdf Manuscript version]

;Popova, Milena, 2018. : "Rewriting the Romance: Emotion Work and Consent in Arranged Marriage Fanfiction". ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 7. [http://jprstudies.org/2018/07/rewriting-the-romance-emotion-work-and-consent-in-arranged-marriage-fanfictionby-milena-popova/]

;Postma, Kathlene, 1999. : 'American Women Readers Encounter Turkey in the Shadow of Popular Romance', ''Journal of American Studies of Turkey'', 9: 71-82. [http://www.os-ar.com/modules.php?name=Encyclopedia&op=content&tid=501722 Online, unpaginated version.] [The novel under discussion, 'Demetra Vaka's In the Shadow of Islam, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1911', is discussed in the context of the conventions of the romance novel, though it subverts them.]

;Potter, Jane, 1997. : '"A great purifier": The Great War in Women's Romances and Memoirs 1914-1918', ''Women's Fiction and The Great War'', ed. Suzanne Raitt and Trudi Tate (Oxford: Oxford UP), pp. 85-106. [http://books.google.com/books?id=-ikIQ4Zn_XkC&lpg=PP1&ots=PujRPYZru6&dq=&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [The romance authors discussed are Berta Ruck and Ruby M. Ayres.]

;Potter, Jane, 2005. : ''Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918'' (Oxford: Oxford UP). [[http://books.google.com/books?id=VMvwcIQdBZUC&lpg=PP1&ots=rVjglQJVbV&dq=&pg=PA88#v=onepage&q&f=false Chapter 3] is titled "'Putting Things in Their Right Places': The War in Romance Novels" and it considers "only a fraction of the hundreds of 'light fiction' books published between 1914 and 1918: ''My Heart's Right There'' (1914) by Florence Barclay, ''Khaki and Kisses'' (1915) by Berta Ruck, ''Richard Chatterton V. C.'' (1915) by Ruby M. Ayres, ''A Girl Munition Worker'' (1917) by Bessie Marchant, ''Before the Wind'' (1918) by Janet Laing, and ''Good Old Anna'' (1915) by Marie Belloc Lowndes" ([http://books.google.com/books?id=VMvwcIQdBZUC&lpg=PP1&ots=rVjglQJVbV&dq=&pg=PA90#v=onepage&q&f=false 90]).] [http://books.google.com/books?id=VMvwcIQdBZUC&lpg=PP1&ots=rVjglQJVbV&dq=&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Potter, Jane, 2015. : "‘Khaki and Kisses’: Reading the Romance Novel in the Great War." ''Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives''. Ed. Shafquat Towheed and Edmund G. C. King. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 29-44. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jZyhCgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PT45#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Powley, Tammy, 2015. : "Romance Fiction in Florida: The Crisscross of Jane Austen and Angela Hunt." ''Women of Florida Fiction: Essays on 12 Sunshine State Writers''. Ed. Tammy Powley and April Van Camp. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. 123-132. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=lang_en&id=Fvm2BQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA123#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Press, Andrea L., 1986. : 'New Views on the Mass Production of Women's Culture', ''Communication Research'' 13.1: 139-149. [Review essay on Radway's ''Reading the Romance'', Modleski's ''Loving with a Vengeance'' and two books on soap operas.] [http://crx.sagepub.com/content/13/1/139.extract Excerpt].

;Priest, Hannah. 2018. : “Sparkly Vampires and Shimmering Aliens: The Paranormal Romance of Stephenie Meyer.” ''Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction,'' edited by Bernice M. Murphy and Stephen Matterson, Edinburgh University Press, 2018, pp. 182–192

;Proctor, Candice, 2007. : 'The Romance Genre Blues or Why We Don't Get No Respect.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 12-19.

;Puente, Sonia Núñez. 2008.: "The romance novel and popular culture during the early Franco regime in Spain: towards the construction of other discourses of femininity." ''Journal of Gender Studies'' 17, no. 3: 225-236.

;Purdie, Susan, 1992. : 'Janice Radway, Reading the Romance', in ''Reading into Cultural Studies'' ed. Martin Barker and Anne Beezer, (London: Routledge), pp. 148-64.

;Puren, Nina, 1995. : 'Hymeneal Acts: Interrogating the Hegemony of Rape and Romance', ''Australian Feminist Law Journal'' 5: 15-26. [Mentions [[Charlotte Lamb]]'s ''The Sex War'', London: Mills and Boon, 1988.]

;Puri, Jyoti, 1997. : ‘Reading Romance Novels in Postcolonial India’, ''Gender & Society'', 11.4: 434-452. [http://gas.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/4/434?ck=nck Abstract]

==Q==

;Quilliam, Susan, 2011. : ' “He seized her in his manly arms and bent his lips to hers…”. The surprising impact that romantic novels have on our work', ''Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care'' 37.3: 179-181. [http://jfprhc.bmj.com/content/37/3/179.extract Excerpt] [http://press.psprings.co.uk/JFPRH/july/JFPRH1100152.pdf PDF]

==R==

;Rabine, Leslie, 1985. : ''Reading the Romantic Heroine: Text, History, Ideology'', (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press).** [This is described in Williams and Freedman as a "study of the romantic quest from Tristan and Isolde to the Harlequin novel" (145). A chapter each is devoted to the Tristan/Isolde legend, Prévost's ''Manon Lescaut'', Stendhal's ''The Red and the Black'', Charlotte Brontë's ''Shirley'', Alain-Fournier's ''Big Meaulnes'' and Harlequin romances.]

;Rabine, Leslie W., 1985. : ‘Romance in the Age of Electronics: Harlequin Enterprises’, ''Feminist Studies'' 11.1: 39-60. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/3180131 Excerpt]

;Radford, Jean, 1992. : "A Certain Latitude: Romance as Genre." in ''Gender, Language, and Myth: Essays and Popular Narrative.'' ed. Glenwood Irons, (Toronto: U of Toronto P), pp. 3-19.

;Radhika, P., 2004-2005. : "Narratives of Fractured Conjugality: Women’s Romance Novels in Kannada, 1950s-1960s." ''Journal of Karnataka Studies'' 2.1.[http://journalofkarnatakastudies.org/JKS/articles-pdf/JKS%20200411%20to%20200504%20Article%20%284%29.pdf PDF] [As might be deduced from the title, not all of the novels under discussion are "romances" with happy endings: "As is characteristic of all romance novels, the formation of a couple as constituent of romantic love also figures in the post-50s women‘s novels. However, in contrast to the earlier women‘s novels, what is dramatised in the novels of Indira, Triveni, Vani and Anupama is that they significantly articulate the fracturing of the conjugal space and, except for the novels of Anupama (which I will discuss later), have tragic endings." (9)]

;Radhika, P., 2014. : "Inaugurating a (Feminine) Public: Women’s Romances in Kannada, 1950s–1960s." ''Indian Journal of Gender Studies'' 21.1 (2014): 85-110. [http://ijg.sagepub.com/content/21/1/85.short Abstract]

;Radick, Caryn, 2016. : "Romance Writers’ Use of Archives." ''Archivaria, the Journal of the Association of Canadian Archivists'' 81: 45-73. [http://journals.sfu.ca/archivar/index.php/archivaria/article/view/13558 Abstract]

;Radner, Hilary, 1995. : ''Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure'' (New York: Routledge). [See Chapter 3, 'A Dream of Thee,' pages 67-104, which has two sections: 'The Erotic Gag: Reading the Category Romance' and 'Alibis and Cover Stories: Pornography, History, Race, and the Category Romance'.] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LFBy0zINhtkC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA67#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Radway, Janice, 1981. : 'The Utopian Impulse in Popular Literature: Gothic Romances and "Feminist" Protest', ''American Quarterly,'' 33.2 (Summer, 1981): 140-162. [First page available [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0678(198122)33%3A2%3C140%3ATUIIPL%3E2.0.CO;2-2 here]]

;Radway, Janice A, 1982. : 'The Aesthetic in Mass Culture: Reading and the 'Popular' Literary Text', ''Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, Festschrift in Honor of Felix Vodicka'', Ed. Peter Steiner and Ronald Vroon (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, B.V.), pp. 397-429. [Excerpt available from [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TdksXiP6WwQC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA397#v=onepage&q&f=false here]]. [Takes gothic romances as examples.]

;Radway, Janice A., 1983. : ‘Women Read the Romance: The Interaction of Text and Context’, ''Feminist Studies'', 9.1: 53-78. [First page available [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0046-3663(198321)9%3A1%3C53%3AWRTRTI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7 here]] [Rptd. in Ostrov Weisser, ''Women and Romance'', pp. 323-341. **]

;Radway, Janice A., 1984. : 'Interpretive Communities And Variable Literacies: The Functions Of Romance Reading', ''Daedalus'', 113.3:49-73.

;Radway, Janice A., 1991. : ''Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press). First published in 1984. The 1991 edition contains a new introduction by the author.

;Radway, Janice, 1994. : 'Romance and the Work of Fantasy: Struggles over Feminine Sexuality and Subjectivity at Century's End', in ''Viewing, Reading, Listening: Audiences and Cultural Reception'', ed. Jon Cruz and Justin Lewis (Colorado: Westview Press), pp. 213-31. Reprinted in ''Feminism and Cultural Studies'', ed. Morag Shiach (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 395-???. **

;Rani, Mohd. Zariat Abdul, 2012. : "Islam, Romance and Popular Taste in Indonesia." ''Indonesia and the Malay World: '' 40.116 (2012): 59-73. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13639811.2011.648998 Abstract]

;Rani, Mohd Zariat Abdul, 2014. : "The conflict of love and Islam: the main ingredients in the popular Islamic novels of Malaysia." ''South East Asia Research'' 22.3: 417-433. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ip/sear/2014/00000022/00000003/art00008 Abstract] [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ip/sear/2014/00000022/00000003/art00008?crawler=true]

;Rapp, Adrian, Dodgen, Lynda, and Anne K. Kaler, 2000. : "A Romance Writer Gets Away with Murder." ''Clues: A Journal of Detection'' 21.1: 17-21.

;[[Alicia Rasley|Rasley, Alicia]], 1999. :'Paradox in Balance: Some Feminist Themes in Romance', originally published in ''North American Romance Writers'', see above.[http://www.sff.net/people/alicia/artparadox.htm]

;Raub, Patricia, 1992. : "Issues of Passion and Power in E. M. Hull's ''The Sheik''." ''Women's Studies'', 21: 119-128.

;[[Diana Reep|Reep, Diana]], 1982: ''[[The Rescue And Romance: Popular Novels Before World War I]]'', Bowling Green Sate University Popular Press.

;Reeves, Anne R., 2004. : 'Rosa: Fiction as Therapy,' ''Adolescents Talk About Reading: Exploring Resistance to and Engagement with Text''. International Reading Association. 107-156. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FoByTSK_vb8C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA107#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [This chapter of the book explores reading for "escape" through the experiences of Rosa, who "was especially expert in reading romance novels and proud of her expertise" (107) and whose reading allowed her to "dwell on her own troubles, but at a distance made safe by the intervening presence of the story with the happy ending" (115).]

;Regan, Lisa. 2017. : "Women and the 'War Machine' in the Desert Romances of E. M. Hull and Rosita Forbes." ''Women's Writing'', vol. 24, no. 1, Feb. 2017, pp. 109-122. DOI: 10.1080/09699082.2016.1233773 [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09699082.2016.1233773?journalCode=rwow20 Abstract]

;Regis, Pamela, 1997. : 'Complicating Romances and Their Readers: Barrier and Point of Ritual Death in Nora Roberts's Category Fiction.' ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2:145-154.

;Regis, Pamela, 2003. : ''A Natural History of the Romance Novel'' (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press). [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=juPQyVJrsFAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0 Excerpt] [The book is the subject of a Roundtable section in the [http://jprstudies.org/issues/issue-3-2/ ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 (2013)].]

;Regis, Pamela, 2011. : "Female genre fiction in the twentieth century." ''The Cambridge History of the American Novel''. Ed. Leonard Cassuto, Clare Virginia Eby and Benjamin Reiss. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 847-60. [The chapter includes "a definition of the romance novel, some categories to advance its literary analysis, and a first effort to place it in literary history, especially in foundational relation to the sentimental literature of the nineteenth century" (848). It also includes analysis of "seven twentieth-century American romances" (848), among which are [[Kathleen Woodiwiss]]'s ''The Flame and the Flower'', [[Jennifer Crusie]]'s ''Bet Me'', [[Beverly Jenkins]]'s ''Indigo'', [[Ann Herendeen]]'s ''Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander'', and [[Nora Roberts]]' ''Irish Thoroughbred''.] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4ZEPkIzETb0C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA848#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt.]

;Regis, Pamela, 2011. : “What Do Critics Owe the Romance? Keynote Address at the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%E2%80%9Cwhat-do-critics-owe-the-romance-keynote-address-at-the-second-annual-conference-of-the-international-association-for-the-study-of-popular-romance%E2%80%9D-by-pamela-regis/] [There is [http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%E2%80%9Cmatricide-in-romance-scholarship-response-to-pamela-regis%E2%80%99-keynote-address-at-the-second-annual-conference-of-the-international-association-for-the-study-of-popular-romance%E2%80%9D/ a response by An Goris] in the same issue of ''JPRS''].

;Regis, Pamela, 2013. : 'Ten Years After ''A Natural History of the Romance Novel'': Thinking Back, Looking Forward', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/ten-years-after-a-natural-history-of-the-romance-novel-thinking-back-looking-forward-by-pamela-regis/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Regis_ThinkingBack.pdf as a pdf].]

;Regis, Pamela, 2016. : '''Pamela'' Crosses the Atlantic; or, Pamela Andrews's Story Inaugurates the American Romance Novel', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp.25-40. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eAckDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT9&ots=aa7Bfg37EE&lr&pg=PT38#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Reid Boyd, Elizabeth, 2014. : 'Romancing feminism: From women’s studies to women’s fiction.' ''Australasian Journal of Popular Culture'' 3.3: 263-272. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/ajpc/2014/00000003/00000003/art00002 Abstract] [https://www.academia.edu/9400026/Romancing_Feminism_From_Womens_Studies_to_Womens_Fiction Text]

;Rholetter, Wylene, 2008. : '[[Nora Roberts]]', ''Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice'' 2.2/3. [Formerly at [http://www.teachingamericanlit.com/files/Microsoft_Word_-_TALTP-RobertsNora.pdf]. This link no longer works but a pdf of the entire issue can be downloaded from [http://www.cpcc.edu/taltp/archives/spring-summer-2008-2-2-3/spring_summer_2008_merged.pdf/at_download/file]].

;Ricker-Wilson, Carol, 1999. : ‘Busting Textual Bodices: Gender, Reading, and the Popular Romance’, ''English Journal'', 88:3: 57-64. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/821580 Excerpt]

;Rix, Robert W., 2009. : '“Love in the Clouds”: [[Barbara Cartland]]’s Religious Romances', ''The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture'' 21.2. [http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/c935l2276u264262/ Excerpt] [http://web.archive.org/web/20091119103047/http://www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc/art21%282%29-LoveClouds.html Archived version]

;Roach, Catherine, 2010. : 'Getting a Good Man to Love: Popular Romance Fiction and the Problem of Patriarchy', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 1.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2010/08/getting-a-good-man-to-love-popular-romance-fiction-and-the-problem-of-patriarchy-by-catherine-roach/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/JPRS1.1_Roach_GettingGoodMantoLove.pdf as a pdf].]

;Roach, Catherine, 2014. : '“Going Native”: Aca-Fandom and Deep Participant Observation in Popular Romance Studies', ''Mosaic'' 47.2: 33-49. [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/mosaic/v047/47.2.roach.html Abstract and excerpt]

;Roach, Catherine M., 2016. : 'Love as the Practice of Bondage: Popular Romance Narratives and the Conundrum of Erotic Love', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 369-387.

;Roach, Catherine M., 2016. : ''Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture'' (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press).[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gmSjCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth, 2002. : 'Meet Jessica and Elizabeth from Sweet Valley: Who Are the Female Role Models in Popular Romance Novels for Children?', Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (New Orleans, LA, April 1-5, 2002). 21 pgs. ERIC document ED470819.

;Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth, 2010. : "Twenty-five years and counting of Sweet Valley: Jessica and Elizabeth in romance novels for young children?" ''Journal of Research in Childhood Education'' 24.2:123-139. [[http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a920286976~db=all~jumptype=rss Abstract] and [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-245951985.html excerpt].]

;Robinson, Lillian S., 1978. : 'Reading Trash', in ''Sex, Class, and Culture''. Ed. Lillian S. Robinson (Bloomington: Indiana University Press), pp. 200-222. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=090OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA200&lpg=PA200&dq=&source=bl&ots=n_LIlJbPtt&sig=HeERqJr9uAX6Oj7OGEBuJrgNfcg&hl=en&ei=NprSSfPVKdvN-Qa6kvy1BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA200,M1 Excerpt from a later edition] ["Most of this essay will be focused on a contrast between the works of [[Jane Austen]] and those of [[Georgette Heyer]]" (202)]

;[http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=101551297 Romantic Conventions], 1999. : Anne K. Kaler and Rosemary E. Johnson-Kurek, eds. (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press). [Preview of parts of this available [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ja_Ia-oZo4wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=&f=false via Google Books].]

;Rosanowski, Annika, 2019. : "Can She Have It All? Pregnancy Narratives in Contemporary Category Romance", ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 8 (2019). [http://jprstudies.org/2019/03/can-she-have-it-all-pregnancy-narratives-in-contemporary-category-romanceby-annika-rosanowski/]

;Rose, Suzanna, 1985. : "Is Romance Dysfunctional?." ''International Journal of Women's Studies'', 8.3: 250-265. ["Argues that among the forces that shape desire in women and men are the depictions of relationships and sexual expression in popular fiction. [...] It is contended that by encompassing primarily the courtship phase of relationships, the scripts provide little guidance relevant to maintaining long-term relationships."] [http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1986-17217-001 Abstract][http://myweb.fiu.edu/srose/wp-content/uploads/sites/127/2014/08/1985-Rose-IsRomanceDysfunctional-1.pdf pdf]

;Ross, Catherine Sheldrick. 2009. : "Reader on Top: Public Libraries, Pleasure Reading, and Models of Reading." ''Library Trends'' 57.4: 632-656. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lib/summary/v057/57.4.ross.html Abstract.] [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Catherine_Ross3/publication/236705306_Reader_on_Top_Public_Libraries_Pleasure_Reading_and_Models_of_Reading/links/0c960528e844b446cf000000/Reader-on-Top-Public-Libraries-Pleasure-Reading-and-Models-of-Reading&hl=en&sa=X&scisig=AAGBfm1BzGHzUwyFEy2rBdDKyEKkBvmKMQ&nossl=1&oi=scholaralrt Unpaginated version.]

;Ross, Marlon B., 2013. : " 'What’s Love But a Second Hand Emotion?': Man-on-Man Passion in the Contemporary Black Gay Romance Novel." ''Callaloo'' 36.3 (2013): 669-687. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/callaloo/v036/36.3.ross.html Excerpt]. [There's a short summary [http://www.vivanco.me.uk/blog/post/black-gay-romance here].]

;Rudisill, Kristen, 2018. : “Full-Blooded Desi Romance: Contemporary English-Language Romance Novels in India.” ''Journal of Popular Culture''. vol. 51, no. 3, June 2018, pp. 754-775. Online First. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.12652/full Excerpt]

;Ruggiero, Josephine A. and Louise C. Weston. : 'Sex-Role Characterization of Women in "Modern Gothic Novels"', ''Pacific Sociological Review'' 20: 279-300. **

;Ruggiero, Josephine A. and Weston, Louise C., 1983. : 'Conflicting Images Of Women In Romance Novels', ''International Journal of Women's Studies'', 6.1:18-25.

;Russ, Joanna, 1973. : 'Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic', ''Journal of Popular Culture'', 6.4: 666-691.

;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : ‘Amongst Women: Male Romance Authors and Irish Chick Lit Author, Andrew O’Connor’, ''The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture'' 1.2: 209-225. [http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=11989/ Abstract]

;Ryder, Mary Ellen, 1999. : 'Smoke and mirrors: Event patterns in the discourse structure of a romance novel', ''Journal of Pragmatics'', 31.8: 1067-1080. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VCW-3X6BRT2-6&_user=10&_coverDate=08%2F31%2F1999&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=04a8b80871ea922fecd7d9ba3a6b26c9 Abstract] ** [Analysis focuses on "the climax of a novel by [[Barbara Cartland]]."]

==S==

;Sales, Roger, 1999. : "The Loathsome Lord and the Disdainful Dame: Byron, Cartland and the Regency Romance." in ''Byromania: Portraits of the Artist in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Culture.'' ed. Frances Wilson, (Basingstoke, England; New York, NY: Macmillan; St. Martin's) pp. 166-183.

;Salmon, Catherine and Donald Symons, 2003. : ''Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution and Female Sexuality'' (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press). ** [http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300093544 Abstract] ["The stark contrasts between romance novels and pornography underscore how different female and male erotic fantasies are. These differences reflect human evolutionary history [...]. The authors focus particular attention on slash fiction [...] [and] argue that—despite some differences—slash fiction has much in common with romance novels."]

;Salmon, Catherine, 2012. : "The Pop Culture of Sex: An Evolutionary Window on the Worlds of Pornography and Romance." ''Review of General Psychology'' 16.2: 152-60. [http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/gpr/16/2/152/ Abstract]

;Salmon, Catherine, 2016. : "What Do Romance Novels, Pro Wrestling, and Mack Bolan Have in Common?: Consilience and the Pop Culture of Storytelling." ''Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences''. Ed. Joseph Carroll, Dan P. McAdams and Edward O. Wilson. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016. 167-182. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tUUnDAAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA167#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;[[Barbara Samuel|Samuel, Barbara]], 1997. : "The Art of Romance Novels." ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 78-80.

;Sanders, Lise Shapiro, 2006. : ''Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920''. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.[https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/6327/Sanders_T-S_Final.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y] [See Chapters 3 and 4 on "The Failures of the Romance: Boredom and the Production of Consuming Desires" and "Imagining Alternatives to the Romance: Absorption and Distraction as Modes of Reading."]

;Sanders, Lise Shapiro, 2018. : "Making the Modern Girl: Fantasy, Consumption, and Desire in Romance Weeklies of the 1920s". ''Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period''. Ed. Catherine Clay, Maria DiCenzo, Barbara Green, and Fiona Hackney. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TIJ8DwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PT181#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Santaulària, Isabel, 2002. : "The Fallacy of Eternal Love: Romance, Vampires and the Deconstruction of Love in [[Linda Lael Miller]]'s ''Forever and the Night'' and ''For All Eternity''." in ''The Aesthetics of Ageing: Critical Approaches to Literary Representations of the Ageing Process.'' Ed. Maria O’Neill and Carmen Zamorano Llena (Lleida, Spain: Universitat de Lleida), pp. 111-126.

;Schalk, Sami, 2016. : "Happily Ever After for Whom? Blackness and Disability in Romance Narratives." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 49.6: 1241–1260. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.12491/abstract Excerpt]

;Schell, Heather, 2007. : "The Big Bad Wolf: Masculinity and Genetics in Popular Culture." ''Literature and Medicine'' 26.1: 109-125. ([[Christine Feehan]] is the author addressed in this article). [http://www.academia.edu/166481/The_Big_Bad_Wolf_Masculinity_and_Genetic_in_Popular_Culture]

;Schell, Heather, 2010. : "The Love Life of a Fact." ''How Well Do "Facts" Travel?: The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge''. Ed. Peter Howlett and Mary S. Morgan. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP). ** [It's Chapter 16 and an unofficial version is available [http://gwu.academia.edu/HeatherSchell/Papers/181725/The-Love-Life-of-a-Fact here].]

;Schell, Heather, 2013. : "Bringing the Mid-West to the Middle-East: An Analysis of a Harlequin Romance in English and Turkish, in ''The Silk Road of Adaptation: Transformations across Disciplines and Cultures'', ed. Laurence Raw (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars), pp. 160-171. [http://www.academia.edu/5070456/Bringing_the_Mid-West_to_the_Middle_East_An_Analysis_of_a_Harlequin_Romance_in_English_and_Turkish]

;Schell, Heather, 2014. : "Love’s Laborers Lost: Radway, Romance Writers, and Recuperating Our Past." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2.[http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/loves-laborers-lost-radway-romance-writers-and-recuperating-our-pastby-heather-schell/]

;Schiffman, Leon G. and Steven P. Schnaars, 1981. : "The Consumption of Historical Romance Novels: Consumer Aesthetics in Popular Literature." Symbolic Consumer Behavior. (Association for Consumer Research), pp. 46-51.[http://www.acrwebsite.org/volumes/display.asp?id=12226]

;Schwab, Sandra, 2012. : '“It Is Only with One’s Heart That One Can See Clearly”: The Loss of Sight in Teresa Medeiros’s ''The Bride and the Beast'' and ''Yours until Dawn''', ''Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies'' 6.3: 275-289. [http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/2215905617t20842/?p=bd59abac917a43e0bcd2bcdaa775970b&pi=2 Abstract and Excerpt]

;Scott, Alison M. 2002. : 'Romance in the Stacks; or, Popular Romance Fiction Imperiled', in ''Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America'', ed. Lydia Cushman Schurman and Deidre Johnson, Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture, 75 (Westport, CT: Greenwood),pp. 213-224.

;Seale,Maura, 2007. : '"I find some Hindu practices, like burning widows, utterly bizarre": Representation of Sati and Questions of Choice in ''Veils of Silk''.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 129-147. [http://mauraseale.googlepages.com/veils_final_version.doc Unpaginated version]

;[[Kathleen Gilles Seidel | Seidel, Kathleen Gilles]], 1997. : "Half-Risen Venus", ''Paradoxa'' 3.1-2: 250-252. [This is a review of Paul Grescoe's ''Merchants of Venus: Inside Harlequin and the Empire of Romance''.]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2007. : 'Rereading the Romance', ''Contemporary Literature'', 48.2: 307-324.[http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/contemporary_literature/v048/48.2selinger.html] [This is a review article, critiquing earlier works on the romance genre (such as those by Radway and Modleski) and giving more favourable opinions about the newer works under review: Juliet Flesch's ''From Australia with Love: A History of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels''; ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels'', edited by Sally Goade; Deborah Lutz's ''The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative''; Lynn S. Neal's ''Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction''; Pamela Regis's ''A Natural History of the Romance Novel''.]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy and Sarah S. G. Frantz, 2012. : 'Introduction: New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction,' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 1-19. [Includes a brief history of the study of popular romance fiction.] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OSAgWRwoU5YC&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2012. : 'How to Read a Romance Novel (and Fall in Love with Popular Romance),' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 33-46. [Includes analysis of Laura Kinsale's ''Flowers from the Storm''.]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2012. : 'Nothing But Good Times Ahead: A Special Forum on Jennifer Crusie (Editor’s Introduction)', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.2 (2012).[http://jprstudies.org/2012/04/nothing-but-good-times-ahead-a-special-forum-on-jennifer-crusie-editors-introduction/].

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2013. : 'Rebooting the Romance: The Impact of ''A Natural History of the Romance Novel''', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/rebooting-the-romance-the-impact-of-a-natural-history-of-the-romance-novel-by-eric-murphy-selinger/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Selinger_RegisRebooting.pdf as a pdf].]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2014. : 'My Metatextual Romance: Thinking With (and About) ''Jaane Tu Ya Janne Na''', ''Mosaic'' 47.2: 51-66. [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/mosaic/v047/47.2.selinger.html Abstract and excerpt] ["Scholars of popular romance fiction have begun to credit the genre with political and aesthetic self-consciousness, a “metatextual turn” that parallels changes in the academic reception of Hindi popular cinema"]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2015. : 'Editor’s Note: Issue 5.1', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/editors-note-issue-5-1/]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2015. : 'An Interview with Susan Elizabeth Phillips', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/an-interview-with-susan-elizabeth-phillipsby-eric-murphy-selinger/]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy and William A. Gleason, 2016. : "Introduction: Love as the Practice of Freedom?" ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 1-21. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eAckDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT9&ots=aa7Bfg37EE&lr&pg=PT15#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2016. : 'When I Paint My Masterpiece: Bob Dylan, Ekphrasis, and the Art of Susan Elizabeth Phillips', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 297-319.

;Sequeiros, Paula, 2018. : '“Holding the Dream”: Women’s Favorite Reading Matter in a Portuguese Prison', ''Qualitative Sociology Review'' 14.1: 110-128.[Available as a pdf [http://www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/Volume44/QSR_14_1_Sequeiros.pdf from the journal] and also [http://eprints.rclis.org/32292/1/QSR_14_1_leit%20prisao.pdf here].]

;Sewell Matter, Laura, 2007. : “Pursuing the Great Bad Novelist”, ''The Georgia Review'' 61.3 (2007): 444-459. [About Charles Garvice.]

;Serafine, Amelia, 2016. : '"He Filled My Heart with Doubt": The Southern Belle's Love and Duty in the Civil War', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 41-55.

;Serisier, Tanya. 2015. : "On Not Reading Fifty Shades: Feminism and the Fantasy of Romantic Immunity." In ''Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets and Readers,'' 117-132. Jefferson, NC: McFarland,

;Shachar, Hila. 2011. : "A Post-Feminist Romance: Love, Gender and Intertextuality in Stephenie Meyer's Saga." In ''Theorizing Twilight: Critical Essays on What's at Stake in a Post-Vampire World'' 147-161. Eds. Maggie Parke and Natalie Wilson. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011.

;Shapiro, Joan, & Lee Kroeger, 1991. : ‘Is Life a Romantic Novel? The Relationship Between Attitudes About Intimate Relationships and the Popular Media’, ''American Journal of Family Therapy'', 19.3: 226-236. ** [http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a779552378 Abstract]

;Sheehan, Sarah E. and Jen Stevens, 2015. : "Creating a Popular Romance Collection in an Academic Library", ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1. [http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/creating-a-popular-romance-collection-in-an-academic-libraryby-sarah-e-sheehan-and-jen-stevens/]

;Shore, Z. Lesley, 2000. : 'Essay Review', ''Educational Studies'' 31.2: 132-145. [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/S15326993ES3102_4 Abstract], includes the sentence: "The ubiquitous, aggressively marketed series romances that a girl reads in adolescence are read not as mere fantasy or entertainment but as a road map for life. This compelling romantic ideology channels girls narrowly toward heterosexuality and marriage." For similar ideas, expressed at greater length, see Shore's dissertation.]

;Shumway, David R., 1999. : “Romance in the Romance: Love and Marriage in Turn-of-the-Century Best Sellers.” ''Journal of Narrative Theory'' 29.1: 110-134. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/30224546?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Excerpt]

;Sinner, Carsten, 2012. : "Fictional orality in romance novels: Between linguistic reality and editorial requirements." ''The Translation of Fictive Dialogue''. Ed. Jenny Brumme and Anna Espunya. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 119–136.

;Smith, Janet S. Shibamoto. 1999. : "From Hiren to Happi-endo: Romantic Expression in the Japanese Love Story." In ''Languages of Sentiment: Cultural Constructions of Emotional Substrates,'' 131-150. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Benjamins. [[http://benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=AiCR%2018 Extensive excerpt available from Benjamins' website] (click on the "Google Preview" button).]

;Shibamoto Smith, Janet S., 2004. : 'Language and Gender in the (Hetero)Romance: "Reading" the Ideal Hero/ine through Lovers' Dialogue in Japanese Romance Fiction', in ''Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People'', ed. Shigeko Okamoto and Janet S. Shibamoto Smith (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 113-130. ** [http://linguistlist.org/issues/16/16-1676.html Review]

;Shibamoto-Smith, Janet S., 2005. : ‘Translating True Love: Japanese Romantic Fiction, Harlequin-Style’ in ''Gender, Sex and Translation: The Manipulation of Identities'', ed. José Santaemilia (Manchester: St. Jerome Publishing), pp. 97-116. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0EgeCwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA97&ots=_VBVDxRknz&lr=lang_en&pg=PA97#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Shibamoto Smith, Janet S., 2008. : "Changing Lovestyles: Fictional Representations of Contemporary Japanese Men in Love." ''Positions'' 16.2: 359-87. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/positions/summary/v016/16.2.shibamoto-smith.html First Page]

;Simon, Jenni M., 2018. : ''Consuming Agency and Desire in Romance: Stories of Love, Laughter, and Empowerment''. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Q6k7DwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR5&ots=hhP2EqTrMr&sig=r8KErwV2-FueFcFirRZx2xZ9jCQ#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Slušná, Zuzana, 2014. : "Paranormal and Religious as Part of Pop Cultural Consumerism." ''European Journal of Science and Theology'' 10.1: 99-110. [http://www.ejst.tuiasi.ro/Files/48/11_Slusna.pdf]

;Slušná, Zuzana, 2015. : "Postfeminism, Post-romantic and New Patterns of Feminity [sic] in Popular Culture." ''European Journal of Science and Theology'' 11.6: 229-238.[http://www.ejst.tuiasi.ro/Files/55/23_Slusna.pdf]

;Smith, Faith, 1999. :"Beautiful Indians, Troublesome Negroes, and Nice White Men: Caribbean Romances and the Invention of Trinidad." in ''Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation.'' ed. Belinda Edmondson (Charlottesville, VA: UP of Virginia) pp. 163-182. [http://books.google.com/books?id=MxpIIwPyc-sC&lpg=PP1&dq=&pg=PA163#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Snitow, Ann Barr, 1979. : ‘Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women is Different’, ''Radical History Review'' 20 (Spring/Summer 1979):141-61. [http://rhr.dukejournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/1979/20/141?ssource=mfc&rss=1 Excerpt] Republished in ''Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality'' 1983., ed. Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell & Sharon Thompson (New York: Monthly Review Press), pp. 245-263. Excerpt published in "Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader", ed. Mary Eagleton. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MO9xIC7umwwC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA192#v=onepage&q=&f=false of which an excerpt is available online.] [scroll down the page to reach the beginning of the excerpt.] Republished in Ostrov Weisser, ''Women and Romance'' (see above), pp. 307-322.

;Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. 2010. : ''Reading [[Nora Roberts]].'' Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iZb2St4N1oAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false Excerpt]

;Sommer, Doris, 1991. : ''Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America''. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press). [The following two quotes may give an impression of the contents: "Romantic novels go hand in hand with patriotic history in Latin America. The books fueled a desire for domestic happiness that runs over into dreams of national prosperity; and nation-building projects invested private passions with public purpose" ([http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BWAXcZaAEyQC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q&f=false 7]) and "the lovers must imagine their ideal relationship through an alternative society. Once they project that ideal as an image that looks like a wedding portrait, their union [...] becomes the mediating principle that urges the narrative forward like a promise" ([http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BWAXcZaAEyQC&pg=PA18#v=onepage&q&f=false 18]). [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BWAXcZaAEyQC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt].]

;Sonnet, Esther, 1999. : "'Erotic Fiction by Women for Women’: The Pleasures of Post-Feminist Heterosexuality." ''Sexualities,''2.2:167-187. [From the [http://sexualities.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/2/2/167 abstract] [https://www.academia.edu/929962/Erotic_Fiction_by_Women_for_Women_The_Pleasures_of_Post-Feminist_Heterosexuality pdf]: "This article addresses the material construction of female heterosexuality through examination of the mass marketing of women’s pornography - ‘erotic fiction for women by women’ as exemplified by Virgin Publishing’s Black Lace imprint."]

;Sonnet, Esther, 2000. : "What the Woman Reads: Categorising Contemporary Popular Erotica for Women." ''Consuming for Pleasure: Selected Essays on Popular Fiction''. Ed. Julia Hallam and Nickianne Moody. Liverpool: Liverpool John Moores UP and the Association for Research in Popular Fictions. pp. 246-267. [https://www.academia.edu/4305268/What_the_Woman_Reads_Categorising_Contemporary_Popular_Erotica_for_Women pdf] [This article could be considered an expanded version of the previous one, which puts the Black Lace erotica in the context of other fiction for women with sexual content, including romance "bodice-rippers," and discusses the ways in which these texts are classified/assigned to particular genres/subgenres.]

;Sonnet, Esther, 2002. : "'"Just a book", she said ...': Refiguring Ethnography for the Female Readers of Sexual Fiction." ''The Audience Studies Reader''. Ed. Will Brooker & Deborah Jermyn. London: Routledge. pp. 254-273.[https://www.academia.edu/4304721/Just_a_book_she_said..._Reconfiguring_Ethnography_for_the_Female_Readers_of_Sexual_Fiction pdf]

;Spehner, Norbert, 1997. : 'L'Amour, toujours l'amour ...: The Popular Love Story and Romance: A Basic Checklist of Secondary Sources', ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 253-268.

;Spender, Dale, 1986. : "Male Romance." ''Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen'' (London: Pandora), pp. 152-169. [As the title of Spender's book indicates, this is not about modern romance fiction but Spender does mention Harlequin/Mills & Boon and discusses how "romance" has (a) become associated with women and (b) acquired a very low literary status. The title of this chapter reflects a subsidiary definition of "romance" as "picturesque falsehood": "we have in the containment of women, a male romance, a 'picturesque falsehood' constructed in male interest" (162). Some quotes from the chapter can be found [http://teachmetonight.blogspot.com/2011/06/sex-and-sentimentality-on-women-writers.html here].]

;Spigel, Lynn. 1985. : "Detours in the Search for Tomorrow: Tania Modleski's Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women." ''Camera Obscura: A Journal of Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies'' 13-14: 215-234.

;Spillman, K. Elizabeth, 2012. : 'The "Managing Female" in the Novels of Georgette Heyer,' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 84-98.

;Stacey, Jackie & Lynne Pearce, 1995. : 'The Heart of the Matter: Feminists Revisit Romance', in ''Romance Revisited'', ed. Lynne Pearce & Jackie Stacey (New York: New York University Press), pp. 11-45.

;Stafford, Jane. 2016. : "Romance in the Backblocks in New Zealand Popular Fiction, 1930–1950: Mary Scott's Barbara Stories." ''Popular Fiction and Spatiality: Reading Genre Settings,'' Lisa (ed. and introd.) Fletcher, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 63-78

;Stern, Barbara B, 1991. : 'Two Pornographies: A Feminist View of Sex in Advertising', in ''Advances in Consumer Research Volume'' 18. ed. Rebecca H. Holman and Michael R. Solomon (Provo, UT: Association for Consumer Research), pp. 384-391. [http://www.acrwebsite.org/volumes/display.asp?id=7190 Unpaginated version from the Association for Consumer Research's website.]

;Stern, Stephanie C., Brianne Robbins, Jessica E. Black and Jennifer L. Barnes, 2018. : "What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs About Relationships." ''Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts''. Advance online publication. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/aca0000189 Abstract]

;Stieg, Margaret F., 1985. : 'Indian Romances: Tracts for the Times', ''Journal of Popular Culture'', 18.4: 2-15. ['the Indian Romance, flourished between 1890 and 1930. It was a romantic novel set in India, featuring Anglo-Indians (English expatriates living in India) as the leading characters.' (1985: 2)] [http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119508803/abstract Excerpt]

;Still, Julie, 2005. : 'Reading Between the Lines: Librarians as Authors of Fiction', ''LIBRES'' 15.1.[http://libres.curtin.edu.au/libres15n1/Still_2005_02_16.htm] [Discusses Jayne Ann Krentz: "while she does not discuss library issues specifically, the importance of information -- having it, getting it, evaluating it, managing it, using it, and profiting from it, is a clear and present theme in her works"]

;Stoneley, Peter, 1999. : '"Never Love a Cowboy": Romance Fiction and Fantasy Families', ''Writing and Fantasy'', ed. Ceri Sullivan and Barbara White (London: Longman), pp. 223-235. [He argues that since "all desire is fantastical by its very nature" (223), romance is no more unrealistic than many other forms of fiction. He detects an "apparent incommensurability between sexual desire and family values" (226) in Silhouette's "Western Lovers" romances.]

;Stotesbury, John A, 1994. : "Language and Mindstyle in Anglophone Popular Romantic Fiction under Apartheid." ''Logos'' 14: 18-32.

;Stotesbury, John A., 2004 : 'Genre and Islam in Recent Anglophone Romantic Fiction', in ''Refracting the Canon in Contemporary British Literature and Film'', ed. Christian Gutleben & Susana Onega, Postmodern Studies, 35 (Amsterdam: Rodopi), pp. 69-82. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/rodopi/pms/2004/00000035/00000001/art00004 Abstract] **

;Stout, Diana, 2008. : '[[Karen Robards]]', ''Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice'' 2.2/3. [Formerly at [http://www.teachingamericanlit.com/files/Microsoft_Word_-_TALTP-RobardsKaren_not_using.pdf]. Unfortunately this essay appears to have been omitted from a pdf of the entire issue which can be downloaded from [http://www.cpcc.edu/taltp/archives/spring-summer-2008-2-2-3/spring_summer_2008_merged.pdf/at_download/file]].

;Stowers, Eva, 2007. : 'City of Fantasy: Romance Novels in Las Vegas.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 198-205.

;Struve, Laura, 2011. : "Sisters of Sorts: Reading Romantic Fiction and the Bonds Among Female Readers." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 44.6: 1289–1306. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-5931.2011.00901.x/abstract Excerpt]

;Sucatre, Conrad V., 2005 : ''Old School Romance'' (Vintage Romance Publishing).** [I have not been able to identify a place of publication, and clearly this is not an academic publisher. The author says that the book is about 'the romance writing industry as it existed prior to 1950. At my fingertips were the books and biographies of such authors as Faith Baldwin, Emilie Loring, Kathleen Norris, Temple Bailey, Elsa Barker and many others. I assembled all these facts into my book'.[http://www.geocities.com/heathpublishing/]]

;Suman [Sigroha], 2018. : "Gendered Migrations and Literary Narratives: Writing Communities in South Asian Diaspora." ''Millennial Asia'' 9.1: 93-108.[http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0976399617753755] [On "educated skilled women from South Asia who migrate as ‘trailing spouses’" and turn to romance-writing as an alternative, portable career.]

;Suwanban, Pauline, 2018. : "From Exhalation to Transformation: The Female Body in the Orientalist Romance". ''Dandelion: Postgraduate Arts Journal & Research Network'' 9.1 [https://dandelionjournal.org/article/doi/10.16995/ddl.686/ Abstract and link to pdf]

;Swaffield, Audrey-Claire, 1981. : "Paperbacks Promoting Passion! What Is Harlequin Really Presenting?." ''Canadian Woman Studies/Les Cahiers de la Femme'' 3.2: 4-6.

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;Pagliassotti, Dru, 2010. : 'Better than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction', ''Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre'', Ed. Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry & Dru Pagliassotti (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 59-83. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9vn7hjM2v4QC&lpg=PA79&pg=PA59#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt.]

;Pagliassotti, Dru, 2013. : "Love and the Machine: Technology and Human Relationships in Steampunk Romance and Erotica," in ''Steaming Into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology'', ed. Julie Anne Taddeo and Cynthia J. Miller (Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow), pp. 65-87. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bYmIZNOHInoC&lpg=PA43&ots=EllchlFAGD&pg=PA65#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Paige, Lori A., 2018. : ''The Gothic Romance Wave: A Critical History of the Mass Market Novels, 1960-1993''. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2018. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-YBvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Paizis, George, 1987. : '"Putting People First" or the contemporary romantic novel, critical discourse and ideology', ''La Chouette'', no 18, March: 38-46. [''[http://www.bbk.ac.uk/llc/forstudents/fs_fr/fr_lc La Chouette]'' is published by the Department of French, School of Languages, Linguistics and Culture, Birkbeck College, University of London] **

;Paizis, George, 1987. : 'That's Romance', ''Socialist Review'', July: 24. **

;Paizis, George, 1994-95. : 'Love, Ideology and Reality: the popular romantic novel and the reader', ''Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies'', 3: 357-68. **

;Paizis, George, 1998. : 'Category Romances - Translation, Realism and Myth', ''The Translator'', 4: 1-24. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13556509.1998.10799004 Abstract]

;Paizis, George, 1998. : ''Love and the Novel: The Poetics and Politics of Romantic Fiction'' (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan). [http://www.powells.com/biblio?show=HARDCOVER:NEW:0312215479:104.50#synopses_and_reviews Some details]

;Paizis, George, 2006. : "Category Romance in the Era of Globalization: The Story of Harlequin." ''The Global Literary Field.'' (Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars)pp. 126-151.

