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Resources and bibliographies for academics.
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[[category:Romance Scholarship]] [[category:Romance Resources]]
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Anderson, Rachel, 1974. ''The Purple Heart Throbs: The Sub-literature of Love'' (London: Hodder and Stoughton).
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* [[:Category:Academics Who Write Romance|Academics Who Write Romance]]
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* [[Academic Online Essays (not published in academic journals or volumes)]]
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* '''Bibliography - last updated 2019'''
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** [[Bibliography A-C]] - the first part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
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** [[Bibliography D-G]] - the second part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
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** [[Bibliography H-L]] - the third part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
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** [[Bibliography M-O]] - the fourth part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
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** [[Bibliography P-S]] - the fifth part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
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** [[Bibliography T-Z]] - the final part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
  
Barrett, Rebecca Kaye, 2003. ‘Higher Love: What Women Gain from Christian Romance Novels’, ''Journal of Religion and Popular Culture'', 4. [http://www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc/art4-higherlove.html]
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* [https://rsdb.vivanco.me.uk/ Romance Scholarship DB] - created and updated by Dr Laura Vivanco
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* [[Scholarship in Languages Other than English|Bibliography of Scholarship in Languages Other than English]].
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* [[Dissertation Abstracts]]
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* [[Guides to the Genre]]
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* '''Romance in the Media''' - lists news items/features items about romance.
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** [[Romance in the Media A-I]] 
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** [[Romance in the Media J-Z]] 
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* [[Romance Resources for Academics|Romance Resources for Academics]] - lists romance-related resources which may be of interest to academics.
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* [[Writers on Romance]] - lists items written about the genre by romance authors but not published in academic journals or books.
  
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]
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You may also be interested in our [[Chick Lit Academic Bibliography]] and [["Rom-Coms" Academic Bibliography]].
  
Cadogan, Mary, 1994. ''And Then Their Hearts Stood Still: An Exuberant Look at Romantic Fiction Past and Present'' (London: Macmillan).
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See the [[:Category:Writing_Scholarships|Writing Scholarships Category]] if you're looking for scholarships available to romance writers and, in the case of the RWA grants, to scholars of the genre.
 
 
[[Jennifer Crusie|Crusie, Jennifer]], 1997. ‘Romancing Reality: The Power of Romance Fiction to Reinforce and Re-Vision the Real’, [http://www.jennycrusie.com/essays/romancingreality.php], first published in ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'', 1-2: 81-93.
 
 
 
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]
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
Dixon, jay, 1999. ''The Romance Fiction of Mills & Boon 1909-1990s'' (London: UCL Press).
 
 
 
''Doubled Plots: Romance and History'', Susan Strehle and Mary Paniccia Carden, eds.  UP of Mississippi, 2003.
 
 
 
Douglas, Ann, 1980. 'Soft-Porn Culture: Punishing the Liberated Woman.' ''The New Republic'' Vol.183, No.9 (August 30, 1980): 25-29.
 
 
 
Frantz, Sarah S. G.  "'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, 2002.  17-36.
 
 
 
Jones, Ann Rosalind, 1986. ‘Mills & Boon Meets Feminism’, in ''The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction'', ed. Jean Radford (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul), pp. 195-218.
 
 
 
Kramer, Daniela & Moore, Michael, 2001. ‘Gender Roles, Romantic Fiction and Family Therapy’, ''Psycoloquy'' 12,#24 [http://psycprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/archive/00000153/]
 
 
 
[[Jayne Ann Krentz|Krentz, Jayne Ann]], Ed. ''Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance.'' (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992).
 
 
 
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).
 
 
 
Morgan, Paula, 2003. ‘ “Like Bush Fire in My Arms”: Interrogating the World of Caribbean Romance, ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 36.4: 804-827.
 
 
 
''North American Romance Writers'', 1999. ed. Kay Mussell and Johanna Tuñón (Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press).
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
Regis, Pamela, 2003. ''A Natural History of the Romance Novel'' (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press).
 
 
 
''Romantic Conventions'', 1999, Anne K. Kaler and Rosemary E. Johnson-Kurek, eds.  Bowling Green State University Popular Press.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
Thurston, Carol, 1987. ''The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels for Women and the Quest for a New Sexual Identity'' (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press).
 

Latest revision as of 15:49, 24 May 2021

This section has been divided up into the following sub-sections:

You may also be interested in our Chick Lit Academic Bibliography and "Rom-Coms" Academic Bibliography.

See the Writing Scholarships Category if you're looking for scholarships available to romance writers and, in the case of the RWA grants, to scholars of the genre.