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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.

;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 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.]

;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].]

;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.

;Haynesworth, Leslie, 2008. : '[[Janet Evanovich]]', ''Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice'' 2.2/3.[http://www.teachingamericanlit.com/files/Microsoft_Word_-_TALTP-EvanovichJanetuse.pdf]

;Hazen, Helen, 1983. : ''Endless Rapture; Rape, Romance, and the Female Imagination.'' New York:: Scribner's. (Chapter 1 - Romance Novels)

;Heinecken, Dawn, 1999. : 'Changing Ideologies in Romance Fiction', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 149-72.

;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]]]

;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.

;Hey, Valerie, 1983. : ''The Necessity of Romance'', Women’s Studies Occasional Papers, 3 (Canterbury: University of Kent).

;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]

;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.]

;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.

;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 [http://www.readreactreview.com/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.
==J==

;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.

;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]

;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]

;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)]

;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.

;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==

;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.

;Kapell, Matthew, and Suzanne Becker., 2005. : 'Patriarchy, the Christian Romance Novel, and the 'Ecosystem of Sex'.' ''Popular Culture Review'' 16.1:147-155.

;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.**

;Killing, Peter, 1978. : ''Harlequin Enterprises Limited: Case Material of the Western School of Business Administration'' (London, Ontario: University of Western Ontario). **

;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]

;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.

;Kray, Susan. 1987. : "Deconstructive Laughter: Romance Author as Subject, The Pleasure of Writing the Text." ''Journal of Communication Inquiry'' 11.2: 26-46.

;[[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.]

;Kundin, Susan G., 1985. : "Romance versus Reality: A Look at YA Romantic Fiction." ''Top of the News'' 41.4: 361-368.

;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]

;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.

;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.

;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]

;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://www.langlab.wayne.edu/marvelshome/v22n1.html Abstract]

;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].]

;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.]

;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.

;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.

;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]

;Lutz, Deborah, 2006. :''The Dangerous Lover; Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative.''(Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press). [Includes a chapter on the contemporary historical romance, which is available in pdf format, along with the introduction and bibliographical matter [http://www.ohiostatepress.org/Books/Book%20PDFs/Lutz%20Dangerous.pdf here] ]

;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.

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* [[:Category:Academics Who Write Romance|Academics Who Write Romance]]
* [[Academic Online Essays (not published in academic journals or volumes)]]
* '''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 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]]
* [[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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==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.]

;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.stjerome.co.uk/page.php?id=336&doctype=The%20Translator&section=1 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]

;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.

;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]

;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]

;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.

;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]

;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.bilkent.edu.tr/~jast/Number9/Postma.html 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]

;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.

;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]

==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.

;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., 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-???. **

;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.

;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]

;Rholetter, Wylene, 2008. : '[[Nora Roberts]]', ''Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice'' 2.2/3.[http://www.teachingamericanlit.com/files/Microsoft_Word_-_TALTP-RobertsNora.pdf]

;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://www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc/art21(2)-LoveClouds.html]

;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.

;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].]

;Rose, Suzanna, 1985. : "Is Romance Dysfunctional?." ''International Journal of Women's Studies'', 8.3: 250-265.

;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.] [http://www.allbusiness.com/humanities-social-science/literature-literature/12601191-1.html Unpaginated version.]

;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.

;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."]

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

;Santaulària, Isabel, 2002. :"The Fallacy of Eternal Love: Romance, Vampires and 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.''(Lleida, Spain: Universitat de Lleida), pp. 111-126.

;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://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/literature_and_medicine/v026/26.1schell.html Abstract]

;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].]

;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''.]

;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. **

;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.]

;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. ** [http://www.stjerome.co.uk/page.php?id=424&doctype=Gender,%20Sex%20and%20Translation&section=3 Summary]

;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]

;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. 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]

;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]: "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."]

;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.

;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.

;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.

;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]

;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. **

;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.[http://www.teachingamericanlit.com/files/Microsoft_Word_-_TALTP-RobardsKaren_not_using.pdf]

;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.

;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/] ]

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