;Palmer, Paulina, 1998. : ‘Girl Meets Girl: Changing Approaches to the Lesbian Romance,’ in ''Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film'', ed. Lynne Pearce & Gina Wisker (London: Pluto), pp. 189-204.

;Parameswaran Radhika, 1999. : 'Western Romance Fiction as English-Language Media in Postcolonial India', ''Journal of Communication'', 49.3: 84-105. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&se=gglsc&d=96458480 Abstract]

;Parameswaran, Radhika, 2002. : 'Reading Fictions of Romance: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in Postcolonial India', ''Journal of Communication'', 52.4: 832-851. [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2002.tb02576.x?journalCode=jcom Abstract]

;Parnell, Claire, 2018. : ‘Models of Publishing and Opportunities for Change: Representations in Harlequin, Montlake and Self-Published Romance Novels.’ ''Australian Literary Studies'' 33.4.[https://www.australianliterarystudies.com.au/articles/models-of-publishing-and-opportunities-for-change-representations-in-harlequin-montlake-and-self-published-romance-novels]

;Pattee, Amy S., 2011. : ''Reading the Adolescent Romance: Sweet Valley High and the Popular Young Adult Romance Novel'' (New York: Routledge). [http://books.google.com/books?id=FC_LKiA94xUC&printsec=frontcover&cd=1&source=gbs_ViewAPI#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [http://jprstudies.org/2011/12/review-reading-the-adolescent-romance-sweet-valley-high-and-the-popular-young-adult-romance-novel-by-amy-s-pattee/ Review]

;Patterson, Janet, 1981. : 'Consuming Passion', ''Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly'', 11: 19-33. Reprinted in ''Fireworks: The Best of Fireweed'', Ed. Makeda Silvera (Toronto: The Women’s Press, 1986), pp. 69-82.**

;Patthey Chavez, GG, and L. Clare, M. Youmans,1996. : 'Watery passion: The struggle between hegemony and sexual liberation in erotic fiction for women.' ''Discourse and Society.'' 7.1: 77-106.

;Peabody, Rebecca, 2016. : 'Kara Walker: American Romance in Black and White', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 131-150. [This article can also be found, in slightly expanded form, in chapter 3, "American Romance in Black and White," of Peabody's ''Consuming Stories: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race'' (Oakland, California: California UP, 2016), pages 84-109. An [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3LIlDQAAQBAJ&lpg=PR1&pg=PA84#v=onepage&q&f=false excerpt is available online].]

;Pearce, Lynne, 2004. : "Popular Romance and Its Readers." in ''A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary.'' ed. Corinne Saunders, (Malden, MA: Blackwell) pp. 521-538.

;Pearce, Lynne, 2007. : '' Romance Writing.'' (Cambridge: Polity Press). Historical treatment looking at romance broadly. Does touch on popular romance, but it is not the whole focus of the book. [http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/id/Romance_Writing/9780745630052 Abstract]

;Pearce, Lynne, 2011. : "Romance and Repetition: Testing the Limits of Love." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%e2%80%9cromance-and-repetition-testing-the-limits-of-love%e2%80%9d-by-lynne-pearce/]

;Peaty, Gwyneth, 2015. : "Rock Hard: Gargoyles in Contemporary Gothic Romance." ''New Directions in 21st Century Gothic: The Gothic Compass''. Ed. Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Donna Lee Brien. New York, NY: Routledge. 54-70. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=lang_en&id=uGahCAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA54&ots=liW5yulIi4&sig=X4X_-HQpus8StmIP28xi2w0qZSk#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Pecora, Norma, 1999. : "Identity by design : the corporate construction of teen romance novels, " in ''Growing Up Girls: Popular Culture and the Construction of Identity.'' Ed. Mazzarella, Sharon R., and Norma Odom Pecora (New York: P. Lang), pp 49-86. ** [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=34675586 Excerpt]

;Pérez Casal, Inmaculada, 2016. : “Love in Times of Crisis: An Approach to Contemporary Romance Novels in Spain.” ''Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research'' 4.2: 62-70.[https://www.ucm.es/data/cont/docs/119-2017-01-02-JACLR%204.2.6.pdf]

;Pérez Casal, Inmaculada, 2018. : “Mass-market romance and the question of genre: N. Sparks, E. L. James and D. Gabaldon.” ''Oceánide'' 10. [http://oceanide.netne.net/articulos/art10-6.pdf]

;Pérez Casal, Inmaculada, 2018. : "The Romance Novel as ''Bildungsroman'' in the Works of Rosamunde Pilcher and Lisa Kleypas". ''Taking Stock to Look Ahead: Celebrating Forty Years of English Studies in Spain''. Ed. María Ferrández San Miguel and Claus-Peter Neumann. Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2018. 139-144.[https://aedean.org/wp-content/uploads/Celebrating-Forty-Years-of-English-Studies-in-Spain.pdf#page=139]

;Pérez‐Gil, María del Mar, 2018. : "Exoticism, Ethnocentrism, and Englishness in Popular Romance Fiction: Constructing the European Other". ''Journal of Popular Culture''. Published online first 19 July 2018. [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jpcu.12710?af=R Excerpt] [Focuses on the Spanish "Other" in the English imagination.]

;Pérez-Gil, María del Mar, 2018. : "Representations of Nation and Spanish Masculinity in Popular Romance Novels: The Alpha Male as “Other”", ''The Journal of Men’s Studies''. Online First September 23, 2018. [https://doi.org/10.1177/1060826518801531 Abstract]

;Pettigrew Brackett, Kim, 2000. : “Facework Strategies among Romance Fiction Readers.” ''Social Science Journal'' 37.3: 347-360.

;Philadelphoff-Puren, Nina, 2005. : "Contextualising Consent: The Problem of Rape and Romance." ''Australian Feminist Studies'' 20.46: 31-42.

;Philadelphoff-Puren, Nina, 2004. : "The Mark of Refusal: Sexual Violence and the Politics of Recontextualization." ''Feminist Theory'' 5.3: 243–256. [http://fty.sagepub.com/content/5/3/243.abstract Abstract]

See also Puren, below.

;Philips, Deborah, 1985. : 'Marketing Moonshine', ''Women's Review'' 2 (December): 16-17. **

;Philips, Deborah, 1990. : 'Mills and Boon: The Marketing of Moonshine,' in ''Consumption, Identity, and Style: Marketing, Meanings, and the Packaging of Pleasure'', ed. Alan Tomlinson (London: Routledge), pp. 139-52. [http://books.google.com/books?id=PvAfLS2QnMwC&pg=RA1-PA139&lpg=RA1-PA139&dq=Deborah+philips+%22marketing+of+moonshine%22&source=web&ots=j6M_s4okbY&sig=zPi4ByZJjzoFXEuJHOq3fUN1UrM Excerpt here.]

;Philips, Deborah, 2000. : 'Shopping for Men: The Single Woman Narrative', ''Women: a Cultural Review'', 11.3: 238-251. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/search/article?title=philips+shopping+for+men&title_type=tka&year_from=1998&year_to=2005&database=1&pageSize=20&index=1 Abstract]

;Philips, Deborah. 2012. : "The Empire of Romance: Love in a Postcolonial Climate." In ''End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945,'' Ed. Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz. 114-133. Manchester, England: Manchester UP, 2012.

;Philips, Deborah. Forthcoming. : "Fifty Shades of Romance." ''International Journal of Cultural Studies''. [https://cris.brighton.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/5900241/palma_50_shades.pdf Manuscript version]

;Philips, Deborah. Forthcoming. : "In defence of reading trash: feminists reading the romance." ''European Journal of Cultural Studies''. [https://cris.brighton.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/506061/In+defence+of+reading+trash+%283%29.pdf Manuscript version]

;Popova, Milena, 2018. : "Rewriting the Romance: Emotion Work and Consent in Arranged Marriage Fanfiction". ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 7. [http://jprstudies.org/2018/07/rewriting-the-romance-emotion-work-and-consent-in-arranged-marriage-fanfictionby-milena-popova/]

;Postma, Kathlene, 1999. : 'American Women Readers Encounter Turkey in the Shadow of Popular Romance', ''Journal of American Studies of Turkey'', 9: 71-82. [http://www.os-ar.com/modules.php?name=Encyclopedia&op=content&tid=501722 Online, unpaginated version.] [The novel under discussion, 'Demetra Vaka's In the Shadow of Islam, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1911', is discussed in the context of the conventions of the romance novel, though it subverts them.]

;Potter, Jane, 1997. : '"A great purifier": The Great War in Women's Romances and Memoirs 1914-1918', ''Women's Fiction and The Great War'', ed. Suzanne Raitt and Trudi Tate (Oxford: Oxford UP), pp. 85-106. [http://books.google.com/books?id=-ikIQ4Zn_XkC&lpg=PP1&ots=PujRPYZru6&dq=&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [The romance authors discussed are Berta Ruck and Ruby M. Ayres.]

;Potter, Jane, 2005. : ''Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918'' (Oxford: Oxford UP). [[http://books.google.com/books?id=VMvwcIQdBZUC&lpg=PP1&ots=rVjglQJVbV&dq=&pg=PA88#v=onepage&q&f=false Chapter 3] is titled "'Putting Things in Their Right Places': The War in Romance Novels" and it considers "only a fraction of the hundreds of 'light fiction' books published between 1914 and 1918: ''My Heart's Right There'' (1914) by Florence Barclay, ''Khaki and Kisses'' (1915) by Berta Ruck, ''Richard Chatterton V. C.'' (1915) by Ruby M. Ayres, ''A Girl Munition Worker'' (1917) by Bessie Marchant, ''Before the Wind'' (1918) by Janet Laing, and ''Good Old Anna'' (1915) by Marie Belloc Lowndes" ([http://books.google.com/books?id=VMvwcIQdBZUC&lpg=PP1&ots=rVjglQJVbV&dq=&pg=PA90#v=onepage&q&f=false 90]).] [http://books.google.com/books?id=VMvwcIQdBZUC&lpg=PP1&ots=rVjglQJVbV&dq=&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Potter, Jane, 2015. : "‘Khaki and Kisses’: Reading the Romance Novel in the Great War." ''Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives''. Ed. Shafquat Towheed and Edmund G. C. King. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 29-44. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jZyhCgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PT45#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Powley, Tammy, 2015. : "Romance Fiction in Florida: The Crisscross of Jane Austen and Angela Hunt." ''Women of Florida Fiction: Essays on 12 Sunshine State Writers''. Ed. Tammy Powley and April Van Camp. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. 123-132. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=lang_en&id=Fvm2BQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA123#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Press, Andrea L., 1986. : 'New Views on the Mass Production of Women's Culture', ''Communication Research'' 13.1: 139-149. [Review essay on Radway's ''Reading the Romance'', Modleski's ''Loving with a Vengeance'' and two books on soap operas.] [http://crx.sagepub.com/content/13/1/139.extract Excerpt].

;Priest, Hannah. 2018. : “Sparkly Vampires and Shimmering Aliens: The Paranormal Romance of Stephenie Meyer.” ''Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction,'' edited by Bernice M. Murphy and Stephen Matterson, Edinburgh University Press, 2018, pp. 182–192

;Proctor, Candice, 2007. : 'The Romance Genre Blues or Why We Don't Get No Respect.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 12-19.

;Puente, Sonia Núñez. 2008.: "The romance novel and popular culture during the early Franco regime in Spain: towards the construction of other discourses of femininity." ''Journal of Gender Studies'' 17, no. 3: 225-236.

;Purdie, Susan, 1992. : 'Janice Radway, Reading the Romance', in ''Reading into Cultural Studies'' ed. Martin Barker and Anne Beezer, (London: Routledge), pp. 148-64.

;Puren, Nina, 1995. : 'Hymeneal Acts: Interrogating the Hegemony of Rape and Romance', ''Australian Feminist Law Journal'' 5: 15-26. [Mentions [[Charlotte Lamb]]'s ''The Sex War'', London: Mills and Boon, 1988.]

;Puri, Jyoti, 1997. : ‘Reading Romance Novels in Postcolonial India’, ''Gender & Society'', 11.4: 434-452. [http://gas.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/4/434?ck=nck Abstract]

==Q==

;Quilliam, Susan, 2011. : ' “He seized her in his manly arms and bent his lips to hers…”. The surprising impact that romantic novels have on our work', ''Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care'' 37.3: 179-181. [http://jfprhc.bmj.com/content/37/3/179.extract Excerpt] [http://press.psprings.co.uk/JFPRH/july/JFPRH1100152.pdf PDF]

==R==

;Rabine, Leslie, 1985. : ''Reading the Romantic Heroine: Text, History, Ideology'', (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press).** [This is described in Williams and Freedman as a "study of the romantic quest from Tristan and Isolde to the Harlequin novel" (145). A chapter each is devoted to the Tristan/Isolde legend, Prévost's ''Manon Lescaut'', Stendhal's ''The Red and the Black'', Charlotte Brontë's ''Shirley'', Alain-Fournier's ''Big Meaulnes'' and Harlequin romances.]

;Rabine, Leslie W., 1985. : ‘Romance in the Age of Electronics: Harlequin Enterprises’, ''Feminist Studies'' 11.1: 39-60. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/3180131 Excerpt]

;Radford, Jean, 1992. : "A Certain Latitude: Romance as Genre." in ''Gender, Language, and Myth: Essays and Popular Narrative.'' ed. Glenwood Irons, (Toronto: U of Toronto P), pp. 3-19.

;Radhika, P., 2004-2005. : "Narratives of Fractured Conjugality: Women’s Romance Novels in Kannada, 1950s-1960s." ''Journal of Karnataka Studies'' 2.1.[http://journalofkarnatakastudies.org/JKS/articles-pdf/JKS%20200411%20to%20200504%20Article%20%284%29.pdf PDF] [As might be deduced from the title, not all of the novels under discussion are "romances" with happy endings: "As is characteristic of all romance novels, the formation of a couple as constituent of romantic love also figures in the post-50s women‘s novels. However, in contrast to the earlier women‘s novels, what is dramatised in the novels of Indira, Triveni, Vani and Anupama is that they significantly articulate the fracturing of the conjugal space and, except for the novels of Anupama (which I will discuss later), have tragic endings." (9)]

;Radhika, P., 2014. : "Inaugurating a (Feminine) Public: Women’s Romances in Kannada, 1950s–1960s." ''Indian Journal of Gender Studies'' 21.1 (2014): 85-110. [http://ijg.sagepub.com/content/21/1/85.short Abstract]

;Radick, Caryn, 2016. : "Romance Writers’ Use of Archives." ''Archivaria, the Journal of the Association of Canadian Archivists'' 81: 45-73. [http://journals.sfu.ca/archivar/index.php/archivaria/article/view/13558 Abstract]

;Radner, Hilary, 1995. : ''Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure'' (New York: Routledge). [See Chapter 3, 'A Dream of Thee,' pages 67-104, which has two sections: 'The Erotic Gag: Reading the Category Romance' and 'Alibis and Cover Stories: Pornography, History, Race, and the Category Romance'.] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LFBy0zINhtkC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA67#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Radway, Janice, 1981. : 'The Utopian Impulse in Popular Literature: Gothic Romances and "Feminist" Protest', ''American Quarterly,'' 33.2 (Summer, 1981): 140-162. [First page available [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0678(198122)33%3A2%3C140%3ATUIIPL%3E2.0.CO;2-2 here]]

;Radway, Janice A, 1982. : 'The Aesthetic in Mass Culture: Reading and the 'Popular' Literary Text', ''Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, Festschrift in Honor of Felix Vodicka'', Ed. Peter Steiner and Ronald Vroon (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, B.V.), pp. 397-429. [Excerpt available from [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TdksXiP6WwQC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA397#v=onepage&q&f=false here]]. [Takes gothic romances as examples.]

;Radway, Janice A., 1983. : ‘Women Read the Romance: The Interaction of Text and Context’, ''Feminist Studies'', 9.1: 53-78. [First page available [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0046-3663(198321)9%3A1%3C53%3AWRTRTI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7 here]] [Rptd. in Ostrov Weisser, ''Women and Romance'', pp. 323-341. **]

;Radway, Janice A., 1984. : 'Interpretive Communities And Variable Literacies: The Functions Of Romance Reading', ''Daedalus'', 113.3:49-73.

;Radway, Janice A., 1991. : ''Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press). First published in 1984. The 1991 edition contains a new introduction by the author.

;Radway, Janice, 1994. : 'Romance and the Work of Fantasy: Struggles over Feminine Sexuality and Subjectivity at Century's End', in ''Viewing, Reading, Listening: Audiences and Cultural Reception'', ed. Jon Cruz and Justin Lewis (Colorado: Westview Press), pp. 213-31. Reprinted in ''Feminism and Cultural Studies'', ed. Morag Shiach (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 395-???. **

;Rani, Mohd. Zariat Abdul, 2012. : "Islam, Romance and Popular Taste in Indonesia." ''Indonesia and the Malay World: '' 40.116 (2012): 59-73. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13639811.2011.648998 Abstract]

;Rani, Mohd Zariat Abdul, 2014. : "The conflict of love and Islam: the main ingredients in the popular Islamic novels of Malaysia." ''South East Asia Research'' 22.3: 417-433. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ip/sear/2014/00000022/00000003/art00008 Abstract] [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ip/sear/2014/00000022/00000003/art00008?crawler=true]

;Rapp, Adrian, Dodgen, Lynda, and Anne K. Kaler, 2000. : "A Romance Writer Gets Away with Murder." ''Clues: A Journal of Detection'' 21.1: 17-21.

;[[Alicia Rasley|Rasley, Alicia]], 1999. :'Paradox in Balance: Some Feminist Themes in Romance', originally published in ''North American Romance Writers'', see above.[http://www.sff.net/people/alicia/artparadox.htm]

;Raub, Patricia, 1992. : "Issues of Passion and Power in E. M. Hull's ''The Sheik''." ''Women's Studies'', 21: 119-128.

;[[Diana Reep|Reep, Diana]], 1982: ''[[The Rescue And Romance: Popular Novels Before World War I]]'', Bowling Green Sate University Popular Press.

;Reeves, Anne R., 2004. : 'Rosa: Fiction as Therapy,' ''Adolescents Talk About Reading: Exploring Resistance to and Engagement with Text''. International Reading Association. 107-156. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FoByTSK_vb8C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA107#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [This chapter of the book explores reading for "escape" through the experiences of Rosa, who "was especially expert in reading romance novels and proud of her expertise" (107) and whose reading allowed her to "dwell on her own troubles, but at a distance made safe by the intervening presence of the story with the happy ending" (115).]

;Regan, Lisa. 2017. : "Women and the 'War Machine' in the Desert Romances of E. M. Hull and Rosita Forbes." ''Women's Writing'', vol. 24, no. 1, Feb. 2017, pp. 109-122. DOI: 10.1080/09699082.2016.1233773 [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09699082.2016.1233773?journalCode=rwow20 Abstract]

;Regis, Pamela, 1997. : 'Complicating Romances and Their Readers: Barrier and Point of Ritual Death in Nora Roberts's Category Fiction.' ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2:145-154.

;Regis, Pamela, 2003. : ''A Natural History of the Romance Novel'' (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press). [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=juPQyVJrsFAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0 Excerpt] [The book is the subject of a Roundtable section in the [http://jprstudies.org/issues/issue-3-2/ ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 (2013)].]

;Regis, Pamela, 2011. : "Female genre fiction in the twentieth century." ''The Cambridge History of the American Novel''. Ed. Leonard Cassuto, Clare Virginia Eby and Benjamin Reiss. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 847-60. [The chapter includes "a definition of the romance novel, some categories to advance its literary analysis, and a first effort to place it in literary history, especially in foundational relation to the sentimental literature of the nineteenth century" (848). It also includes analysis of "seven twentieth-century American romances" (848), among which are [[Kathleen Woodiwiss]]'s ''The Flame and the Flower'', [[Jennifer Crusie]]'s ''Bet Me'', [[Beverly Jenkins]]'s ''Indigo'', [[Ann Herendeen]]'s ''Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander'', and [[Nora Roberts]]' ''Irish Thoroughbred''.] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4ZEPkIzETb0C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA848#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt.]

;Regis, Pamela, 2011. : “What Do Critics Owe the Romance? Keynote Address at the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%E2%80%9Cwhat-do-critics-owe-the-romance-keynote-address-at-the-second-annual-conference-of-the-international-association-for-the-study-of-popular-romance%E2%80%9D-by-pamela-regis/] [There is [http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%E2%80%9Cmatricide-in-romance-scholarship-response-to-pamela-regis%E2%80%99-keynote-address-at-the-second-annual-conference-of-the-international-association-for-the-study-of-popular-romance%E2%80%9D/ a response by An Goris] in the same issue of ''JPRS''].

;Regis, Pamela, 2013. : 'Ten Years After ''A Natural History of the Romance Novel'': Thinking Back, Looking Forward', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/ten-years-after-a-natural-history-of-the-romance-novel-thinking-back-looking-forward-by-pamela-regis/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Regis_ThinkingBack.pdf as a pdf].]

;Regis, Pamela, 2016. : '''Pamela'' Crosses the Atlantic; or, Pamela Andrews's Story Inaugurates the American Romance Novel', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp.25-40. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eAckDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT9&ots=aa7Bfg37EE&lr&pg=PT38#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Reid Boyd, Elizabeth, 2014. : 'Romancing feminism: From women’s studies to women’s fiction.' ''Australasian Journal of Popular Culture'' 3.3: 263-272. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/ajpc/2014/00000003/00000003/art00002 Abstract] [https://www.academia.edu/9400026/Romancing_Feminism_From_Womens_Studies_to_Womens_Fiction Text]

;Rholetter, Wylene, 2008. : '[[Nora Roberts]]', ''Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice'' 2.2/3. [Formerly at [http://www.teachingamericanlit.com/files/Microsoft_Word_-_TALTP-RobertsNora.pdf]. This link no longer works but a pdf of the entire issue can be downloaded from [http://www.cpcc.edu/taltp/archives/spring-summer-2008-2-2-3/spring_summer_2008_merged.pdf/at_download/file]].

;Ricker-Wilson, Carol, 1999. : ‘Busting Textual Bodices: Gender, Reading, and the Popular Romance’, ''English Journal'', 88:3: 57-64. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/821580 Excerpt]

;Rix, Robert W., 2009. : '“Love in the Clouds”: [[Barbara Cartland]]’s Religious Romances', ''The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture'' 21.2. [http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/c935l2276u264262/ Excerpt] [http://web.archive.org/web/20091119103047/http://www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc/art21%282%29-LoveClouds.html Archived version]

;Roach, Catherine, 2010. : 'Getting a Good Man to Love: Popular Romance Fiction and the Problem of Patriarchy', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 1.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2010/08/getting-a-good-man-to-love-popular-romance-fiction-and-the-problem-of-patriarchy-by-catherine-roach/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/JPRS1.1_Roach_GettingGoodMantoLove.pdf as a pdf].]

;Roach, Catherine, 2014. : '“Going Native”: Aca-Fandom and Deep Participant Observation in Popular Romance Studies', ''Mosaic'' 47.2: 33-49. [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/mosaic/v047/47.2.roach.html Abstract and excerpt]

;Roach, Catherine M., 2016. : 'Love as the Practice of Bondage: Popular Romance Narratives and the Conundrum of Erotic Love', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 369-387.

;Roach, Catherine M., 2016. : ''Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture'' (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press).[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gmSjCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth, 2002. : 'Meet Jessica and Elizabeth from Sweet Valley: Who Are the Female Role Models in Popular Romance Novels for Children?', Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (New Orleans, LA, April 1-5, 2002). 21 pgs. ERIC document ED470819.

;Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth, 2010. : "Twenty-five years and counting of Sweet Valley: Jessica and Elizabeth in romance novels for young children?" ''Journal of Research in Childhood Education'' 24.2:123-139. [[http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a920286976~db=all~jumptype=rss Abstract] and [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-245951985.html excerpt].]

;Robinson, Lillian S., 1978. : 'Reading Trash', in ''Sex, Class, and Culture''. Ed. Lillian S. Robinson (Bloomington: Indiana University Press), pp. 200-222. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=090OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA200&lpg=PA200&dq=&source=bl&ots=n_LIlJbPtt&sig=HeERqJr9uAX6Oj7OGEBuJrgNfcg&hl=en&ei=NprSSfPVKdvN-Qa6kvy1BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA200,M1 Excerpt from a later edition] ["Most of this essay will be focused on a contrast between the works of [[Jane Austen]] and those of [[Georgette Heyer]]" (202)]

;[http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=101551297 Romantic Conventions], 1999. : Anne K. Kaler and Rosemary E. Johnson-Kurek, eds. (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press). [Preview of parts of this available [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ja_Ia-oZo4wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=&f=false via Google Books].]

;Rosanowski, Annika, 2019. : "Can She Have It All? Pregnancy Narratives in Contemporary Category Romance", ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 8 (2019). [http://jprstudies.org/2019/03/can-she-have-it-all-pregnancy-narratives-in-contemporary-category-romanceby-annika-rosanowski/]

;Rose, Suzanna, 1985. : "Is Romance Dysfunctional?." ''International Journal of Women's Studies'', 8.3: 250-265. ["Argues that among the forces that shape desire in women and men are the depictions of relationships and sexual expression in popular fiction. [...] It is contended that by encompassing primarily the courtship phase of relationships, the scripts provide little guidance relevant to maintaining long-term relationships."] [http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1986-17217-001 Abstract][http://myweb.fiu.edu/srose/wp-content/uploads/sites/127/2014/08/1985-Rose-IsRomanceDysfunctional-1.pdf pdf]

;Ross, Catherine Sheldrick. 2009. : "Reader on Top: Public Libraries, Pleasure Reading, and Models of Reading." ''Library Trends'' 57.4: 632-656. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lib/summary/v057/57.4.ross.html Abstract.] [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Catherine_Ross3/publication/236705306_Reader_on_Top_Public_Libraries_Pleasure_Reading_and_Models_of_Reading/links/0c960528e844b446cf000000/Reader-on-Top-Public-Libraries-Pleasure-Reading-and-Models-of-Reading&hl=en&sa=X&scisig=AAGBfm1BzGHzUwyFEy2rBdDKyEKkBvmKMQ&nossl=1&oi=scholaralrt Unpaginated version.]

;Ross, Marlon B., 2013. : " 'What’s Love But a Second Hand Emotion?': Man-on-Man Passion in the Contemporary Black Gay Romance Novel." ''Callaloo'' 36.3 (2013): 669-687. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/callaloo/v036/36.3.ross.html Excerpt]. [There's a short summary [http://www.vivanco.me.uk/blog/post/black-gay-romance here].]

;Rudisill, Kristen, 2018. : “Full-Blooded Desi Romance: Contemporary English-Language Romance Novels in India.” ''Journal of Popular Culture''. vol. 51, no. 3, June 2018, pp. 754-775. Online First. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.12652/full Excerpt]

;Ruggiero, Josephine A. and Louise C. Weston. : 'Sex-Role Characterization of Women in "Modern Gothic Novels"', ''Pacific Sociological Review'' 20: 279-300. **

;Ruggiero, Josephine A. and Weston, Louise C., 1983. : 'Conflicting Images Of Women In Romance Novels', ''International Journal of Women's Studies'', 6.1:18-25.

;Russ, Joanna, 1973. : 'Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic', ''Journal of Popular Culture'', 6.4: 666-691.

;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : ‘Amongst Women: Male Romance Authors and Irish Chick Lit Author, Andrew O’Connor’, ''The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture'' 1.2: 209-225. [http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=11989/ Abstract]

;Ryder, Mary Ellen, 1999. : 'Smoke and mirrors: Event patterns in the discourse structure of a romance novel', ''Journal of Pragmatics'', 31.8: 1067-1080. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VCW-3X6BRT2-6&_user=10&_coverDate=08%2F31%2F1999&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=04a8b80871ea922fecd7d9ba3a6b26c9 Abstract] ** [Analysis focuses on "the climax of a novel by [[Barbara Cartland]]."]

==S==

;Sales, Roger, 1999. : "The Loathsome Lord and the Disdainful Dame: Byron, Cartland and the Regency Romance." in ''Byromania: Portraits of the Artist in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Culture.'' ed. Frances Wilson, (Basingstoke, England; New York, NY: Macmillan; St. Martin's) pp. 166-183.

;Salmon, Catherine and Donald Symons, 2003. : ''Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution and Female Sexuality'' (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press). ** [http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300093544 Abstract] ["The stark contrasts between romance novels and pornography underscore how different female and male erotic fantasies are. These differences reflect human evolutionary history [...]. The authors focus particular attention on slash fiction [...] [and] argue that—despite some differences—slash fiction has much in common with romance novels."]

;Salmon, Catherine, 2012. : "The Pop Culture of Sex: An Evolutionary Window on the Worlds of Pornography and Romance." ''Review of General Psychology'' 16.2: 152-60. [http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/gpr/16/2/152/ Abstract]

;Salmon, Catherine, 2016. : "What Do Romance Novels, Pro Wrestling, and Mack Bolan Have in Common?: Consilience and the Pop Culture of Storytelling." ''Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences''. Ed. Joseph Carroll, Dan P. McAdams and Edward O. Wilson. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016. 167-182. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tUUnDAAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA167#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;[[Barbara Samuel|Samuel, Barbara]], 1997. : "The Art of Romance Novels." ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 78-80.

;Sanders, Lise Shapiro, 2018. : "Making the Modern Girl: Fantasy, Consumption, and Desire in Romance Weeklies of the 1920s". ''Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period''. Ed. Catherine Clay, Maria DiCenzo, Barbara Green, and Fiona Hackney. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TIJ8DwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PT181#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Santaulària, Isabel, 2002. : "The Fallacy of Eternal Love: Romance, Vampires and the Deconstruction of Love in [[Linda Lael Miller]]'s ''Forever and the Night'' and ''For All Eternity''." in ''The Aesthetics of Ageing: Critical Approaches to Literary Representations of the Ageing Process.'' Ed. Maria O’Neill and Carmen Zamorano Llena (Lleida, Spain: Universitat de Lleida), pp. 111-126.

;Schalk, Sami, 2016. : "Happily Ever After for Whom? Blackness and Disability in Romance Narratives." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 49.6: 1241–1260. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.12491/abstract Excerpt]

;Schell, Heather, 2007. : "The Big Bad Wolf: Masculinity and Genetics in Popular Culture." ''Literature and Medicine'' 26.1: 109-125. ([[Christine Feehan]] is the author addressed in this article). [http://www.academia.edu/166481/The_Big_Bad_Wolf_Masculinity_and_Genetic_in_Popular_Culture]

;Schell, Heather, 2010. : "The Love Life of a Fact." ''How Well Do "Facts" Travel?: The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge''. Ed. Peter Howlett and Mary S. Morgan. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP). ** [It's Chapter 16 and an unofficial version is available [http://gwu.academia.edu/HeatherSchell/Papers/181725/The-Love-Life-of-a-Fact here].]

;Schell, Heather, 2013. : "Bringing the Mid-West to the Middle-East: An Analysis of a Harlequin Romance in English and Turkish, in ''The Silk Road of Adaptation: Transformations across Disciplines and Cultures'', ed. Laurence Raw (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars), pp. 160-171. [http://www.academia.edu/5070456/Bringing_the_Mid-West_to_the_Middle_East_An_Analysis_of_a_Harlequin_Romance_in_English_and_Turkish]

;Schell, Heather, 2014. : "Love’s Laborers Lost: Radway, Romance Writers, and Recuperating Our Past." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2.[http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/loves-laborers-lost-radway-romance-writers-and-recuperating-our-pastby-heather-schell/]

;Schiffman, Leon G. and Steven P. Schnaars, 1981. : "The Consumption of Historical Romance Novels: Consumer Aesthetics in Popular Literature." Symbolic Consumer Behavior. (Association for Consumer Research), pp. 46-51.[http://www.acrwebsite.org/volumes/display.asp?id=12226]

;Schwab, Sandra, 2012. : '“It Is Only with One’s Heart That One Can See Clearly”: The Loss of Sight in Teresa Medeiros’s ''The Bride and the Beast'' and ''Yours until Dawn''', ''Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies'' 6.3: 275-289. [http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/2215905617t20842/?p=bd59abac917a43e0bcd2bcdaa775970b&pi=2 Abstract and Excerpt]

;Scott, Alison M. 2002. : 'Romance in the Stacks; or, Popular Romance Fiction Imperiled', in ''Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America'', ed. Lydia Cushman Schurman and Deidre Johnson, Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture, 75 (Westport, CT: Greenwood),pp. 213-224.

;Seale,Maura, 2007. : '"I find some Hindu practices, like burning widows, utterly bizarre": Representation of Sati and Questions of Choice in ''Veils of Silk''.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 129-147. [http://mauraseale.googlepages.com/veils_final_version.doc Unpaginated version]

;[[Kathleen Gilles Seidel | Seidel, Kathleen Gilles]], 1997. : "Half-Risen Venus", ''Paradoxa'' 3.1-2: 250-252. [This is a review of Paul Grescoe's ''Merchants of Venus: Inside Harlequin and the Empire of Romance''.]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2007. : 'Rereading the Romance', ''Contemporary Literature'', 48.2: 307-324.[http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/contemporary_literature/v048/48.2selinger.html] [This is a review article, critiquing earlier works on the romance genre (such as those by Radway and Modleski) and giving more favourable opinions about the newer works under review: Juliet Flesch's ''From Australia with Love: A History of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels''; ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels'', edited by Sally Goade; Deborah Lutz's ''The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative''; Lynn S. Neal's ''Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction''; Pamela Regis's ''A Natural History of the Romance Novel''.]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy and Sarah S. G. Frantz, 2012. : 'Introduction: New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction,' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 1-19. [Includes a brief history of the study of popular romance fiction.] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OSAgWRwoU5YC&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2012. : 'How to Read a Romance Novel (and Fall in Love with Popular Romance),' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 33-46. [Includes analysis of Laura Kinsale's ''Flowers from the Storm''.]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2012. : 'Nothing But Good Times Ahead: A Special Forum on Jennifer Crusie (Editor’s Introduction)', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.2 (2012).[http://jprstudies.org/2012/04/nothing-but-good-times-ahead-a-special-forum-on-jennifer-crusie-editors-introduction/].

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2013. : 'Rebooting the Romance: The Impact of ''A Natural History of the Romance Novel''', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/rebooting-the-romance-the-impact-of-a-natural-history-of-the-romance-novel-by-eric-murphy-selinger/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Selinger_RegisRebooting.pdf as a pdf].]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2014. : 'My Metatextual Romance: Thinking With (and About) ''Jaane Tu Ya Janne Na''', ''Mosaic'' 47.2: 51-66. [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/mosaic/v047/47.2.selinger.html Abstract and excerpt] ["Scholars of popular romance fiction have begun to credit the genre with political and aesthetic self-consciousness, a “metatextual turn” that parallels changes in the academic reception of Hindi popular cinema"]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2015. : 'Editor’s Note: Issue 5.1', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/editors-note-issue-5-1/]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2015. : 'An Interview with Susan Elizabeth Phillips', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/an-interview-with-susan-elizabeth-phillipsby-eric-murphy-selinger/]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy and William A. Gleason, 2016. : "Introduction: Love as the Practice of Freedom?" ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 1-21. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eAckDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT9&ots=aa7Bfg37EE&lr&pg=PT15#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2016. : 'When I Paint My Masterpiece: Bob Dylan, Ekphrasis, and the Art of Susan Elizabeth Phillips', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 297-319.

;Sequeiros, Paula, 2018. : '“Holding the Dream”: Women’s Favorite Reading Matter in a Portuguese Prison', ''Qualitative Sociology Review'' 14.1: 110-128.[Available as a pdf [http://www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/Volume44/QSR_14_1_Sequeiros.pdf from the journal] and also [http://eprints.rclis.org/32292/1/QSR_14_1_leit%20prisao.pdf here].]

;Sewell Matter, Laura, 2007. : “Pursuing the Great Bad Novelist”, ''The Georgia Review'' 61.3 (2007): 444-459. [About Charles Garvice.]

;Serafine, Amelia, 2016. : '"He Filled My Heart with Doubt": The Southern Belle's Love and Duty in the Civil War', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 41-55.

;Serisier, Tanya. 2015. : "On Not Reading Fifty Shades: Feminism and the Fantasy of Romantic Immunity." In ''Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets and Readers,'' 117-132. Jefferson, NC: McFarland,

;Shachar, Hila. 2011. : "A Post-Feminist Romance: Love, Gender and Intertextuality in Stephenie Meyer's Saga." In ''Theorizing Twilight: Critical Essays on What's at Stake in a Post-Vampire World'' 147-161. Eds. Maggie Parke and Natalie Wilson. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011.

;Shapiro, Joan, & Lee Kroeger, 1991. : ‘Is Life a Romantic Novel? The Relationship Between Attitudes About Intimate Relationships and the Popular Media’, ''American Journal of Family Therapy'', 19.3: 226-236. ** [http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a779552378 Abstract]

;Sheehan, Sarah E. and Jen Stevens, 2015. : "Creating a Popular Romance Collection in an Academic Library", ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1. [http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/creating-a-popular-romance-collection-in-an-academic-libraryby-sarah-e-sheehan-and-jen-stevens/]

;Shore, Z. Lesley, 2000. : 'Essay Review', ''Educational Studies'' 31.2: 132-145. [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/S15326993ES3102_4 Abstract], includes the sentence: "The ubiquitous, aggressively marketed series romances that a girl reads in adolescence are read not as mere fantasy or entertainment but as a road map for life. This compelling romantic ideology channels girls narrowly toward heterosexuality and marriage." For similar ideas, expressed at greater length, see Shore's dissertation.]

;Shumway, David R., 1999. : “Romance in the Romance: Love and Marriage in Turn-of-the-Century Best Sellers.” ''Journal of Narrative Theory'' 29.1: 110-134. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/30224546?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Excerpt]

;Sinner, Carsten, 2012. : "Fictional orality in romance novels: Between linguistic reality and editorial requirements." ''The Translation of Fictive Dialogue''. Ed. Jenny Brumme and Anna Espunya. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 119–136.

;Smith, Janet S. Shibamoto. 1999. : "From Hiren to Happi-endo: Romantic Expression in the Japanese Love Story." In ''Languages of Sentiment: Cultural Constructions of Emotional Substrates,'' 131-150. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Benjamins. [[http://benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=AiCR%2018 Extensive excerpt available from Benjamins' website] (click on the "Google Preview" button).]

;Shibamoto Smith, Janet S., 2004. : 'Language and Gender in the (Hetero)Romance: "Reading" the Ideal Hero/ine through Lovers' Dialogue in Japanese Romance Fiction', in ''Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People'', ed. Shigeko Okamoto and Janet S. Shibamoto Smith (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 113-130. ** [http://linguistlist.org/issues/16/16-1676.html Review]

;Shibamoto-Smith, Janet S., 2005. : ‘Translating True Love: Japanese Romantic Fiction, Harlequin-Style’ in ''Gender, Sex and Translation: The Manipulation of Identities'', ed. José Santaemilia (Manchester: St. Jerome Publishing), pp. 97-116. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0EgeCwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA97&ots=_VBVDxRknz&lr=lang_en&pg=PA97#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Shibamoto Smith, Janet S., 2008. : "Changing Lovestyles: Fictional Representations of Contemporary Japanese Men in Love." ''Positions'' 16.2: 359-87. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/positions/summary/v016/16.2.shibamoto-smith.html First Page]

;Simon, Jenni M., 2018. : ''Consuming Agency and Desire in Romance: Stories of Love, Laughter, and Empowerment''. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Q6k7DwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR5&ots=hhP2EqTrMr&sig=r8KErwV2-FueFcFirRZx2xZ9jCQ#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Slušná, Zuzana, 2014. : "Paranormal and Religious as Part of Pop Cultural Consumerism." ''European Journal of Science and Theology'' 10.1: 99-110. [http://www.ejst.tuiasi.ro/Files/48/11_Slusna.pdf]

;Slušná, Zuzana, 2015. : "Postfeminism, Post-romantic and New Patterns of Feminity [sic] in Popular Culture." ''European Journal of Science and Theology'' 11.6: 229-238.[http://www.ejst.tuiasi.ro/Files/55/23_Slusna.pdf]

;Smith, Faith, 1999. :"Beautiful Indians, Troublesome Negroes, and Nice White Men: Caribbean Romances and the Invention of Trinidad." in ''Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation.'' ed. Belinda Edmondson (Charlottesville, VA: UP of Virginia) pp. 163-182. [http://books.google.com/books?id=MxpIIwPyc-sC&lpg=PP1&dq=&pg=PA163#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Snitow, Ann Barr, 1979. : ‘Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women is Different’, ''Radical History Review'' 20 (Spring/Summer 1979):141-61. [http://rhr.dukejournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/1979/20/141?ssource=mfc&rss=1 Excerpt] Republished in ''Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality'' 1983., ed. Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell & Sharon Thompson (New York: Monthly Review Press), pp. 245-263. Excerpt published in "Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader", ed. Mary Eagleton. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MO9xIC7umwwC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA192#v=onepage&q=&f=false of which an excerpt is available online.] [scroll down the page to reach the beginning of the excerpt.] Republished in Ostrov Weisser, ''Women and Romance'' (see above), pp. 307-322.

;Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. 2010. : ''Reading [[Nora Roberts]].'' Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iZb2St4N1oAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false Excerpt]

;Sommer, Doris, 1991. : ''Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America''. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press). [The following two quotes may give an impression of the contents: "Romantic novels go hand in hand with patriotic history in Latin America. The books fueled a desire for domestic happiness that runs over into dreams of national prosperity; and nation-building projects invested private passions with public purpose" ([http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BWAXcZaAEyQC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q&f=false 7]) and "the lovers must imagine their ideal relationship through an alternative society. Once they project that ideal as an image that looks like a wedding portrait, their union [...] becomes the mediating principle that urges the narrative forward like a promise" ([http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BWAXcZaAEyQC&pg=PA18#v=onepage&q&f=false 18]). [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BWAXcZaAEyQC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt].]

;Sonnet, Esther, 1999. : "'Erotic Fiction by Women for Women’: The Pleasures of Post-Feminist Heterosexuality." ''Sexualities,''2.2:167-187. [From the [http://sexualities.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/2/2/167 abstract] [https://www.academia.edu/929962/Erotic_Fiction_by_Women_for_Women_The_Pleasures_of_Post-Feminist_Heterosexuality pdf]: "This article addresses the material construction of female heterosexuality through examination of the mass marketing of women’s pornography - ‘erotic fiction for women by women’ as exemplified by Virgin Publishing’s Black Lace imprint."]

