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Resources and bibliographies for academics.
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[[category:Romance Scholarship]] [[category:Romance Resources]]
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This section has been divided up into the following sub-sections:
  
Items with the "**" have not been personally checked. This means that the details given in the entry may not be entirely accurate.
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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.
  
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. **
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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.
  
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You may also be interested in our [[Chick Lit Academic Bibliography]] and [["Rom-Coms" Academic Bibliography]].
  
Anderson, Rachel, 1974. ''The Purple Heart Throbs: The Sub-literature of Love'' (London: Hodder and Stoughton).
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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.
 
 
**Assiter, Alison, 1988. ‘Romance Fiction, Porn for Women?’, in ''Perspectives on Pornography: Sexuality in Film and Literature'', ed. Gary Day & Clive Bloom (New York: St. Martin’s), pp. 101-112.
 
 
 
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]
 
 
 
Belsey, Catherine, 1993. 'Writing About Desire', The Glasgow Review, 2. [http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/STELLA/COMET/glasgrev/issue2/belsey.htm#Title]
 
 
 
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]
 
 
 
Cadogan, Mary, 1994. ''And Then Their Hearts Stood Still: An Exuberant Look at Romantic Fiction Past and Present'' (London: Macmillan).
 
 
 
**Christian-Smith, Linda K., 1990. ''Becoming a Woman Through Romance'' (New York; London: Routledge).
 
 
 
**Cohn, Jan, 1988. Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for Women (Durham and London: Duke UP).
 
 
 
[[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.
 
 
 
[[Jennifer Crusie|Crusie Smith, Jennifer]], 1999. 'This Is Not Your Mother's Cinderella: The Romance Novel as Feminist Fairy Tale', in ''Romantic Conventions'', ed. Anne Kaler and Rosemary Johnson-Kurek (see below), pp. 51-61. [http://www.jennycrusie.com/essays/thisisnotyourmothers.php]
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
Dubino, Jeanne. 1993. “The Cinderella Complex: Romance Fiction, Patriarchy, and Capitalism.” ''Journal of Popular Culture'', 27.3: 103-118.
 
 
 
Ebert, Teresa L., 1988. 'The Romance of Patriarchy: Ideology, Subjectivity, and Postmodern Feminist Cultural Theory', ''Cultural Critique'', 10: 19-57.
 
 
 
Flesch, Juliet, 2004. ''From Australia With Love: A History of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels'' (Fremantle, W.A.: Curtin University Books).
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
**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).
 
 
 
**Grescoe, Paul, 1996. ''The Merchants of Venus: Inside Harlequin and the Empire of Romance'' (Vancouver, B.C.: Raincoast).
 
 
 
Hermes, Joke, 1992. ‘Sexuality in Lesbian Romance Fiction’, ''Feminist Review'', 42: 49-66.
 
 
 
**Jensen, Margaret Ann, 1984. ''Love's $weet Return: The Harlequin Story'' (Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press).
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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).
 
 
 
Light, Alison. 1984. ‘Returning to Manderley – Romance Fiction, Female Sexuality and Class’, ''Feminist Review'', 16: 7-25.
 
 
 
**Margolies, David, 1982. ‘Mills & Boon -- Guilt without sex’, ''Red Letters'', 14: 5-13.
 
 
 
**Markert, John, 1985. 'Romance Publishing and the Production of Culture', ''Poetics'', 14: 1-25.
 
 
 
**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).
 
 
 
**McAleer, Joseph, 1999. ''Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills & Boon'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
 
 
 
**McCaffery, Kate, 1994. ‘Palimpsest of Desire: The Re-Emergence of the American Captivity Narrative as Pulp Romance’, ''Journal of Popular Culture'', 27.4: 43-56.
 
 
 
**Miles, Angela, 1988. ‘Confessions of a Harlequin Reader: Learning Romance and the Myth of Male Mothers’, ''Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory'', 12, no. 1-2: 1-36.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
Mulhern, Chieko Irie, 1989. 'Approaches to Postwar Japanese Literature: Japanese Harlequin Romances as Transcultural Woman's Fiction', ''The Journal of Asian Studies'', 48.1: 50-70.
 
 
 
**Mussell, Kay, 1984. ''Fantasy and Reconciliation: Contemporary Formulas of Women's Romance Fiction'' (Westport CT: Greenwood Press).
 
 
 
''North American Romance Writers'', 1999. ed. Kay Mussell and Johanna Tuñón (Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press).
 
 
 
Puri, Jyoti, 1997. ‘Reading Romance Novels in Postcolonial India’, ''Gender & Society'', 11.4: 434-452.
 
 
 
Rabine, Leslie W., 1985. ‘Romance in the Age of Electronics: Harlequin Enterprises’, ''Feminist Studies'' 11.1: 39-60.
 
 
 
Radway, Janice A., 1983. ‘Women Read the Romance: The Interaction of Text and Context’, ''Feminist Studies'', 9.1: 53-78.
 
 
 
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).
 
 
 
Ricker-Wilson, Carol, 1999. ‘Busting Textual Bodices: Gender, Reading, and the Popular Romance’, ''English Journal'', 88:3: 57-64.
 
 
 
''Romantic Conventions'', 1999, Anne K. Kaler and Rosemary E. Johnson-Kurek, eds.  Bowling Green State University Popular Press.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
**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.
 
 
 
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. Republished in "Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader", ed. Mary Eagleton. New York: Basil Blacwell, 1986.
 
 
 
**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-??.
 
 
 
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).
 
 
 
**Timson, Beth S. ‘The Drug Store Novel: Popular Romantic Fiction and the Mainstream Tradition’, ''Studies in Popular Culture'', 6: 88-96.
 
 
 
**Treacher, Amal, 1988. ‘What is life without my love: Desire and romantic fiction’, in ''Sweet Dreams – Sexuality, Gender and Popular Fiction'', ed. Susannah Radstone (London: Lawrence & Wishart), pp. 73-90.
 
 
 
Wardrop, Stephanie, 1997. 'Last of the Red Hot Mohicans: Miscegenation in the Popular American Romance', ''MELUS'', 22. 2, Popular Literature and Film: 61-74.
 
 
 
**Weisser, Susan Ostrov. 1994. 'The Wonderful-Terrible Bitch Figure in Harlequin Novels', in ''Feminist Nightmares: Women at Odds: Feminism and the Problem of Sisterhood'', ed. Susan Ostrov Weisser and Jennifer Fleischner (New York: New York University Press), pp. 269-82.
 
 
 
**Whissell, Cynthia, 1996. ‘Mate Selection in Popular Women's Fiction’, ''Human Nature'', 7: 427-447.
 

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.