;Sonnet, Esther, 2000. : "What the Woman Reads: Categorising Contemporary Popular Erotica for Women." ''Consuming for Pleasure: Selected Essays on Popular Fiction''. Ed. Julia Hallam and Nickianne Moody. Liverpool: Liverpool John Moores UP and the Association for Research in Popular Fictions. pp. 246-267. [https://www.academia.edu/4305268/What_the_Woman_Reads_Categorising_Contemporary_Popular_Erotica_for_Women pdf] [This article could be considered an expanded version of the previous one, which puts the Black Lace erotica in the context of other fiction for women with sexual content, including romance "bodice-rippers," and discusses the ways in which these texts are classified/assigned to particular genres/subgenres.]

;Sonnet, Esther, 2002. : "'"Just a book", she said ...': Refiguring Ethnography for the Female Readers of Sexual Fiction." ''The Audience Studies Reader''. Ed. Will Brooker & Deborah Jermyn. London: Routledge. pp. 254-273.[https://www.academia.edu/4304721/Just_a_book_she_said..._Reconfiguring_Ethnography_for_the_Female_Readers_of_Sexual_Fiction pdf]

;Spehner, Norbert, 1997. : 'L'Amour, toujours l'amour ...: The Popular Love Story and Romance: A Basic Checklist of Secondary Sources', ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 253-268.

;Spender, Dale, 1986. : "Male Romance." ''Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen'' (London: Pandora), pp. 152-169. [As the title of Spender's book indicates, this is not about modern romance fiction but Spender does mention Harlequin/Mills & Boon and discusses how "romance" has (a) become associated with women and (b) acquired a very low literary status. The title of this chapter reflects a subsidiary definition of "romance" as "picturesque falsehood": "we have in the containment of women, a male romance, a 'picturesque falsehood' constructed in male interest" (162). Some quotes from the chapter can be found [http://teachmetonight.blogspot.com/2011/06/sex-and-sentimentality-on-women-writers.html here].]

;Spigel, Lynn. 1985. : "Detours in the Search for Tomorrow: Tania Modleski's Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women." ''Camera Obscura: A Journal of Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies'' 13-14: 215-234.

;Spillman, K. Elizabeth, 2012. : 'The "Managing Female" in the Novels of Georgette Heyer,' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 84-98.

;Stacey, Jackie & Lynne Pearce, 1995. : 'The Heart of the Matter: Feminists Revisit Romance', in ''Romance Revisited'', ed. Lynne Pearce & Jackie Stacey (New York: New York University Press), pp. 11-45.

;Stafford, Jane. 2016. : "Romance in the Backblocks in New Zealand Popular Fiction, 1930–1950: Mary Scott's Barbara Stories." ''Popular Fiction and Spatiality: Reading Genre Settings,'' Lisa (ed. and introd.) Fletcher, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 63-78

;Stern, Barbara B, 1991. : 'Two Pornographies: A Feminist View of Sex in Advertising', in ''Advances in Consumer Research Volume'' 18. ed. Rebecca H. Holman and Michael R. Solomon (Provo, UT: Association for Consumer Research), pp. 384-391. [http://www.acrwebsite.org/volumes/display.asp?id=7190 Unpaginated version from the Association for Consumer Research's website.]

;Stern, Stephanie C., Brianne Robbins, Jessica E. Black and Jennifer L. Barnes, 2018. : "What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs About Relationships." ''Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts''. Advance online publication. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/aca0000189 Abstract]

;Stieg, Margaret F., 1985. : 'Indian Romances: Tracts for the Times', ''Journal of Popular Culture'', 18.4: 2-15. ['the Indian Romance, flourished between 1890 and 1930. It was a romantic novel set in India, featuring Anglo-Indians (English expatriates living in India) as the leading characters.' (1985: 2)] [http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119508803/abstract Excerpt]

;Still, Julie, 2005. : 'Reading Between the Lines: Librarians as Authors of Fiction', ''LIBRES'' 15.1.[http://libres.curtin.edu.au/libres15n1/Still_2005_02_16.htm] [Discusses Jayne Ann Krentz: "while she does not discuss library issues specifically, the importance of information -- having it, getting it, evaluating it, managing it, using it, and profiting from it, is a clear and present theme in her works"]

;Stoneley, Peter, 1999. : '"Never Love a Cowboy": Romance Fiction and Fantasy Families', ''Writing and Fantasy'', ed. Ceri Sullivan and Barbara White (London: Longman), pp. 223-235. [He argues that since "all desire is fantastical by its very nature" (223), romance is no more unrealistic than many other forms of fiction. He detects an "apparent incommensurability between sexual desire and family values" (226) in Silhouette's "Western Lovers" romances.]

;Stotesbury, John A, 1994. : "Language and Mindstyle in Anglophone Popular Romantic Fiction under Apartheid." ''Logos'' 14: 18-32.

;Stotesbury, John A., 2004 : 'Genre and Islam in Recent Anglophone Romantic Fiction', in ''Refracting the Canon in Contemporary British Literature and Film'', ed. Christian Gutleben & Susana Onega, Postmodern Studies, 35 (Amsterdam: Rodopi), pp. 69-82. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/rodopi/pms/2004/00000035/00000001/art00004 Abstract] **

;Stout, Diana, 2008. : '[[Karen Robards]]', ''Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice'' 2.2/3. [Formerly at [http://www.teachingamericanlit.com/files/Microsoft_Word_-_TALTP-RobardsKaren_not_using.pdf]. Unfortunately this essay appears to have been omitted from a pdf of the entire issue which can be downloaded from [http://www.cpcc.edu/taltp/archives/spring-summer-2008-2-2-3/spring_summer_2008_merged.pdf/at_download/file]].

;Stowers, Eva, 2007. : 'City of Fantasy: Romance Novels in Las Vegas.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 198-205.

;Struve, Laura, 2011. : "Sisters of Sorts: Reading Romantic Fiction and the Bonds Among Female Readers." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 44.6: 1289–1306. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-5931.2011.00901.x/abstract Excerpt]

;Sucatre, Conrad V., 2005 : ''Old School Romance'' (Vintage Romance Publishing).** [I have not been able to identify a place of publication, and clearly this is not an academic publisher. The author says that the book is about 'the romance writing industry as it existed prior to 1950. At my fingertips were the books and biographies of such authors as Faith Baldwin, Emilie Loring, Kathleen Norris, Temple Bailey, Elsa Barker and many others. I assembled all these facts into my book'.[http://www.geocities.com/heathpublishing/]]

;Suman [Sigroha], 2018. : "Gendered Migrations and Literary Narratives: Writing Communities in South Asian Diaspora." ''Millennial Asia'' 9.1: 93-108.[http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0976399617753755] [On "educated skilled women from South Asia who migrate as ‘trailing spouses’" and turn to romance-writing as an alternative, portable career.]

;Suwanban, Pauline, 2018. : "From Exhalation to Transformation: The Female Body in the Orientalist Romance". ''Dandelion: Postgraduate Arts Journal & Research Network'' 9.1 [https://dandelionjournal.org/article/doi/10.16995/ddl.686/ Abstract and link to pdf]

;Swaffield, Audrey-Claire, 1981. : "Paperbacks Promoting Passion! What Is Harlequin Really Presenting?." ''Canadian Woman Studies/Les Cahiers de la Femme'' 3.2: 4-6.

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==D==
;Dalsgaard, Inger H. 2009. : "Consumed by Romance: Narration, Branding, and Participation in the Digital Marketplace." In ''Internet Fictions,'' 128-146. (Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars). [In the [http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/978-1-4438-0108-9-sample.pdf introduction to this volume of essays] the editors mention that "Inger H. Dalsgaard [...] investigates the practices of romance fiction writers and readers on the net through the lense [sic] of late capitalist marketing strategies and ideologies which seek to market products as goods designed by the customer rather than as prefabricated objects: romance sites, she contends, and the marketing of toys for children have a lot more in common than one might suppose."]

;Daly, Brenda O. 1989. : 'Laughing WITH, or Laughing AT the Young-Adult Romance', ''The English Journal'', 78.6: 50-60.

;Danaher, Mike and Margaret Jamieson, 2016. : “On Manoeuvre: Navigating Practice-Led Methodology in a Creative Writing PhD for the First Time.” ''Constructing Methodology for Qualitative Research: Researching Education and Social Practices''. Ed. Bobby Harreveld, Mike Danaher, Celeste Lawson, Bruce Allan Knight and Gillian Busch. London: Palgrave, 2016. 155-169. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lrXsDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [It’s about a Australian PhD on historical romance being written by a mature student who was in prison herself and believes historical romance can empower women.]

;Dandridge, Rita B., 2003. : 'The Race, Gender, Romance Connection: A Black Feminist Reading of African American Women's Historical Romances', in ''Doubled Plots: Romance and History'', see below, pp. 185-201. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lqx4qPr6uroC&pg=PA185&dq=&hl=en&ei=8fsZTPX2H8iosQaVwMzDBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Dandridge, Rita B., 2003. : 'African American Women's Historical Romances: Race and Gender Revisited', ''The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference'', Ed. Leslie Fife, pp. 42-56. [http://robertleston.com/my-files/PAF/2000-2003%20SW-Texas%20PCA-ACA%20Proceedings.pdf Whole proceedings online here.]

;Dandridge, Rita B., 2004. : ''Black Women's Activism: Reading African American Women's Historical Romances'', African-American Literature and Culture, 5 (New York: Peter Lang). [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=106433704 Index and extracts]

;Dandridge, Rita B., 2010. : 'The African American Historical Romance: An Interview with [[Beverly Jenkins]]', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 1.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2010/08/interview-beverly-jenkins-by-rita-b-dandridge/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/JPRS1.1_Dandridge_InterviewBeverlyJenkins.pdf as a pdf].]

;Dandridge, Rita B., 2016. : 'Love Prevailed Despite What American History Said: Agape and Eros in Beverly Jenkins's ''Night Song'' and ''Through the Storm''', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 151-166.

;Dannenberg, Hilary P. 2008. : "Nadine Gordimer's The Pickup and the Desert Romance Tradition in Post/Colonial Anglophone Fiction." ''Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa'' 20, no. 1: 69-88.

;Darbyshire, Peter, 2000. : ‘Romancing the World: [[Harlequin]] Romances, the Capitalist Dream, and the Conquest of Europe and Asia’, ''Studies in Popular Culture'' 23.1 [http://www.pcasacas.org/SPC/spcissues/23.1/darbyshire.htm] [If that link is broken, the article should still be available [http://web.archive.org/web/20050417053043/http://pcasacas.org/SPC/spcissues/23.1/darbyshire.htm via the Internet Archive].]

;Darbyshire, Peter, 2002. : ‘The Politics of Love: [[Harlequin]] Romances and the Christian Right’, ''Journal of Popular Culture'' (Popular Culture Center, Bowling Green State Univ., OH) (35:4) [Spring 2002]: 75-87.

;Dascăl, Reghina, 2012. : 'Raj Matriarchs: Women Authors of Anglo-Indian Romance' In ''Romance: The History of a Genre,'' 179-200. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars. [Excerpt available [http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Romance--The-History-of-a-Genre1-4438-3734-2.htm from here]]

;Davis, Sara N., 2005. : 'Values and the Romance Novel: Journeys of the Reader', in ''Education, Arts and Morality: Creative Journeys'', ed. Doris B. Wallace (Kluwer: New York), pp. 45-62. [http://books.google.com/books?id=VjaK5lke2BUC&pg=PA45&dq=%22values+and+the+romance+novel%22&sig=LMnmHha92Ijpdlb5tll8XuTo7us Excerpt] [This paper "examines the ways in which reader responses are constructed in dialogue with cultural discourses. These provide the context when students read romance novels. Readers enter the process with many negative evaluations of romance novels which conflict with other prevalent discourses valuing romance for women."] [http://www.springerlink.com/content/p117u4m521658t82/?p=cff70741729244d0828f5b65af2b3e0a&pi=2 Details here.]

;Deal, Clare H., 2015. : "‘Throbb[ing] with a consciousness of a knowledge that appalled her’: Embodiment and Female Subjectivity in the Desert Romance", ''Women: A Cultural Review'' 26.1-2: 75-95. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09574042.2015.1035049?src=recsys#.VdNvq7P7s_t Abstract]

;Deffenbacher, Kristina, 2014. : "Rape Myths' Twilight and Women's Paranormal Revenge in Romantic and Urban Fantasy Fiction." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 47.5: 923-936. [http://www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.12179/abstract Abstract]

;De Geest, D., and A. Goris. 2010. : "Constrained writing, creative writing: The case of handbooks for writing romances." ''Poetics Today'' 31, (1): 81-106.[https://www.academia.edu/9990200/Constrained_Writing_Creative_Writing_The_Case_of_Handbooks_for_Writing_Romances]

;Delamoir, Jeanette, 2003. : "Marie Bjelke Petersen's 'Virile Story': ''Jewelled Nights'', Gender Instability, and the Bush", ''Hecate'' 29.1: 115-131. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6655/is_1_29/ai_n29018696/pg_2/?tag=content;col1 Unofficial version]

;Delany, Samuel R., 1987. : “The Gestation of Genres: Literature, Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy ...” ''Intersections: Fantasy and Science Fiction'', eds George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP), pp. 63-73. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Zao2IFNhvQkC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA63#v=onepage&q&f=false]

;DeVries, Susan, Margaret Dunlop, Suzanne Goopy, Wendy Moyle, and Diane Sutherland-Lockhart, 1995. : 'Discipline and Passion: Meaning, Masochism and Mythology in Popular Medical Romances', ''Nursing Inquiry'' 2.4: 203-210. [http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119256839/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 Abstract]

;Diamond, Geneva, 2015. : "Medievalism and the Courtship Plot in Julie Garwood's Popular Romance Novels", in ''The Middle Ages in Popular Culture: Medievalism and Genre'', ed. Helen Young (Amhurst, NY: Cambria). [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vQ1HCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT51&lpg=PT51&source=bl&ots=_PQEh3U222&sig=j9ZJVpa2AjSEeQONOafVm_dfW-A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAGoVChMI-cm8uY3WxwIVBPEUCh1CyQgx#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Diekman, Amanda B., McDonald, Mary, & Gardner, Wendi L., 2000. : 'Love Means Never Having To Be Careful: The Relationship Between Reading Romance Novels and Safe Sex Behavior', ''Psychology of Women Quarterly'', 24.2: 179-188. [http://serials.cib.unibo.it/cgi-ser/start/it/spogli/df-s.tcl?prog_art=3106218&language=ITALIANO&view=articoli Abstract]

;Dillon, George L., 2007. : 'The Genres Speak; Using Large Corpora to Profile Generic Registers.' ''Journal of Literary Semantics,'' 36.2: 159-187. Part II looks at romance fiction. [http://www.msh-reseau.prd.fr/RevuesSom/detailrevue.jsp?Drevue=%22Journalx032;ofx032;literaryx032;semantics%22 Abstract available via this page]

;Dixon, jay, 1987. : 'Fantasy Unlimited: the World of Mills and Boon', ''Women's Review'', 21 (July): 18-19.**

;Dixon, jay, 1999. : ''The Romance Fiction of [[Mills and Boon|Mills & Boon]] 1909-1990s'' (London: UCL Press). [http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1857282663/ref=sib_rdr_toc/103-7667421-4472612?%5Fencoding=UTF8&p=S00A&j=0#reader-page Contents page and excerpt]

;Dixon, Peter, and Marisa Bortolussi. 2009. : "Readers' Knowledge of Popular Genre." ''Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal'' 46, no. 6: 541-571. [http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all?content=10.1080/01638530902959570 Abstract]

;[http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/278 Doubled Plots: Romance and History], 2003. : eds. Susan Strehle and Mary Paniccia Carden (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi).

;Douglas, Ann, 1980. : 'Soft-Porn Culture: Punishing the Liberated Woman.' ''The New Republic'' Vol.183, No.9 （August 30, 1980): 25-29.

;Doyle, Marsha Vanderford, 1985. : "The Rhetoric of Romance: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Barbara Cartland Novels." ''Southern Speech Communication Journal'' 51: 24-48. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10417948509372645#.VQxTdmPNbHI Abstract]

;Dreimane, Jana, 2015. : "Authors, Publishers and Readers of Popular Literature in Latvia in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s." ''Interlitteraria'' 20.2: 56–70. [https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/IL/article/view/IL.2015.20.2.6 Abstract] [http://kleio.ee/index.php/IL/article/viewFile/IL.2015.20.2.6/7604 Full text]

;Driscoll, Beth, 2014. : "Genre, Author, Text, Reader: Teaching Nora Roberts’s ''Spellbound''." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2. [http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/genre-author-text-reader-teaching-nora-robertss-spellboundby-beth-driscoll/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/GATR_Driscoll.pdf as a pdf file]]

;Driscoll, Beth, Lisa Fletcher and Kim Wilkins, 2016. : "Women, Akubras and Ereaders: Romance Fiction and Australian Publishing." ''The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing''. Ed. Emmett Stinson and Aaron Mannion. Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing. 67-87. [https://www.academia.edu/34113634/Women_Akubras_and_Ereaders_Romance_Fiction_and_Australian_Publishing]

;Driscoll, Beth, Lisa Fletcher, Kim Wilkins and David Carter, 2018. : "The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction." ''Creative Industries Journal'' 11.2: 203-221. [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17510694.2018.1480851?scroll=top&needAccess=true Abstract]

;Driscoll, Beth, 2019. : 'Book Blogs as Tastemakers', ''Participations'' 16.1: 280-305.[http://www.participations.org/Volume%2016/Issue%201/14.pdf] [Looks at romance fiction blogs Smart Bitches, Trashy Books (SBTB), Natasha is a Book Junkie (NIABJ), and Joyfully Jay.]

;Driscoll, Catherine, 2006. : "One True Pairing: The Romance of Pornography and the Pornography of Romance." Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays, eds. Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse (Jefferson, NC: McFarland): 79–96. [http://karenhellekson.com/?page_id=38 Abstract] [Pdf can be downloaded [http://usyd.academia.edu/CatherineDriscoll/Papers/649414/One_True_Pairing_The_Romance_of_Pornography_and_the_Pornography_of_Romance from Academia.edu].]

;Dubino, Jeanne. 1993. : “The Cinderella Complex: Romance Fiction, Patriarchy, and Capitalism.” ''Journal of Popular Culture'', 27.3: 103-118.

;Duder, C. J. D., 1991. : “Love and the Lions: The Image of White Settlement in Kenya in Popular Fiction, 1919-1939.” ''African Affairs'', 90.360: 427-38. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/722940 First page.]

;Dudovitz, Resa L., 1990. : ''The Myth of Superwoman: Women's Bestsellers in France and the United States.'' (New York: Routledge). Chapter 4 is 'The boundary between the romance and the bestseller: Harlequins, historical novels and family.'

;Dugger, Julie M., 2014. : "“I’m a Feminist, But…” Popular Romance in the Women’s Literature Classroom." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2. [http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/im-a-feminist-but-popular-romance-in-the-womens-literature-classroomby-julie-m-dugger/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/IAFB_Dugger.pdf as a pdf]]

;Dyhouse, Carol, 2017. : ''Hearthrobs: A History of Women and Desire''. Oxford: Oxford UP. [https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Heartthrobs.html?id=RCuhDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

==E==

;Ebert, Teresa L., 1988. : 'The Romance of Patriarchy: Ideology, Subjectivity, and Postmodern Feminist Cultural Theory', ''Cultural Critique'', 10: 19-57.

;Ebert, Teresa L., 2009. : "Chick Lit: 'Not Your Mother's Romance Novels'." ''The Task of Cultural Critique'' (Urbana: University of Illinois Press), pp. 97-117. [This is Chapter 5 of the book and in order to discuss chick lit Ebert engages in a fair amount of analysis of the romance genre. An excerpt is available [http://books.google.com/books?id=OEYGxoLGApYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA97#v=onepage&q&f=false here].]

;Ebert, Teresa L., 2012. : ‘Hegel's “picture-thinking” as the interpretive logic of the popular’, ''Textual Practice''. [This was first published as an iFirst article so at the time of adding the entry it hadn't yet been been allocated to a particular issue of the journal. "The paper examines Hegel's concept of ‘picture-thinking’ and demonstrates how it has become the commonsense of contemporary popular culture through a close reading of women's romances as exemplary of a popular knowing that emphasizes the sensual concrete and cancels the abstract."[http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2012.719712 Click here for more details.]]

;Edmondson, Belinda, 2007.: 'The Black romance.' " ''Women's Studies Quarterly'' 35.1/2: 191-211. [http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/27649661?uid=3738032&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21100798892481 Excerpt]

;Egan, Jesi, 2016. : 'Cultural Futurity and the Politics of Recovery: Mary Renault's Ambivalent Romances.' ''MFS Modern Fiction Studies'' 62.3: 462-80. [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/631176/summary Abstract]

;Eike, Ann M., 1986. : ‘An Investigation of the Market for Paperback Romance Novels’, ''Journal of Cultural Economics'', 10:1: 25-36.

;Ehnenn, Jill, 1998. : 'Desperately Seeking Susan Among the Trash: Reinscription, Subversion and Visibility in the Lesbian Romance Novel', ''Atlantis'', special issue on "Sexualities and Feminisms", 23.1: 120-127. [http://journals.msvu.ca/index.php/atlantis/article/view/1698 Abstract and link to full text]

;Elliott, Jack, 2014. : 'Patterns and Trends in Harlequin Category Romance', ''Advancing Digital Humanities: Research, Methods, Theories'', Ed. Katherine Bode and Paul Longley Arthur. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9LMaBgAAQBAJ&lpg=PT15&ots=0CaEEtS6Pl&lr&pg=PT69#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Elliott, Jack, 2014. : 'Vocabulary Decay in Category Romance'. ''Digital Scholarship in the Humanities'', Online, December 2014. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqu069 Abstract]

;Elliott, Jack, 2015. : 'Whole Genre Sequencing', ''Digital Scholarship in the Humanities'', Online, August 2015. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqv034 Abstract]

;Emrys, A. B., 1994. : "Magic Regencies: How Fantasy Forms a Hybrid." ''Popular Culture Review'' 5.1: 85-93.

;Engler, Sandra, 2005. :'' "A Career's Wonderful, but Love is More Wonderful Still" : Femininity and Masculinity in the Fiction of Mills & Boon.'' Tübingen: Francke.

;English Studies Group, 1978-9, 1980. : 'Recent Developments in English Studies at the Centre', ''Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 1972-79'', ed. Stuart Hall, Dorothy Hobson, Andrew Lowe and Paul Willis. 1980. London: Taylor & Francis, 2005. 227-262. [See pages 250-262 which "suggest analogies between certain narratives - the novels of [[Barbara Cartland]] - and a particular grammar practised within an historical institution: English teaching from the 1930s to the 1950s" and draws parallels between romance and "Gramsci's characterisation of common sense".]

;Erwin, Lee. 2002. : "Genre and Authority in Some Popular Nigerian Women's Novels." ''Research in African Literatures'' 33, no. 2: 81-99. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/3820975 Excerpt]

;Escolar, Marisa, 2015. : "Marry the Allies? Luciana Peverelli’s ‘True’ ''Romanzo Rosa'' in ‘Liberated’ Rome." ''Italian Culture'' 70.2: 228-248. [http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/0075163415Z.00000000097 Abstract]

;Esquibel, Catrióna Rueda, 1992. : "A Duel of Wits and the Lesbian Romance Novel: Or, Verbal Intercourse in Fictional Regency England." in ''New Perspectives on Women and Comedy.'' Ed. Regina Barreca, (Philadelphia, PA: Gordon and Breach) pp. 123-133.

;Esser, L. G., Adkins, D., & Velasquez, D. L., 2008. : "“The Red Dot District”: Uncommon Ground in Reader Advisory Education and Professional Practice." in ''Educational Media and Technology Yearbook'' 33. Ed. Michael Orey, V. J. McClendon, Robert Maribe Branch. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited. 105–111. **

==F==

;Faktorovich, Anna, 2014. : ''The Formulas of Popular Fiction: Elements of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Religious and Mystery Novels''. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BVeDBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Faktorovich, Anna, 2015. : ''Gender Bias in Mystery and Romance Novel Publishing: Mimicking Masculinity and Femininity''. (Stone Mountain, GA: Anaphora Literary P).

;Faktorovich, Anna, 2015. : "Interview with Mary Jo Putney, Best-Selling Romance Author." ''Pennsylvania Literary Journal'' 7.2:10-24.[http://anaphoraliterary.com/plj/plj-excerpts/interview-with-mary-jo-putney-best-selling-romance-author/ Available in full]

;Fahnestock-Thomas, Mary, 2001. : ''[[Georgette Heyer]]: a Critical Retrospective.'' Saraland,AL: PrinnyWorld Press. [[http://www.amazon.com/Georgette-Heyer-Retrospective-Mary-Fahnestock-Thomas/dp/0966800532 Excerpt available] via Amazon's "Look Inside!" feature. [http://www.biggerbooks.com/bk_detail.aspx?ISBN=9780966800531 Index]]

;Farooqui, Javaria and Rabia Ashraf, 2019. : ‘Reconnaissance of “Difference” in Cognitive Maps: Authenticating Happily Ever After in Julia Quinn’s ''To Sir Philip with Love''’, ''Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences'' 22.2: 71-82. [https://jhss-khazar.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Reconnaissance-of-%E2%80%98Difference%E2%80%99-in-Cognitive-Maps-Authenticating-Happily-Ever-After-in-Julia-Quinn%E2%80%99s-To-Sir-Philip-with-Love.pdf]

;Faura, Salvador, Shelley Godsland, and Nickianne Moody, 2004. : "The Romance Novel, or, the Generalisimo's Control of the Popular Imagination." in ''Reading the Popular in Contemporary Spanish Texts.'' pp. 46-58. (Newark, DE: U of Delaware P.)(About Corin Tellado, Spanish romance novelist) [[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=twRJwNrGreIC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA46,M1 Excerpt here].]

;Felski, Rita, 1990. : 'Kitsch, Romance Fiction And Male Paranoia: Stephen King meets the Frankfurt School', ''Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture'', 4.1.[http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/4.1/Felski.html]

;Feng, Jin, 2011. : 'Men Conquer the World and Women Save Mankind: Rewriting Patriarchal Traditions through Web-based Matriarchal Romances', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 1.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2011/03/men-conquer-the-world-and-women-save-mankind/] ["This article examines one Chinese women's literature website by the name of Jinjiang, and focuses especially on a particular type of popular romance, nüzun, or matriarchal narratives."].

;Feng, Jin, 2013. : ''Romancing the Internet: Producing and Consuming Chinese Web Romance.'' Leiden: Brill. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yQGaAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Finn, Geraldine, 1988. : 'Women, Fantasy, and Popular Culture: The Wonderful World of Harlequin Romance', ''Popular Cultures and Political Practices'', Ed. Richard Gruneau (Toronto: Garamond Press), 51-67.** [A review by Herman Gray in ''Contemporary Sociology'' 19.1 (1990) describes Finn's article as "The real joy of the volume" and there are further details as follows: "Consistent with the Cultural Studies approach, Finn convincingly demonstrates how Harlequin texts and women's experiences of them express the contradictions that structure women's lives. She argues that women readers find refuge in the Harlequin novels, while at the same time such refuge helps to maintain and reproduce structures of domination that women experience" (74). Another summary of Finn's essay can be found in [http://irs.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/25/3/248 a review in the ''International Review for the Sociology of Sport'', 25.3, 248-249 (1990).]

;Fisher, Maryanne and Anthony Cox, 2010. : 'Man Change Thyself: Hero Versus Heroine Development in Harlequin Romance Novels', ''Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology'' 4.4: 305-316. [http://137.140.1.71/jsec/articles/volume4/issue4/FisherVol4Iss4.pdf] or [http://www.maryannefisher.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Fisher_Cox_Neeps2010.pdf].

;Fisher, Maryanne L., and Tami M. Meredith. 2012. : "The Success behind the Candy-Colored Covers: An Evolutionary Perspective on Romance Novels." ''Evolutionary Review'' 3, no. 1: 155-167.

;Flegel, Monica and Jenny Roth, 2010. : 'Annihilating love and heterosexuality without women: Romance, generic difference, and queer politics in "Supernatural" fan fiction', Transformative Works and Cultures 4. [http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/133/147 Available online].

;Flesch, Juliet, 1996. : 'A Labour of Love? Compiling a Bibliography of Twentieth Century Australian Romance Novels', ''APLIS'', 9.3-4: 170-78.

;Flesch, Juliet, 1997. : 'Not just housewives and old maids', ''Collection Building'', 16.3: 119-124. [Describes the content of The Romance Fiction Collection in the University of Melbourne Library, 'the reasons for its establishment and some special aspects of its housing and bibliographical control. Also suggests some of the uses to which it may be put'.] [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mcb/171/1997/00000016/00000003/art00003 Abstract]

;Flesch, Juliet, 2004. : ''From Australia With Love: A History of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels'' (Fremantle, W.A.: Curtin University Books).

;Flesch, Juliet, 2005. : ‘Blushing Bride to Bush Matriarch: Women in the Fiction of [[Lucy Walker]].’ ''Journal of Publishing''. Australian Special Issue. 1 (October 2005): 37-52.**

;Flesch, Juliet, 2007. : 'Love under the Coolabah: Australian Romance Publishing since 1990', in ''Making books: Contemporary Australian Publishing''. Ed. David Carter and Anne Galligan. St. Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press. 279-285. ** [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=p4wu8G4XgH0C&lpg=PP1&ots=XhPwRmBzdP&dq=Making%20books%3A%20Contemporary%20Australian%20Publishing&pg=PA280 Excerpt]

;Flesch, Juliet, 2009. : ‘”Feminists Talk about Sisterhood: I Do Not Know How Deeply They Feel It”: Australian Mass Market Romance Novels and Their Critics,’ ''Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader'', Ed. Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal (New Delhi: SSS Publications, 2009). pp. 419-??. **

;Flesch, Juliet, 2012. : 'The Wide Brown Land and the Big Smoke: The Setting of Australian Popular Romance', ''Sold by the Millions: Australia's Bestsellers''. Ed. Toni Johnson-Woods and Amit Sarwal (Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars), pp. 82-95. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XDIsBwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA82#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [The introduction to this volume of essays can be found [http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Sold-by-the-Millions--Australia-s-Bestsellers1-4438-3584-6.htm here].]

;Fletcher, Lisa, 2003. : "Historical Romance, Gender and Heterosexuality: John Fowles's ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'' and A.S. Byatt's ''Possession''." ''Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies'' 7.1-2: 26-42. [http://eprints.utas.edu.au/540/1/jigs_LF.pdf PDF]

;Fletcher, Lisa, 2004. : ‘“Mere Costumery”? Georgette Heyer’s Cross-Dressing Novels,’ in ''Masquerades: Disguise in English Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present'', Eds. Pilar Sánchez Calle and Jesús López-Paláez Casellas, (Gdansk: University of Gdansk Press), pp. 196-212. [http://eprints.utas.edu.au/538/ Abstract][https://www.academia.edu/1904046/_Mere_costumery_Georgette_Heyers_cross-dressing_novels Download]

;Fletcher, Lisa, 2008. : ''Historical Romance Fiction and Heterosexuality: Heterosexuality and Performativity'', (Ashgate). [Fletcher examines "the connections between popular “classics” by [...] Georgette Heyer, a selection of mass market historical romances published between 1980 and 2005," John Fowles’s ''The French Lieutenant’s Woman'' and A.S. Byatt’s ''Possession''.] [https://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=9945&edition_id=10544 Abstract, Index and Excerpt] and [http://books.google.com/books?id=GK3m60_Q6WIC&dq=&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=I0c5aQHGTM&sig=JjYPIXBRcP6YrWE7-AJxzKOMl5g&hl=en&ei=F40aSuTBI8irjAfz_fDwDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPP1,M1 Excerpts via Google Books].

;Fletcher, Lisa, Rosemary Gaby, and Jennifer Kloester, 2011. : 'Pedagogy Report: Embedding Popular Romance Studies in Undergraduate English Units: Teaching [[Georgette Heyer]]’s ''Sylvester''', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 1.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2011/03/pedagogy-report-embedding-popular-romance-studies-in-undergraduate-english/].

; Fletcher, Lisa, 2013. : 'The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Popular Romance Studies: What is it, and why does it matter?', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/the-scholarship-of-teaching-and-learning-popular-romance-studies-what-is-it-and-why-does-it-matter-by-lisa-fletcher/]. [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Fletcher_Scholarship.pdf as a pdf].]

;Fletcher, Lisa, 2014. : 'Writing the Happy Ever After: An Interview with Anne Gracie', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2. [http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/writing-the-happy-ever-after-an-interview-with-anne-gracieby-lisa-fletcher/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/WTHEA_Fletcher1.pdf as a pdf].]

;Fletcher, Lisa, Beth Driscoll, and Kim Wilkins, 2018. : "Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance", ''Journal of Popular Culture''. Online First 16 July 2018. [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jpcu.12706 Excerpt]

;Fong, Katrina, Justin B. Mullin and Raymond A. Mar, 2013. : "What You Read Matters: The Role of Fiction Genre in Predicting Interpersonal Sensitivity". ''Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts'' 7.4 (2013): 370-376.[http://www.yorku.ca/mar/fong%20et%20al%202013_PACA_what%20you%20read%20matters.pdf]

;Fong, Katrina, Justin B. Mullin, and Raymond A. Mar, 2015. : "How Exposure to Literary Genres Relates to Attitudes Toward Gender Roles and Sexual Behavior." ''Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts''. Advance online publication. 27 April 2015. [http://www.yorku.ca/mar/Fong%20et%20al_PACA_Genre%20and%20sexual%20attitudes.pdf]

;Forbes, Curdella, 2006. : 'X Press Publications: Pop Culture, “Pop Lit” and Caribbean Literary Criticism: An Essay of Provocation', ''Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal'' 4.1. [http://anthurium.miami.edu/volume_4/issue_1/forbes-xpress.html]

;Fordham, Helen, 2014. : '‘That’s love for you’: Destabilizing divides and re-imaging subjectivities in the romantic fiction of Eloisa James.' ''Australasian Journal of Popular Culture'' 3.3: 273-284. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/ajpc/2014/00000003/00000003/art00003 Abstract]

;Foster, Guy Mark, 2007. : 'How Dare a Black Woman Make Love to a White Man! Black Women Romance Novelists and the Taboo of Interracial Desire.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 103-128. [http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1academicnews/004466.shtml Article about Foster's research and this item.]

;Foster, Guy Mark, 2015. : 'What To Do If Your Inner Tomboy Is a Homo: Straight Women, Bisexuality, and Pleasure in M/M Gay Romance Fictions', ''Journal of Bisexuality'', Published online first. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15299716.2015.1092910 Abstract]

;Fox, Pamela, 1994. : 'The "Revolt of the Gentle": Romance and the Politics of Resistance in Working-Class Women's Writing', ''NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction'', 27.2: 140-160. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/1345818 Excerpt]

;Fowler, Bridget, 1979. : ' "True to Me Always": An Analysis of Women's Magazine Fiction', ''The British Journal of Sociology'' 30.1: 91-119. [http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/589503 Abstract] [Fowler takes "for analysis stories published in popular twopenny magazines and sampled them at four-weekly intervals for the period mid-1929 to mid-1930".]

;Fowler, Bridget, 1991. : ''The Alienated Reader: Women and Popular Romantic Literature in the Twentieth Century'' (Brighton: Harvester Wheatsheaf).

;Francis, Conseula and Alison Piepmeier, 2011. : 'Interview: Joanna Russ,' ''Journal of Popular romance Studies'' 1.2. [http://jprstudies.org/2011/03/interview-joanna-russ/] ["In this interview, Russ reflects on her initial responses to slash fandom and considers its political and social meanings in the 1980s and today."]

;Francis, Conseula, 2016. : 'Flipping the Script: Romancing Zane's Urban Erotica', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 167-180.

;Franco, Jean, 1986. : "The Incorporation of Women: A Comparison of North American and Mexican Popular Narrative." in ''Studies in Entertainment: Critical Approaches to Mass Culture.'' Ed. Tania Modleski, (Bloomington: Indiana UP), pp. 119-138. [Especially Harlequin Romances; treatment of women; compared to photonovel. Franco says that "While there is an obvious risk in laying too much emphasis on a single example, I am now going to do precisely that" and chooses to take as a specific example of a Harlequin romance ''[[Moon Witch |Moonwitch]]'' [sic] by [[Anne Mather |Ann Mather]] [sic]."] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7uRtV1ZzHY8C&lpg=PR18&ots=X8_Sf_8M6H&dq=&pg=PA126#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Franco, Jean, 2004. : "Plotting Women: Popular Narratives for Women in the United States and in Latin America." in ''The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader.'' Eds. Ana Del Sarto, Alicia Ríos, and Abril Trigo, (Durham, NC: Duke UP) pp. 183-202.

;Franssen, Thomas and Olav Velthuis, 2014. : 'Making materiality matter: a sociological analysis of prices on the Dutch fiction book market, 1980–2009.' ''Socio-Economic Review''. [http://ser.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/08/07/ser.mwu025.abstract Abstract] ["in terms of size, romance books are smaller than all other books: on average 18.48 cm, which is 1.5 cm less than the other genres. This implies that each romance novel is, just because of its size, 24% cheaper than other genres."]

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2002. : "'Expressing' Herself: The Romance Novel and the Feminine Will to Power," in ''Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America.'' Eds. Lydia Cushman Schurman and Deidre Johnson. (Connecticut: Greenwood Press) pp. 17-36. [http://www.academia.edu/411174/_Expressing_Herself_The_Romance_Novel_and_the_Feminine_Will_to_Power Abstract]

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2008. : '[[Suzanne Brockmann]]', ''Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice'' 2.2/3. [Formerly at [http://www.teachingamericanlit.com/files/Microsoft_Word_-_TALTP-BrockmannSuzanne.pdf]. This link no longer works but a pdf of the entire issue can be downloaded from [http://www.cpcc.edu/taltp/archives/spring-summer-2008-2-2-3/spring_summer_2008_merged.pdf/at_download/file]].

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2009. : 'Darcy’s Vampiric Descendants: Austen’s Perfect Romance Hero and J. R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood', ''Persuasions On-line'' 30.1. [http://jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol30no1/frantz.html]

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2009. : "'I’ve tried my entire life to be a good man': [[Suzanne Brockmann]]’s Sam Starrett, Ideal Romance Hero." ''Women Constructing Men: Female Novelists and their Male Characters, 1750-2000''. Ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Katharina Rennhak. (Lanham, MD: Lexington), pp. 227-247. [http://books.google.com/books?id=ByCOQZD0WeYC&pg=PA227#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2012. : ' "How we love ''is'' our soul": Joey W. Hill's BDSM Romance ''Holding the Cards'',' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 47-59.

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2012. : “The History of BDSM Fiction and Romance,” ''Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey'', ed. Lori Perkins (Dallas, TX: BenBella Books), pp. 159-172.

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2013. : 'On the Tenth Anniversary of Pamela Regis’s ''A Natural History of the Romance Novel''', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/on-the-tenth-anniversary-of-pamela-regiss-a-natural-history-of-the-romance-novel-by-sarah-s-g-frantz/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Frantz_RegisOnTenth.pdf as a pdf].]

;Frantz Lyons, Sarah and Eric Murphy Selinger, 2016. : 'Strange Stirrings, Strange Yearnings: ''The Flame and the Flower'', ''Sweet Savage Love'', and the Lost Diversities of Blockbuster Historical Romance', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 89-110.

;Frederick, Rhonda. 2013.: "Making Jamaican Love: Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain and Romance-ified Diaspora Identities." ''Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal Of Criticism'' 17, no. 3: 63-84.

;Frenier, Mariam Darce, 1988. : ''Good-bye Heathcliff: Changing Heroes, Heroines, Roles, and Values in Women’s [[Category]] Romances'', Contributions in Women’s Studies, no. 94. (New York: Greenwood Press). [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=27366802 Contents page and excerpts]

;Friedman, Lenemaja, 1990. : ''Mary Stewart'', Twayne's English Authors Series, 474 (Boston: Twayne). [Chapters 1-4 discuss Mary Stewart's romantic suspense novels, giving the reader what is, in effect, a detailed synopsis and review of each novel.]

;Frolund, Tina, 2007.: ''Genrefied Classics: A Guide to Reading Interests in Classic Literature.'' (Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited) Has a section on Romance Literature. [According to [http://doi.contentdirections.com/mr/greenwood.jsp?doi=10.1336/1591581729 the abstract], "By identifying the genre characteristics of more than 400 classic fiction works, and organizing titles according to those features, it helps readers find the types of books they enjoy; and it helps you promote classics to teen (and adult!) readers."]

;Fuchs, Barbara, 2004. : ''Romance''. The New Critical Idiom. Ed. John Drakakis. New York: Routledge. [See the chapter on "Romance and 'genre' literature," on pages 124-130]. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QZGMt8gSaasC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA124#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] and [http://www.routledgeliterature.com/books/Romance-isbn9780415212618 Index and excerpt available via the "View Inside" feature at Routledge's website]

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;Ganguly, Keya. 1991. : 'Alien(ated) Readers: Harlequin Romances and the Politics of Popular Culture', ''Communication'', 12.2: 129-50.

;Gardner, Jeanne Emerson. 2013. : "She Got Her Man, but Could She Keep Him? Love and Marriage in American Romance Comics, 1947–1954." ''Journal Of American Culture'' 36, no. 1: 16-24. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jacc.12009/abstract Excerpt]

;Gardner, Jeanne. 2012. : "Girls Who Sinned in Secret and Paid in Public: Romance Comics, 1949-1954." In ''Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns'', 92-102. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012

;Gardner, Jeanne. 2011. :"'True-To-Life': Romance Comics and Teen-Age Desire, 1947-1954." ''Forum for World Literature Studies,'' vol. 3, no. 1, Apr. 2011, pp. 118-128.

;Gargano, Elizabeth, 2006. : ' "English Sheiks" and Arab Stereotypes: E. M. Hull, T. E. Lawrence, and the Imperial Masquerade', ''Texas Studies in Literature and Language'' 48.2: 171-186. [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/texas_studies_in_literature_and_language/v048/48.2gargano.html Excerpt]

;Garland, Sarah, 2012. : 'Ornamentalism: Desire, Disavowal, and Displacement in E. M. Hull's ''The Sheik''', ''Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers from Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code'', ed. Sarah Churchwell and Thomas Ruys Smith (London: Continuum), pp. 197-216.

;Garton, Stephen, 2008. : "'Fit Only for the Scrap Heap': Rebuilding Returned Soldier Manhood in Australia After 1945." ''Gender & History'' 20.1: 48-67. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/gend/2008/00000020/00000001/art00004?crawler=true Abstract]

;Gates, Sarah, 2016. : "Feminism, NASCAR and the Italian billionaire's secret baby: Defending the romance genre." ''Voiceworks'' 103 (Autumn): 95-101. [https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=310777771841114;res=IELLCC Abstract]

;Geest, Dirk de, and An Goris, 2010. : "Constrained Writing, Creative Writing: The Case of Handbooks for Writing Romances." ''Poetics Today'' 31, no. 1: 81-106. [http://poeticstoday.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/31/1/81 Abstract]

;Gelder, Ken, 2004. : ''Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field'' (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge). [See the section on "Romance, formula, industry, subgenres" on pages 43-52.] [http://books.google.com/books?id=7VHERzW1-LMC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA43#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt.]

;Gelder, Ken and Rachael Weaver, 2010. : "Louise Mack and Colonial Pseudo Literature." ''Southerly'' 70.2: 82-95.[https://www.academia.edu/29357278/Louise_Mack_and_Colonial_Pseudo_Literature_2010_]

;Gehrmann, Susanne, 2018. : “Remediating Romance: Forms and Functions of New Media in Contemporary Love Stories from Togo and South Africa”. ''Africa Today'' 65.1: 65-84. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/africatoday.65.1.05?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Abstract]

;Gifford, James, 2017. : “Mary Stewart’s Greek Novels: Hellenism, Orientalism and the Cultural Politics of Pulp Presentation.” ''Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013''. Ed. Eleni Papargyriou, Semele Assinder and David Holton. New York: Peter Lang, 2017. 99-118. [https://www.peterlang.com/view/9781433140488/chapter06.xhtml Excerpt]

;Gilbert, Pam and Sandra Taylor, 1993. : "Reading the Romance," ''Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies''. Ed. Graeme Turner. London: Routledge. 246-??? ** [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=suAOAAAAQAAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA246#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Gill, Rosalind and Elena Herdieckerhoff. 2006. : “Rewriting the Romance: New Femininities in Chick Lit?” ''Feminist Media Studies'' 6.4 (2006): 487-504.[http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a768577256~db=all] Rpt. in ''LSE Research Online''. 2007. LSE Lib., London School of Economics and Political Science. <http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/2514>.

;Gillis, Bryan and Joanna Simpson, 2015. : ''Sexual Content in Young Adult Literature: Reading between the Sheets'' (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield). [See Chapter 6 on "Sexual Content in Young Adult Romance".] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uVamBgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA101#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Gillis, Stacy, 2015. : "The Cross-Dresser, the Thief, His Daughter and Her Lover: Queer Desire and Romance in Georgette Heyer’s ''These Old Shades''", ''Women: A Cultural Review'' 26.1-2: 57-74. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09574042.2015.1035024#.VdNvqLP7s_t Abstract]

;Gillis, Stacy, 2018. : “Manners, Money, and Marriage: Austen, Heyer, and the Literary Genealogy of the Regency Romance”. ''After Austen: Reinventions, Rewritings, Revisitings''. Ed. Lisa Hopkins. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 81-101.

;Glass, E. R., and A. Mineo. 1986. : "Georgette Heyer and the Uses of Regency." In Marucci, Franco (ed.); Bruttini, Adriano (ed.) ''La performance del testo,'' 283-292. Siena: Ticci.

;Gleason, William, 2011. : “Belles, Beaux, and Paratexts: American Story Papers and the Project of Romance.” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1 [http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%E2%80%9Cbelles-beaux-and-paratexts-american-story-papers-and-the-project-of-romance%E2%80%9D-by-william-gleason/]

;Gleason, William A, 2016. : 'Postbellum, Pre-Harlequin: American Romance Publishing in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 57-70.

;Gleason, William, 2016. : "The Inside Story: Jennifer Crusie and the Architecture of Love." ''Popular Fiction and Spatiality: Reading Genre Settings''. Ed. Lisa Fletcher. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 79-93. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pz5rDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA80#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-137-56902-8_6 Abstract]

;Goade, Sally, 2007. : 'Introduction' pp. 1-11 and 'Understanding the Pleasure: An Undergraduate Romance Reading Community.' pp. 206-230 in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing). Edited by Goade. [pdf of table of contents, introduction and first chapter [http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Empowerment-versus-Oppression--Twenty-First-Century-Views-of-Popular-Romance-Novels.htm here]]

;Goldman, Crystal, 2012. : “Love in the Stacks: Popular Romance Collection Development in Academic Libraries,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2012/10/love-in-the-stacks-popular-romance-collection-development-in-academic-libraries-by-crystal-goldman/]

;Goldman, Crystal, 2015. : “Special Issue: Romancing the Library (Editor’s Introduction),” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/special-issue-romancing-the-library-editors-introductionby-crystal-goldman/]

;Golubov, Nattie, 2017. : "Reading the Romance Writer as an Author-Entrepreneur," ''Interférences littéraires/Literaire interferenties'' 21 (December), "Gendered Authorial Corpographies", Ed. Aina Pérez Fontdevila & Meri Torras Francès, 131-160. [http://www.interferenceslitteraires.be/node/748 Abstract and link to pdf]

;Gómez Calderón, María José. : “Romancing the Dark Ages: The Viking Hero in Sentimental Narrative.” ''Boletín Millares Carlo'' 26 (2007): 287-97.[http://mdc.ulpgc.es/cdm/ref/collection/bolmc/id/374]

;González-Cruz, Maria-Isabel. 2015. : "Love in Paradise: Visions of the Canaries in a Corpus of Popular Romance Fiction Novels". ''Oceánide'', Journal of the Spanish Society for the Study of Popular Culture SELICUP, vol. 7.[http://oceanide.netne.net/articulos/art7-4.pdf]

;González-Cruz, Maria-Isabel, 2016. : "Discourse Types and Functions in Popular Romance Fiction Novels ("Work in Progress")." ''On the move: Glancing Backwards To Build a Future in English Studies'' Ed. Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz and Jon Ortiz de Urbina Arruabarrena. Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto. 265-271.

;González Cruz, Maria Isabel, 2017. : 'Exploring the dynamics of English/Spanish codeswitching in a written corpus', ''Alicante Journal of English Studies / Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses'' 30: 331-355. [http://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/72178 Abstract and link to pdf]

;González Mínguez, M. Teresa, 2010. : "Who is more fragile? A study of heroes and heroines in the twentieth century romantic fiction of [[Mills and Boon]]." ''Cuadernos Kóre'' [http://hosting01.uc3m.es/ojs/index.php/KORE/issue/view/22 1.2]: 179-192. [[http://hosting01.uc3m.es/ojs/index.php/KORE/article/view/225 Abstract] and [http://kusan.uc3m.es/CIAN/index.php/CK/article/view/1044/485 PDF].]

;Goodwin, Sarah Webster, 1997. : "Romance and Change: Teaching the Romance to Undergraduates.", ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 233-241.

;Gordis, Lisa M., 2016. : '"Jesus loves your girl more than you do": Marriage as Triangle in Evangelical Romance and Puritan Narratives', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 323-346.

;Goris, An, 2009. : "Romance the World Over," in ''Global Cultures''. Ed. Frank A. Salamone. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars. pp. 59-?? ** [Discusses the worldwide translation, production and distribution of Harlequins.] [http://kuleuven.academia.edu/AnGoris/Papers/88815/Romance-the-World-Over Abstract]

;Goris, An, 2011. : “Matricide in Romance Scholarship? Response to Pamela Regis’ Keynote Address at the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%E2%80%9Cmatricide-in-romance-scholarship-response-to-pamela-regis%E2%80%99-keynote-address-at-the-second-annual-conference-of-the-international-association-for-the-study-of-popular-romance%E2%80%9D/]

;Goris, An, 2012. : "Loving by the Book: Voice and Romance Authorship," in ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction. Critical Essays.'' Ed. Frantz, Sarah S.G. and Selinger, Eric Murphy. Jefferson: McFarland. pp. 73-83.

;Goris, An, 2012. : "Mind, Body, Love: Nora Roberts and the Evolution of Popular Romance Studies," ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2012/10/mind-body-love-nora-roberts-and-the-evolution-of-popular-romance-studies-by-an-goris/]

;Goris, An, 2013. : '''A Natural History of the Romance Novel''’s Enduring Romance with Popular Romance Studies', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/a-natural-history-of-the-romance-novels-enduring-romance-with-popular-romance-studies-by-an-goris/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Goris_RegisEnduring.pdf as a pdf].]

;Goris, An, 2013. : "Happily Ever After ... And After: Serialization and the Popular Romance Novel." ''Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present)'' 12.1 [http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/articles/spring_2013/goris.htm]

;Goris, An, 2015. : "Hidden Codes of Love : The Materiality of the Category Romance Novel." ''Belphégor''.[http://belphegor.revues.org/616]

;Goșa, Codruța. 2012. : "Sex and the Genre: The Role of Sex in Popular Romance." In ''Romance: The History of a Genre,'' 14-28. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars. [Nora Roberts, Sandra Brown, Judith McNaught] [Excerpt available [http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Romance--The-History-of-a-Genre1-4438-3734-2.htm from here]]

;Graham, Robert J., 1989. : “Media Literacy and Cultural Politics.” ''Adult Education Quarterly'' 39.3: 152-60. [http://aeq.sagepub.com/content/39/3/152.short Abstract] ["Through an analysis of two representative media-romance fiction and television news programs-this article argues for the production of a more media-literate citizenry. The section on women's romances addresses the confluence of a commercial, institutional and ideological matrix that poses crucial problems of a socio-cultural nature." The section on romance is mostly based on Radway's ''Reading the Romance''.]

;Graves, Joanne, 2014. : 'Beyond Valentine's Day: The romance novel in the evolving world of publishing', LIANZA Conference 2014, 12-15 October, Auckland, New Zealand: Pou Whakairo: Connect and Thrive. [LIANZA is the Library and Information Association of New Zealand. The article discusses New Zealand libraries and romance authors.][http://www.lianza.org.nz/sites/default/files/Graves_J_Beyond_Valentines_Day.pdf]

;Graybill, Beth. 2010. : "Chasing the Bonnet: The Premise and Popularity of Writing Amish Women." ''Journal of the Center for Mennonite Writing'' 2, no. 4: 1-6. [http://www.mennonitewriting.org/journal/2/4/bonnet-fiction/]

;Greenfeld-Benovitz, Miriam, 2012. : 'The Interactive Romance Community: The Case of "Covers Gone Wild",' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 195-205.

;Greenwood, Alice. 1983. : "Language Stereotypes in Mass Market Romances." ''CUNYForum: Papers in Linguistics'' 9: 157-173.

;Greer, Germaine, 1971. : ''The Female Eunuch'' (London: Paladin). [First published in 1970, there is a chapter on romance (pages 171-189in this edition) in which she critiques [[Georgette Heyer]]'s ''Regency Buck'', [[Barbara Cartland]]'s ''The Wings of Love'' and [[Lucy Walker]]'s ''The Loving Heart''.]

;Grescoe, Paul, 1996. : ''The Merchants of Venus: Inside [[Harlequin]] and the Empire of Romance'' (Vancouver: Raincoast). [ [[Kathleen Gilles Seidel]]'s "Half-Risen Venus", ''Paradoxa'' 3.1-2 (1997): 250-252 is a review of this book.]

;Griffin, Susan E., 1997. : "Resistance and Reinvention in Sandra Cisneros' ''Woman Hollering Creek''." ''Ethnicity and the American Short Story'', ed. Julie Brown (New York: Garland), pp. 85-96. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vT_7cLnnUlUC&lpg=PA85&lr=lang_en&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] ["Cisneros' [...] 'Woman Hollering Creek,' is the story in which she most clearly illustrates the negative effects of popular romance genres' portrayal of women, and it is also the story in which she begins to illustrate how women can resist the romance narrative" (87).]

;Griswold, Wendy, and Misty Bastian, 1987. : “Continuities and Reconstructions in Cross-cultural Literary Transmission: The Case of the Nigerian Romance Novel.” ''Poetics'' 16.3-4: 327-351. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0304-422X(87)90010-6 Abstract]

;Griswold, Wendy, 1989. : "Formulaic Fiction: The Author as Agent of Elective Affinity." ''Comparative Social Research.'' 11: 75-130.

;Gruner, Elisabeth Rose, 2019. : ''Constructing the Adolescent Reader in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction''. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/978-1-137-53924-3 Abstract] [See in particular Chapter 3, "Misreading the Classics: Gender, Genre, and Agency in YA Romance", pp. 51-84.]

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==D==
;Dalsgaard, Inger H. 2009. : "Consumed by Romance: Narration, Branding, and Participation in the Digital Marketplace." In ''Internet Fictions,'' 128-146. (Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars). [In the [http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/978-1-4438-0108-9-sample.pdf introduction to this volume of essays] the editors mention that "Inger H. Dalsgaard [...] investigates the practices of romance fiction writers and readers on the net through the lense [sic] of late capitalist marketing strategies and ideologies which seek to market products as goods designed by the customer rather than as prefabricated objects: romance sites, she contends, and the marketing of toys for children have a lot more in common than one might suppose."]

;Daly, Brenda O. 1989. : 'Laughing WITH, or Laughing AT the Young-Adult Romance', ''The English Journal'', 78.6: 50-60.

;Danaher, Mike and Margaret Jamieson, 2016. : “On Manoeuvre: Navigating Practice-Led Methodology in a Creative Writing PhD for the First Time.” ''Constructing Methodology for Qualitative Research: Researching Education and Social Practices''. Ed. Bobby Harreveld, Mike Danaher, Celeste Lawson, Bruce Allan Knight and Gillian Busch. London: Palgrave, 2016. 155-169. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lrXsDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [It’s about a Australian PhD on historical romance being written by a mature student who was in prison herself and believes historical romance can empower women.]

;Dandridge, Rita B., 2003. : 'The Race, Gender, Romance Connection: A Black Feminist Reading of African American Women's Historical Romances', in ''Doubled Plots: Romance and History'', see below, pp. 185-201. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lqx4qPr6uroC&pg=PA185&dq=&hl=en&ei=8fsZTPX2H8iosQaVwMzDBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Dandridge, Rita B., 2003. : 'African American Women's Historical Romances: Race and Gender Revisited', ''The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference'', Ed. Leslie Fife, pp. 42-56. [http://robertleston.com/my-files/PAF/2000-2003%20SW-Texas%20PCA-ACA%20Proceedings.pdf Whole proceedings online here.]

;Dandridge, Rita B., 2004. : ''Black Women's Activism: Reading African American Women's Historical Romances'', African-American Literature and Culture, 5 (New York: Peter Lang). [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=106433704 Index and extracts]

;Dandridge, Rita B., 2010. : 'The African American Historical Romance: An Interview with [[Beverly Jenkins]]', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 1.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2010/08/interview-beverly-jenkins-by-rita-b-dandridge/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/JPRS1.1_Dandridge_InterviewBeverlyJenkins.pdf as a pdf].]

;Dandridge, Rita B., 2016. : 'Love Prevailed Despite What American History Said: Agape and Eros in Beverly Jenkins's ''Night Song'' and ''Through the Storm''', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 151-166.

;Dannenberg, Hilary P. 2008. : "Nadine Gordimer's The Pickup and the Desert Romance Tradition in Post/Colonial Anglophone Fiction." ''Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa'' 20, no. 1: 69-88.

;Darbyshire, Peter, 2000. : ‘Romancing the World: [[Harlequin]] Romances, the Capitalist Dream, and the Conquest of Europe and Asia’, ''Studies in Popular Culture'' 23.1 [http://www.pcasacas.org/SPC/spcissues/23.1/darbyshire.htm] [If that link is broken, the article should still be available [http://web.archive.org/web/20050417053043/http://pcasacas.org/SPC/spcissues/23.1/darbyshire.htm via the Internet Archive].]

;Darbyshire, Peter, 2002. : ‘The Politics of Love: [[Harlequin]] Romances and the Christian Right’, ''Journal of Popular Culture'' (Popular Culture Center, Bowling Green State Univ., OH) (35:4) [Spring 2002]: 75-87.

;Dascăl, Reghina, 2012. : 'Raj Matriarchs: Women Authors of Anglo-Indian Romance' In ''Romance: The History of a Genre,'' 179-200. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars. [Excerpt available [http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Romance--The-History-of-a-Genre1-4438-3734-2.htm from here]]

;Davis, Sara N., 2005. : 'Values and the Romance Novel: Journeys of the Reader', in ''Education, Arts and Morality: Creative Journeys'', ed. Doris B. Wallace (Kluwer: New York), pp. 45-62. [http://books.google.com/books?id=VjaK5lke2BUC&pg=PA45&dq=%22values+and+the+romance+novel%22&sig=LMnmHha92Ijpdlb5tll8XuTo7us Excerpt] [This paper "examines the ways in which reader responses are constructed in dialogue with cultural discourses. These provide the context when students read romance novels. Readers enter the process with many negative evaluations of romance novels which conflict with other prevalent discourses valuing romance for women."] [http://www.springerlink.com/content/p117u4m521658t82/?p=cff70741729244d0828f5b65af2b3e0a&pi=2 Details here.]

;Deal, Clare H., 2015. : "‘Throbb[ing] with a consciousness of a knowledge that appalled her’: Embodiment and Female Subjectivity in the Desert Romance", ''Women: A Cultural Review'' 26.1-2: 75-95. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09574042.2015.1035049?src=recsys#.VdNvq7P7s_t Abstract]

;Deffenbacher, Kristina, 2014. : "Rape Myths' Twilight and Women's Paranormal Revenge in Romantic and Urban Fantasy Fiction." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 47.5: 923-936. [http://www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.12179/abstract Abstract]

;De Geest, D., and A. Goris. 2010. : "Constrained writing, creative writing: The case of handbooks for writing romances." ''Poetics Today'' 31, (1): 81-106.[https://www.academia.edu/9990200/Constrained_Writing_Creative_Writing_The_Case_of_Handbooks_for_Writing_Romances]

;Delamoir, Jeanette, 2003. : "Marie Bjelke Petersen's 'Virile Story': ''Jewelled Nights'', Gender Instability, and the Bush", ''Hecate'' 29.1: 115-131. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6655/is_1_29/ai_n29018696/pg_2/?tag=content;col1 Unofficial version]

;Delany, Samuel R., 1987. : “The Gestation of Genres: Literature, Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy ...” ''Intersections: Fantasy and Science Fiction'', eds George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP), pp. 63-73. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Zao2IFNhvQkC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA63#v=onepage&q&f=false]

;DeVries, Susan, Margaret Dunlop, Suzanne Goopy, Wendy Moyle, and Diane Sutherland-Lockhart, 1995. : 'Discipline and Passion: Meaning, Masochism and Mythology in Popular Medical Romances', ''Nursing Inquiry'' 2.4: 203-210. [http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119256839/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 Abstract]

;Diamond, Geneva, 2015. : "Medievalism and the Courtship Plot in Julie Garwood's Popular Romance Novels", in ''The Middle Ages in Popular Culture: Medievalism and Genre'', ed. Helen Young (Amhurst, NY: Cambria). [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vQ1HCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT51&lpg=PT51&source=bl&ots=_PQEh3U222&sig=j9ZJVpa2AjSEeQONOafVm_dfW-A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAGoVChMI-cm8uY3WxwIVBPEUCh1CyQgx#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Diekman, Amanda B., McDonald, Mary, & Gardner, Wendi L., 2000. : 'Love Means Never Having To Be Careful: The Relationship Between Reading Romance Novels and Safe Sex Behavior', ''Psychology of Women Quarterly'', 24.2: 179-188. [http://serials.cib.unibo.it/cgi-ser/start/it/spogli/df-s.tcl?prog_art=3106218&language=ITALIANO&view=articoli Abstract]

;Dillon, George L., 2007. : 'The Genres Speak; Using Large Corpora to Profile Generic Registers.' ''Journal of Literary Semantics,'' 36.2: 159-187. Part II looks at romance fiction. [http://www.msh-reseau.prd.fr/RevuesSom/detailrevue.jsp?Drevue=%22Journalx032;ofx032;literaryx032;semantics%22 Abstract available via this page]

;Dixon, jay, 1987. : 'Fantasy Unlimited: the World of Mills and Boon', ''Women's Review'', 21 (July): 18-19.**

;Dixon, jay, 1999. : ''The Romance Fiction of [[Mills and Boon|Mills & Boon]] 1909-1990s'' (London: UCL Press). [http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1857282663/ref=sib_rdr_toc/103-7667421-4472612?%5Fencoding=UTF8&p=S00A&j=0#reader-page Contents page and excerpt]

;Dixon, Peter, and Marisa Bortolussi. 2009. : "Readers' Knowledge of Popular Genre." ''Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal'' 46, no. 6: 541-571. [http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all?content=10.1080/01638530902959570 Abstract]

;[http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/278 Doubled Plots: Romance and History], 2003. : eds. Susan Strehle and Mary Paniccia Carden (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi).

;Douglas, Ann, 1980. : 'Soft-Porn Culture: Punishing the Liberated Woman.' ''The New Republic'' Vol.183, No.9 （August 30, 1980): 25-29.

;Doyle, Marsha Vanderford, 1985. : "The Rhetoric of Romance: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Barbara Cartland Novels." ''Southern Speech Communication Journal'' 51: 24-48. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10417948509372645#.VQxTdmPNbHI Abstract]

;Dreimane, Jana, 2015. : "Authors, Publishers and Readers of Popular Literature in Latvia in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s." ''Interlitteraria'' 20.2: 56–70. [https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/IL/article/view/IL.2015.20.2.6 Abstract] [http://kleio.ee/index.php/IL/article/viewFile/IL.2015.20.2.6/7604 Full text]

;Driscoll, Beth, 2014. : "Genre, Author, Text, Reader: Teaching Nora Roberts’s ''Spellbound''." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2. [http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/genre-author-text-reader-teaching-nora-robertss-spellboundby-beth-driscoll/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/GATR_Driscoll.pdf as a pdf file]]

;Driscoll, Beth, Lisa Fletcher and Kim Wilkins, 2016. : "Women, Akubras and Ereaders: Romance Fiction and Australian Publishing." ''The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing''. Ed. Emmett Stinson and Aaron Mannion. Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing. 67-87. [https://www.academia.edu/34113634/Women_Akubras_and_Ereaders_Romance_Fiction_and_Australian_Publishing]

;Driscoll, Beth, 2019. : 'Book Blogs as Tastemakers', ''Participations'' 16.1: 280-305.[http://www.participations.org/Volume%2016/Issue%201/14.pdf] [Looks at romance fiction blogs Smart Bitches, Trashy Books (SBTB), Natasha is a Book Junkie (NIABJ), and Joyfully Jay.]

;Driscoll, Catherine, 2006. : "One True Pairing: The Romance of Pornography and the Pornography of Romance." Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays, eds. Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse (Jefferson, NC: McFarland): 79–96. [http://karenhellekson.com/?page_id=38 Abstract] [Pdf can be downloaded [http://usyd.academia.edu/CatherineDriscoll/Papers/649414/One_True_Pairing_The_Romance_of_Pornography_and_the_Pornography_of_Romance from Academia.edu].]

;Driscoll, Beth, Lisa Fletcher, Kim Wilkins and David Carter, 2018. : "The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction." ''Creative Industries Journal'' 11.2: 203-221. [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17510694.2018.1480851?scroll=top&needAccess=true Abstract]

;Dubino, Jeanne. 1993. : “The Cinderella Complex: Romance Fiction, Patriarchy, and Capitalism.” ''Journal of Popular Culture'', 27.3: 103-118.

;Duder, C. J. D., 1991. : “Love and the Lions: The Image of White Settlement in Kenya in Popular Fiction, 1919-1939.” ''African Affairs'', 90.360: 427-38. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/722940 First page.]

;Dudovitz, Resa L., 1990. : ''The Myth of Superwoman: Women's Bestsellers in France and the United States.'' (New York: Routledge). Chapter 4 is 'The boundary between the romance and the bestseller: Harlequins, historical novels and family.'

;Dugger, Julie M., 2014. : "“I’m a Feminist, But…” Popular Romance in the Women’s Literature Classroom." ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2. [http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/im-a-feminist-but-popular-romance-in-the-womens-literature-classroomby-julie-m-dugger/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/IAFB_Dugger.pdf as a pdf]]

;Dyhouse, Carol, 2017. : ''Hearthrobs: A History of Women and Desire''. Oxford: Oxford UP. [https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Heartthrobs.html?id=RCuhDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

==E==

;Ebert, Teresa L., 1988. : 'The Romance of Patriarchy: Ideology, Subjectivity, and Postmodern Feminist Cultural Theory', ''Cultural Critique'', 10: 19-57.

;Ebert, Teresa L., 2009. : "Chick Lit: 'Not Your Mother's Romance Novels'." ''The Task of Cultural Critique'' (Urbana: University of Illinois Press), pp. 97-117. [This is Chapter 5 of the book and in order to discuss chick lit Ebert engages in a fair amount of analysis of the romance genre. An excerpt is available [http://books.google.com/books?id=OEYGxoLGApYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA97#v=onepage&q&f=false here].]

;Ebert, Teresa L., 2012. : ‘Hegel's “picture-thinking” as the interpretive logic of the popular’, ''Textual Practice''. [This was first published as an iFirst article so at the time of adding the entry it hadn't yet been been allocated to a particular issue of the journal. "The paper examines Hegel's concept of ‘picture-thinking’ and demonstrates how it has become the commonsense of contemporary popular culture through a close reading of women's romances as exemplary of a popular knowing that emphasizes the sensual concrete and cancels the abstract."[http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2012.719712 Click here for more details.]]

;Edmondson, Belinda, 2007.: 'The Black romance.' " ''Women's Studies Quarterly'' 35.1/2: 191-211. [http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/27649661?uid=3738032&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21100798892481 Excerpt]

;Egan, Jesi, 2016. : 'Cultural Futurity and the Politics of Recovery: Mary Renault's Ambivalent Romances.' ''MFS Modern Fiction Studies'' 62.3: 462-80. [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/631176/summary Abstract]

;Eike, Ann M., 1986. : ‘An Investigation of the Market for Paperback Romance Novels’, ''Journal of Cultural Economics'', 10:1: 25-36.

;Ehnenn, Jill, 1998. : 'Desperately Seeking Susan Among the Trash: Reinscription, Subversion and Visibility in the Lesbian Romance Novel', ''Atlantis'', special issue on "Sexualities and Feminisms", 23.1: 120-127. [http://journals.msvu.ca/index.php/atlantis/article/view/1698 Abstract and link to full text]

;Elliott, Jack, 2014. : 'Patterns and Trends in Harlequin Category Romance', ''Advancing Digital Humanities: Research, Methods, Theories'', Ed. Katherine Bode and Paul Longley Arthur. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9LMaBgAAQBAJ&lpg=PT15&ots=0CaEEtS6Pl&lr&pg=PT69#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Elliott, Jack, 2014. : 'Vocabulary Decay in Category Romance'. ''Digital Scholarship in the Humanities'', Online, December 2014. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqu069 Abstract]

;Elliott, Jack, 2015. : 'Whole Genre Sequencing', ''Digital Scholarship in the Humanities'', Online, August 2015. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqv034 Abstract]

;Emrys, A. B., 1994. : "Magic Regencies: How Fantasy Forms a Hybrid." ''Popular Culture Review'' 5.1: 85-93.

;Engler, Sandra, 2005. :'' "A Career's Wonderful, but Love is More Wonderful Still" : Femininity and Masculinity in the Fiction of Mills & Boon.'' Tübingen: Francke.

;English Studies Group, 1978-9, 1980. : 'Recent Developments in English Studies at the Centre', ''Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 1972-79'', ed. Stuart Hall, Dorothy Hobson, Andrew Lowe and Paul Willis. 1980. London: Taylor & Francis, 2005. 227-262. [See pages 250-262 which "suggest analogies between certain narratives - the novels of [[Barbara Cartland]] - and a particular grammar practised within an historical institution: English teaching from the 1930s to the 1950s" and draws parallels between romance and "Gramsci's characterisation of common sense".]

;Erwin, Lee. 2002. : "Genre and Authority in Some Popular Nigerian Women's Novels." ''Research in African Literatures'' 33, no. 2: 81-99. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/3820975 Excerpt]

;Escolar, Marisa, 2015. : "Marry the Allies? Luciana Peverelli’s ‘True’ ''Romanzo Rosa'' in ‘Liberated’ Rome." ''Italian Culture'' 70.2: 228-248. [http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/0075163415Z.00000000097 Abstract]

;Esquibel, Catrióna Rueda, 1992. : "A Duel of Wits and the Lesbian Romance Novel: Or, Verbal Intercourse in Fictional Regency England." in ''New Perspectives on Women and Comedy.'' Ed. Regina Barreca, (Philadelphia, PA: Gordon and Breach) pp. 123-133.

;Esser, L. G., Adkins, D., & Velasquez, D. L., 2008. : "“The Red Dot District”: Uncommon Ground in Reader Advisory Education and Professional Practice." in ''Educational Media and Technology Yearbook'' 33. Ed. Michael Orey, V. J. McClendon, Robert Maribe Branch. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited. 105–111. **

==F==

;Faktorovich, Anna, 2014. : ''The Formulas of Popular Fiction: Elements of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Religious and Mystery Novels''. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BVeDBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Faktorovich, Anna, 2015. : ''Gender Bias in Mystery and Romance Novel Publishing: Mimicking Masculinity and Femininity''. (Stone Mountain, GA: Anaphora Literary P).

;Faktorovich, Anna, 2015. : "Interview with Mary Jo Putney, Best-Selling Romance Author." ''Pennsylvania Literary Journal'' 7.2:10-24.[http://anaphoraliterary.com/plj/plj-excerpts/interview-with-mary-jo-putney-best-selling-romance-author/ Available in full]

;Fahnestock-Thomas, Mary, 2001. : ''[[Georgette Heyer]]: a Critical Retrospective.'' Saraland,AL: PrinnyWorld Press. [[http://www.amazon.com/Georgette-Heyer-Retrospective-Mary-Fahnestock-Thomas/dp/0966800532 Excerpt available] via Amazon's "Look Inside!" feature. [http://www.biggerbooks.com/bk_detail.aspx?ISBN=9780966800531 Index]]

;Farooqui, Javaria and Rabia Ashraf, 2019. : ‘Reconnaissance of “Difference” in Cognitive Maps: Authenticating Happily Ever After in Julia Quinn’s ''To Sir Philip with Love''’, ''Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences'' 22.2: 71-82. [https://jhss-khazar.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Reconnaissance-of-%E2%80%98Difference%E2%80%99-in-Cognitive-Maps-Authenticating-Happily-Ever-After-in-Julia-Quinn%E2%80%99s-To-Sir-Philip-with-Love.pdf]

;Faura, Salvador, Shelley Godsland, and Nickianne Moody, 2004. : "The Romance Novel, or, the Generalisimo's Control of the Popular Imagination." in ''Reading the Popular in Contemporary Spanish Texts.'' pp. 46-58. (Newark, DE: U of Delaware P.)(About Corin Tellado, Spanish romance novelist) [[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=twRJwNrGreIC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA46,M1 Excerpt here].]

;Felski, Rita, 1990. : 'Kitsch, Romance Fiction And Male Paranoia: Stephen King meets the Frankfurt School', ''Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture'', 4.1.[http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/4.1/Felski.html]

;Feng, Jin, 2011. : 'Men Conquer the World and Women Save Mankind: Rewriting Patriarchal Traditions through Web-based Matriarchal Romances', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 1.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2011/03/men-conquer-the-world-and-women-save-mankind/] ["This article examines one Chinese women's literature website by the name of Jinjiang, and focuses especially on a particular type of popular romance, nüzun, or matriarchal narratives."].

;Feng, Jin, 2013. : ''Romancing the Internet: Producing and Consuming Chinese Web Romance.'' Leiden: Brill. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yQGaAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Finn, Geraldine, 1988. : 'Women, Fantasy, and Popular Culture: The Wonderful World of Harlequin Romance', ''Popular Cultures and Political Practices'', Ed. Richard Gruneau (Toronto: Garamond Press), 51-67.** [A review by Herman Gray in ''Contemporary Sociology'' 19.1 (1990) describes Finn's article as "The real joy of the volume" and there are further details as follows: "Consistent with the Cultural Studies approach, Finn convincingly demonstrates how Harlequin texts and women's experiences of them express the contradictions that structure women's lives. She argues that women readers find refuge in the Harlequin novels, while at the same time such refuge helps to maintain and reproduce structures of domination that women experience" (74). Another summary of Finn's essay can be found in [http://irs.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/25/3/248 a review in the ''International Review for the Sociology of Sport'', 25.3, 248-249 (1990).]

;Fisher, Maryanne and Anthony Cox, 2010. : 'Man Change Thyself: Hero Versus Heroine Development in Harlequin Romance Novels', ''Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology'' 4.4: 305-316. [http://137.140.1.71/jsec/articles/volume4/issue4/FisherVol4Iss4.pdf] or [http://www.maryannefisher.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Fisher_Cox_Neeps2010.pdf].

;Fisher, Maryanne L., and Tami M. Meredith. 2012. : "The Success behind the Candy-Colored Covers: An Evolutionary Perspective on Romance Novels." ''Evolutionary Review'' 3, no. 1: 155-167.

;Flegel, Monica and Jenny Roth, 2010. : 'Annihilating love and heterosexuality without women: Romance, generic difference, and queer politics in "Supernatural" fan fiction', Transformative Works and Cultures 4. [http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/133/147 Available online].

;Flesch, Juliet, 1996. : 'A Labour of Love? Compiling a Bibliography of Twentieth Century Australian Romance Novels', ''APLIS'', 9.3-4: 170-78.

;Flesch, Juliet, 1997. : 'Not just housewives and old maids', ''Collection Building'', 16.3: 119-124. [Describes the content of The Romance Fiction Collection in the University of Melbourne Library, 'the reasons for its establishment and some special aspects of its housing and bibliographical control. Also suggests some of the uses to which it may be put'.] [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mcb/171/1997/00000016/00000003/art00003 Abstract]

;Flesch, Juliet, 2004. : ''From Australia With Love: A History of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels'' (Fremantle, W.A.: Curtin University Books).

;Flesch, Juliet, 2005. : ‘Blushing Bride to Bush Matriarch: Women in the Fiction of [[Lucy Walker]].’ ''Journal of Publishing''. Australian Special Issue. 1 (October 2005): 37-52.**

;Flesch, Juliet, 2007. : 'Love under the Coolabah: Australian Romance Publishing since 1990', in ''Making books: Contemporary Australian Publishing''. Ed. David Carter and Anne Galligan. St. Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press. 279-285. ** [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=p4wu8G4XgH0C&lpg=PP1&ots=XhPwRmBzdP&dq=Making%20books%3A%20Contemporary%20Australian%20Publishing&pg=PA280 Excerpt]

;Flesch, Juliet, 2009. : ‘”Feminists Talk about Sisterhood: I Do Not Know How Deeply They Feel It”: Australian Mass Market Romance Novels and Their Critics,’ ''Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader'', Ed. Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal (New Delhi: SSS Publications, 2009). pp. 419-??. **

;Flesch, Juliet, 2012. : 'The Wide Brown Land and the Big Smoke: The Setting of Australian Popular Romance', ''Sold by the Millions: Australia's Bestsellers''. Ed. Toni Johnson-Woods and Amit Sarwal (Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars), pp. 82-95. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XDIsBwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA82#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [The introduction to this volume of essays can be found [http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Sold-by-the-Millions--Australia-s-Bestsellers1-4438-3584-6.htm here].]

;Fletcher, Lisa, 2003. : "Historical Romance, Gender and Heterosexuality: John Fowles's ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'' and A.S. Byatt's ''Possession''." ''Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies'' 7.1-2: 26-42. [http://eprints.utas.edu.au/540/1/jigs_LF.pdf PDF]

;Fletcher, Lisa, 2004. : ‘“Mere Costumery”? Georgette Heyer’s Cross-Dressing Novels,’ in ''Masquerades: Disguise in English Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present'', Eds. Pilar Sánchez Calle and Jesús López-Paláez Casellas, (Gdansk: University of Gdansk Press), pp. 196-212. [http://eprints.utas.edu.au/538/ Abstract][https://www.academia.edu/1904046/_Mere_costumery_Georgette_Heyers_cross-dressing_novels Download]

;Fletcher, Lisa, 2008. : ''Historical Romance Fiction and Heterosexuality: Heterosexuality and Performativity'', (Ashgate). [Fletcher examines "the connections between popular “classics” by [...] Georgette Heyer, a selection of mass market historical romances published between 1980 and 2005," John Fowles’s ''The French Lieutenant’s Woman'' and A.S. Byatt’s ''Possession''.] [https://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=9945&edition_id=10544 Abstract, Index and Excerpt] and [http://books.google.com/books?id=GK3m60_Q6WIC&dq=&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=I0c5aQHGTM&sig=JjYPIXBRcP6YrWE7-AJxzKOMl5g&hl=en&ei=F40aSuTBI8irjAfz_fDwDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPP1,M1 Excerpts via Google Books].

;Fletcher, Lisa, Rosemary Gaby, and Jennifer Kloester, 2011. : 'Pedagogy Report: Embedding Popular Romance Studies in Undergraduate English Units: Teaching [[Georgette Heyer]]’s ''Sylvester''', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 1.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2011/03/pedagogy-report-embedding-popular-romance-studies-in-undergraduate-english/].

; Fletcher, Lisa, 2013. : 'The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Popular Romance Studies: What is it, and why does it matter?', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/the-scholarship-of-teaching-and-learning-popular-romance-studies-what-is-it-and-why-does-it-matter-by-lisa-fletcher/]. [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Fletcher_Scholarship.pdf as a pdf].]

;Fletcher, Lisa, 2014. : 'Writing the Happy Ever After: An Interview with Anne Gracie', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 4.2. [http://jprstudies.org/2014/10/writing-the-happy-ever-after-an-interview-with-anne-gracieby-lisa-fletcher/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/WTHEA_Fletcher1.pdf as a pdf].]

;Fletcher, Lisa, Beth Driscoll, and Kim Wilkins, 2018. : "Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance", ''Journal of Popular Culture''. Online First 16 July 2018. [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jpcu.12706 Excerpt]

;Fong, Katrina, Justin B. Mullin and Raymond A. Mar, 2013. : "What You Read Matters: The Role of Fiction Genre in Predicting Interpersonal Sensitivity". ''Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts'' 7.4 (2013): 370-376.[http://www.yorku.ca/mar/fong%20et%20al%202013_PACA_what%20you%20read%20matters.pdf]

;Fong, Katrina, Justin B. Mullin, and Raymond A. Mar, 2015. : "How Exposure to Literary Genres Relates to Attitudes Toward Gender Roles and Sexual Behavior." ''Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts''. Advance online publication. 27 April 2015. [http://www.yorku.ca/mar/Fong%20et%20al_PACA_Genre%20and%20sexual%20attitudes.pdf]

;Forbes, Curdella, 2006. : 'X Press Publications: Pop Culture, “Pop Lit” and Caribbean Literary Criticism: An Essay of Provocation', ''Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal'' 4.1. [http://anthurium.miami.edu/volume_4/issue_1/forbes-xpress.html]

;Fordham, Helen, 2014. : '‘That’s love for you’: Destabilizing divides and re-imaging subjectivities in the romantic fiction of Eloisa James.' ''Australasian Journal of Popular Culture'' 3.3: 273-284. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/ajpc/2014/00000003/00000003/art00003 Abstract]

;Foster, Guy Mark, 2007. : 'How Dare a Black Woman Make Love to a White Man! Black Women Romance Novelists and the Taboo of Interracial Desire.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 103-128. [http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1academicnews/004466.shtml Article about Foster's research and this item.]

;Foster, Guy Mark, 2015. : 'What To Do If Your Inner Tomboy Is a Homo: Straight Women, Bisexuality, and Pleasure in M/M Gay Romance Fictions', ''Journal of Bisexuality'', Published online first. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15299716.2015.1092910 Abstract]

;Fox, Pamela, 1994. : 'The "Revolt of the Gentle": Romance and the Politics of Resistance in Working-Class Women's Writing', ''NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction'', 27.2: 140-160. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/1345818 Excerpt]

;Fowler, Bridget, 1979. : ' "True to Me Always": An Analysis of Women's Magazine Fiction', ''The British Journal of Sociology'' 30.1: 91-119. [http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/589503 Abstract] [Fowler takes "for analysis stories published in popular twopenny magazines and sampled them at four-weekly intervals for the period mid-1929 to mid-1930".]

;Fowler, Bridget, 1991. : ''The Alienated Reader: Women and Popular Romantic Literature in the Twentieth Century'' (Brighton: Harvester Wheatsheaf).

;Francis, Conseula and Alison Piepmeier, 2011. : 'Interview: Joanna Russ,' ''Journal of Popular romance Studies'' 1.2. [http://jprstudies.org/2011/03/interview-joanna-russ/] ["In this interview, Russ reflects on her initial responses to slash fandom and considers its political and social meanings in the 1980s and today."]

;Francis, Conseula, 2016. : 'Flipping the Script: Romancing Zane's Urban Erotica', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 167-180.

;Franco, Jean, 1986. : "The Incorporation of Women: A Comparison of North American and Mexican Popular Narrative." in ''Studies in Entertainment: Critical Approaches to Mass Culture.'' Ed. Tania Modleski, (Bloomington: Indiana UP), pp. 119-138. [Especially Harlequin Romances; treatment of women; compared to photonovel. Franco says that "While there is an obvious risk in laying too much emphasis on a single example, I am now going to do precisely that" and chooses to take as a specific example of a Harlequin romance ''[[Moon Witch |Moonwitch]]'' [sic] by [[Anne Mather |Ann Mather]] [sic]."] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7uRtV1ZzHY8C&lpg=PR18&ots=X8_Sf_8M6H&dq=&pg=PA126#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Franco, Jean, 2004. : "Plotting Women: Popular Narratives for Women in the United States and in Latin America." in ''The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader.'' Eds. Ana Del Sarto, Alicia Ríos, and Abril Trigo, (Durham, NC: Duke UP) pp. 183-202.

;Franssen, Thomas and Olav Velthuis, 2014. : 'Making materiality matter: a sociological analysis of prices on the Dutch fiction book market, 1980–2009.' ''Socio-Economic Review''. [http://ser.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/08/07/ser.mwu025.abstract Abstract] ["in terms of size, romance books are smaller than all other books: on average 18.48 cm, which is 1.5 cm less than the other genres. This implies that each romance novel is, just because of its size, 24% cheaper than other genres."]

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2002. : "'Expressing' Herself: The Romance Novel and the Feminine Will to Power," in ''Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America.'' Eds. Lydia Cushman Schurman and Deidre Johnson. (Connecticut: Greenwood Press) pp. 17-36. [http://www.academia.edu/411174/_Expressing_Herself_The_Romance_Novel_and_the_Feminine_Will_to_Power Abstract]

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2008. : '[[Suzanne Brockmann]]', ''Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice'' 2.2/3. [Formerly at [http://www.teachingamericanlit.com/files/Microsoft_Word_-_TALTP-BrockmannSuzanne.pdf]. This link no longer works but a pdf of the entire issue can be downloaded from [http://www.cpcc.edu/taltp/archives/spring-summer-2008-2-2-3/spring_summer_2008_merged.pdf/at_download/file]].

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2009. : 'Darcy’s Vampiric Descendants: Austen’s Perfect Romance Hero and J. R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood', ''Persuasions On-line'' 30.1. [http://jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol30no1/frantz.html]

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2009. : "'I’ve tried my entire life to be a good man': [[Suzanne Brockmann]]’s Sam Starrett, Ideal Romance Hero." ''Women Constructing Men: Female Novelists and their Male Characters, 1750-2000''. Ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Katharina Rennhak. (Lanham, MD: Lexington), pp. 227-247. [http://books.google.com/books?id=ByCOQZD0WeYC&pg=PA227#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2012. : ' "How we love ''is'' our soul": Joey W. Hill's BDSM Romance ''Holding the Cards'',' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 47-59.

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2012. : “The History of BDSM Fiction and Romance,” ''Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey'', ed. Lori Perkins (Dallas, TX: BenBella Books), pp. 159-172.

;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2013. : 'On the Tenth Anniversary of Pamela Regis’s ''A Natural History of the Romance Novel''', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/on-the-tenth-anniversary-of-pamela-regiss-a-natural-history-of-the-romance-novel-by-sarah-s-g-frantz/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Frantz_RegisOnTenth.pdf as a pdf].]

;Frantz Lyons, Sarah and Eric Murphy Selinger, 2016. : 'Strange Stirrings, Strange Yearnings: ''The Flame and the Flower'', ''Sweet Savage Love'', and the Lost Diversities of Blockbuster Historical Romance', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 89-110.

;Frederick, Rhonda. 2013.: "Making Jamaican Love: Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain and Romance-ified Diaspora Identities." ''Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal Of Criticism'' 17, no. 3: 63-84.

;Frenier, Mariam Darce, 1988. : ''Good-bye Heathcliff: Changing Heroes, Heroines, Roles, and Values in Women’s [[Category]] Romances'', Contributions in Women’s Studies, no. 94. (New York: Greenwood Press). [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=27366802 Contents page and excerpts]

;Friedman, Lenemaja, 1990. : ''Mary Stewart'', Twayne's English Authors Series, 474 (Boston: Twayne). [Chapters 1-4 discuss Mary Stewart's romantic suspense novels, giving the reader what is, in effect, a detailed synopsis and review of each novel.]

;Frolund, Tina, 2007.: ''Genrefied Classics: A Guide to Reading Interests in Classic Literature.'' (Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited) Has a section on Romance Literature. [According to [http://doi.contentdirections.com/mr/greenwood.jsp?doi=10.1336/1591581729 the abstract], "By identifying the genre characteristics of more than 400 classic fiction works, and organizing titles according to those features, it helps readers find the types of books they enjoy; and it helps you promote classics to teen (and adult!) readers."]

;Fuchs, Barbara, 2004. : ''Romance''. The New Critical Idiom. Ed. John Drakakis. New York: Routledge. [See the chapter on "Romance and 'genre' literature," on pages 124-130]. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QZGMt8gSaasC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA124#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] and [http://www.routledgeliterature.com/books/Romance-isbn9780415212618 Index and excerpt available via the "View Inside" feature at Routledge's website]

==G==

;Gagne-Hawes, Genevieve. 2006. : "Anatomy of a Romance: Questioning genre conventions in the novels of Nora Roberts." ''Modern Mask'' 1.2.[http://modernmask.org/Issue_II/modernmask_literature/anatomy.html]

;Ganguly, Keya. 1991. : 'Alien(ated) Readers: Harlequin Romances and the Politics of Popular Culture', ''Communication'', 12.2: 129-50.

;Gardner, Jeanne Emerson. 2013. : "She Got Her Man, but Could She Keep Him? Love and Marriage in American Romance Comics, 1947–1954." ''Journal Of American Culture'' 36, no. 1: 16-24. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jacc.12009/abstract Excerpt]

;Gardner, Jeanne. 2012. : "Girls Who Sinned in Secret and Paid in Public: Romance Comics, 1949-1954." In ''Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns'', 92-102. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012

;Gardner, Jeanne. 2011. :"'True-To-Life': Romance Comics and Teen-Age Desire, 1947-1954." ''Forum for World Literature Studies,'' vol. 3, no. 1, Apr. 2011, pp. 118-128.

;Gargano, Elizabeth, 2006. : ' "English Sheiks" and Arab Stereotypes: E. M. Hull, T. E. Lawrence, and the Imperial Masquerade', ''Texas Studies in Literature and Language'' 48.2: 171-186. [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/texas_studies_in_literature_and_language/v048/48.2gargano.html Excerpt]

;Garland, Sarah, 2012. : 'Ornamentalism: Desire, Disavowal, and Displacement in E. M. Hull's ''The Sheik''', ''Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers from Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code'', ed. Sarah Churchwell and Thomas Ruys Smith (London: Continuum), pp. 197-216.

;Garton, Stephen, 2008. : "'Fit Only for the Scrap Heap': Rebuilding Returned Soldier Manhood in Australia After 1945." ''Gender & History'' 20.1: 48-67. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/gend/2008/00000020/00000001/art00004?crawler=true Abstract]

;Gates, Sarah, 2016. : "Feminism, NASCAR and the Italian billionaire's secret baby: Defending the romance genre." ''Voiceworks'' 103 (Autumn): 95-101. [https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=310777771841114;res=IELLCC Abstract]

;Geest, Dirk de, and An Goris, 2010. : "Constrained Writing, Creative Writing: The Case of Handbooks for Writing Romances." ''Poetics Today'' 31, no. 1: 81-106. [http://poeticstoday.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/31/1/81 Abstract]

;Gelder, Ken, 2004. : ''Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field'' (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge). [See the section on "Romance, formula, industry, subgenres" on pages 43-52.] [http://books.google.com/books?id=7VHERzW1-LMC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA43#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt.]

;Gelder, Ken and Rachael Weaver, 2010. : "Louise Mack and Colonial Pseudo Literature." ''Southerly'' 70.2: 82-95.[https://www.academia.edu/29357278/Louise_Mack_and_Colonial_Pseudo_Literature_2010_]

;Gehrmann, Susanne, 2018. : “Remediating Romance: Forms and Functions of New Media in Contemporary Love Stories from Togo and South Africa”. ''Africa Today'' 65.1: 65-84. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/africatoday.65.1.05?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Abstract]

;Gifford, James, 2017. : “Mary Stewart’s Greek Novels: Hellenism, Orientalism and the Cultural Politics of Pulp Presentation.” ''Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013''. Ed. Eleni Papargyriou, Semele Assinder and David Holton. New York: Peter Lang, 2017. 99-118. [https://www.peterlang.com/view/9781433140488/chapter06.xhtml Excerpt]

;Gilbert, Pam and Sandra Taylor, 1993. : "Reading the Romance," ''Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies''. Ed. Graeme Turner. London: Routledge. 246-??? ** [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=suAOAAAAQAAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA246#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Gill, Rosalind and Elena Herdieckerhoff. 2006. : “Rewriting the Romance: New Femininities in Chick Lit?” ''Feminist Media Studies'' 6.4 (2006): 487-504.[http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a768577256~db=all] Rpt. in ''LSE Research Online''. 2007. LSE Lib., London School of Economics and Political Science. <http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/2514>.

;Gillis, Bryan and Joanna Simpson, 2015. : ''Sexual Content in Young Adult Literature: Reading between the Sheets'' (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield). [See Chapter 6 on "Sexual Content in Young Adult Romance".] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uVamBgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA101#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Gillis, Stacy, 2015. : "The Cross-Dresser, the Thief, His Daughter and Her Lover: Queer Desire and Romance in Georgette Heyer’s ''These Old Shades''", ''Women: A Cultural Review'' 26.1-2: 57-74. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09574042.2015.1035024#.VdNvqLP7s_t Abstract]

;Gillis, Stacy, 2018. : “Manners, Money, and Marriage: Austen, Heyer, and the Literary Genealogy of the Regency Romance”. ''After Austen: Reinventions, Rewritings, Revisitings''. Ed. Lisa Hopkins. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 81-101.

;Glass, E. R., and A. Mineo. 1986. : "Georgette Heyer and the Uses of Regency." In Marucci, Franco (ed.); Bruttini, Adriano (ed.) ''La performance del testo,'' 283-292. Siena: Ticci.

;Gleason, William, 2011. : “Belles, Beaux, and Paratexts: American Story Papers and the Project of Romance.” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1 [http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%E2%80%9Cbelles-beaux-and-paratexts-american-story-papers-and-the-project-of-romance%E2%80%9D-by-william-gleason/]

;Gleason, William A, 2016. : 'Postbellum, Pre-Harlequin: American Romance Publishing in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 57-70.

;Gleason, William, 2016. : "The Inside Story: Jennifer Crusie and the Architecture of Love." ''Popular Fiction and Spatiality: Reading Genre Settings''. Ed. Lisa Fletcher. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 79-93. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pz5rDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA80#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] [http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-137-56902-8_6 Abstract]

;Goade, Sally, 2007. : 'Introduction' pp. 1-11 and 'Understanding the Pleasure: An Undergraduate Romance Reading Community.' pp. 206-230 in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing). Edited by Goade. [pdf of table of contents, introduction and first chapter [http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Empowerment-versus-Oppression--Twenty-First-Century-Views-of-Popular-Romance-Novels.htm here]]

;Goldman, Crystal, 2012. : “Love in the Stacks: Popular Romance Collection Development in Academic Libraries,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2012/10/love-in-the-stacks-popular-romance-collection-development-in-academic-libraries-by-crystal-goldman/]

;Goldman, Crystal, 2015. : “Special Issue: Romancing the Library (Editor’s Introduction),” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/special-issue-romancing-the-library-editors-introductionby-crystal-goldman/]

;Golubov, Nattie, 2017. : "Reading the Romance Writer as an Author-Entrepreneur," ''Interférences littéraires/Literaire interferenties'' 21 (December), "Gendered Authorial Corpographies", Ed. Aina Pérez Fontdevila & Meri Torras Francès, 131-160. [http://www.interferenceslitteraires.be/node/748 Abstract and link to pdf]

;Gómez Calderón, María José. : “Romancing the Dark Ages: The Viking Hero in Sentimental Narrative.” ''Boletín Millares Carlo'' 26 (2007): 287-97.[http://mdc.ulpgc.es/cdm/ref/collection/bolmc/id/374]

;González-Cruz, Maria-Isabel. 2015. : "Love in Paradise: Visions of the Canaries in a Corpus of Popular Romance Fiction Novels". ''Oceánide'', Journal of the Spanish Society for the Study of Popular Culture SELICUP, vol. 7.[http://oceanide.netne.net/articulos/art7-4.pdf]

;González-Cruz, Maria-Isabel, 2016. : "Discourse Types and Functions in Popular Romance Fiction Novels ("Work in Progress")." ''On the move: Glancing Backwards To Build a Future in English Studies'' Ed. Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz and Jon Ortiz de Urbina Arruabarrena. Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto. 265-271.

;González Cruz, Maria Isabel, 2017. : 'Exploring the dynamics of English/Spanish codeswitching in a written corpus', ''Alicante Journal of English Studies / Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses'' 30: 331-355. [http://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/72178 Abstract and link to pdf]

;González Mínguez, M. Teresa, 2010. : "Who is more fragile? A study of heroes and heroines in the twentieth century romantic fiction of [[Mills and Boon]]." ''Cuadernos Kóre'' [http://hosting01.uc3m.es/ojs/index.php/KORE/issue/view/22 1.2]: 179-192. [[http://hosting01.uc3m.es/ojs/index.php/KORE/article/view/225 Abstract] and [http://kusan.uc3m.es/CIAN/index.php/CK/article/view/1044/485 PDF].]

;Goodwin, Sarah Webster, 1997. : "Romance and Change: Teaching the Romance to Undergraduates.", ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 233-241.

;Gordis, Lisa M., 2016. : '"Jesus loves your girl more than you do": Marriage as Triangle in Evangelical Romance and Puritan Narratives', ''Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?'' Ed. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 323-346.

;Goris, An, 2009. : "Romance the World Over," in ''Global Cultures''. Ed. Frank A. Salamone. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars. pp. 59-?? ** [Discusses the worldwide translation, production and distribution of Harlequins.] [http://kuleuven.academia.edu/AnGoris/Papers/88815/Romance-the-World-Over Abstract]

;Goris, An, 2011. : “Matricide in Romance Scholarship? Response to Pamela Regis’ Keynote Address at the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%E2%80%9Cmatricide-in-romance-scholarship-response-to-pamela-regis%E2%80%99-keynote-address-at-the-second-annual-conference-of-the-international-association-for-the-study-of-popular-romance%E2%80%9D/]

;Goris, An, 2012. : "Loving by the Book: Voice and Romance Authorship," in ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction. Critical Essays.'' Ed. Frantz, Sarah S.G. and Selinger, Eric Murphy. Jefferson: McFarland. pp. 73-83.

;Goris, An, 2012. : "Mind, Body, Love: Nora Roberts and the Evolution of Popular Romance Studies," ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2012/10/mind-body-love-nora-roberts-and-the-evolution-of-popular-romance-studies-by-an-goris/]

;Goris, An, 2013. : '''A Natural History of the Romance Novel''’s Enduring Romance with Popular Romance Studies', ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.2 [http://jprstudies.org/2013/06/a-natural-history-of-the-romance-novels-enduring-romance-with-popular-romance-studies-by-an-goris/] [Also available [http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JPRS3.2_Goris_RegisEnduring.pdf as a pdf].]

;Goris, An, 2013. : "Happily Ever After ... And After: Serialization and the Popular Romance Novel." ''Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present)'' 12.1 [http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/articles/spring_2013/goris.htm]

;Goris, An, 2015. : "Hidden Codes of Love : The Materiality of the Category Romance Novel." ''Belphégor''.[http://belphegor.revues.org/616]

;Goșa, Codruța. 2012. : "Sex and the Genre: The Role of Sex in Popular Romance." In ''Romance: The History of a Genre,'' 14-28. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars. [Nora Roberts, Sandra Brown, Judith McNaught] [Excerpt available [http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Romance--The-History-of-a-Genre1-4438-3734-2.htm from here]]

;Graham, Robert J., 1989. : “Media Literacy and Cultural Politics.” ''Adult Education Quarterly'' 39.3: 152-60. [http://aeq.sagepub.com/content/39/3/152.short Abstract] ["Through an analysis of two representative media-romance fiction and television news programs-this article argues for the production of a more media-literate citizenry. The section on women's romances addresses the confluence of a commercial, institutional and ideological matrix that poses crucial problems of a socio-cultural nature." The section on romance is mostly based on Radway's ''Reading the Romance''.]

;Graves, Joanne, 2014. : 'Beyond Valentine's Day: The romance novel in the evolving world of publishing', LIANZA Conference 2014, 12-15 October, Auckland, New Zealand: Pou Whakairo: Connect and Thrive. [LIANZA is the Library and Information Association of New Zealand. The article discusses New Zealand libraries and romance authors.][http://www.lianza.org.nz/sites/default/files/Graves_J_Beyond_Valentines_Day.pdf]

;Graybill, Beth. 2010. : "Chasing the Bonnet: The Premise and Popularity of Writing Amish Women." ''Journal of the Center for Mennonite Writing'' 2, no. 4: 1-6. [http://www.mennonitewriting.org/journal/2/4/bonnet-fiction/]

;Greenfeld-Benovitz, Miriam, 2012. : 'The Interactive Romance Community: The Case of "Covers Gone Wild",' ''New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays'', ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland), pp. 195-205.

;Greenwood, Alice. 1983. : "Language Stereotypes in Mass Market Romances." ''CUNYForum: Papers in Linguistics'' 9: 157-173.

;Greer, Germaine, 1971. : ''The Female Eunuch'' (London: Paladin). [First published in 1970, there is a chapter on romance (pages 171-189in this edition) in which she critiques [[Georgette Heyer]]'s ''Regency Buck'', [[Barbara Cartland]]'s ''The Wings of Love'' and [[Lucy Walker]]'s ''The Loving Heart''.]

;Grescoe, Paul, 1996. : ''The Merchants of Venus: Inside [[Harlequin]] and the Empire of Romance'' (Vancouver: Raincoast). [ [[Kathleen Gilles Seidel]]'s "Half-Risen Venus", ''Paradoxa'' 3.1-2 (1997): 250-252 is a review of this book.]

;Griffin, Susan E., 1997. : "Resistance and Reinvention in Sandra Cisneros' ''Woman Hollering Creek''." ''Ethnicity and the American Short Story'', ed. Julie Brown (New York: Garland), pp. 85-96. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vT_7cLnnUlUC&lpg=PA85&lr=lang_en&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt] ["Cisneros' [...] 'Woman Hollering Creek,' is the story in which she most clearly illustrates the negative effects of popular romance genres' portrayal of women, and it is also the story in which she begins to illustrate how women can resist the romance narrative" (87).]

;Griswold, Wendy, and Misty Bastian, 1987. : “Continuities and Reconstructions in Cross-cultural Literary Transmission: The Case of the Nigerian Romance Novel.” ''Poetics'' 16.3-4: 327-351. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0304-422X(87)90010-6 Abstract]

;Griswold, Wendy, 1989. : "Formulaic Fiction: The Author as Agent of Elective Affinity." ''Comparative Social Research.'' 11: 75-130.

;Gruner, Elisabeth Rose, 2019. : ''Constructing the Adolescent Reader in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction''. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/978-1-137-53924-3 Abstract] [See in particular Chapter 3, "Misreading the Classics: Gender, Genre, and Agency in YA Romance", pp. 51-84.]

Chick Lit Academic Bibliography

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==A-C==

;Adams, L. 2004. : "Chick Lit and Chick Flicks: Secret Power or Flat Formula?" '' The Horn Book Magazine.'' 80:669-680.[http://www.hbook.com/magazine/articles/2004/nov04_adams.asp]

;Akass, Kim, and Janet McCabe, 2004. : “Ms. Parker and the Vicious Circle: Female Narrative and Humour in ''Sex and the City'',” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 177-198.

;Alb, Anemona Filip. 2008.: "Protean Femininities: Shifting Stereotypes in 'Chick Lit'." ''Gender Studies'' 1, no. 7: 39-48.

;Arosteguy, Katie O'Donnell. 2009. : "The Clothes Do Make the Women: The Politics of Fashioning Femininity in Contemporary American Chick Lit." ''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 70, no. 11: 4284. [http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Spring2009/k_arosteguy_040109.pdf. ]

;Arosteguy, Katie. 2010. : "The Politics of Race, Class, and Sexuality in Contemporary American Mommy Lit." ''Women's Studies'' 39, no. 5: 409-429.

;Arthurs, Jane. : “''Sex and the City'' and Consumer Culture: Remediating Postfeminist Drama.” ''Feminist Media Studies'' 3.1 (2003): 83-98.

;Balducci, Federica. 2011. : ''A Different Shade of Pink: Literary Thresholds and Cultural Intersections in Italian Chick Lit''. A thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Italian. [http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/1929]

;Balducci, Federica. 2011. : “When chick lit meets romanzo rosa: Intertextual narratives in Stefania Bertola’s romantic fiction,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2011/12/when-chick-lit-meets-romanzo-rosa-intertextual-narratives-in-stefania-bertola%E2%80%99s-romantic-fiction-by-federica-balducci/]

;Baloria, Nitasha. 2014. : "To Be or Not To Be a 'Wife': Theme of Marriage in the Works of Marian Keyes," ''Research Scholar: An International Refereed e-Journal of Literary Explorations'' 2.1.[http://researchscholar.co.in/downloads/56-nitasha-baloria.pdf]

;Baloria, Nitasha. 2014. : "Is Chick Lit a Fluff or a Product of Jane Austen’s Style?," ''European Academic Research'' 2.7. [http://euacademic.org/UploadArticle/984.pdf]

;Benstock, Shari. : "Afterword: The New Woman's Fiction." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 253-???.

;Boyd, Elizabeth B. : "Ya Yas, Grits, and Sweet Potato Queens: Contemporary Southern Belles and the Prescriptions That Guide Them." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 159-172.

;Burns, Amy, 2011. : "'Tell me all about your new man': (Re)Constructing Masculinity in Contemporary Chick Texts." ''Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network'' 4.1. [http://journalhosting.org/meccsa-pgn/index.php/netknow/issue/current/showToc Links to abstract and pdf]

;Burns, Amy, 2012. : "The Postfeminist Flâneuse: The Literary Value of Contemporary Chick Lit." ''Graduate Journal of Social Science'' 9.3.[http://gjss.org/images/stories/volumes/9/3/Burns.pdf]

;Butler, Pamela and Jigna Desai. : “Manolos, Marriage, and Mantras: Chick-Lit Criticism and Transnational Feminism.” ''Meridians'' 8.2 (2008): 1-31. [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/meridians/v008/8.2.butler.html Abstract]

;Campbell, P. 2006. : "The Sand in the Oyster The Lit of Chick Lit." '' The Horn Book Magazine.'' 82 (4):487-491.[http://www.hbook.com/magazine/articles/2006/jul06_campbell.asp]

;Cano López, Marina. : "Looking Back in Desire; or How Jane Austen Rewrites Chick Lit in Alexandra Potter’s ''Me and Mr. Darcy''." ''Persuasions'' 31.1 (2010).[http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol31no1/cano-lopez.html]

;Carvalho, Charmaine. : "Chick Lit in India: Possibilities for a Feminine Aesthetic in Popular Fiction." ''Estetyka i Krytyka The Polish Journal of Aesthetics'' 41 (2016): 13-32. [http://estetykaikrytyka.pl/art/41/eik_41_1.pdf]

;Caselli, Carolyn Ann. 2006.: ''Chick Lit : postmodern literature for the everywoman.'' Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, Northridge.

;Chen, Eva. : "Shanghai(ed) Babies: Geopolitics, Biopolitics and the Global Chick Lit." ''Feminist Media Studies'' (advanced release 6 Oct. 2011). [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14680777.2011.597102 Abstract]

;Chen Eva Yin-i. : "Neoliberal Self-Governance and Popular Postfeminism in Contemporary Anglo-American Chick Lit", ''Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies'' 36.1 (2010): 243-275.[http://www.concentric-literature.url.tw/issues/Transnational%20Taiwan/11.pdf]

;Craddock, Louise. : "Bridget Jones's Little Red Dress: Chicklit, Mass-market Popular Romance and Feminism." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 43-51. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

==D-F==

;Davis-Kahl, Stephanie. : "The Case for Chick Lit in Academic Libraries." ''Collection Building'' 27.1 (2008): 18-21. [http://works.bepress.com/stephanie_davis_kahl/1 Abstract and link to pdf]

;Dorney, Kate. : "Shop Boys and Girls! Interpellating Readers as Consumers in Chicklit and Ladlit." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 12-22. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Dunn, Hannah. 2005.: ''Making the personal political: reflexivity as neo-feminist activism in Brit-art and Chick-lit.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of Colorado.

;Ebert, Teresa L. 2009. : ''The task of cultural critique.'' Urbana: University of Illinois Press. [Chapter-Chick lit: "not your mother's romance novels"] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OEYGxoLGApYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA97#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Ehriander, Helene, 2015. : "Chick Lit in Historical Settings by Frida Skybäck", ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/chick-lit-in-historical-settings-by-frida-skybackby-helene-ehriander/]

;Farr, Cecilia Konchar. 2009. : "It Was Chick Lit All Along: The Gendering of a Genre." In ''You've Come a Long Way, Baby: Women, Politics, and Popular Culture'', 201-214. Lexington, KY: UP of Kentucky, 2009.

;Ferriss, Suzanne and Mallory Young. : "Introduction." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 1-16.

;Ferriss, Suzanne and Mallory Young. : “Chicks, Girls and Choice: Redefining Feminism.” ''Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue'' 6 (2006): 87-97. [http://www.junctures.org/issues.php?issue=06&title=Language&colour=rgb(73,47,146)]

;Ferris, Suzanne. : "Narrative and Cinematic Doubleness: ''Pride and Prejudice'' and ''Bridget Jones's Diary''." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 71-84.

;Ferris, Suzanne. : "Working Girls: The Precariat of Chick Lit", in Cupcakes, Pinterest and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early Twenty-First Century, ed. Elana Levine (University of Illinois, 2015): 177-???.

;Fest, Kerstin. 2009. : "Angels in the House or Girl Power: Working Women in Nineteenth-Century Novels and Contemporary Chick Lit." ''Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal'' 38, no. 1: 43-62.

;Frater, Lara. 2009. : "Fat heroines in chick-lit: gateway to acceptance in the mainstream?" in Rothblum, Esther D., and Sondra Solovay. ''The Fat Studies Reader.'' New York: New York University Press. 235-240. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XtLWPWNO8gUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA235#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Frenkel, Ronit, 2019. : “Pleasure as Genre: Popular Fiction, South African Chick-Lit and Nthikeng Mohlele’s Pleasure.” ''Feminist Theory'', (February 2019). [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1464700119831537#articleCitationDownloadContainer Abstract]

==G-I==

;Gamble, Sarah. : "When Romantic Heroines Turn Bad: The Rise of the ‘Anti-Chicklit’ Novel." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/gamble.html]

;Gehrmann, Susanne. : “Emerging Afro-Parisian ‘Chick-Lit’ by Lauren Ekué and Léonora Miano.” ''Feminist Theory'', Feb. 2019. [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1464700119831539#articleCitationDownloadContainer Abstract]

;Gennaro, Stephen. : “Sex and the City: Perpetual Adolescence Gendered Feminine?” ''Nebula'' 4.1 (2007). 1 August 2009.[http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/Gennaro.pdf]

;Genz, Stéphanie, and Benjamin A. Brabon. 2009. : ''Postfeminism: cultural texts and theories.'' Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Chapter - Girl power and chick lit, on pages 76-90.] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yUGpvXJe9NAC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA76#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Gerhard, Jane. : “''Sex and the City'': Carrie Bradshaw’s Queer Postfeminism.” ''Feminist Media Studies'' 5.1 (2005): 37-49.

;Ghosh, Srijani. : "''Res Emptito Ergo Sum'': Fashion and Commodity Fetishism in Sophie Kinsella’s ''Confessions of a Shopaholic''." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 46.2 (2013): 378-393. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.12031/abstract Excerpt]

;Gill, Rosalind. : "Lad lit as mediated intimacy: A postfeminist tale of female power, male vulnerability and toast." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/gill.html]

;Gill, Rosalind and Elena Herdieckerhoff. : "Rewriting the Romance: New Femininities in Chick Lit?" ''Feminist Media Studies'' 6.4 (2006): 487-504. [Abstract and pdf available from [http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/2514 LSE Research Online]]

;Gormley, Sarah. : "Introduction." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/gormley.html]

;Gorton, Kristyn. : "'Kiss My Tiara': Chicklit and Female Empowerment." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 23-28. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Gruslytė, Monika, Aurelija Taujanskaitė, and Erika Žemaitytė. : "The tradition of consciousness-raising fiction in contemporary popular fiction Chick lit." ''Straipsnis leidinyje: Jaunųjų mokslininkų darbai'' 39.1 (2013): 125-129. [http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:J.04~2013~ISSN_1648-8776.N_1_39.PG_125-129 Abstract and link to pdf.] [http://vddb.library.lt/fedora/get/LT-eLABa-0001:J.04~2013~ISSN_1648-8776.N_1_39.PG_125-129/DS.002.1.01.ARTIC Pdf]

;Guerrero, Lisa A. : "'Sistahs Are Doin' It For Themselves': Chick Lit in Black and White." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 87-102.

;Gunne, Sorcha. : ‘Gender, Genre and Modernity: Popular Romance Fiction in Ireland’, ''Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction'', Ed. L Harte. Oxford: Oxford University Press [in press]. [[https://www.academia.edu/37300918/Gender_Genre_and_Modernity_Popular_Romance_Fiction_in_Ireland pre-print version]]

;Gymnich, Marion, and Kathrin Ruhl. 2010. : "Revisiting the Classical Romance: Pride and Prejudice, Bridget Jone's Diary and Bride and Prejudice." In ''Gendered (Re)Visions: Constructions of Gender in Audiovisual Media'', 23-44. Göttingen, Germany: V&R, 2010. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VWcRp0Xy41IC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA23#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Hale, Elizabeth. : "Long-Suffering Professional Females: The Case of Nanny Lit." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 103-118.

;Harzewski, Stephanie. 2004. : "'Chick Lit' and the Urban Code Heroine: Interview Symposium with Caren Lissner, Melissa Senate, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, and Jennifer Weiner." In ''Voces de América/American Voices: Entrevistas a escritores americanos/Interviews with American Writers,''. Cádiz, Spain: Aduana Vieja, 2004. 689-719.

;Harzewski, Stephanie. : "Tradition and Displacement in the New Novel of Manners." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 29–46.

;Harzewski, Stephanie. : "The new novel of manners: Chick lit and postfeminist sexual politics" (January 1, 2006). Dissertations available from ProQuest. Paper AAI3225468. [Abstract http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI3225468]

;Harzewski, Stephanie. : ''Chick Lit and Postfeminism.'' Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011.

;Hedrick, Tace. : ''Chica Lit: Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century''. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2015. [https://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=36578 Details and excerpt]

;Henry, Astrid. : “Orgasms and Empowerment. ''Sex and the City'' and the Third Wave Feminism.” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 65-82.

;Hewett, Heather. : "You Are Not Alone: The Personal, the Political and the 'New' Mommy Lit." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 119-140.

;Horrocks, Clare. : "Tart Noir: Chicklit with Criminal Balls." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 59-64. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]



;Hurst, Rochelle. : “The Barrister’s Bedmate: Harlequin Mills & Boon and the Bridget Jones Debate.” ''Australian Feminist Studies'' 24.62 (2009): 453-468. [Feminist critique of Harlequin Mills & Boons (especially a selection by [[Emma Darcy]]) and comparison with Helen Fielding's ''Bridget Jones'' novels. For a discussion of why many aspects of this essay's methodology are troubling, from an academic perspective, see [http://www.readreactreview.com/2010/02/10/feminist-critique-of-romance-ur-doin-it-wrong/ this article by Jessica at ''Read React Review'']].

;Hurt, Erin. 2009. : "Trading Cultural Baggage for Gucci Luggage: The Ambivalent Latinidad of Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's "The Dirty Girls Social Club.." ''MELUS'' 34, no. 3: 133-153.

;Hurt, Erin (ed.) 2018. : ''Theorizing Ethnicity and Nationality in the Chick Lit Genre''. Routledge. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=unx0DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Isbister, Georgina C. : "Chick Lit: A Postfeminist Fairy Tale." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/isbister.html]

==J-L==

;Jermyn, Deborah. : “In Love with Sarah Jessica Parker: Celebrating Female Fandom and Friendship in ''Sex and the City''.” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 201-217.

;Jermyn, Deborah. : ''Sex and the City''. Detroit: Wayne State Press, 2009.

;Johnson, Joanna Webb. : "Chick Lit Jnr.: More Than Glitz and Glamour for Teens and Tweens." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 141-158.

;Kaminski, Melissa J. and Robert G. Magee. : "Does This Book Make Me Look Fat?: The Effect of Protagonist Body Weight and Body Esteem on Female Readers' Body Esteem." ''Body Image'' (2012). [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2012.10.009 Abstract]

;Kent, Paula Rachel. 2007. : '' Think pink and high heels: women and beauty as represented in chick lit novels.'' Thesis (M.A.) Stephenville, Tex: Tarleton State University. [http://gradworks.umi.com/14/55/1455093.html Abstract]

;Kiernan, Anna. : "No Satisfaction: ''Sex and the City'', ''Run Catch Kiss'', and the Conflict of Desires in Chick Lit's New Heroines." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 207-218.

;Knowles, Joanne. : "Editorial." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 3-4. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Knowles, Joanne. : "Material Girls: Location and Economics in Chicklit Fiction, Or, How Singletons Finance Their Jimmy Choo Collections." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 37-42. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Knowles, Joanne. 2008. : "'Our foes are almost as many as our readers': debating the worth of women's reading and writing--the case of chick-lit." ''Popular Narrative Media'' 1.2 (2008): 217-231.

;Kohli, Joy. : ''Governing Women’s Sexuality in “Sex and the City”: Pleasure, Relationships And Reproduction''. Ann Arbor: Proquest, 2008.

;Konchar Farr, Cecilia. : "It Was Chick Lit All Along: The Gendering of a Genre." ''You've Come A Long Way Baby: Women, Politics, and Popular Culture''. Ed. Lilly J. Goren. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. 201-214. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=G132LEhM4ucC&lpg=PA208&pg=PA201#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Leffler, Yvonne. : "Chick Lit as Healing and Self-Help Manual?" ''Culture, Health, and Religion at the Millennium: Sweden Unparadised'', Ed. Marie Demker, Yvonne Leffler and Ola Sigurdson. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 155-182. [http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9781137472236.0008 Excerpt]

;Lenz, Christian. : ''Geographies of Love: The Cultural Spaces of Romance in Chick- and Ladlit''. PhD thesis, TU Dortmund University, 2014. Verlag 2016. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rrgADAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Lerman, Amy S. : “Jane Green and the Contemporary ‘Singleton’: Why Women Can Laugh at their Bachelorette Predicaments.” ''The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference''. Ed. Leslie Fife. 1285-1298.

;Lim, Megan S.C., Margaret E. Hellard and Danielle Horyniak. : "Safe Sex in Chick Lit: a ‘Novel’ Analysis of Sexual Health References in Popular Women’s Fiction. ''Sexual Health''. Online first, 27 July 2018. [https://doi.org/10.1071/SH18017 Abstract]

==M-O==

;Mabry, A. Rochelle. : "About a Girl: Female Subjectivity and Sexuality in Contemporary 'Chick' Culture." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 191-206.

;Markle, Gail. : “Can Women Have Sex Like a Man? Sexual Scripts in Sex and the City.” Sexuality and Culture 12 (2008): 45-57.

;Mathew, Imogen. : "Educating the Reader in Anita Heiss’s Chick Lit." ''Contemporary Women's Writing'' (2016). First published online: July 31, 2016. [http://cww.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/07/31/cww.vpw019.extract# Excerpt]

;Mazza, Cris. : "Who's Laughing Now? A Short History of Chick Lit and the Perversion of a Genre." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 17-28.

;Mazza, Cris. 2000. : "Editing Postfeminist Fiction: Finding the Chic in Lit." ''Symplokē: A Journal for the Intermingling of Literary, Cultural and Theoretical Scholarship'' 8, no. 1-2: 101-112.

;Merck, Mandy. : “Sexuality in the City.” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 48-62.

;Missler, Heike. : ''The Cultural Politics of Chick Lit: Popular Fiction, Postfeminism and Representation''. New York: Routledge, 2017. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mVtuDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Moody, Nickianne. : "Empathy and Irony in the Soundtrack to Chicklit." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 52-58. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Morrison, Amanda Maria. 2010. : "Chicanas and 'Chick Lit': Contested Latinidad in the Novels of Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 43, no. 2: 309-329.

;Nelson, Ashley. : “Sister Carrie meets Carrie Bradshaw: Exploring Progress, Politics and the Single Woman in ''Sex and the City'' and Beyond.” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 83-95.

;Newns, Lucinda, 2017. : "Renegotiating romantic genres: Textual resistance and Muslim chick lit." ''Journal of Commonwealth Literature''. Online first. 1-17. [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0021989416686156 Abstract]

;Ommundsen, Wenche. 2008. : "From China with Love: Chick Lit and the New Crossover Fiction." In ''China Fictions-English Language: Literary Essays in Diaspora, Memory, Story,''. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi. 327-345

;Ommundsen, Wenche. 2011. : "Sex and the Global City: Chick Lit with a Difference." ''Contemporary Women's Writing'' 5.2: 107-124. [http://cww.oxfordjournals.org/content/5/2/107.extract Abstract]

;Oria, Beatriz, 2012. : “’Just Say Yes’: the Romanticisation of Love in ''Sex and the City'',” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2012/10/just-say-yes-the-romanticisation-of-love-in-sex-and-the-city-by-beatriz-oria/]

==P-R==

;Pérez-Serrano, Elena. : "Chick Lit and Marian Keyes: The ideological background of the genre." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/perezserrano.html]

;Perez-Serrano, Elena. 2009. : "Growing Old Before Old Age: Ageing in the Fiction of Marian Keyes." ''Educational Gerontology'' 35, no. 2: 135-145.

;Regules, Anne E. 2006. : ''Working women re-working the romance: chick-lit from Kate Chopin to Jennifer Weiner and Sex and the City.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of Texas at San Antonio.

;Ross, Sharon Marie. : “Talking Sex: Comparison Shopping through Female Conversation in HBO’s ''Sex and the City''.” ''The Sitcom Reader: America Viewed and Skewed''. Eds. Mary M. Dalton and Laura Linder. New York: State University of NY Press, 2005. 111-122.

;Rowntree, Margaret, Nicole Moulding and Lia Bryant, 2012. : "Feminine Sexualities in Chick Lit." ''Australian Feminist Studies'', Volume 27, Issue 72: 121-137. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08164649.2012.648259 Abstract]

;Ryan, Mary, 2009. : ‘What a Way to Make a Living: Irish Chick Lit and the Working World.’ ''MP: An Online Feminist Journal'' 2.5: 27-41.[http://academinist.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Chick_Ryan.pdf]

;Ryan, Mary, 2010. : "Trivial or Commendable? : Women's Writing, Popular Culture, and Chick Lit." ''452F Journal of Comparative Literature'' 3 (July 2010): 70-84.[http://www.452f.com/en/mary-ryan.html]

;Ryan, Mary, 2010. : "Stepping Out from the Margins: Ireland, Morality, and Representing the ‘Other’ in Irish Chick Lit." ''Nebula: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship'' 7.3: 137-149.[http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/Ryan.pdf]

;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : “The Bodies of Chick Lit: Positive Representations of the Female Body in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction.” ''Inquire: A Journal of Comparative Literature'' 1.1 [http://inquire.streetmag.org/articles/13]

;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : “Then and Now: Memories of a Patriarchal Ireland in the Work of Marian Keyes.” ''452°F Journal of Comparative Literature'' 4: 110-130.[http://www.452f.com/en/ryan.html]

;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : "Ending the Silence: Representing Women’s Reproductive Lives in Irish Chick Lit." ''Nebula: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship'' 8.1: 209-224.[http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/Ryan3.pdf]

;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : ‘Amongst Women: Male Romance Authors and Irish Chick Lit Author, Andrew O’Connor’, ''The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture'' 1.2: 209-225. [http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=11989/ Abstract]

==S-U==

;Santaemilia, J. 2008. : The translation of sex-related language: The danger(s) of self-censorship(s). ''TTR: Traduction, Terminologie et Redaction'' 21, (2): 221-252

;Sellei, Nora. : "Bridget Jones and Hungarian Chick Lit." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 173-188.

;Smith, Caroline J. 2005. : "Living the Life of a Domestic Goddess: Chick Lit's Response to Domestic-Advice Manuals." ''Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal'' 34, no. 8: 671-699.

;Smith, Caroline J. 2007. : "The Girls' Guide to Creating Community: Analyzing Reading Communities in Chick Lit." In ''Narratives of Community: Women's Short Story Sequences,''. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2007. 352-371.

;Smith, Caroline J. : ''Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit''. New York: Routledge, 2008. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XDACykiKvL8C&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Smyczyńska, Katarzyna. : "Commitment Phobia and Emotional Fuckwittage: Postmillennial Constructions of Male 'Other' in Chicklit Novels." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 29-36. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Smyczyńska, Katarzyna. : ''The World According to Bridget Jones: Discourses of Identity in Chicklit Fictions''. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2007.

;Spencer, Lynda Gichanda, 2014. : "Writing Women in Uganda and South Africa: Emerging Writers from Post-Repressive Regimes." PhD Thesis, Stellenbosch University, April 2014. [http://scholar.sun.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10019.1/86251/spencer_writing_2014.pdf PDF] [See Chapter 3, which "explores how Goretti Kyomuhendo, Zukiswa Wanner and Angela Makholwa and Cynthia Jele embrace chick lit as a form of writing that allows them to reflect on the lived realities of women."]

;Tangney, ShaunAnne. 2008. : "Chick Lit Matters: From Femme Covert to Fendi, Feminine Fiction Provides Feminist Critique." In ''Honoring Human Herstory: A Celebration of Women's Heritage,''. Minot, ND: Minot State University, 2008. 49-63.

;Taylor, Anthea. 2011. : ''Single Women in Popular Culture: The Limits of Postfeminism.''New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [See in particular Chapter 3: "Spinsters and Singletons: ''Bridget Jones's Diary'' and its Cultural Reverberations"]

;Thoma, Pamela. : "Romancing the Self and Negotiating Consumer Citizenship in Asian American Labor Lit." ''Contemporary Women's Writing'' 2013. [http://cww.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/03/26/cww.vps036.extract# Excerpt]

;Umminger, Alison. : "Supersizing Bridget Jones: What's Really Eating the Women in Chick Lit." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 239-252.

==V-Z==

;Van Slooten, Jessica Lyn. : "Fashionably Indebted: Conspicuous Consumption, Fashion, and Romance in Sophie Kinsella's ''Shopaholic'' Trilogy." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 219-238.

;Veseljević Jerković, Selma. : "Mad about the Boy: The Phenomenon of Fictional Autobiography." ''Društvene i humanističke studije'' 4.2(8): 89-102. [http://www.dhs.ff.untz.ba/index.php/home/article/view/268 Abstract] [http://www.dhs.ff.untz.ba/index.php/home/article/download/268/204 pdf]

;Wells, Juliette. : "Mother of Chick Lit? Women Writers, Readers, and Literary History." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 47-70.

;Whelehan, Imelda. : ''Overloaded: Popular Culture and the Future of Feminism''. London: The Women’s Press Ltd., 2000. [Looks at various aspects of popular culture: men's magazines (''Loaded'', ''Maxim'', ''GQ''); TV shows (''Ally McBeal'', ''Sex in the City'', ''Men Behaving Badly'') and novels (''Bridget Jones' Diary'').]

;Whelehan, Imelda. : ''Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary: A Reader’s Guide''. New York: Continuum, 2002. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SN8iV7A7ZqkC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Whelehan, Imelda. : "Sex and the Single Girl: Helen Fielding, Erica Jong and Helen Gurley Brown." ''Essays and Studies 2004: Contemporary British Women Writers.'' Ed. Emma Parker. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2004.

;Whelehan, Imelda. : "High Anxiety: Feminism, Chicklit And Women In The Noughties." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 5-11. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Whelehan, Imelda. : "Teening Chick Lit?" ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/whehelan.html]

Chick Lit Academic Bibliography

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==A-C==

;Adams, L. 2004. : "Chick Lit and Chick Flicks: Secret Power or Flat Formula?" '' The Horn Book Magazine.'' 80:669-680.[http://www.hbook.com/magazine/articles/2004/nov04_adams.asp]

;Akass, Kim, and Janet McCabe, 2004. : “Ms. Parker and the Vicious Circle: Female Narrative and Humour in ''Sex and the City'',” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 177-198.

;Alb, Anemona Filip. 2008.: "Protean Femininities: Shifting Stereotypes in 'Chick Lit'." ''Gender Studies'' 1, no. 7: 39-48.

;Arosteguy, Katie O'Donnell. 2009. : "The Clothes Do Make the Women: The Politics of Fashioning Femininity in Contemporary American Chick Lit." ''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 70, no. 11: 4284. [http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Spring2009/k_arosteguy_040109.pdf. ]

;Arosteguy, Katie. 2010. : "The Politics of Race, Class, and Sexuality in Contemporary American Mommy Lit." ''Women's Studies'' 39, no. 5: 409-429.

;Arthurs, Jane. : “''Sex and the City'' and Consumer Culture: Remediating Postfeminist Drama.” ''Feminist Media Studies'' 3.1 (2003): 83-98.

;Balducci, Federica. 2011. : ''A Different Shade of Pink: Literary Thresholds and Cultural Intersections in Italian Chick Lit''. A thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Italian. [http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/1929]

;Balducci, Federica. 2011. : “When chick lit meets romanzo rosa: Intertextual narratives in Stefania Bertola’s romantic fiction,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2011/12/when-chick-lit-meets-romanzo-rosa-intertextual-narratives-in-stefania-bertola%E2%80%99s-romantic-fiction-by-federica-balducci/]

;Baloria, Nitasha. 2014. : "To Be or Not To Be a 'Wife': Theme of Marriage in the Works of Marian Keyes," ''Research Scholar: An International Refereed e-Journal of Literary Explorations'' 2.1.[http://researchscholar.co.in/downloads/56-nitasha-baloria.pdf]

;Baloria, Nitasha. 2014. : "Is Chick Lit a Fluff or a Product of Jane Austen’s Style?," ''European Academic Research'' 2.7. [http://euacademic.org/UploadArticle/984.pdf]

;Benstock, Shari. : "Afterword: The New Woman's Fiction." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 253-???.

;Boyd, Elizabeth B. : "Ya Yas, Grits, and Sweet Potato Queens: Contemporary Southern Belles and the Prescriptions That Guide Them." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 159-172.

;Burns, Amy, 2011. : "'Tell me all about your new man': (Re)Constructing Masculinity in Contemporary Chick Texts." ''Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network'' 4.1. [http://journalhosting.org/meccsa-pgn/index.php/netknow/issue/current/showToc Links to abstract and pdf]

;Burns, Amy, 2012. : "The Postfeminist Flâneuse: The Literary Value of Contemporary Chick Lit." ''Graduate Journal of Social Science'' 9.3.[http://gjss.org/images/stories/volumes/9/3/Burns.pdf]

;Butler, Pamela and Jigna Desai. : “Manolos, Marriage, and Mantras: Chick-Lit Criticism and Transnational Feminism.” ''Meridians'' 8.2 (2008): 1-31. [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/meridians/v008/8.2.butler.html Abstract]

;Campbell, P. 2006. : "The Sand in the Oyster The Lit of Chick Lit." '' The Horn Book Magazine.'' 82 (4):487-491.[http://www.hbook.com/magazine/articles/2006/jul06_campbell.asp]

;Cano López, Marina. : "Looking Back in Desire; or How Jane Austen Rewrites Chick Lit in Alexandra Potter’s ''Me and Mr. Darcy''." ''Persuasions'' 31.1 (2010).[http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol31no1/cano-lopez.html]

;Carvalho, Charmaine. : "Chick Lit in India: Possibilities for a Feminine Aesthetic in Popular Fiction." ''Estetyka i Krytyka The Polish Journal of Aesthetics'' 41 (2016): 13-32. [http://estetykaikrytyka.pl/art/41/eik_41_1.pdf]

;Caselli, Carolyn Ann. 2006.: ''Chick Lit : postmodern literature for the everywoman.'' Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, Northridge.

;Chen, Eva. : "Shanghai(ed) Babies: Geopolitics, Biopolitics and the Global Chick Lit." ''Feminist Media Studies'' (advanced release 6 Oct. 2011). [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14680777.2011.597102 Abstract]

;Chen Eva Yin-i. : "Neoliberal Self-Governance and Popular Postfeminism in Contemporary Anglo-American Chick Lit", ''Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies'' 36.1 (2010): 243-275.[http://www.concentric-literature.url.tw/issues/Transnational%20Taiwan/11.pdf]

;Craddock, Louise. : "Bridget Jones's Little Red Dress: Chicklit, Mass-market Popular Romance and Feminism." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 43-51. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

==D-F==

;Davis-Kahl, Stephanie. : "The Case for Chick Lit in Academic Libraries." ''Collection Building'' 27.1 (2008): 18-21. [http://works.bepress.com/stephanie_davis_kahl/1 Abstract and link to pdf]

;Dorney, Kate. : "Shop Boys and Girls! Interpellating Readers as Consumers in Chicklit and Ladlit." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 12-22. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Dunn, Hannah. 2005.: ''Making the personal political: reflexivity as neo-feminist activism in Brit-art and Chick-lit.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of Colorado.

;Ebert, Teresa L. 2009. : ''The task of cultural critique.'' Urbana: University of Illinois Press. [Chapter-Chick lit: "not your mother's romance novels"] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OEYGxoLGApYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA97#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Ehriander, Helene, 2015. : "Chick Lit in Historical Settings by Frida Skybäck", ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/chick-lit-in-historical-settings-by-frida-skybackby-helene-ehriander/]

;Farr, Cecilia Konchar. 2009. : "It Was Chick Lit All Along: The Gendering of a Genre." In ''You've Come a Long Way, Baby: Women, Politics, and Popular Culture'', 201-214. Lexington, KY: UP of Kentucky, 2009.

;Ferriss, Suzanne and Mallory Young. : "Introduction." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 1-16.

;Ferriss, Suzanne and Mallory Young. : “Chicks, Girls and Choice: Redefining Feminism.” ''Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue'' 6 (2006): 87-97. [http://www.junctures.org/issues.php?issue=06&title=Language&colour=rgb(73,47,146)]

;Ferris, Suzanne. : "Narrative and Cinematic Doubleness: ''Pride and Prejudice'' and ''Bridget Jones's Diary''." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 71-84.

;Ferris, Suzanne. : "Working Girls: The Precariat of Chick Lit", in Cupcakes, Pinterest and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early Twenty-First Century, ed. Elana Levine (University of Illinois, 2015): 177-???.

;Fest, Kerstin. 2009. : "Angels in the House or Girl Power: Working Women in Nineteenth-Century Novels and Contemporary Chick Lit." ''Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal'' 38, no. 1: 43-62.

;Frater, Lara. 2009. : "Fat heroines in chick-lit: gateway to acceptance in the mainstream?" in Rothblum, Esther D., and Sondra Solovay. ''The Fat Studies Reader.'' New York: New York University Press. 235-240. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XtLWPWNO8gUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA235#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Frenkel, Ronit, 2019. : “Pleasure as Genre: Popular Fiction, South African Chick-Lit and Nthikeng Mohlele’s Pleasure.” ''Feminist Theory'', (February 2019). [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1464700119831537#articleCitationDownloadContainer Abstract]

==G-I==

;Gamble, Sarah. : "When Romantic Heroines Turn Bad: The Rise of the ‘Anti-Chicklit’ Novel." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/gamble.html]

;Gehrmann, Susanne. : “Emerging Afro-Parisian ‘Chick-Lit’ by Lauren Ekué and Léonora Miano.” ''Feminist Theory'', Feb. 2019. [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1464700119831539#articleCitationDownloadContainer Abstract]

;Gennaro, Stephen. : “Sex and the City: Perpetual Adolescence Gendered Feminine?” ''Nebula'' 4.1 (2007). 1 August 2009.[http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/Gennaro.pdf]

;Genz, Stéphanie, and Benjamin A. Brabon. 2009. : ''Postfeminism: cultural texts and theories.'' Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Chapter - Girl power and chick lit, on pages 76-90.] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yUGpvXJe9NAC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA76#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Gerhard, Jane. : “''Sex and the City'': Carrie Bradshaw’s Queer Postfeminism.” ''Feminist Media Studies'' 5.1 (2005): 37-49.

;Ghosh, Srijani. : "''Res Emptito Ergo Sum'': Fashion and Commodity Fetishism in Sophie Kinsella’s ''Confessions of a Shopaholic''." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 46.2 (2013): 378-393. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.12031/abstract Excerpt]

;Gill, Rosalind. : "Lad lit as mediated intimacy: A postfeminist tale of female power, male vulnerability and toast." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/gill.html]

;Gill, Rosalind and Elena Herdieckerhoff. : "Rewriting the Romance: New Femininities in Chick Lit?" ''Feminist Media Studies'' 6.4 (2006): 487-504. [Abstract and pdf available from [http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/2514 LSE Research Online]]

;Gormley, Sarah. : "Introduction." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/gormley.html]

;Gorton, Kristyn. : "'Kiss My Tiara': Chicklit and Female Empowerment." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 23-28. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Gruslytė, Monika, Aurelija Taujanskaitė, and Erika Žemaitytė. : "The tradition of consciousness-raising fiction in contemporary popular fiction Chick lit." ''Straipsnis leidinyje: Jaunųjų mokslininkų darbai'' 39.1 (2013): 125-129. [http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:J.04~2013~ISSN_1648-8776.N_1_39.PG_125-129 Abstract and link to pdf.] [http://vddb.library.lt/fedora/get/LT-eLABa-0001:J.04~2013~ISSN_1648-8776.N_1_39.PG_125-129/DS.002.1.01.ARTIC Pdf]

;Guerrero, Lisa A. : "'Sistahs Are Doin' It For Themselves': Chick Lit in Black and White." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 87-102.

;Gunne, Sorcha. : ‘Gender, Genre and Modernity: Popular Romance Fiction in Ireland’, ''Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction'', Ed. L Harte. Oxford: Oxford University Press [in press]. [[https://www.academia.edu/37300918/Gender_Genre_and_Modernity_Popular_Romance_Fiction_in_Ireland pre-print version]]

;Gymnich, Marion, and Kathrin Ruhl. 2010. : "Revisiting the Classical Romance: Pride and Prejudice, Bridget Jone's Diary and Bride and Prejudice." In ''Gendered (Re)Visions: Constructions of Gender in Audiovisual Media'', 23-44. Göttingen, Germany: V&R, 2010. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VWcRp0Xy41IC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA23#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Hale, Elizabeth. : "Long-Suffering Professional Females: The Case of Nanny Lit." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 103-118.

;Harzewski, Stephanie. 2004. : "'Chick Lit' and the Urban Code Heroine: Interview Symposium with Caren Lissner, Melissa Senate, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, and Jennifer Weiner." In ''Voces de América/American Voices: Entrevistas a escritores americanos/Interviews with American Writers,''. Cádiz, Spain: Aduana Vieja, 2004. 689-719.

;Harzewski, Stephanie. : "Tradition and Displacement in the New Novel of Manners." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 29–46.

;Harzewski, Stephanie. : "The new novel of manners: Chick lit and postfeminist sexual politics" (January 1, 2006). Dissertations available from ProQuest. Paper AAI3225468. [Abstract http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI3225468]

;Harzewski, Stephanie. : ''Chick Lit and Postfeminism.'' Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011.

;Hedrick, Tace. : ''Chica Lit: Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century''. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2015. [https://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=36578 Details and excerpt]

;Henry, Astrid. : “Orgasms and Empowerment. ''Sex and the City'' and the Third Wave Feminism.” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 65-82.

;Hewett, Heather. : "You Are Not Alone: The Personal, the Political and the 'New' Mommy Lit." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 119-140.

;Horrocks, Clare. : "Tart Noir: Chicklit with Criminal Balls." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 59-64. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]



;Hurst, Rochelle. : “The Barrister’s Bedmate: Harlequin Mills & Boon and the Bridget Jones Debate.” ''Australian Feminist Studies'' 24.62 (2009): 453-468. [Feminist critique of Harlequin Mills & Boons (especially a selection by [[Emma Darcy]]) and comparison with Helen Fielding's ''Bridget Jones'' novels. For a discussion of why many aspects of this essay's methodology are troubling, from an academic perspective, see [http://www.readreactreview.com/2010/02/10/feminist-critique-of-romance-ur-doin-it-wrong/ this article by Jessica at ''Read React Review'']].

;Hurt, Erin. 2009. : "Trading Cultural Baggage for Gucci Luggage: The Ambivalent Latinidad of Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's "The Dirty Girls Social Club.." ''MELUS'' 34, no. 3: 133-153.

;Hurt, Erin (ed.) 2018. : ''Theorizing Ethnicity and Nationality in the Chick Lit Genre''. Routledge. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=unx0DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Isbister, Georgina C. : "Chick Lit: A Postfeminist Fairy Tale." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/isbister.html]

==J-L==

;Jermyn, Deborah. : “In Love with Sarah Jessica Parker: Celebrating Female Fandom and Friendship in ''Sex and the City''.” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 201-217.

;Jermyn, Deborah. : ''Sex and the City''. Detroit: Wayne State Press, 2009.

;Johnson, Joanna Webb. : "Chick Lit Jnr.: More Than Glitz and Glamour for Teens and Tweens." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 141-158.

;Kaminski, Melissa J. and Robert G. Magee. : "Does This Book Make Me Look Fat?: The Effect of Protagonist Body Weight and Body Esteem on Female Readers' Body Esteem." ''Body Image'' (2012). [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2012.10.009 Abstract]

;Kent, Paula Rachel. 2007. : '' Think pink and high heels: women and beauty as represented in chick lit novels.'' Thesis (M.A.) Stephenville, Tex: Tarleton State University. [http://gradworks.umi.com/14/55/1455093.html Abstract]

;Kiernan, Anna. : "No Satisfaction: ''Sex and the City'', ''Run Catch Kiss'', and the Conflict of Desires in Chick Lit's New Heroines." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 207-218.

;Knowles, Joanne. : "Editorial." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 3-4. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Knowles, Joanne. : "Material Girls: Location and Economics in Chicklit Fiction, Or, How Singletons Finance Their Jimmy Choo Collections." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 37-42. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Knowles, Joanne. 2008. : "'Our foes are almost as many as our readers': debating the worth of women's reading and writing--the case of chick-lit." ''Popular Narrative Media'' 1.2 (2008): 217-231.

;Kohli, Joy. : ''Governing Women’s Sexuality in “Sex and the City”: Pleasure, Relationships And Reproduction''. Ann Arbor: Proquest, 2008.

;Konchar Farr, Cecilia. : "It Was Chick Lit All Along: The Gendering of a Genre." ''You've Come A Long Way Baby: Women, Politics, and Popular Culture''. Ed. Lilly J. Goren. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. 201-214. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=G132LEhM4ucC&lpg=PA208&pg=PA201#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Leffler, Yvonne. : "Chick Lit as Healing and Self-Help Manual?" ''Culture, Health, and Religion at the Millennium: Sweden Unparadised'', Ed. Marie Demker, Yvonne Leffler and Ola Sigurdson. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 155-182. [http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9781137472236.0008 Excerpt]

;Lenz, Christian. : ''Geographies of Love: The Cultural Spaces of Romance in Chick- and Ladlit''. PhD thesis, TU Dortmund University, 2014. Verlag 2016. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rrgADAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Lerman, Amy S. : “Jane Green and the Contemporary ‘Singleton’: Why Women Can Laugh at their Bachelorette Predicaments.” ''The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference''. Ed. Leslie Fife. 1285-1298.

;Lim, Megan S.C., Margaret E. Hellard and Danielle Horyniak. : "Safe Sex in Chick Lit: a ‘Novel’ Analysis of Sexual Health References in Popular Women’s Fiction. ''Sexual Health''. Online first, 27 July 2018. [https://doi.org/10.1071/SH18017 Abstract]

==M-O==

;Mabry, A. Rochelle. : "About a Girl: Female Subjectivity and Sexuality in Contemporary 'Chick' Culture." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 191-206.

;Markle, Gail. : “Can Women Have Sex Like a Man? Sexual Scripts in Sex and the City.” Sexuality and Culture 12 (2008): 45-57.

;Mathew, Imogen. : "Educating the Reader in Anita Heiss’s Chick Lit." ''Contemporary Women's Writing'' (2016). First published online: July 31, 2016. [http://cww.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/07/31/cww.vpw019.extract# Excerpt]

;Mazza, Cris. : "Who's Laughing Now? A Short History of Chick Lit and the Perversion of a Genre." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 17-28.

;Mazza, Cris. 2000. : "Editing Postfeminist Fiction: Finding the Chic in Lit." ''Symplokē: A Journal for the Intermingling of Literary, Cultural and Theoretical Scholarship'' 8, no. 1-2: 101-112.

;Merck, Mandy. : “Sexuality in the City.” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 48-62.

;Missler, Heike. : ''The Cultural Politics of Chick Lit: Popular Fiction, Postfeminism and Representation''. New York: Routledge, 2017. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mVtuDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Moody, Nickianne. : "Empathy and Irony in the Soundtrack to Chicklit." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 52-58. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Morrison, Amanda Maria. 2010. : "Chicanas and 'Chick Lit': Contested Latinidad in the Novels of Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 43, no. 2: 309-329.

;Nelson, Ashley. : “Sister Carrie meets Carrie Bradshaw: Exploring Progress, Politics and the Single Woman in ''Sex and the City'' and Beyond.” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 83-95.

;Newns, Lucinda, 2017. : "Renegotiating romantic genres: Textual resistance and Muslim chick lit." ''Journal of Commonwealth Literature''. Online first. 1-17. [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0021989416686156 Abstract]

;Ommundsen, Wenche. 2008. : "From China with Love: Chick Lit and the New Crossover Fiction." In ''China Fictions-English Language: Literary Essays in Diaspora, Memory, Story,''. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi. 327-345

;Ommundsen, Wenche. 2011. : "Sex and the Global City: Chick Lit with a Difference." ''Contemporary Women's Writing'' 5.2: 107-124. [http://cww.oxfordjournals.org/content/5/2/107.extract Abstract]

;Oria, Beatriz, 2012. : “’Just Say Yes’: the Romanticisation of Love in ''Sex and the City'',” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2012/10/just-say-yes-the-romanticisation-of-love-in-sex-and-the-city-by-beatriz-oria/]

==P-R==

;Pérez-Serrano, Elena. : "Chick Lit and Marian Keyes: The ideological background of the genre." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/perezserrano.html]

;Perez-Serrano, Elena. 2009. : "Growing Old Before Old Age: Ageing in the Fiction of Marian Keyes." ''Educational Gerontology'' 35, no. 2: 135-145.

;Regules, Anne E. 2006. : ''Working women re-working the romance: chick-lit from Kate Chopin to Jennifer Weiner and Sex and the City.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of Texas at San Antonio.

;Ross, Sharon Marie. : “Talking Sex: Comparison Shopping through Female Conversation in HBO’s ''Sex and the City''.” ''The Sitcom Reader: America Viewed and Skewed''. Eds. Mary M. Dalton and Laura Linder. New York: State University of NY Press, 2005. 111-122.

;Rowntree, Margaret, Nicole Moulding and Lia Bryant, 2012. : "Feminine Sexualities in Chick Lit." ''Australian Feminist Studies'', Volume 27, Issue 72: 121-137. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08164649.2012.648259 Abstract]

;Ryan, Mary, 2009. : ‘What a Way to Make a Living: Irish Chick Lit and the Working World.’ ''MP: An Online Feminist Journal'' 2.5: 27-41.[http://academinist.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Chick_Ryan.pdf]

;Ryan, Mary, 2010. : "Trivial or Commendable? : Women's Writing, Popular Culture, and Chick Lit." ''452F Journal of Comparative Literature'' 3 (July 2010): 70-84.[http://www.452f.com/en/mary-ryan.html]

;Ryan, Mary, 2010. : "Stepping Out from the Margins: Ireland, Morality, and Representing the ‘Other’ in Irish Chick Lit." ''Nebula: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship'' 7.3: 137-149.[http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/Ryan.pdf]

;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : “The Bodies of Chick Lit: Positive Representations of the Female Body in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction.” ''Inquire: A Journal of Comparative Literature'' 1.1 [http://inquire.streetmag.org/articles/13]

;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : “Then and Now: Memories of a Patriarchal Ireland in the Work of Marian Keyes.” ''452°F Journal of Comparative Literature'' 4: 110-130.[http://www.452f.com/en/ryan.html]

;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : "Ending the Silence: Representing Women’s Reproductive Lives in Irish Chick Lit." ''Nebula: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship'' 8.1: 209-224.[http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/Ryan3.pdf]

;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : ‘Amongst Women: Male Romance Authors and Irish Chick Lit Author, Andrew O’Connor’, ''The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture'' 1.2: 209-225. [http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=11989/ Abstract]

==S-U==

;Santaemilia, J. 2008. : The translation of sex-related language: The danger(s) of self-censorship(s). ''TTR: Traduction, Terminologie et Redaction'' 21, (2): 221-252

;Sellei, Nora. : "Bridget Jones and Hungarian Chick Lit." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 173-188.

;Smith, Caroline J. 2005. : "Living the Life of a Domestic Goddess: Chick Lit's Response to Domestic-Advice Manuals." ''Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal'' 34, no. 8: 671-699.

;Smith, Caroline J. 2007. : "The Girls' Guide to Creating Community: Analyzing Reading Communities in Chick Lit." In ''Narratives of Community: Women's Short Story Sequences,''. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2007. 352-371.

;Smith, Caroline J. : ''Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit''. New York: Routledge, 2008. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XDACykiKvL8C&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Smyczyńska, Katarzyna. : "Commitment Phobia and Emotional Fuckwittage: Postmillennial Constructions of Male 'Other' in Chicklit Novels." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 29-36. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Smyczyńska, Katarzyna. : ''The World According to Bridget Jones: Discourses of Identity in Chicklit Fictions''. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2007.

;Spencer, Lynda Gichanda, 2014. : "Writing Women in Uganda and South Africa: Emerging Writers from Post-Repressive Regimes." PhD Thesis, Stellenbosch University, April 2014. [http://scholar.sun.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10019.1/86251/spencer_writing_2014.pdf PDF] [See Chapter 3, which "explores how Goretti Kyomuhendo, Zukiswa Wanner and Angela Makholwa and Cynthia Jele embrace chick lit as a form of writing that allows them to reflect on the lived realities of women."]

;Tangney, ShaunAnne. 2008. : "Chick Lit Matters: From Femme Covert to Fendi, Feminine Fiction Provides Feminist Critique." In ''Honoring Human Herstory: A Celebration of Women's Heritage,''. Minot, ND: Minot State University, 2008. 49-63.

;Taylor, Anthea. 2011. : ''Single Women in Popular Culture: The Limits of Postfeminism.''New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [See in particular Chapter 3: "Spinsters and Singletons: ''Bridget Jones's Diary'' and its Cultural Reverberations"]

;Thoma, Pamela. : "Romancing the Self and Negotiating Consumer Citizenship in Asian American Labor Lit." ''Contemporary Women's Writing'' 2013. [http://cww.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/03/26/cww.vps036.extract# Excerpt]

;Umminger, Alison. : "Supersizing Bridget Jones: What's Really Eating the Women in Chick Lit." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 239-252.

==V-Z==

;Van Slooten, Jessica Lyn. : "Fashionably Indebted: Conspicuous Consumption, Fashion, and Romance in Sophie Kinsella's ''Shopaholic'' Trilogy." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 219-238.

;Veseljević Jerković, Selma. : "Mad about the Boy: The Phenomenon of Fictional Autobiography." ''Društvene i humanističke studije'' 4.2(8): 89-102. [http://www.dhs.ff.untz.ba/index.php/home/article/view/268 Abstract] [www.dhs.ff.untz.ba/index.php/home/article/download/268/204 pdf]

;Wells, Juliette. : "Mother of Chick Lit? Women Writers, Readers, and Literary History." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 47-70.

;Whelehan, Imelda. : ''Overloaded: Popular Culture and the Future of Feminism''. London: The Women’s Press Ltd., 2000. [Looks at various aspects of popular culture: men's magazines (''Loaded'', ''Maxim'', ''GQ''); TV shows (''Ally McBeal'', ''Sex in the City'', ''Men Behaving Badly'') and novels (''Bridget Jones' Diary'').]

;Whelehan, Imelda. : ''Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary: A Reader’s Guide''. New York: Continuum, 2002. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SN8iV7A7ZqkC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Whelehan, Imelda. : "Sex and the Single Girl: Helen Fielding, Erica Jong and Helen Gurley Brown." ''Essays and Studies 2004: Contemporary British Women Writers.'' Ed. Emma Parker. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2004.

;Whelehan, Imelda. : "High Anxiety: Feminism, Chicklit And Women In The Noughties." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 5-11. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]

;Whelehan, Imelda. : "Teening Chick Lit?" ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/whehelan.html]

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Some of the items listed below are freely available online, but most are not. More details for many of them are available via the [http://www.proquest.com/en-US/catalogs/databases/detail/pqdt.shtml ProQuest Database] but this is accessible only by subscription.

;Abdullah-Poulos, Layla, 2016. : “Muslim Love American Style: Islamic-American Hybrid Culture and Native-Born American Black Muslim Romance.” MA thesis, SUNY Empire State College, 2016.[https://search.proquest.com/openview/6bf792f06a331a24ef39d4809d964ef9/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y Excerpt]

;Adams, Kathleen Barzun, 2003. : ''Thirty years of change : heroes, heroines, and the popular romance.'' Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity College.

;Achieng’, Okang’a Nancy, 2017. : "A Cosmopolitan National Romance: A Study of ''In Dependence'' by Sarah Ladipo Manyika." MA thesis, Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.[http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10539/23823/Title%20A%20Cosmopolitan%20National%20Romance-1.pdf?sequence=2] [About an African novel which it seems might or might not be a romance, depending on how one defines "African romance" (since the author argues that African romance is more expansive than the US definition).]

;Al-Bataineh, Afaf Badr, 1998. : "The modern Arabic novel: a literary and linguistic analysis of the genre of popular fiction, with special reference to translation from English." Ph.D., Heriot-Watt.[http://hdl.handle.net/10399/1233] [From the abstract at the "Index to Theses" website: "critical insights should enable us to form an overall picture of how the subject of my case study (Mills & Boon and its translation into Arabic) is viewed in the languages and cultures concerned: this particular genre has not been acceptable to the Western literary establishment until recently, and is not acceptable to the Arabic critical establishment even today. [...] Chapter Eight presents a detailed analysis of a Mills & Boon novel in English and its translation into Arabic."]

;Allport, Tanya, 1988. : ''Female journeys :the place of Jane Eyre and "Mills and Boon" in the search for women's existential space.'' Thesis (MA--English)--University of Auckland.

;Anderton, Gretchen E., 2009. : ''Excitement, adventure, indifference: Romance readers' perceptions of how romance reading impacts their sex lives''. Ed.D., Widener University, 2009 , 165 pages; AAT 3383833

;Araujo, Gail, 2009. : ''Living to read romance: The transformative potential of interpretive practice in romance reading.'' M.A., California State University, Fullerton. [http://gradworks.umi.com/14/78/1478345.html Abstract].

;Avila, Debbie Maria, 2005. : "The Romance Novel of the 1930s and 1940s in Spain and Portugal: The Cases of Carmen de Icaza and Alice Ogando." U of California Irvine (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 66.7:2572)

;Backman, Nelina Esther, 1999. : "Evangelism Embarrassed: Christian Literature in a post-Christian Culture." Ph.D. dissertation, Brown University, United States -- Rhode Island. Publication No. AAT 9932368. [Includes some discussion of "contemporary evangelical romance fiction."]

;Balducci, Federica. 2011. : ''A Different Shade of Pink: Literary Thresholds and Cultural Intersections in Italian Chick Lit''. A thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Italian. [http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/1929] [See the section on 'Italian popular romance: ''romanzo rosa'' and its evolution', pp. 67-83.]

;Barletta, Sandra Anne, 2008. : ''A first kiss is still a first kiss: romancing the mid-life reader and heroine : A basic renovation.'' Thesis (M.A.(Research))--Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 2008. [http://eprints.qut.edu.au/19205/ Abstract and link to pdf]. [Pages 1-29 are analysis of "a neglected demographic of reader and heroine who are marginalised within the romance genre. As well, it gives reasons why heroines need not be characterised in particular roles or situations as they age, and a rationale for why their underrepresentation as romance heroines should end." ''A Basic Renovation'' is a romance novel written by Barletta and included in the thesis which was "Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Creative Writing (romance)."]

;Barletta, Sandra A., 2014. : ''Cougars, Grannies, Evil Stepmothers, and Menopausal Hot Flashers: Roles, Representations of Age, and the Non-traditional Romance Heroine.'' PhD thesis in Creative Writing and Literary Studies, Queensland University of Technology. [http://eprints.qut.edu.au/72686/3/Sandra_Barletta_Thesis.pdf]

;Barra, Andrea Cipriano, 2014. : ''Beyond the Bodice Ripper: Innovation and Change in the Romance Novel Industry''. PhD dissertation in Sociology, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. [https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/45202/ Abstract and link to pdf]

;Benjamin, Sarah, 1999. : "The Theory of 'Identity Dissonance': Mass Communication, Romance Fiction, and the Self-Concept." M.A. dissertation, York University (Canada), Canada. Publication No. AAT MQ43370.[http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq43370.pdf]

;Beyer, Jennifer Ann Perry, 2000. : ''The romance novel revolution :a study of criticisms and readers.'' Thesis (M.A.)--Bemidji State University.

;Billekens, F.G.W., 2019. : ''Never Mind Me When There's You: The Submission Of The Heroine In YA Supernatural Romance Fiction'', Bachelor's Thesis, Utrecht University. [https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/377634 Abstract and link to pdf]

;Blanding, Cristen, 2005. : ''Interracial romance novels and the resolution of racial difference.'' Thesis (M.A.)--Bowling Green State University. [http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1131365873 Abstract and PDF]

;Böhmová, Petra, 2012. : "Contemporary American Christian Fiction: Young and Rivers." Diploma thesis, Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Education, Department of English Language and Literature. [http://is.muni.cz/th/385552/pedf_m/Petra_Bohmova-diplomova_prace.pdf] [One of the novels discussed is Francine Rivers' ''Redeeming Love''.]

;Brasileiro Neves, 2014. : "ROMANCES DE BOLSO: A novela romântica da Harlequin Books no mercado editorial brasileiro", Trabalho de pesquisa de mercado apresentado ao Departamento de Comunicação Social, da Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, como requisito para a obtenção do grau de bacharelado em Publicidade e Propaganda, Recife. [https://www.academia.edu/11331340/ROMANCES_DE_BOLSO_A_NOVELA_ROM%C3%82NTICA_DA_HARLEQUIN_BOOKS_NO_MERCADO_EDITORIAL_BRASILEIRO]

;Breeden, Amanda L., 2007. : ''Neo romance :gender renegotiation in Harlequin romance novels.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of Northern Iowa.

;Bryson, Mary, 2004. : ''Public Library Services to the Romance Reader: An Online Survey of Romance Readers''. A Master’s paper for the M.S. in L.S. degree - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. May, 2004. [http://ils.unc.edu/MSpapers/2979.pdf]

;Buckley, Julia, 2010. : "The Door To Wonderland: How Mary Stewart’s Literary Voice Influenced 20th Century Romantic Suspense." MA thesis, Elmhurst College.[http://ojsserv.dom.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/192]

;Bun, Jennifer C., 2007. : "The Effects of Romance Novel Readership on Relationship Beliefs, Romantic Ideals, and Relational Satisfaction." Honors Thesis - Boston College. [http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/communication/meta-elements/pdf/thesis07.bun.pdf Full text]

;Burge, Amy, 2012. : "Desiring the East: A Comparative Study of Middle English Romance and Modern Popular Sheikh Romance." PhD thesis, University of York. [Abstract and pdf available [http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3121/ here].]

;Burley, Stephanie Carol., 2003. : "Hearts of Darkness: The Racial Politics of Popular Romance." U of Maryland, College Park (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 64.6: 2082)

;Burnside, Mary Elizabeth, 1996. : "The novels of Mills and Boon in the post-war period." M.Phil., Hull.[http://library.hull.ac.uk/record=b1697392]

;Bywaters, Barbara Lee, 1989. :"'Re-reading Jane': Jane Austen's legacy to twentieth-century women writers'. PhD thesis. Bowling Green State University. [http://maurice.bgsu.edu/record=b1714503~S0 Details at BGSU library]. A short excerpt of this thesis seems to be available in ''Georgette Heyer: A Critical Retrospective''. Ed. Mary Fahnestock-Thomas. Saraland, AL: PrinnyWorld, 2001. 493-508.

;Capps, Stephanie Carol, 2017. :"What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs about Relationships". Master of Science thesis. University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 2017. [https://shareok.org/bitstream/handle/11244/50728/2017_Capps_Stephanie_Carol_Thesis.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y] [This seems very similar to an article with the same title published the next year. The primary author may have changed their lastname: http://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Faca0000189 ]

;Carmichael, Lynn P., 1985. "A Romantic Past: A Study of Historical Romance as a Form of Recreational Fiction in Public Libraries." M.A. thesis, South Australian Institute of Technology.

;Chappel, Deborah Kaye, 1992. : "American Romances: Narratives of Culture and Identity" Duke University, ''Dissertation Abstracts International''52 (8): 2923A-24A.

;Christian, Linda Kathryn. 1984.: "'Becoming a Woman through Romance: Adolescent Novels and the Ideology of Femininity'." U. of Wisconsin, Madison (''Dissertation Abstracts International: Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'') 45.5: 1282.

;Clawson, Laura, 1998. : "Covering genres: romance, science-fiction/fantasy, pleasure, and respectability." Thesis (B.A., Honors, American Studies, English)--Wesleyan University, 1998. Special Collections: Wesleyan (Thesis), Call Number: 1998 C617 ["my senior honors thesis at Wesleyan was about romance and sci-fi, and how academics tended to treat sci-fi as literature and romances as a cultural phenomenon to be explained." (from [http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/index.php/weblog/comments/interview-with-laura-clawson-daily-kos-contributing-editor/ an interview at Smart Bitches Trashy Books]) ]

;Close, Lisa. 2008. : ''Functional analysis of the contemporary folkloric vampire.'' Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of English, 2008. [References Nora Roberts' Circle Trilogy: see abstract in [http://primofe1.byu.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?ct=display&doc=byu_unicorn4154044&indx=2&frbg=&dum=true&vid=byu-cl&vl(13550901UI0)=any&vl(172369922UI1)=all_items&srt=rank&indx=1&dstmp=1278574032499&tab=default_tab&ct=search&scp.scps=scope%3A(simpledl)%2Cscope%3A(LEE)%2Cscope%3A(BYU)%2Cscope%3A(LAW)%2Cscope%3A(byugle)%2Cscope%3A(Unicorn_online)%2Cscope%3A(CONTENTdm)%2Cscope%3A(JUV)%2Cscope%3A(SPEC)%2Cscope%3A(INTERNET)%2Cscope%3A(SWKT)%2Cscope%3A(SLC)%2Cscope%3A(LEELRC)%2Cscope%3A(MUSIC)%2Cscope%3A(saskia)%2Cscope%3A(CONTENTdm2)&vl(freeText0)=close%20lisa&fn=search&mode=Basic&dscnt=0 Brigham Young University library's catalog].]

;Coddington, Lynn, 1997. : "Romance and Power: Writing Romance Novels as a Practice of Critical Literacy." Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, United States -- California. Publication No. AAT 9803158.

;Colemnero, Laura Elizabeth, 1999. : "The social construction of gender as represented in popular fiction, 1990-1997." Ph.D. dissertation, South Dakota State University, Publication No. AAT 9924280. [Includes analysis of [[Johanna Lindsey]]'s ''[[Gentle Rogue]]''.]

;Collier, Kathryn (Kizzi), 2018. : "My Chemical Erotic Romance: A Deeper Look into Women’s Lustful Fantasies." A Division III Project, Hampshire College.[https://dspace.hampshire.edu/bitstream/10009/1058/1/Division%20III%20Final%21%20.pdf]

;Cortesi, Taylor D., 2013. : "'Traitorous Bodies': Cartesian Dualism in Romance Novels by Susan Johnson and E. L. James." M. Lit. thesis, Texas State University - San Marcos. [https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/4554 Abstract and link to pdf].

;Davis, Mary Louise, 1986. : 'Romances and the Modern Ms.: a Study of Contemporary (Line) Romances, 1980-1984.' Ph.D. diss., University of Southern California.(''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A:The Humanities and Social Sciences)'' 47.11, p. 4108.

;Davis, Storme G. 2008. : ''Nora Roberts: descendant of Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë?'': a thesis presented to the faculty of the Graduate School, Tennessee Technological University. Thesis (M.A.)--Tennessee Technological University, 2008.

;DiVisconte, Jessica, 2009. : ''The Recession and Its Effect on the Romance Genre''. Master of Science in Publishing. Paper 16. Dyson College of Arts & Sciences, Pace University. [http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/dyson_mspublishing/16 Abstract and link to pdf.]

;Donalson, Tara A., 2005. : ''The Parody of Romance.'' MA Thesis, Graduate School of The University of Texas at Arlington. ["I look at the parallel formulas found in secular and inspirational romance fiction, searching how inspirational romance evangelizes and gives spiritual instruction to its readers."] [http://dspace.uta.edu/handle/10106/410 Abstract and link to pdf.]

;Downey, Kristin, 2005. : "Irony, Ideology, and Resistance: The Amazing Double Life of Harlequin Presents", McMaster University, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 66.10:3640.

;Dryden, Therese Michelle, 2011. : "Bachelor Dad on Her Doorstep." MPhil Thesis, University of Newcastle (Australia). [This dissertation is in two parts: the first has been published as ''Bachelor Dad on Her Doorstep'', "a Harlequin Mills & Boon Sweet Romance" under the pseudonym "Michelle Douglas" and is therefore not available online. The "accompanying exegesis discusses the conventions and constraints of the popular romance genre. It explores the challenges presented to a writer in creating and maintaining emotional intensity in a popular genre romance and the need to provide a satisfying and credible ending to that romance" and it can be downloaded from [http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/920190 here].]

;Dummer, Kathleen Ann. 1990. : ''A study of character development of main characters in young adult category romance literature.'' Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wyoming.

;Dunnion, Janne May, 1997. : ''Mapping Normalcy: Romance and the Postmodern Body'', MA thesis, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the Univesity of Toronto. ["The main focus of this thesis is an examination of the constitution of the female body within the location of popular culture, specifically Harlequin Enterprises and popular romance novels."] [http://hdl.handle.net/1807/11494 Details and link to pdf]

;Elliott, Margaret A., 1996. : 'The Librarian's Stereotyped Image in Romance Novels, 1980-1995: Has the Image Changed?', Master's Research Paper, Kent State University. ERIC Document ED401924. [http://eric.ed.gov:80/ERICWebPortal/detail?accno=ED401924 Abstract] and [http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED401924 PDF]

;English, Jessica, 2017. : “Reading the Romance: Through the Eyes of a Millenial Feminist.” Masters Thesis. Eastern Washington University. [http://dc.ewu.edu/theses/456/]

;Faust, Meredith S., 2010. : ""Love of the purest kind": Heteronormative rigidity in the homoerotic fiction of Ann Herendeen" (2010). Theses and Dissertations. Paper 41. MA thesis from DePaul University. [http://via.library.depaul.edu/etd/41 Details] and [http://via.library.depaul.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=etd PDF].

;Fekete, Maleah, 2016. : "Social Differences in Taste: Investigating Romance Reading." 2016 SURF Conference Proceedings [This is a conference paper but outlines the direction of a larger project. The student has a supervisor.][http://escholarship.org/uc/item/28f1q2d7]

;Fenty, Linda D. 1987. : "A Comparative Analysis of Female Role Models in Selected Contemporary Teen Romances." Auburn University (''Dissertation Abstracts International'') 48, no. 8: 2007A-2007A. [http://aubiecat.auburn.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=629918 Auburn University Library Catalog details].

;Fera-VanGent, Tania, 2005: 'Popular Romance Novels: Seeking out the 'Sisterhood'." M.A. diss., Brock University (Canada).[https://dr.library.brocku.ca/jspui/bitstream/10464/1379/1/Brock_Fera-VanGent_Tania_2007.pdf]

;Flesch, Juliet, 2001. : ''From Australia with love :Australian romance novels, 1950-2000. '' Thesis (Ph.D)--Dept. of History (Women's Study), University of Melbourne.

;Fletcher, Lisa, 2002. : '' I love you :historical romance fiction and heterosexuality.'' Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne.

;Funderburk, Amy, 2004. : ''Romance Collections in North Carolina Public Libraries: Are All Genres Treated Equally?'' A Master’s Paper for the M.S. in L.S. degree. - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April, 2004. [http://www.ils.unc.edu/MSpapers/2934.pdf]

;Gardner, Dora Abigail, 2019. : 'Defending the Bodice Ripper', MA thesis, Eastern Kentucky University. [https://search.proquest.com/openview/20dec25c37b36e929b647b84b6b0bd49/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y Excerpt]

;Garza, Raquel M, ???? (possibly 2011). : ''“Don’t tell me I don’t know what Love is”: A Comparative Study on Heterosexual and Homosexual Romance Novels'' Longwood University, [probably submitted as part of a Bachelor's degree in Communication Studies with a concentration in Public Relations and Organizational Communication]. [https://workstory.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/508208/FINAL_Thesis_original.doc]

;Geib, Aleta Esther. 1986. : ''Changing heroes: depictions of the male sex role in category romance novels, 1976-1983.'' Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio State University.

;Genz, Carole, 2005. : "Romance Revisited: Transformations of the Marital Love Triangle in Women’s Fictions." PhD thesis, University of Stirling, Department of English Studies.

;Glennemeier, Jaelyn, 2018. : “And he was an Arab!:” Imperial Femininity and Pleasure in E. M. Hull's 1919 Desert Romance, ''The Sheik''', Honors thesis, University of Kansas. [https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/26639 Abstract and link to pdf].

;Goade, Sally Ann, 1999. : "'And With the Land, Our Spirits So Blended': Interrelated Frontier Quests of Self in Contemporary Historical Romance. A Study of Rosanne Bittner's 'Savage Destiny' series", Idaho State U, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 60.4:1132).

;Goris, An, 2011. : From Romance to Roberts and Back Again: genre, authorship and the construction of textual identity in contemporary popular romance novels." PhD thesis, University of Leuven. [https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/317472 Abstract and Index] [https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/317472/1/text+1-469.pdf Pdf]

;Gorry, April Marie, 1999. : "Leaving Home for Romance: Tourist Women's Adventures Abroad," PhD thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara.[http://anthro.vancouver.wsu.edu/media/PDF/romance.pdf] [This is an anthropology PhD but Chapter 5 (pages 195-240) presents "the results of a survey of 45 popular romance novels dating from 1977 to 1996 [...] it is principally intended to test the validity of findings generated by my field survey of romance tourism.]

;Gregor, Theresa Lynn, 2010. : ''From Captors to Captives: American Indian Responses to Popular American Narrative Forms''. Ph.D. thesis from University of Southern California. [Available from [http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll127/id/302844 here]. See the section on "''Savage Obsession'' and ''Dreamquest'': The Cultural Work of Contemporary Mass-Marketed American/Indian Romances," pages 175-186. Discusses novels by [[Cassie Edwards]] and [[Janet Wellington]].]

;Griffin, Linda Coleman, 1999. : "An Analysis of Meaning Creation through the Integration of Sociology and Literature: A Critical Ethnography of a Romance Reading Group." U of Houston, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'', 60.4: 1117.)

;Güvendi Yalçın, Elif, 2018. : "The Transformation of Romance Novels Based on the Theories of Sociologist Anthony Giddens," Istanbul Aydin University Institute of Social Sciences. [http://acikarsiv.aydin.edu.tr/handle/11547/1576?mode=full Abstract] [Based on analysis of "three medieval romances’s content— Walter Scott’s ''Ivanhoe'' (1920), Kathleen Woodowiss’ ''The Wolf and the Dove'' (1974), and Amanda Quick’s ''Mystique'' (1995)"]

;Hall, Glinda Fountain. 2008.: ''A genre of our own: the cultural work of women's popular romance fiction.'' Thesis (Ph. D.)--Arkansas State University. [http://dbellis.library.astate.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=547355 Catalogue record at Arkansas State University's library.]

;Hamlyn, Eleanor, 2014. : "Reading the Genre Codes in Giorgio Scerbanenco's Hybridised ''Romanzi Rosa''", A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Italian Studies, The University of Auckland. [https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/2292/23609/whole.pdf?sequence=2]

;Harlan, Kimber Leigh. 2005. : '' Romancing the reader: constructing a discursive and social female identity through romance novels.'' Thesis (M.A.) -- Tarleton State University. [Abstract available [http://gradworks.umi.com/14/36/1436377.html here] and [http://en.scientificcommons.org/32181902 here].]

;Harris, Patricia Marie, 1985. : ''The rhetorical vision of courtship in Harlequin Romances: a fantasy theme analysis.'' Thesis (M.A., Communication Studies)--California State University, Sacramento.

;Harrison, Rachel, 1980. : ''Women and Romantic Fiction: Subordination and Resistance''. Thesis (M.Litt) - University of Birmingham, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies.

;Hartmann, Britta U., 2014. : ''Island fictions : Castaways and imperialism''. PhD thesis, University of Tasmania. [http://eprints.utas.edu.au/22391/ Abstract] [Includes a chapter on "castaway romances" which focuses on 20th- and 21st-century novels by writers including Violet Winspear, Margery Hilton, Ginna Gray, Julie Tetel Andersen, Penelope Neri, Donna Simpson, Darlene Marshall, Jill Sharvis, Kandy Shepherd & Tracey Garvis Graves.]

;Harzewski, Stephanie, 2006. : "The new novel of manners: Chick lit and postfeminist sexual politics ." U of Pennsylvania, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'', 67.7:2573.)

;Heffernan, Joan-Mary, 1992. : ''Women's romantic fiction :a study of three New Zealand Mills and Boon authors.'' Dissertation (MA--English)--University of Auckland.

;Henderson, Courtney R.,2007. : "Ladies and Loners: A Comparative Gender Study of the Romance and Popular Western.' M.A. diss., The University of Texas at Arlington. [http://hdl.handle.net/10106/510 Abstract and full PDF] ["my focal texts for the romance genre are [[Johanna Lindsey]]’s ''Savage Thunder'' and Joan Johnston’s ''Frontier Woman''."]

;Heydt, Victoria, 2010. : "Stark naked: an analysis of eighteenth and twenty-first century romance novels." Washington College. [http://hdl.handle.net/10090/19085 Details]

;Hilton, Linda Ann Wheeler, 2000. : "Half Heaven, Half Heartache : Discovering the Transformative Potential in Women's Popular Fiction." A thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Honors College for the bachelor's degree, Arizona State University West. [http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4446146~S3 Details] [Published as a Kindle edition in 2011 - [http://www.amazon.com/Half-Heaven-Heartache-transformative-ebook/dp/B005MGBCZY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1315857987&sr=1-1 US], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Half-Heaven-Heartache-transformative-ebook/dp/B005MGBCZY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1315867417&sr=1-1 UK]]

;Hirsbrunner, A.R., 2000. : "Doomed to become heroines? Identification, women and fiction." Ph.D., Wales, Cardiff. ["The fear that readers will want to become like the main characters of novels they read has accompanied prose fiction throughout its history, 1970s feminists in particular were convinced that women were being duped into subscribing to patriarchal stereotypes by canonical or popular romances. The present study examines this topos. [...] fiction is not itself a fantasy, but can be used to confirm and refine a fantasy the reader already has. Romance thus contributes to a homogenisation of its females readers' fantasies, but cannot implant fantasies in subjects with different desires."] [http://library.cardiff.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v2=1&ti=1,1&SEQ=20100611101350&Search_Arg=Hirsbrunner&SL=None&Search_Code=NAME_&CNT=50&PID=Y78d0gX3xAH_gsUtC5Zukc9vQw&SID=1 Entry in Cardiff University's Library Catalogue.]

;Hodgson, Kathleen, 2006. : "The representation of the female hero in the romantic fiction of Mills & Boon." Thesis (MPhil.) - University of Reading, Institute of Education.

;Hubbard, Rita Cooper, 1982. : "Relationship Styles In Popular Romance Fiction: A Fantasy Theme Analysis Of Harlequin Romances, 1950-1979." (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 42.12:4973)

;Hughes, Helen Muriel, 1988. : "Changes In Historical Romance, 1890s To The 1980s: The Development Of The Genre From Stanley Weyman To Georgette Heyer And Her Successors." U Of Bradford (United Kingdom), (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 50.11: 3603)

;Hurley, Frances Kay., 1999. : "In the Words of Girls: The Reading of Adolescent Romance Fiction." Harvard U, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 60.6: 1946)

;Hutton-Jarvis, C.A., 1998. : "The educational potential of romantic fiction." PhD from University of Leeds. ["Romantic fiction was chosen as the focus for the case-study because of its capacity to stimulate women readers to make connections between their reading and their lives. Popular romances foreground issues which have particular implications for women's personal, social and economic situations. The case-study includes detailed textual analyses which illustrate the potential for using the romance as a vehicle for exploring such issues."]

;Jackson, Elaine, 2005. : "Riding the tosh horse: women writers of popular romance between the wars." Thesis (doctoral) - University of Birmingham, Department of English. [http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=2&uin=uk.bl.ethos.423625 British Library details] [From the abstract at the "Index to Theses" website: "Concentrating on three primary authors: E.M. Hull, Berta Ruck, and Marguerite Jervis (writing under pseudonyms Oliver Sandys and Countess Barcynska), this thesis examines the production and distribution of popular romance between the two World Wars. [...] Authors’ personal experiences of love and marriage are explored alongside the more public influences of editors, publishers, and literary agents. The relationship between authors and readers is also examined. This thesis demonstrates how the authors in question pioneered what we now recognize as a predominantly female romance genre [...] and that their oeuvre contribute substantially to the canon of women’s writing history."]

;Jagodzinski, Mallory Diane, 2010. : ''Of Bustles and Breeches: Cross-dressing Romance Novel Heroines and the Performance of Gender Ideology''. Master of Arts (MA) Thesis, Bowling Green State University, Popular Culture. [The thesis "examines three recent cross-dressing romance novels: ''The Spy'' by [[Celeste Bradley]]; ''Duchess By Night'' by [[Eloisa James]]; and ''Almost a Gentleman'' by [[Pam Rosenthal]]." [http://etd.ohiolink.edu/view.cgi/Jagodzinski%20Mallory%20Diane.pdf?bgsu1276724423 Abstract and link to PDF].]

;Jagodzinski, Mallory, 2015. : ''Love is (Color) Blind: Historical Romance Fiction and Interracial Relationships in the Twenty-First Century''. PhD dissertation, Graduate College of Bowling Green State University. [This dissertation analyzes three historical romance novels — ''Secrets of a Scandalous Heiress'' by Theresa Romain (2015), ''The Duke of Shadows'' by Meredith Duran (2008) and ''The Heiress Effect by Courtney Milan'' (2013)][https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=bgsu1440101084&disposition=inline PDF]

;Janzen, Moira J. 1994. : ''Georgette Heyer's Regency romances: serious literature or popular fiction?'' Thesis (MA--English) -- University of Auckland

;Jensen, Margaret Ann, 1980. : "Women and romantic fiction a case study of Harlequin Enterprises, Romances and readers" (January 1, 1980). ETD Collection for McMaster University. Paper AAINK46885. [http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/opendissertations/3229/ Details and pdf here]. In her ''Love's $weet Return: The Harlequin Story'' (1984), Jensen describes that book as "the outgrowth of a doctoral dissertation I completed at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario" (11).]

;Jocks, Yvonne Annette, 1988. : “Adventure and Virtue: Alternating Emphasis in the Popular Romance Tradition.” Master’s thesis, University of Texas at Arlington. [Jocks writes romances under the pseudonym [[Evelyn Vaughn|Evelyn Vaughn]] ]

;Johnson, Naomi Ruth, 2007. : "Consuming Desires: A Feminist Analysis of Bestselling Teen Romance Novels". The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 68.11)

;Jossart, Deborah A. 2004. : ''Transforming the fairytale: a diachronic study of utopias of popular romance.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Dakota, 2004.

;Joyal, Amanda, 2012. : From Victorian literature to the romance novel: Disability and the courtship plot. M.A. thesis, University of Wyoming, AAT 1510201.

;Kamble, Jayashree, 2008. : "Uncovering and Recovering the Popular Romance Novel." PhD thesis from the University of Minnesota. AAT 3338954. [http://purl.umn.edu/47092 Details, Abstract] and [http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/47092/1/Kamble_umn_0130E_10108.pdf PDF]

;Kebadze, Nino, 2007. : "Fictions of Surrender: Romance and Exemplarity in Post-War Spanish Women's Narratives. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky, United States -- Kentucky. Publication No. AAT 3263682. [[http://gradworks.umi.com/32/63/3263682.html Abstract.] "The second part of this dissertation focuses on three novels by the best-selling authors of ''novelas rosa'' --Luisa-María Linares, Concha Linares-Becerra, and Carmen de Icaza." This has subsequently been published as a book by Tamesis.]

;Keegan, Faye Jessica, 2016. : "Soft metafiction(s) : Mary Stewart and the self-reflective middlebrow." Ph.D. thesis, University of Newcastle. [https://theses.ncl.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/10443/3474/1/Keegan%2C%20F.J.%202016.pdf Details and pdf].

;Kempf, Rachel Erin, 2015. : "Dirty Words: The Writing Process of 'Smutshop'." The University of Texas at Austin, Master of Fine Arts.[https://utexas-ir.tdl.org/bitstream/handle/2152/32463/KEMPF-MASTERSREPORT-2015.pdf?sequence=1 PDF] ["I worked at Siren-BookStop, Inc. for three years, cleaning up manuscripts and penning gay werewolf erotica [...] It was the best and worst job I’ve ever had — the best because I got paid to write and spend my workday making dirty jokes, and the worst because real sex isn’t porn sex, and real women aren’t romance heroines, and love and relationships are messy and complicated and when you spend all day boxing it into the confines of a highly formulaic genre, you’re bound to start getting some messed-up ideas about how your love life ought to be"]

;Kemppinen, Anne-Mari Katriina, 1988. : "Translating for popular literature with special reference to Harlequin books and their Finnish translations." University of Joensuu. [http://joecat.linneanet.fi/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SC=Author&SA=Kemppinen%2C%20Anne-Mari%20Katriina&PID=sTMe__AyvDhIajvkv16BgtNTTxe&BROWSE=1&HC=1&SID=4 Details copied from Joensuu University Library's online catalogue.]

;Khuankaew, Sasinee, 2015. : "Femininity and masculinity in three selected twentieth-century Thai romance fictions." Ph.D thesis, Cardiff University. [http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.665888 Abstract][http://orca.cf.ac.uk/76730/1/S%20Khuankaew%20PhD%20thesis.pdf Pdf]

;Kinard, Amanda Marette, 1999. : "Forbidden Pleasures: The Romance and Its Readers." Vanderbilt U.,(''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 59.12: 4424)

;Kirkland, Catherine, 1984. : "For The Love Of It: Women Writers And The Popular Romance." U of Pennsylvania, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 46.1:10.

;Klarich, Morgan L., 2012. : "Multiculturalism, Sex, and Powerful Women: The New Romance Novel as the Voice of Neofeminism?". MA Thesis, Dartmouth College, 97 pages; AAT 1510706. [http://gradworks.umi.com/15/10/1510706.html Abstract]

;Kloester, Jennifer V., 2004. : "[[Georgette Heyer]]: writing the Regency: history in fiction from ''Regency Buck'' to ''Lady of Quality'' 1935-1972." Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne, History Dept.

;Kolko, Beth E. “Writing the Romance: Cultural Studies, Community, and the Teaching of
Writing.” Ph.D. diss., University of Texas at Austin, 1994.

;Kramer, Devon J., 2010. : "Truth through the medium of cheerfulness: Romance novels as points of resistance." M.A., Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 2010 , 114 pages; AAT 1479123.

;Kusaeri, Akhmad, Dewi Candraningrum and Titis Setyabudi, 2015. : "Love Conflict Reflected in Jennifer Crusie's ''Anyone But You'' Novel (1996): Psychoanalytic Approach." School of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta. [http://eprints.ums.ac.id/34257/1/NASKAH%20PUBLIKASI.pdf]

;Lamprinou, Artemis, 2013. : "A Study on the Cultural Variations in the Verbalisation of Near-Universal Emotions: Translating Emotions from British English into Greek in Popular Bestseller Romances," PhD thesis, University of Surrey. [https://www.academia.edu/5354053/A_Study_on_the_Cultural_Variations_in_the_Verbalisation_of_Near-Universal_Emotions_Translating_Emotions_from_British_English_into_Greek_in_Popular_Bestseller_Romances_PhD_thesis Abstract]

;Larson, Christine, 2017. : “An Economy of Words: Precarity, Solidarity and Innovation in Digital Book Publishing.” PhD Diss., Stanford University. [According to Lois and Gregson (2018) "Larson’s dissertation (2017) comprises the only known examination of writers’ careers in the romance genre. Her 2014 survey examined 4,270 romance writers’ earnings over the previous eight years, comparing their incomes via traditional and self-publishing. She found that only approximately 20 percent of her sample earned above the U.S. median income through their writing."]

;Lessard, Victoria, 2017. : 'Marketing Desire: The "Normative/Other" Male Body and the "Pure" White Female Body on the Cover Art of Cassie Edwards' ''Savage Dream'' (1990), ''Savage Persuasion'' (1991), and ''Savage Mists'' (1992)', MA thesis, McGill University.[http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/webclient/StreamGate?folder_id=0&dvs=1520696109115~383]

;Liu, S.-h, 2012. : "The Translation/Mutation of Romantic Love: An Exploration of the Translation History of Modern Romances in Taiwan after 1960". PhD Thesis, National Taiwan Normal University. [http://www.airitilibrary.com/Publication/alDetailedMesh?docid=U0021-1610201315284770 Abstract]

;Lin, Fang-Mei, 1992. : "Social Change and Romantic Ideology: The Impact of the Publishing Industry, Family Organization, and Gender Roles on the Reception and Interpretation of Romance Fiction in Taiwan, 1960-1990." U of Pennysylvania (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'', 53.5:1675) [http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9227710/ Abstract]

;Lohmann, Jennifer, 2006. : " 'Beauty and the Beast' Themes in Romance Novels." A Master’s Paper for the M.S. in L.S degree. April, 2006. 41 pages. Advisor: Brian Sturm. A Master’s paper submitted to the faculty of the School of Information and Library Science of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Library Science. [http://etd.ils.unc.edu:8080/dspace/bitstream/1901/302/2/draft3.pdf]

;Lutz, Deborah, 2004. : "The Dangerous Lover and the Erotics of Failure: Nineteenth-century Byronism and the Contemporary Romance. Ph.D. dissertation, City University of New York, United States -- New York. Publication No. AAT 3127895. [Has since been published by Ohio State University Press - see the main bibliography for details.]

;Malloy, Audrey Miles, 2017. : "Remnants of the Bodice Ripper: How Consent is Characterized in Heterosexual and Lesbian Erotic Romance Novels." Bard College, Senior Projects Spring 2017, Bard Undergraduate Senior Projects. [http://digitalcommons.bard.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1088&context=senproj_s2017]

;Markert, John, 1984. : "Beyond Gatekeepers: Romance Publishing and the Production of Culture." Ph.D. dissertation in Sociology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. [http://discoverlibrary.vanderbilt.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?ct=display&doc=vanunicorn544260&indx=1&srt=rank&vl(freeText0)=markert%20john%20beyond%20gatekeepers&dum=true&mode=Basic&ct=search&vid=VANDERBILT&doc=vanunicorn544260&scp.scps=scope%3A(GMA)%2Cscope%3A(vanunicorn)%2Cscope%3A(tvnews)&frbg=&indx=1&fn=search&tab=default_tab Details in Vanderbilt University Library Catalogue.]

;Margolis, Ann, 2009. : "In Defense of Romantic Fiction" (2009). Master of Science in Publishing. Pace University, Dyson College of Arts & Sciences. [http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/dyson_mspublishing/10 Details and link to pdf].

;McAlister, Jodi Ann, 2015. : "Romancing the Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Popular Literature in the West". PhD thesis, Macquarie University, 2015. [https://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:44291]

;McKinley, Tracey Lynn, 2007. : 'The Female Quest: An Analysis of Archetypal Layering in Harlequin Presents.' M.Ed. diss., Queen's University (Canada).

; Michel, Anita, 1997. : ''Re-reading the (series) romance : toward a typology of recent series romance novels.'' Thesis (M.A.)--Bowling Green State University.

;Miguel, Donna De Silva, 2002. : ''Love conquers all :the rhetoric, culture, and appeal of the contemporary romance novel, and coming to terms with coming out of the closet.'' Thesis (M.A.)--New Mexico State University.

;Modleski, Tania. 1980. : "'Popular Feminine Narratives: A Study of Romances, Gothics, and Soap Operas'." Stanford U., (''Dissertation Abstracts International: Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'') 41.5: 2104-A.

;Moffitt, Mary Anne Smeltzer, 1990. : "Understanding Middle-Class Adolescent Leisure: A Cultural Studies Approach to Romance Novel Reading" U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (''Dissertation Abstracts International'' 51.4: 1035A)

;Moody, Stephanie Lee, 2013. : "Affecting Genre: Women's Participation with Popular Romance Fiction." Ph.D thesis. University of Michigan. [http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/99818/slmoody_1.pdf?sequence=1]

;Morrissey, Katherine, 2008. : ''Fanning the Flames of Romance: An Exploration of Fan Fiction and the Romance Novel''. MA Thesis, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University. [http://hdl.handle.net/1961/6198 Abstract] and [http://dspace.wrlc.org/dspace/bitstream/1961/6198/1/17_etd_kem82.pdf the thesis].

;Morrissey, Katherine, 2016. : ''Romance Networks: Aspiration & Desire in Today’s Digital Culture''. Theses and Dissertations. Paper 1179. Ph.D. thesi, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. [http://dc.uwm.edu/etd/1179 Abstract and link to download after June 06, 2018]

;Naber, Christine Marie, 1995. : "Rape myths are the theory--romance novels are the practice: The impact of exposure to images of women in popular culture, " U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'',57.4:2950). [http://hdl.handle.net/2142/18972 Abstract]

;Neal, Lynn S., 2003. : "Romancing God: Reading Evangelical Romance Novels." Ph.D. dissertation, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States -- North Carolina. Publication No. AAT 3086588. [Has since been published by the University of North Carolina Press - see the main bibliography for details.]

;Newton, Marlo Leigh. 1991. : ''Romancing the tome: the novels of Georgette Heyer.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of Melbourne

;Olivier, Séverine, 2009. : "Le roman sentimental. Productions contemporaines et pratiques de lecture.' Doctorat en Langues et lettres, Université Libre de Bruxelles. [http://theses.ulb.ac.be/ETD-db/collection/available/ULBetd-11132009-153019/ Abstract]

;O'Mahony, Lauren Kate, 2015. : "In Search of Feminist Romance in Australian 'Chick Lit'." Thesis presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of Murdoch University. [http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/25543/1/In_Search_of_Feminist_Romance_in____Australian_Chick_lit_PhD_Thesis_O%27Mahony.pdf]

;O'Neil, Kathryn M., 2016. : "Women's rhetoric and the romance novel genre." M.A. Thesis, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. [http://gradworks.umi.com/10/13/10134046.html Abstract]

;Omissi, Dominic, 1995. : "The Mills and Boon memsahibs: women's romantic Indian fiction 1877-1947." Ph.D., Lancaster. [http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.282386 British Library details.] [Abstract from the Index to Theses website: "This thesis examines the published written work of eleven different women. The material is principally in the form of romantic novels but short stories form a significant minority along with poetry, autobiography, history, and contemporary political comment. [...] All but one of the writers spent extended periods in India and numerous of their works have never been discussed in any critical work of which I am aware. [...] the current work challenges the dominant image of India, its climate, people and imperial significance, drawn from the writings of men like Kipling, Forster and Orwell. The study concludes that this image (which I call the canonical image) is utterly inappropriate when measured against the writings of these women. Their work is, I conclude, in certain important respects counter-canonical.]

;Owen, Mairead, 1990. : "Women's Reading of Popular Romantic Fiction: A Case Study in the Mass Media: A Key to the Ideology of Women." U. of Liverpool, (''Dissertation Abstracts International'' 52.8: 2745A) [http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.280340 Details and download available.]

;Paizis, George, 1986. : "'Reine ou esclave ... ' : conflicting images of women in the contemporary 'romantic novel' in France." Ph.D. Thesis, University of London. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53571849 Details]

;Parameswaran, Radhika E., 1998. : "Public Images, Private Pleasures: Romance Reading at the Intersection of Gender, Class, and National Identities in Urban India." U of Iowa, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 58.12:4485)

;Parv, Valerie, 2007. : "Healing Writes: Restorying the Authorial Self through Creative Practice : and ''Birthright'', a speculative fiction novel." Thesis for Master of Arts degree (by research), University of Queensland. [The novel is not available online, but [http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16646/2/Valerie_Parv_Exegesis.pdf the non-fiction section is] and [http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16646/ an abstract is also available].]

;Pearce, Elizabeth Florence, 2004. : "Reading the Lesbian Romance: Re-imagining Love, Sex, Relationships, and Community." Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Iowa, United States -- Iowa. Publication No. AAT 3139383. ["The core of the research emerged from the face-to-face, phone and e-mail conversations with readers of lesbian romance texts" and one section is "based on an examination of twenty-five lesbian romance novels."]

;Pylkkänen, Merita, 2013. : "Didactic Fulfillment and the Popular Romance: Jude Deveraux’s ''The Mulberry Tree''." MA thesis, University of Eastern Finland. [http://epublications.uef.fi/pub/urn_nbn_fi_uef-20130866/urn_nbn_fi_uef-20130866.pdf]

;Potter, J.E., 1998. : "Boys in khaki, girls in print: women's literary responses to the Great War 1914-1918", D.Phil., Oxford. ["This thesis explores the ways in which women interpreted the Great War as it happened and focuses on texts written and published between 1914 and 1918. [...] The romance novels discussed in Chapter Three follow a pattern in which the aspirations of heroes and heroines are thwarted - then fulfilled - by the events of the War. Such 'light entertainment' makes highly-charged claims for the regenerative power and the righteousness of Britain's sacrifice."] [This has since been published as a book.]

;Rampure, Archana, 2005. : "Doctors in the Darkness: Reading Race, Gender, and History in the Popular Medical Romance ", U of Toronto, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 66.10:3642) [http://search.proquest.com/docview/276475552 Abstract] and some [http://thehypelessromantic.com/2013/07/06/medical-romances-imperialism-nationalism-race-and-gender/ discussion/description here].

;Reed, Eleanor, 2018. : "Domestic Culture in ''Woman's Weekly'', 1918-1958", Doctoral thesis, Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Roehampton. [https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/files/1346863/Domestic_Culture_in_Woman_s_Weekly_1918_1958.pdf] ["This thesis [...] explores the domestic culture produced by the magazine between the end of the First World War in November 1918,and 1958." The "literary methodology for surveying periodical form [...] is based on romance, the genre to which the vast majority of ''Woman’s Weekly'' fiction printed during the period belongs" (2).]

;Rice, Linda. 2008. : ''Ambiguous love a reflection of self in relation to popular romance fiction.'' Darwin, N.T.: Iron Mountain. Thesis (M.A.)--Charles Darwin University

;Russell, Shanon, 2014. : "Dangerous Young Men: Themes of Female Sexuality and Masculinity in Paranormal Romance Novels for Young Adults." Masters Thesis. University of Ottawa.[https://ruor.uottawa.ca/bitstream/10393/31631/1/Russell_Shannon_2014_Thesis.pdf]

;Rutherford, Carina Lynn, 1999. : ''Wild dreams rooted in reality :an exploration of the Harlequin Mills & Boon novels of Daphne Clair.'' Thesis (MA--English)--University of Auckland.

;Sagun, Karryl Kim Abella, 2019. : ''Book Mavens of Manila : an interpretative phenomenological analysis of contemporary niche publishers in the Philippines''. Doctoral thesis,Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. [https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/bitstream/handle/10220/48072/SAGUNKKAS.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y Pdf] [I include this because it incorporates material from "three Wattpad self-publishers based in the Philippines: Mina V. Esguerra, Noreen Capili, and Kimberly Villanueva. All three agreed to be quoted verbatim, and to be referred to by name. They have all published both on electronic platforms (particularly Wattpad) and on print. They also share the same genre for their works: romance" (123)]

;Sandbakken, Asta Margrethe, 2016. : "Feeling Men: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Emotion in the Contemporary Romance." MA Thesis, University of Oslo.[https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/51997/Sandbakken_Master.pdf?sequence=1]

;Sanyal, Madhuparna, 2008. : "Re-imagining the late-colonial Anglo-Indian woman's romance: Reading Maud Diver." PhD dissertation, Drew University. AAT 3334864. [https://catalog.drew.edu/web2/tramp2.exe/authority_hits/A02ok5gn.004?server=1home&item=1 Details from Drew University Library]

;Savinainen, Raija, 2001. : ''Gender-specific features of male/female interaction in a popular romantic novel by Barbara Cartland''. University of Jyväskylä. [http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-2001867069 Details and link to pdf.]

;Shore, Zandra Lesley, 1999. : "Girls reading culture, autobiography as inquiry into teaching the body, the romance, and the economy of love." Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Education, University of Toronto. [Can be downloaded from [http://hdl.handle.net/1807/15698 the University of Toronto Library]. [See in particular Chapter Four, which mentions the work done on romance and romance readers by Radway, Snitow, Cohn, Christian-Smith and others.]

;Short, Christopher Brown, 1996. : "The history of romance illustration and the romance novel cover." Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Illustration in the Graduate School at Syracuse University. [http://summit.syr.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=1563900 Bibliographic Details]

;Smáradóttir, Helena María, 2006. : "Happily Ever-After: The Romance Reader's Individual Choice and Empowerment." B.A. thesis. University of Iceland.

;Smáradóttir, Helena María, 2009. : "Love as a Commodity: Brand-Name Romantic Fiction and its Readers. The Domain and Readership of Harlequin Enterprises, Both in Iceland and Abroad." Thesis submitted for a master's degree at the University of Iceland. Various sections [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/handle/1946/2789 available online]: [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/bitstream/1946/2789/8/ttur_fixed.pdf Summary], [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/bitstream/1946/2789/1/Efnisyfirlit_fixed.pdf Table of Contents], [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/bitstream/1946/2789/3/Inngangur_fixed.pdf Introduction], [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/bitstream/1946/2789/7/pd_fixed.pdf Conclusion], [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/bitstream/1946/2789/6/pd_fixed.pdf Works Cited], [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/bitstream/1946/2789/5/l_fixed.pdf Appendix]. Those wishing to read more of this thesis or the author's B.A. thesis may [mailto:helena@skipulag.com contact the author directly].

;Smith, William Clay Kinchen, 2002. : "Revising Captivity Narratives", U of Florida. [http://etd.fcla.edu/UF/UFE0000611/smith_w.pdf] [This thesis deals with many types of captivity narrative, but there are sections specifically about romances. In the chapter on works from the 1980s, there is a section on romance (341-354), and the chapter concerning the 1990s has a similar section (373-378). Romance authors whose works are discussed include [[Madeline Baker]], [[Karen A. Bale]], [[Cassie Edwards]], [[Fern Michaels]], [[Nan Ryan]] and [[Janelle Taylor]].]

;Sorenson, Tanya Lee, 2014. : "How Traditional is the Romance? Heroines, Stereotypes, and the Heterosexual Script." Senior Projects Spring 2014. Paper 339. Bard College. [http://digitalcommons.bard.edu/senproj_s2014/339 Abstract]

;Spears, Jessica D., 2018. : ''The Romance Novel Cover''. MA Thesis (Art History). City University of New York (CUNY), Hunter College, 2018. [https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/350/ Abstract and link to pdf.]

;Starr, Marian, 1981. : ''Sweet Savage Book: The Romance in America, 1855-1980'', Honors paper, Duke University. This is a typescript manuscript with 118 leaves (the bibliography can be found on leaves 106-118). OCLC Number: 07724196. [http://library.duke.edu/catalog/search/recordid/DUKE000461276 Details in Duke University's Library Catalogue.] [As far as modern romances are concerned, the focus is on the historical romances of the seventies ([[Rosemary Rogers]], [[Kathleen Woodiwiss]], etc.) with particular emphasis on their rape-fantasy aspects.]

;Sterk, Helen Mae, 1986. : "Functioning fictions :the adjustment rhetoric of Silhouette romance novels." Ph.D. U. of Iowa, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 47.7:2372)

;Tang, Wei-chung, 2004. : "The Masculine Hero in American Popular Romances." MA Thesis, National Chengchi University, Taiwan. [http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/31797 Abstract]

;Tang, Yang, 2014. : "Between Fantasy and Reality: Time-Travel Romance and Media Fandom in Chinese Cyberspace." MA Thesis, Simon Fraser University. [http://summit.sfu.ca/system/files/iritems1/14110/etd8410_YTang.pdf]

;Tatlock, Kristen Doris, 1986. :'' Raised on romance :a cultural study of romance fiction.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of Virginia.

;Taylor, Jessica Anne, 2013. : “Write the Book of Your Heart: Career, Passion and Publishing in the Romance Writing Community,” Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto. [https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/36016 Abstract and link to pdf]

;Tennenhouse, Tracy Shana, 1996. : "Female Fantasies in Women's Popular Fiction", U California Santa Barbara, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 57.9:3943)

;Therrien, Kathleen Mary, 1998. : "Trembling at Her Own Response: Resistance and Reconciliation in Mass-Market Romance Novels." (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 58.7: 2659) [Special focus on [[Julie Garwood]], [[Amanda Quick]]/[[Jayne Ann Krentz]] and [[Susan Wiggs]].]

;Tienkamp, Aaf, 2016. : "New Adult Romance: An Emerging Genre." Master’s Dissertation Literary Studies. Programme: Writing, Editing and Mediating, University of Groningen. [http://arts.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/18051/1/MA_2449307_A_Tienkamp.pdf]

;Travis, Melissa E., 2013. : "Assume the Position: Exploring Discipline Relationships." Sociology Dissertations, Paper 71. Ph.D thesis. Georgia State University, Ph.D thesis. [http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/sociology_diss/71/ Abstract] and [http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1070&context=sociology_diss pdf]. [See the section on "Discipline Romance Novels", pp. 159-66.]

;Turner, Natasha, 2015. : "Contemporary Erotic Romance: Cunning Linguists or Fifty Shades of Feminist Dismay?" BA (Hons) dissertation, published in ''The New Birmingham Review'' 1.2.[http://www.newbirminghamreview.uk/ojs/index.php/nbr/article/view/44 Abstract] [http://www.newbirminghamreview.uk/ojs/index.php/nbr/article/view/44/21 pdf]

;Uddin-Khan, Evelyn Angelina, 1995. : "Gender, Ethnicity and the Romance Novel," Columbia U, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 56.11:4341)

;Vani, Christina, 2018. : ''Immortal Words: The Language and Style of the Contemporary Italian Undead-Romance Novel''. Ph.D. thesis. University of Toronto, 2018. [https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/91987/3/Vani_Christina_201811_PhD_thesis.pdf]

;Walker, Lynn G., 2000. : ''Women Reading Popular Fiction: Influences on Gender Identity.'' Thesis (M.A.L.S.)--North Central College.

;Warner, Celeste R., 2010. : ''Heyer’s Heroes: An Investigation into [[Georgette Heyer]] and Her Literary ‘Mark’ on the Regency Hero''. A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in English at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.[http://hdl.handle.net/10289/4406]

;Whalen, Kacey, 2017. : "A Consumption of Gay Men: Navigating the Shifting Boundaries of M/M Romantic Readership", MA thesis from DePaul University.[http://via.library.depaul.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1234&context=etd]

;White, Ann Yvonne, 2008. : ''Genesis Press: Cultural Representation and the Production of African American Romance Novels''. Ph.D. thesis from the University of Iowa. [[http://infohawk.uiowa.edu/F?func=direct&local_base=uiowa&doc_number=004400887 Link to University of Iowa catalogue details.]] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uuGj4AKOTXoC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Whyte, Tamara Lynn. 2013. :''Shakespeare in Love: Appropriation of Shakespeare in Popular Romance Novels.'' U of Alabama. (''Dissertation Abstracts International'') 75, no. 6 (December 2014). [http://acumen.lib.ua.edu/#!/u0015_0000001_0001465/document/u0015_0000001_0001465?page=1&limit=40]

;Wiebe, Laura, 2013. : ''Speculative Matter: Generic Affinities, Posthumanisms and Science-Fictional Imaginings''. Ph.D. thesis from McMaster University.[http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8703&context=opendissertations] [See in particular pages 37-71 on love, romance and Christine Feehan's Ghostwalkers series of romances.]

;Wilson, Elizabeth Suzanne, 1986. : ''Women creating men :the history of the hero in contemporary category romance fiction since the 1950s.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

;Wirtén, Eva Hemmungs, 1998. : ''Global Infatuation: Explorations in Transnational Publishing and Texts: The case of Harlequin Enterprises and Sweden'', Section for Sociology of Literature at the Department of Literature, Uppsala University. [http://www.abm.uu.se/evahw/Global_Infatuation.pdf PDF was there] but can now be downloaded from [https://www.academia.edu/433430/Global_Infatuation_Explorations_in_Transnational_Publishing_and_Texts._The_Case_of_Harlequin_Enterprises_and_Sweden here]

;Wood, Andrea, 2008. : ''Radicalizing Romance: Subculture, Sex, and Media at the Margins''. PhD Thesis, University of Florida. AAT 3392728 [http://etd.fcla.edu/UF/UFE0023561/wood_a.pdf PDF]

;Young, Beth Rapp, 1995. : "But are they any good? Women readers, formula fiction, and the sacralization of the literary canon", U of Southern California, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 57.2:893)

;Young, Erin S., 2010. : "Corporate Heroines and Utopian Individualism: A Study of the Romance Novel in Global Capitalism", Ph.D. thesis, University of Oregon, AAT 3420428. [https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/11460 Pdf available from University of Oregon.] [This author has since had 2 articles published which appear to draw on this thesis. See the main academic romance bibliography for details. "This dissertation explores two subgenres of popular romance fiction that emerge in the 1990s: 'corporate' and 'paranormal' romance. While the formulaic conventions of popular romance have typically centralized the gendered tension between hero and heroine, this project reveals that 'corporate' and 'paranormal' romances negotiate a new primary conflict, the tension between work and home in the era of global capitalism. [...] The 'corporate' romances of [[Jayne Ann Krentz]], [[Nora Roberts]], [[Elizabeth Lowell]], and [[Katherine Stone]] feature heroines who constantly navigate the dual and intersecting arenas of work and home in an effort to locate a balance that leads to success and happiness in both realms. In contrast, the 'paranormal' romances of [[Laurell K. Hamilton]], [[Charlaine Harris]], [[Kelley Armstrong]], and [[Carrie Vaughn]] dissolve the tension between home and work, or the private and the public, by affirming the heroine's open and endless pursuit of pleasure, adventure, and self-fulfillment."]

;Young, Whitney A., 2013. : "Monsters in My Bed: Accounting for the Popularity of Young Adult Paranormal Romances." MA Thesis. Georgia State University. [http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1035&context=wsi_theses]

;Yuill, Brendon, 2018. : "Sheiks and Sherifs: Western Portrayals of the Middle East between the World Wars." MA Thesis. University of Central Oklahoma.[https://search.proquest.com/openview/bca2306d1789bef0c53ba80b278430bc/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y]

;Zachik-Smith, Susie, 1993. : ''Romance by the book :a morphological analysis of the popular romance.'' Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, San Bernardino.

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* [[Guides to the Genre]]
* '''Romance in the Media''' - lists news items/features items about romance.
** [[Romance in the Media A-I]]
** [[Romance in the Media J-Z]]
* [[Romance Resources for Academics|Romance Resources for Academics]] - lists romance-related resources which may be of interest to academics.
* [[Writers on Romance]] - lists items written about the genre by romance authors but not published in academic journals or books.

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Some of the items listed below are freely available online, but most are not. More details for many of them are available via the [http://www.proquest.com/en-US/catalogs/databases/detail/pqdt.shtml ProQuest Database] but this is accessible only by subscription.

;Abdullah-Poulos, Layla, 2016. : “Muslim Love American Style: Islamic-American Hybrid Culture and Native-Born American Black Muslim Romance.” MA thesis, SUNY Empire State College, 2016.[https://search.proquest.com/openview/6bf792f06a331a24ef39d4809d964ef9/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y Excerpt]

;Adams, Kathleen Barzun, 2003. : ''Thirty years of change : heroes, heroines, and the popular romance.'' Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity College.

;Achieng’, Okang’a Nancy, 2017. : "A Cosmopolitan National Romance: A Study of ''In Dependence'' by Sarah Ladipo Manyika." MA thesis, Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.[http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10539/23823/Title%20A%20Cosmopolitan%20National%20Romance-1.pdf?sequence=2] [About an African novel which it seems might or might not be a romance, depending on how one defines "African romance" (since the author argues that African romance is more expansive than the US definition).]

;Al-Bataineh, Afaf Badr, 1998. : "The modern Arabic novel: a literary and linguistic analysis of the genre of popular fiction, with special reference to translation from English." Ph.D., Heriot-Watt.[http://hdl.handle.net/10399/1233] [From the abstract at the "Index to Theses" website: "critical insights should enable us to form an overall picture of how the subject of my case study (Mills & Boon and its translation into Arabic) is viewed in the languages and cultures concerned: this particular genre has not been acceptable to the Western literary establishment until recently, and is not acceptable to the Arabic critical establishment even today. [...] Chapter Eight presents a detailed analysis of a Mills & Boon novel in English and its translation into Arabic."]

;Allport, Tanya, 1988. : ''Female journeys :the place of Jane Eyre and "Mills and Boon" in the search for women's existential space.'' Thesis (MA--English)--University of Auckland.

;Anderton, Gretchen E., 2009. : ''Excitement, adventure, indifference: Romance readers' perceptions of how romance reading impacts their sex lives''. Ed.D., Widener University, 2009 , 165 pages; AAT 3383833

;Araujo, Gail, 2009. : ''Living to read romance: The transformative potential of interpretive practice in romance reading.'' M.A., California State University, Fullerton. [http://gradworks.umi.com/14/78/1478345.html Abstract].

;Avila, Debbie Maria, 2005. : "The Romance Novel of the 1930s and 1940s in Spain and Portugal: The Cases of Carmen de Icaza and Alice Ogando." U of California Irvine (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 66.7:2572)

;Backman, Nelina Esther, 1999. : "Evangelism Embarrassed: Christian Literature in a post-Christian Culture." Ph.D. dissertation, Brown University, United States -- Rhode Island. Publication No. AAT 9932368. [Includes some discussion of "contemporary evangelical romance fiction."]

;Balducci, Federica. 2011. : ''A Different Shade of Pink: Literary Thresholds and Cultural Intersections in Italian Chick Lit''. A thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Italian. [http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/1929] [See the section on 'Italian popular romance: ''romanzo rosa'' and its evolution', pp. 67-83.]

;Barletta, Sandra Anne, 2008. : ''A first kiss is still a first kiss: romancing the mid-life reader and heroine : A basic renovation.'' Thesis (M.A.(Research))--Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 2008. [http://eprints.qut.edu.au/19205/ Abstract and link to pdf]. [Pages 1-29 are analysis of "a neglected demographic of reader and heroine who are marginalised within the romance genre. As well, it gives reasons why heroines need not be characterised in particular roles or situations as they age, and a rationale for why their underrepresentation as romance heroines should end." ''A Basic Renovation'' is a romance novel written by Barletta and included in the thesis which was "Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Creative Writing (romance)."]

;Barletta, Sandra A., 2014. : ''Cougars, Grannies, Evil Stepmothers, and Menopausal Hot Flashers: Roles, Representations of Age, and the Non-traditional Romance Heroine.'' PhD thesis in Creative Writing and Literary Studies, Queensland University of Technology. [http://eprints.qut.edu.au/72686/3/Sandra_Barletta_Thesis.pdf]

;Barra, Andrea Cipriano, 2014. : ''Beyond the Bodice Ripper: Innovation and Change in the Romance Novel Industry''. PhD dissertation in Sociology, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. [https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/45202/ Abstract and link to pdf]

;Benjamin, Sarah, 1999. : "The Theory of 'Identity Dissonance': Mass Communication, Romance Fiction, and the Self-Concept." M.A. dissertation, York University (Canada), Canada. Publication No. AAT MQ43370.[http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq43370.pdf]

;Beyer, Jennifer Ann Perry, 2000. : ''The romance novel revolution :a study of criticisms and readers.'' Thesis (M.A.)--Bemidji State University.

;Billekens, F.G.W., 2019. : ''Never Mind Me When There's You: The Submission Of The Heroine In YA Supernatural Romance Fiction'', Bachelor's Thesis, Utrecht University. [https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/377634 Abstract and link to pdf]

;Blanding, Cristen, 2005. : ''Interracial romance novels and the resolution of racial difference.'' Thesis (M.A.)--Bowling Green State University. [http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1131365873 Abstract and PDF]

;Böhmová, Petra, 2012. : "Contemporary American Christian Fiction: Young and Rivers." Diploma thesis, Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Education, Department of English Language and Literature. [http://is.muni.cz/th/385552/pedf_m/Petra_Bohmova-diplomova_prace.pdf] [One of the novels discussed is Francine Rivers' ''Redeeming Love''.]

;Brasileiro Neves, 2014. : "ROMANCES DE BOLSO: A novela romântica da Harlequin Books no mercado editorial brasileiro", Trabalho de pesquisa de mercado apresentado ao Departamento de Comunicação Social, da Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, como requisito para a obtenção do grau de bacharelado em Publicidade e Propaganda, Recife. [https://www.academia.edu/11331340/ROMANCES_DE_BOLSO_A_NOVELA_ROM%C3%82NTICA_DA_HARLEQUIN_BOOKS_NO_MERCADO_EDITORIAL_BRASILEIRO]

;Breeden, Amanda L., 2007. : ''Neo romance :gender renegotiation in Harlequin romance novels.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of Northern Iowa.

;Bryson, Mary, 2004. : ''Public Library Services to the Romance Reader: An Online Survey of Romance Readers''. A Master’s paper for the M.S. in L.S. degree - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. May, 2004. [http://ils.unc.edu/MSpapers/2979.pdf]

;Buckley, Julia, 2010. : "The Door To Wonderland: How Mary Stewart’s Literary Voice Influenced 20th Century Romantic Suspense." MA thesis, Elmhurst College.[http://ojsserv.dom.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/192]

;Bun, Jennifer C., 2007. : "The Effects of Romance Novel Readership on Relationship Beliefs, Romantic Ideals, and Relational Satisfaction." Honors Thesis - Boston College. [http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/communication/meta-elements/pdf/thesis07.bun.pdf Full text]

;Burge, Amy, 2012. : "Desiring the East: A Comparative Study of Middle English Romance and Modern Popular Sheikh Romance." PhD thesis, University of York. [Abstract and pdf available [http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3121/ here].]

;Burley, Stephanie Carol., 2003. : "Hearts of Darkness: The Racial Politics of Popular Romance." U of Maryland, College Park (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 64.6: 2082)

;Burnside, Mary Elizabeth, 1996. : "The novels of Mills and Boon in the post-war period." M.Phil., Hull.[http://library.hull.ac.uk/record=b1697392]

;Bywaters, Barbara Lee, 1989. :"'Re-reading Jane': Jane Austen's legacy to twentieth-century women writers'. PhD thesis. Bowling Green State University. [http://maurice.bgsu.edu/record=b1714503~S0 Details at BGSU library]. A short excerpt of this thesis seems to be available in ''Georgette Heyer: A Critical Retrospective''. Ed. Mary Fahnestock-Thomas. Saraland, AL: PrinnyWorld, 2001. 493-508.

;Capps, Stephanie Carol, 2017. :"What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs about Relationships". Master of Science thesis. University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 2017. [https://shareok.org/bitstream/handle/11244/50728/2017_Capps_Stephanie_Carol_Thesis.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y] [This seems very similar to an article with the same title published the next year. The primary author may have changed their lastname: http://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Faca0000189 ]

;Carmichael, Lynn P., 1985. "A Romantic Past: A Study of Historical Romance as a Form of Recreational Fiction in Public Libraries." M.A. thesis, South Australian Institute of Technology.

;Chappel, Deborah Kaye, 1992. : "American Romances: Narratives of Culture and Identity" Duke University, ''Dissertation Abstracts International''52 (8): 2923A-24A.

;Christian, Linda Kathryn. 1984.: "'Becoming a Woman through Romance: Adolescent Novels and the Ideology of Femininity'." U. of Wisconsin, Madison (''Dissertation Abstracts International: Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'') 45.5: 1282.

;Clawson, Laura, 1998. : "Covering genres: romance, science-fiction/fantasy, pleasure, and respectability." Thesis (B.A., Honors, American Studies, English)--Wesleyan University, 1998. Special Collections: Wesleyan (Thesis), Call Number: 1998 C617 ["my senior honors thesis at Wesleyan was about romance and sci-fi, and how academics tended to treat sci-fi as literature and romances as a cultural phenomenon to be explained." (from [http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/index.php/weblog/comments/interview-with-laura-clawson-daily-kos-contributing-editor/ an interview at Smart Bitches Trashy Books]) ]

;Close, Lisa. 2008. : ''Functional analysis of the contemporary folkloric vampire.'' Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of English, 2008. [References Nora Roberts' Circle Trilogy: see abstract in [http://primofe1.byu.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?ct=display&doc=byu_unicorn4154044&indx=2&frbg=&dum=true&vid=byu-cl&vl(13550901UI0)=any&vl(172369922UI1)=all_items&srt=rank&indx=1&dstmp=1278574032499&tab=default_tab&ct=search&scp.scps=scope%3A(simpledl)%2Cscope%3A(LEE)%2Cscope%3A(BYU)%2Cscope%3A(LAW)%2Cscope%3A(byugle)%2Cscope%3A(Unicorn_online)%2Cscope%3A(CONTENTdm)%2Cscope%3A(JUV)%2Cscope%3A(SPEC)%2Cscope%3A(INTERNET)%2Cscope%3A(SWKT)%2Cscope%3A(SLC)%2Cscope%3A(LEELRC)%2Cscope%3A(MUSIC)%2Cscope%3A(saskia)%2Cscope%3A(CONTENTdm2)&vl(freeText0)=close%20lisa&fn=search&mode=Basic&dscnt=0 Brigham Young University library's catalog].]

;Coddington, Lynn, 1997. : "Romance and Power: Writing Romance Novels as a Practice of Critical Literacy." Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, United States -- California. Publication No. AAT 9803158.

;Colemnero, Laura Elizabeth, 1999. : "The social construction of gender as represented in popular fiction, 1990-1997." Ph.D. dissertation, South Dakota State University, Publication No. AAT 9924280. [Includes analysis of [[Johanna Lindsey]]'s ''[[Gentle Rogue]]''.]

;Collier, Kathryn (Kizzi), 2018. : "My Chemical Erotic Romance: A Deeper Look into Women’s Lustful Fantasies." A Division III Project, Hampshire College.[https://dspace.hampshire.edu/bitstream/10009/1058/1/Division%20III%20Final%21%20.pdf]

;Cortesi, Taylor D., 2013. : "'Traitorous Bodies': Cartesian Dualism in Romance Novels by Susan Johnson and E. L. James." M. Lit. thesis, Texas State University - San Marcos. [https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/4554 Abstract and link to pdf].

;Davis, Mary Louise, 1986. : 'Romances and the Modern Ms.: a Study of Contemporary (Line) Romances, 1980-1984.' Ph.D. diss., University of Southern California.(''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A:The Humanities and Social Sciences)'' 47.11, p. 4108.

;Davis, Storme G. 2008. : ''Nora Roberts: descendant of Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë?'': a thesis presented to the faculty of the Graduate School, Tennessee Technological University. Thesis (M.A.)--Tennessee Technological University, 2008.

;DiVisconte, Jessica, 2009. : ''The Recession and Its Effect on the Romance Genre''. Master of Science in Publishing. Paper 16. Dyson College of Arts & Sciences, Pace University. [http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/dyson_mspublishing/16 Abstract and link to pdf.]

;Donalson, Tara A., 2005. : ''The Parody of Romance.'' MA Thesis, Graduate School of The University of Texas at Arlington. ["I look at the parallel formulas found in secular and inspirational romance fiction, searching how inspirational romance evangelizes and gives spiritual instruction to its readers."] [http://dspace.uta.edu/handle/10106/410 Abstract and link to pdf.]

;Downey, Kristin, 2005. : "Irony, Ideology, and Resistance: The Amazing Double Life of Harlequin Presents", McMaster University, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 66.10:3640.

;Dryden, Therese Michelle, 2011. : "Bachelor Dad on Her Doorstep." MPhil Thesis, University of Newcastle (Australia). [This dissertation is in two parts: the first has been published as ''Bachelor Dad on Her Doorstep'', "a Harlequin Mills & Boon Sweet Romance" under the pseudonym "Michelle Douglas" and is therefore not available online. The "accompanying exegesis discusses the conventions and constraints of the popular romance genre. It explores the challenges presented to a writer in creating and maintaining emotional intensity in a popular genre romance and the need to provide a satisfying and credible ending to that romance" and it can be downloaded from [http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/920190 here].]

;Dummer, Kathleen Ann. 1990. : ''A study of character development of main characters in young adult category romance literature.'' Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wyoming.

;Dunnion, Janne May, 1997. : ''Mapping Normalcy: Romance and the Postmodern Body'', MA thesis, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the Univesity of Toronto. ["The main focus of this thesis is an examination of the constitution of the female body within the location of popular culture, specifically Harlequin Enterprises and popular romance novels."] [http://hdl.handle.net/1807/11494 Details and link to pdf]

;Elliott, Margaret A., 1996. : 'The Librarian's Stereotyped Image in Romance Novels, 1980-1995: Has the Image Changed?', Master's Research Paper, Kent State University. ERIC Document ED401924. [http://eric.ed.gov:80/ERICWebPortal/detail?accno=ED401924 Abstract] and [http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED401924 PDF]

;English, Jessica, 2017. : “Reading the Romance: Through the Eyes of a Millenial Feminist.” Masters Thesis. Eastern Washington University. [http://dc.ewu.edu/theses/456/]

;Faust, Meredith S., 2010. : ""Love of the purest kind": Heteronormative rigidity in the homoerotic fiction of Ann Herendeen" (2010). Theses and Dissertations. Paper 41. MA thesis from DePaul University. [http://via.library.depaul.edu/etd/41 Details] and [http://via.library.depaul.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=etd PDF].

;Fekete, Maleah, 2016. : "Social Differences in Taste: Investigating Romance Reading." 2016 SURF Conference Proceedings [This is a conference paper but outlines the direction of a larger project. The student has a supervisor.][http://escholarship.org/uc/item/28f1q2d7]

;Fenty, Linda D. 1987. : "A Comparative Analysis of Female Role Models in Selected Contemporary Teen Romances." Auburn University (''Dissertation Abstracts International'') 48, no. 8: 2007A-2007A. [http://aubiecat.auburn.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=629918 Auburn University Library Catalog details].

;Fera-VanGent, Tania, 2005: 'Popular Romance Novels: Seeking out the 'Sisterhood'." M.A. diss., Brock University (Canada).[https://dr.library.brocku.ca/jspui/bitstream/10464/1379/1/Brock_Fera-VanGent_Tania_2007.pdf]

;Flesch, Juliet, 2001. : ''From Australia with love :Australian romance novels, 1950-2000. '' Thesis (Ph.D)--Dept. of History (Women's Study), University of Melbourne.

;Fletcher, Lisa, 2002. : '' I love you :historical romance fiction and heterosexuality.'' Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne.

;Funderburk, Amy, 2004. : ''Romance Collections in North Carolina Public Libraries: Are All Genres Treated Equally?'' A Master’s Paper for the M.S. in L.S. degree. - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April, 2004. [http://www.ils.unc.edu/MSpapers/2934.pdf]

;Gardner, Dora Abigail, 2019. : 'Defending the Bodice Ripper', MA thesis, Eastern Kentucky University. [https://search.proquest.com/openview/20dec25c37b36e929b647b84b6b0bd49/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y Excerpt]

;Garza, Raquel M, ???? (possibly 2011). : ''“Don’t tell me I don’t know what Love is”: A Comparative Study on Heterosexual and Homosexual Romance Novels'' Longwood University, [probably submitted as part of a Bachelor's degree in Communication Studies with a concentration in Public Relations and Organizational Communication]. [https://workstory.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/508208/FINAL_Thesis_original.doc]

;Geib, Aleta Esther. 1986. : ''Changing heroes: depictions of the male sex role in category romance novels, 1976-1983.'' Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio State University.

;Genz, Carole, 2005. : "Romance Revisited: Transformations of the Marital Love Triangle in Women’s Fictions." PhD thesis, University of Stirling, Department of English Studies.

;Glennemeier, Jaelyn, 2018. : “And he was an Arab!:” Imperial Femininity and Pleasure in E. M. Hull's 1919 Desert Romance, ''The Sheik''', Honors thesis, University of Kansas. [https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/26639 Abstract and link to pdf].

;Goade, Sally Ann, 1999. : "'And With the Land, Our Spirits So Blended': Interrelated Frontier Quests of Self in Contemporary Historical Romance. A Study of Rosanne Bittner's 'Savage Destiny' series", Idaho State U, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 60.4:1132).

;Goris, An, 2011. : From Romance to Roberts and Back Again: genre, authorship and the construction of textual identity in contemporary popular romance novels." PhD thesis, University of Leuven. [https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/317472 Abstract and Index] [https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/317472/1/text+1-469.pdf Pdf]

;Gorry, April Marie, 1999. : "Leaving Home for Romance: Tourist Women's Adventures Abroad," PhD thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara.[http://anthro.vancouver.wsu.edu/media/PDF/romance.pdf] [This is an anthropology PhD but Chapter 5 (pages 195-240) presents "the results of a survey of 45 popular romance novels dating from 1977 to 1996 [...] it is principally intended to test the validity of findings generated by my field survey of romance tourism.]

;Gregor, Theresa Lynn, 2010. : ''From Captors to Captives: American Indian Responses to Popular American Narrative Forms''. Ph.D. thesis from University of Southern California. [Available from [http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll127/id/302844 here]. See the section on "''Savage Obsession'' and ''Dreamquest'': The Cultural Work of Contemporary Mass-Marketed American/Indian Romances," pages 175-186. Discusses novels by [[Cassie Edwards]] and [[Janet Wellington]].]

;Griffin, Linda Coleman, 1999. : "An Analysis of Meaning Creation through the Integration of Sociology and Literature: A Critical Ethnography of a Romance Reading Group." U of Houston, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'', 60.4: 1117.)

;Güvendi Yalçın, Elif, 2018. : "The Transformation of Romance Novels Based on the Theories of Sociologist Anthony Giddens," Istanbul Aydin University Institute of Social Sciences. [http://acikarsiv.aydin.edu.tr/handle/11547/1576?mode=full Abstract] [Based on analysis of "three medieval romances’s content— Walter Scott’s ''Ivanhoe'' (1920), Kathleen Woodowiss’ ''The Wolf and the Dove'' (1974), and Amanda Quick’s ''Mystique'' (1995)"]

;Hall, Glinda Fountain. 2008.: ''A genre of our own: the cultural work of women's popular romance fiction.'' Thesis (Ph. D.)--Arkansas State University. [http://dbellis.library.astate.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=547355 Catalogue record at Arkansas State University's library.]

;Hamlyn, Eleanor, 2014. : "Reading the Genre Codes in Giorgio Scerbanenco's Hybridised ''Romanzi Rosa''", A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Italian Studies, The University of Auckland. [https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/2292/23609/whole.pdf?sequence=2]

;Harlan, Kimber Leigh. 2005. : '' Romancing the reader: constructing a discursive and social female identity through romance novels.'' Thesis (M.A.) -- Tarleton State University. [Abstract available [http://gradworks.umi.com/14/36/1436377.html here] and [http://en.scientificcommons.org/32181902 here].]

;Harris, Patricia Marie, 1985. : ''The rhetorical vision of courtship in Harlequin Romances: a fantasy theme analysis.'' Thesis (M.A., Communication Studies)--California State University, Sacramento.

;Harrison, Rachel, 1980. : ''Women and Romantic Fiction: Subordination and Resistance''. Thesis (M.Litt) - University of Birmingham, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies.

;Hartmann, Britta U., 2014. : ''Island fictions : Castaways and imperialism''. PhD thesis, University of Tasmania. [http://eprints.utas.edu.au/22391/ Abstract] [Includes a chapter on "castaway romances" which focuses on 20th- and 21st-century novels by writers including Violet Winspear, Margery Hilton, Ginna Gray, Julie Tetel Andersen, Penelope Neri, Donna Simpson, Darlene Marshall, Jill Sharvis, Kandy Shepherd & Tracey Garvis Graves.]

;Harzewski, Stephanie, 2006. : "The new novel of manners: Chick lit and postfeminist sexual politics ." U of Pennsylvania, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'', 67.7:2573.)

;Heffernan, Joan-Mary, 1992. : ''Women's romantic fiction :a study of three New Zealand Mills and Boon authors.'' Dissertation (MA--English)--University of Auckland.

;Henderson, Courtney R.,2007. : "Ladies and Loners: A Comparative Gender Study of the Romance and Popular Western.' M.A. diss., The University of Texas at Arlington. [http://hdl.handle.net/10106/510 Abstract and full PDF] ["my focal texts for the romance genre are [[Johanna Lindsey]]’s ''Savage Thunder'' and Joan Johnston’s ''Frontier Woman''."]

;Heydt, Victoria, 2010. : "Stark naked: an analysis of eighteenth and twenty-first century romance novels." Washington College. [http://hdl.handle.net/10090/19085 Details]

;Hilton, Linda Ann Wheeler, 2000. : "Half Heaven, Half Heartache : Discovering the Transformative Potential in Women's Popular Fiction." A thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Honors College for the bachelor's degree, Arizona State University West. [http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4446146~S3 Details] [Published as a Kindle edition in 2011 - [http://www.amazon.com/Half-Heaven-Heartache-transformative-ebook/dp/B005MGBCZY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1315857987&sr=1-1 US], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Half-Heaven-Heartache-transformative-ebook/dp/B005MGBCZY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1315867417&sr=1-1 UK]]

;Hirsbrunner, A.R., 2000. : "Doomed to become heroines? Identification, women and fiction." Ph.D., Wales, Cardiff. ["The fear that readers will want to become like the main characters of novels they read has accompanied prose fiction throughout its history, 1970s feminists in particular were convinced that women were being duped into subscribing to patriarchal stereotypes by canonical or popular romances. The present study examines this topos. [...] fiction is not itself a fantasy, but can be used to confirm and refine a fantasy the reader already has. Romance thus contributes to a homogenisation of its females readers' fantasies, but cannot implant fantasies in subjects with different desires."] [http://library.cardiff.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v2=1&ti=1,1&SEQ=20100611101350&Search_Arg=Hirsbrunner&SL=None&Search_Code=NAME_&CNT=50&PID=Y78d0gX3xAH_gsUtC5Zukc9vQw&SID=1 Entry in Cardiff University's Library Catalogue.]

;Hodgson, Kathleen, 2006. : "The representation of the female hero in the romantic fiction of Mills & Boon." Thesis (MPhil.) - University of Reading, Institute of Education.

;Hubbard, Rita Cooper, 1982. : "Relationship Styles In Popular Romance Fiction: A Fantasy Theme Analysis Of Harlequin Romances, 1950-1979." (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 42.12:4973)

;Hughes, Helen Muriel, 1988. : "Changes In Historical Romance, 1890s To The 1980s: The Development Of The Genre From Stanley Weyman To Georgette Heyer And Her Successors." U Of Bradford (United Kingdom), (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 50.11: 3603)

;Hurley, Frances Kay., 1999. : "In the Words of Girls: The Reading of Adolescent Romance Fiction." Harvard U, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 60.6: 1946)

;Hutton-Jarvis, C.A., 1998. : "The educational potential of romantic fiction." PhD from University of Leeds. ["Romantic fiction was chosen as the focus for the case-study because of its capacity to stimulate women readers to make connections between their reading and their lives. Popular romances foreground issues which have particular implications for women's personal, social and economic situations. The case-study includes detailed textual analyses which illustrate the potential for using the romance as a vehicle for exploring such issues."]

;Jackson, Elaine, 2005. : "Riding the tosh horse: women writers of popular romance between the wars." Thesis (doctoral) - University of Birmingham, Department of English. [http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=2&uin=uk.bl.ethos.423625 British Library details] [From the abstract at the "Index to Theses" website: "Concentrating on three primary authors: E.M. Hull, Berta Ruck, and Marguerite Jervis (writing under pseudonyms Oliver Sandys and Countess Barcynska), this thesis examines the production and distribution of popular romance between the two World Wars. [...] Authors’ personal experiences of love and marriage are explored alongside the more public influences of editors, publishers, and literary agents. The relationship between authors and readers is also examined. This thesis demonstrates how the authors in question pioneered what we now recognize as a predominantly female romance genre [...] and that their oeuvre contribute substantially to the canon of women’s writing history."]

;Jagodzinski, Mallory Diane, 2010. : ''Of Bustles and Breeches: Cross-dressing Romance Novel Heroines and the Performance of Gender Ideology''. Master of Arts (MA) Thesis, Bowling Green State University, Popular Culture. [The thesis "examines three recent cross-dressing romance novels: ''The Spy'' by [[Celeste Bradley]]; ''Duchess By Night'' by [[Eloisa James]]; and ''Almost a Gentleman'' by [[Pam Rosenthal]]." [http://etd.ohiolink.edu/view.cgi/Jagodzinski%20Mallory%20Diane.pdf?bgsu1276724423 Abstract and link to PDF].]

;Jagodzinski, Mallory, 2015. : ''Love is (Color) Blind: Historical Romance Fiction and Interracial Relationships in the Twenty-First Century''. PhD dissertation, Graduate College of Bowling Green State University. [This dissertation analyzes three historical romance novels — ''Secrets of a Scandalous Heiress'' by Theresa Romain (2015), ''The Duke of Shadows'' by Meredith Duran (2008) and ''The Heiress Effect by Courtney Milan'' (2013)][https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=bgsu1440101084&disposition=inline PDF]

;Janzen, Moira J. 1994. : ''Georgette Heyer's Regency romances: serious literature or popular fiction?'' Thesis (MA--English) -- University of Auckland

;Jensen, Margaret Ann, 1980. : "Women and romantic fiction a case study of Harlequin Enterprises, Romances and readers" (January 1, 1980). ETD Collection for McMaster University. Paper AAINK46885. [http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/opendissertations/3229/ Details and pdf here]. In her ''Love's $weet Return: The Harlequin Story'' (1984), Jensen describes that book as "the outgrowth of a doctoral dissertation I completed at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario" (11).]

;Jocks, Yvonne Annette, 1988. : “Adventure and Virtue: Alternating Emphasis in the Popular Romance Tradition.” Master’s thesis, University of Texas at Arlington. [Jocks writes romances under the pseudonym [[Evelyn Vaughn|Evelyn Vaughn]] ]

;Johnson, Naomi Ruth, 2007. : "Consuming Desires: A Feminist Analysis of Bestselling Teen Romance Novels". The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 68.11)

;Jossart, Deborah A. 2004. : ''Transforming the fairytale: a diachronic study of utopias of popular romance.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Dakota, 2004.

;Joyal, Amanda, 2012. : From Victorian literature to the romance novel: Disability and the courtship plot. M.A. thesis, University of Wyoming, AAT 1510201.

;Kamble, Jayashree, 2008. : "Uncovering and Recovering the Popular Romance Novel." PhD thesis from the University of Minnesota. AAT 3338954. [http://purl.umn.edu/47092 Details, Abstract] and [http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/47092/1/Kamble_umn_0130E_10108.pdf PDF]

;Kebadze, Nino, 2007. : "Fictions of Surrender: Romance and Exemplarity in Post-War Spanish Women's Narratives. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky, United States -- Kentucky. Publication No. AAT 3263682. [[http://gradworks.umi.com/32/63/3263682.html Abstract.] "The second part of this dissertation focuses on three novels by the best-selling authors of ''novelas rosa'' --Luisa-María Linares, Concha Linares-Becerra, and Carmen de Icaza." This has subsequently been published as a book by Tamesis.]

;Keegan, Faye Jessica, 2016. : "Soft metafiction(s) : Mary Stewart and the self-reflective middlebrow." Ph.D. thesis, University of Newcastle. [https://theses.ncl.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/10443/3474/1/Keegan%2C%20F.J.%202016.pdf Details and pdf].

;Kempf, Rachel Erin, 2015. : "Dirty Words: The Writing Process of 'Smutshop'." The University of Texas at Austin, Master of Fine Arts.[https://utexas-ir.tdl.org/bitstream/handle/2152/32463/KEMPF-MASTERSREPORT-2015.pdf?sequence=1 PDF] ["I worked at Siren-BookStop, Inc. for three years, cleaning up manuscripts and penning gay werewolf erotica [...] It was the best and worst job I’ve ever had — the best because I got paid to write and spend my workday making dirty jokes, and the worst because real sex isn’t porn sex, and real women aren’t romance heroines, and love and relationships are messy and complicated and when you spend all day boxing it into the confines of a highly formulaic genre, you’re bound to start getting some messed-up ideas about how your love life ought to be"]

;Kemppinen, Anne-Mari Katriina, 1988. : "Translating for popular literature with special reference to Harlequin books and their Finnish translations." University of Joensuu. [http://joecat.linneanet.fi/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SC=Author&SA=Kemppinen%2C%20Anne-Mari%20Katriina&PID=sTMe__AyvDhIajvkv16BgtNTTxe&BROWSE=1&HC=1&SID=4 Details copied from Joensuu University Library's online catalogue.]

;Khuankaew, Sasinee, 2015. : "Femininity and masculinity in three selected twentieth-century Thai romance fictions." Ph.D thesis, Cardiff University. [http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.665888 Abstract][http://orca.cf.ac.uk/76730/1/S%20Khuankaew%20PhD%20thesis.pdf Pdf]

;Kinard, Amanda Marette, 1999. : "Forbidden Pleasures: The Romance and Its Readers." Vanderbilt U.,(''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 59.12: 4424)

;Kirkland, Catherine, 1984. : "For The Love Of It: Women Writers And The Popular Romance." U of Pennsylvania, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 46.1:10.

;Klarich, Morgan L., 2012. : "Multiculturalism, Sex, and Powerful Women: The New Romance Novel as the Voice of Neofeminism?". MA Thesis, Dartmouth College, 97 pages; AAT 1510706. [http://gradworks.umi.com/15/10/1510706.html Abstract]

;Kloester, Jennifer V., 2004. : "[[Georgette Heyer]]: writing the Regency: history in fiction from ''Regency Buck'' to ''Lady of Quality'' 1935-1972." Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne, History Dept.

;Kolko, Beth E. “Writing the Romance: Cultural Studies, Community, and the Teaching of
Writing.” Ph.D. diss., University of Texas at Austin, 1994.

;Kramer, Devon J., 2010. : "Truth through the medium of cheerfulness: Romance novels as points of resistance." M.A., Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 2010 , 114 pages; AAT 1479123.

;Kusaeri, Akhmad, Dewi Candraningrum and Titis Setyabudi, 2015. : "Love Conflict Reflected in Jennifer Crusie's ''Anyone But You'' Novel (1996): Psychoanalytic Approach." School of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta. [http://eprints.ums.ac.id/34257/1/NASKAH%20PUBLIKASI.pdf]

;Lamprinou, Artemis, 2013. : "A Study on the Cultural Variations in the Verbalisation of Near-Universal Emotions: Translating Emotions from British English into Greek in Popular Bestseller Romances," PhD thesis, University of Surrey. [https://www.academia.edu/5354053/A_Study_on_the_Cultural_Variations_in_the_Verbalisation_of_Near-Universal_Emotions_Translating_Emotions_from_British_English_into_Greek_in_Popular_Bestseller_Romances_PhD_thesis Abstract]

;Larson, Christine, 2017. : “An Economy of Words: Precarity, Solidarity and Innovation in Digital Book Publishing.” PhD Diss., Stanford University. [According to Lois and Gregson (2018) "Larson’s dissertation (2017) comprises the only known examination of writers’ careers in the romance genre. Her 2014 survey examined 4,270 romance writers’ earnings over the previous eight years, comparing their incomes via traditional and self-publishing. She found that only approximately 20 percent of her sample earned above the U.S. median income through their writing."]

;Lessard, Victoria, 2017. : 'Marketing Desire: The "Normative/Other" Male Body and the "Pure" White Female Body on the Cover Art of Cassie Edwards' ''Savage Dream'' (1990), ''Savage Persuasion'' (1991), and ''Savage Mists'' (1992)', MA thesis, McGill University.[http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/webclient/StreamGate?folder_id=0&dvs=1520696109115~383]

;Liu, S.-h, 2012. : "The Translation/Mutation of Romantic Love: An Exploration of the Translation History of Modern Romances in Taiwan after 1960". PhD Thesis, National Taiwan Normal University. [http://www.airitilibrary.com/Publication/alDetailedMesh?docid=U0021-1610201315284770 Abstract]

;Lin, Fang-Mei, 1992. : "Social Change and Romantic Ideology: The Impact of the Publishing Industry, Family Organization, and Gender Roles on the Reception and Interpretation of Romance Fiction in Taiwan, 1960-1990." U of Pennysylvania (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'', 53.5:1675) [http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9227710/ Abstract]

;Lohmann, Jennifer, 2006. : " 'Beauty and the Beast' Themes in Romance Novels." A Master’s Paper for the M.S. in L.S degree. April, 2006. 41 pages. Advisor: Brian Sturm. A Master’s paper submitted to the faculty of the School of Information and Library Science of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Library Science. [http://etd.ils.unc.edu:8080/dspace/bitstream/1901/302/2/draft3.pdf]

;Lutz, Deborah, 2004. : "The Dangerous Lover and the Erotics of Failure: Nineteenth-century Byronism and the Contemporary Romance. Ph.D. dissertation, City University of New York, United States -- New York. Publication No. AAT 3127895. [Has since been published by Ohio State University Press - see the main bibliography for details.]

;Malloy, Audrey Miles, 2017. : "Remnants of the Bodice Ripper: How Consent is Characterized in Heterosexual and Lesbian Erotic Romance Novels." Bard College, Senior Projects Spring 2017, Bard Undergraduate Senior Projects. [http://digitalcommons.bard.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1088&context=senproj_s2017]

;Markert, John, 1984. : "Beyond Gatekeepers: Romance Publishing and the Production of Culture." Ph.D. dissertation in Sociology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. [http://discoverlibrary.vanderbilt.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?ct=display&doc=vanunicorn544260&indx=1&srt=rank&vl(freeText0)=markert%20john%20beyond%20gatekeepers&dum=true&mode=Basic&ct=search&vid=VANDERBILT&doc=vanunicorn544260&scp.scps=scope%3A(GMA)%2Cscope%3A(vanunicorn)%2Cscope%3A(tvnews)&frbg=&indx=1&fn=search&tab=default_tab Details in Vanderbilt University Library Catalogue.]

;Margolis, Ann, 2009. : "In Defense of Romantic Fiction" (2009). Master of Science in Publishing. Pace University, Dyson College of Arts & Sciences. [http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/dyson_mspublishing/10 Details and link to pdf].

;McAlister, Jodi Ann, 2015. : "Romancing the Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Popular Literature in the West". PhD thesis, Macquarie University, 2015. [https://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:44291]

;McKinley, Tracey Lynn, 2007. : 'The Female Quest: An Analysis of Archetypal Layering in Harlequin Presents.' M.Ed. diss., Queen's University (Canada).

; Michel, Anita, 1997. : ''Re-reading the (series) romance : toward a typology of recent series romance novels.'' Thesis (M.A.)--Bowling Green State University.

;Miguel, Donna De Silva, 2002. : ''Love conquers all :the rhetoric, culture, and appeal of the contemporary romance novel, and coming to terms with coming out of the closet.'' Thesis (M.A.)--New Mexico State University.

;Modleski, Tania. 1980. : "'Popular Feminine Narratives: A Study of Romances, Gothics, and Soap Operas'." Stanford U., (''Dissertation Abstracts International: Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'') 41.5: 2104-A.

;Moffitt, Mary Anne Smeltzer, 1990. : "Understanding Middle-Class Adolescent Leisure: A Cultural Studies Approach to Romance Novel Reading" U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (''Dissertation Abstracts International'' 51.4: 1035A)

;Moody, Stephanie Lee, 2013. : "Affecting Genre: Women's Participation with Popular Romance Fiction." Ph.D thesis. University of Michigan. [http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/99818/slmoody_1.pdf?sequence=1]

;Morrissey, Katherine, 2008. : ''Fanning the Flames of Romance: An Exploration of Fan Fiction and the Romance Novel''. MA Thesis, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University. [http://hdl.handle.net/1961/6198 Abstract] and [http://dspace.wrlc.org/dspace/bitstream/1961/6198/1/17_etd_kem82.pdf the thesis].

;Morrissey, Katherine, 2016. : ''Romance Networks: Aspiration & Desire in Today’s Digital Culture''. Theses and Dissertations. Paper 1179. Ph.D. thesi, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. [http://dc.uwm.edu/etd/1179 Abstract and link to download after June 06, 2018]

;Naber, Christine Marie, 1995. : "Rape myths are the theory--romance novels are the practice: The impact of exposure to images of women in popular culture, " U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'',57.4:2950). [http://hdl.handle.net/2142/18972 Abstract]

;Neal, Lynn S., 2003. : "Romancing God: Reading Evangelical Romance Novels." Ph.D. dissertation, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States -- North Carolina. Publication No. AAT 3086588. [Has since been published by the University of North Carolina Press - see the main bibliography for details.]

;Newton, Marlo Leigh. 1991. : ''Romancing the tome: the novels of Georgette Heyer.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of Melbourne

;Olivier, Séverine, 2009. : "Le roman sentimental. Productions contemporaines et pratiques de lecture.' Doctorat en Langues et lettres, Université Libre de Bruxelles. [http://theses.ulb.ac.be/ETD-db/collection/available/ULBetd-11132009-153019/ Abstract]

;O'Mahony, Lauren Kate, 2015. : "In Search of Feminist Romance in Australian 'Chick Lit'." Thesis presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of Murdoch University. [http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/25543/1/In_Search_of_Feminist_Romance_in____Australian_Chick_lit_PhD_Thesis_O%27Mahony.pdf]

;O'Neil, Kathryn M., 2016. : "Women's rhetoric and the romance novel genre." M.A. Thesis, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. [http://gradworks.umi.com/10/13/10134046.html Abstract]

;Omissi, Dominic, 1995. : "The Mills and Boon memsahibs: women's romantic Indian fiction 1877-1947." Ph.D., Lancaster. [http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.282386 British Library details.] [Abstract from the Index to Theses website: "This thesis examines the published written work of eleven different women. The material is principally in the form of romantic novels but short stories form a significant minority along with poetry, autobiography, history, and contemporary political comment. [...] All but one of the writers spent extended periods in India and numerous of their works have never been discussed in any critical work of which I am aware. [...] the current work challenges the dominant image of India, its climate, people and imperial significance, drawn from the writings of men like Kipling, Forster and Orwell. The study concludes that this image (which I call the canonical image) is utterly inappropriate when measured against the writings of these women. Their work is, I conclude, in certain important respects counter-canonical.]

;Owen, Mairead, 1990. : "Women's Reading of Popular Romantic Fiction: A Case Study in the Mass Media: A Key to the Ideology of Women." U. of Liverpool, (''Dissertation Abstracts International'' 52.8: 2745A) [http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.280340 Details and download available.]

;Paizis, George, 1986. : "'Reine ou esclave ... ' : conflicting images of women in the contemporary 'romantic novel' in France." Ph.D. Thesis, University of London. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53571849 Details]

;Parameswaran, Radhika E., 1998. : "Public Images, Private Pleasures: Romance Reading at the Intersection of Gender, Class, and National Identities in Urban India." U of Iowa, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 58.12:4485)

;Parv, Valerie, 2007. : "Healing Writes: Restorying the Authorial Self through Creative Practice : and ''Birthright'', a speculative fiction novel." Thesis for Master of Arts degree (by research), University of Queensland. [The novel is not available online, but [http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16646/2/Valerie_Parv_Exegesis.pdf the non-fiction section is] and [http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16646/ an abstract is also available].]

;Pearce, Elizabeth Florence, 2004. : "Reading the Lesbian Romance: Re-imagining Love, Sex, Relationships, and Community." Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Iowa, United States -- Iowa. Publication No. AAT 3139383. ["The core of the research emerged from the face-to-face, phone and e-mail conversations with readers of lesbian romance texts" and one section is "based on an examination of twenty-five lesbian romance novels."]

;Pylkkänen, Merita, 2013. : "Didactic Fulfillment and the Popular Romance: Jude Deveraux’s ''The Mulberry Tree''." MA thesis, University of Eastern Finland. [http://epublications.uef.fi/pub/urn_nbn_fi_uef-20130866/urn_nbn_fi_uef-20130866.pdf]

;Potter, J.E., 1998. : "Boys in khaki, girls in print: women's literary responses to the Great War 1914-1918", D.Phil., Oxford. ["This thesis explores the ways in which women interpreted the Great War as it happened and focuses on texts written and published between 1914 and 1918. [...] The romance novels discussed in Chapter Three follow a pattern in which the aspirations of heroes and heroines are thwarted - then fulfilled - by the events of the War. Such 'light entertainment' makes highly-charged claims for the regenerative power and the righteousness of Britain's sacrifice."] [This has since been published as a book.]

;Rampure, Archana, 2005. : "Doctors in the Darkness: Reading Race, Gender, and History in the Popular Medical Romance ", U of Toronto, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 66.10:3642) [http://search.proquest.com/docview/276475552 Abstract] and some [http://thehypelessromantic.com/2013/07/06/medical-romances-imperialism-nationalism-race-and-gender/ discussion/description here].

;Reed, Eleanor, 2018. : "Domestic Culture in ''Woman's Weekly'', 1918-1958", Doctoral thesis, Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Roehampton. [https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/files/1346863/Domestic_Culture_in_Woman_s_Weekly_1918_1958.pdf] ["This thesis [...] explores the domestic culture produced by the magazine between the end of the First World War in November 1918,and 1958." The "literary methodology for surveying periodical form [...] is based on romance, the genre to which the vast majority of ''Woman’s Weekly'' fiction printed during the period belongs" (2). In particular, popular romance novelists "Ruby M. Ayres, Barbara Cartland,and Ethel M. Dell contributed fiction to the magazine during the period reviewed" (16).]

;Rice, Linda. 2008. : ''Ambiguous love a reflection of self in relation to popular romance fiction.'' Darwin, N.T.: Iron Mountain. Thesis (M.A.)--Charles Darwin University

;Russell, Shanon, 2014. : "Dangerous Young Men: Themes of Female Sexuality and Masculinity in Paranormal Romance Novels for Young Adults." Masters Thesis. University of Ottawa.[https://ruor.uottawa.ca/bitstream/10393/31631/1/Russell_Shannon_2014_Thesis.pdf]

;Rutherford, Carina Lynn, 1999. : ''Wild dreams rooted in reality :an exploration of the Harlequin Mills & Boon novels of Daphne Clair.'' Thesis (MA--English)--University of Auckland.

;Sagun, Karryl Kim Abella, 2019. : ''Book Mavens of Manila : an interpretative phenomenological analysis of contemporary niche publishers in the Philippines''. Doctoral thesis,Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. [https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/bitstream/handle/10220/48072/SAGUNKKAS.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y Pdf] [I include this because it incorporates material from "three Wattpad self-publishers based in the Philippines: Mina V. Esguerra, Noreen Capili, and Kimberly Villanueva. All three agreed to be quoted verbatim, and to be referred to by name. They have all published both on electronic platforms (particularly Wattpad) and on print. They also share the same genre for their works: romance" (123)]

;Sandbakken, Asta Margrethe, 2016. : "Feeling Men: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Emotion in the Contemporary Romance." MA Thesis, University of Oslo.[https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/51997/Sandbakken_Master.pdf?sequence=1]

;Sanyal, Madhuparna, 2008. : "Re-imagining the late-colonial Anglo-Indian woman's romance: Reading Maud Diver." PhD dissertation, Drew University. AAT 3334864. [https://catalog.drew.edu/web2/tramp2.exe/authority_hits/A02ok5gn.004?server=1home&item=1 Details from Drew University Library]

;Savinainen, Raija, 2001. : ''Gender-specific features of male/female interaction in a popular romantic novel by Barbara Cartland''. University of Jyväskylä. [http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-2001867069 Details and link to pdf.]

;Shore, Zandra Lesley, 1999. : "Girls reading culture, autobiography as inquiry into teaching the body, the romance, and the economy of love." Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Education, University of Toronto. [Can be downloaded from [http://hdl.handle.net/1807/15698 the University of Toronto Library]. [See in particular Chapter Four, which mentions the work done on romance and romance readers by Radway, Snitow, Cohn, Christian-Smith and others.]

;Short, Christopher Brown, 1996. : "The history of romance illustration and the romance novel cover." Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Illustration in the Graduate School at Syracuse University. [http://summit.syr.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=1563900 Bibliographic Details]

;Smáradóttir, Helena María, 2006. : "Happily Ever-After: The Romance Reader's Individual Choice and Empowerment." B.A. thesis. University of Iceland.

;Smáradóttir, Helena María, 2009. : "Love as a Commodity: Brand-Name Romantic Fiction and its Readers. The Domain and Readership of Harlequin Enterprises, Both in Iceland and Abroad." Thesis submitted for a master's degree at the University of Iceland. Various sections [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/handle/1946/2789 available online]: [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/bitstream/1946/2789/8/ttur_fixed.pdf Summary], [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/bitstream/1946/2789/1/Efnisyfirlit_fixed.pdf Table of Contents], [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/bitstream/1946/2789/3/Inngangur_fixed.pdf Introduction], [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/bitstream/1946/2789/7/pd_fixed.pdf Conclusion], [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/bitstream/1946/2789/6/pd_fixed.pdf Works Cited], [http://www.skemman.is/dspace/bitstream/1946/2789/5/l_fixed.pdf Appendix]. Those wishing to read more of this thesis or the author's B.A. thesis may [mailto:helena@skipulag.com contact the author directly].

;Smith, William Clay Kinchen, 2002. : "Revising Captivity Narratives", U of Florida. [http://etd.fcla.edu/UF/UFE0000611/smith_w.pdf] [This thesis deals with many types of captivity narrative, but there are sections specifically about romances. In the chapter on works from the 1980s, there is a section on romance (341-354), and the chapter concerning the 1990s has a similar section (373-378). Romance authors whose works are discussed include [[Madeline Baker]], [[Karen A. Bale]], [[Cassie Edwards]], [[Fern Michaels]], [[Nan Ryan]] and [[Janelle Taylor]].]

;Sorenson, Tanya Lee, 2014. : "How Traditional is the Romance? Heroines, Stereotypes, and the Heterosexual Script." Senior Projects Spring 2014. Paper 339. Bard College. [http://digitalcommons.bard.edu/senproj_s2014/339 Abstract]

;Spears, Jessica D., 2018. : ''The Romance Novel Cover''. MA Thesis (Art History). City University of New York (CUNY), Hunter College, 2018. [https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/350/ Abstract and link to pdf.]

;Starr, Marian, 1981. : ''Sweet Savage Book: The Romance in America, 1855-1980'', Honors paper, Duke University. This is a typescript manuscript with 118 leaves (the bibliography can be found on leaves 106-118). OCLC Number: 07724196. [http://library.duke.edu/catalog/search/recordid/DUKE000461276 Details in Duke University's Library Catalogue.] [As far as modern romances are concerned, the focus is on the historical romances of the seventies ([[Rosemary Rogers]], [[Kathleen Woodiwiss]], etc.) with particular emphasis on their rape-fantasy aspects.]

;Sterk, Helen Mae, 1986. : "Functioning fictions :the adjustment rhetoric of Silhouette romance novels." Ph.D. U. of Iowa, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 47.7:2372)

;Tang, Wei-chung, 2004. : "The Masculine Hero in American Popular Romances." MA Thesis, National Chengchi University, Taiwan. [http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/31797 Abstract]

;Tang, Yang, 2014. : "Between Fantasy and Reality: Time-Travel Romance and Media Fandom in Chinese Cyberspace." MA Thesis, Simon Fraser University. [http://summit.sfu.ca/system/files/iritems1/14110/etd8410_YTang.pdf]

;Tatlock, Kristen Doris, 1986. :'' Raised on romance :a cultural study of romance fiction.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of Virginia.

;Taylor, Jessica Anne, 2013. : “Write the Book of Your Heart: Career, Passion and Publishing in the Romance Writing Community,” Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto. [https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/36016 Abstract and link to pdf]

;Tennenhouse, Tracy Shana, 1996. : "Female Fantasies in Women's Popular Fiction", U California Santa Barbara, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 57.9:3943)

;Therrien, Kathleen Mary, 1998. : "Trembling at Her Own Response: Resistance and Reconciliation in Mass-Market Romance Novels." (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 58.7: 2659) [Special focus on [[Julie Garwood]], [[Amanda Quick]]/[[Jayne Ann Krentz]] and [[Susan Wiggs]].]

;Tienkamp, Aaf, 2016. : "New Adult Romance: An Emerging Genre." Master’s Dissertation Literary Studies. Programme: Writing, Editing and Mediating, University of Groningen. [http://arts.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/18051/1/MA_2449307_A_Tienkamp.pdf]

;Travis, Melissa E., 2013. : "Assume the Position: Exploring Discipline Relationships." Sociology Dissertations, Paper 71. Ph.D thesis. Georgia State University, Ph.D thesis. [http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/sociology_diss/71/ Abstract] and [http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1070&context=sociology_diss pdf]. [See the section on "Discipline Romance Novels", pp. 159-66.]

;Turner, Natasha, 2015. : "Contemporary Erotic Romance: Cunning Linguists or Fifty Shades of Feminist Dismay?" BA (Hons) dissertation, published in ''The New Birmingham Review'' 1.2.[http://www.newbirminghamreview.uk/ojs/index.php/nbr/article/view/44 Abstract] [http://www.newbirminghamreview.uk/ojs/index.php/nbr/article/view/44/21 pdf]

;Uddin-Khan, Evelyn Angelina, 1995. : "Gender, Ethnicity and the Romance Novel," Columbia U, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 56.11:4341)

;Vani, Christina, 2018. : ''Immortal Words: The Language and Style of the Contemporary Italian Undead-Romance Novel''. Ph.D. thesis. University of Toronto, 2018. [https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/91987/3/Vani_Christina_201811_PhD_thesis.pdf]

;Walker, Lynn G., 2000. : ''Women Reading Popular Fiction: Influences on Gender Identity.'' Thesis (M.A.L.S.)--North Central College.

;Warner, Celeste R., 2010. : ''Heyer’s Heroes: An Investigation into [[Georgette Heyer]] and Her Literary ‘Mark’ on the Regency Hero''. A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in English at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.[http://hdl.handle.net/10289/4406]

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;White, Ann Yvonne, 2008. : ''Genesis Press: Cultural Representation and the Production of African American Romance Novels''. Ph.D. thesis from the University of Iowa. [[http://infohawk.uiowa.edu/F?func=direct&local_base=uiowa&doc_number=004400887 Link to University of Iowa catalogue details.]] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uuGj4AKOTXoC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

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;Wood, Andrea, 2008. : ''Radicalizing Romance: Subculture, Sex, and Media at the Margins''. PhD Thesis, University of Florida. AAT 3392728 [http://etd.fcla.edu/UF/UFE0023561/wood_a.pdf PDF]

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;Young, Whitney A., 2013. : "Monsters in My Bed: Accounting for the Popularity of Young Adult Paranormal Romances." MA Thesis. Georgia State University. [http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1035&context=wsi_theses]

;Yuill, Brendon, 2018. : "Sheiks and Sherifs: Western Portrayals of the Middle East between the World Wars." MA Thesis. University of Central Oklahoma.[https://search.proquest.com/openview/bca2306d1789bef0c53ba80b278430bc/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y]

;Zachik-Smith, Susie, 1993. : ''Romance by the book :a morphological analysis of the popular romance.'' Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, San Bernardino.