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| − | A bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
| + | [[category:Romance Scholarship]] [[category:Romance Resources]] |
| | + | This section has been divided up into the following sub-sections: |
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| − | Items with the "**" have not been personally checked. This means that the details given in the entry may not be entirely accurate.
| + | * [[:Category:Academics Who Write Romance|Academics Who Write Romance]] |
| | + | * [[Academic Online Essays (not published in academic journals or volumes)]] |
| | + | * '''Bibliography - last updated 2019''' |
| | + | ** [[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. |
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| − | [[Dissertation Abstracts|Dissertation Abstracts]] are listed separately, as are items in [[Scholarship in Languages Other than English|languages other than English]]. | + | * [https://rsdb.vivanco.me.uk/ Romance Scholarship DB] - created and updated by Dr Laura Vivanco |
| | + | * [[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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| − | For romance-related resources which may be of interest to academics see the [[Romance Resources for Academics|Romance Resources for Academics]] page.
| + | You may also be interested in our [[Chick Lit Academic Bibliography]] and [["Rom-Coms" Academic Bibliography]]. |
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| − | For items written about romance by romance authors but not published in academic journals or books see the [[Writers on Romance]] page.
| + | 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. |
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| − | For news items/features items about romance see the [[Romance in the Media]] page.
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| − | ;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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| − | ;Anderson, Rachel, 1974. : ''The Purple Heart Throbs: The Sub-literature of Love'' (London: Hodder and Stoughton).
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| − | ;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''']
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| − | ;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]
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| − | ;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.**
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| − | ;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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| − | ;Belsey, Catherine, 1993. : 'Writing About Desire', The Glasgow Review, 2. [http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/STELLA/COMET/glasgrev/issue2/belsey.htm#Title]
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| − | ;Beidler, Peter G., 1991. : 'The Contemporary Indian Romance: A Review Essay', ''American Indian Culture and Research Journal '', 15.4:97-125.
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| − | ;Blake, Susan L., 2003. : 'What "Race" is the Sheik?: Rereading a Desert Romance', in ''Doubled Plots: Romance and History'', see below, pp. 67-85. **
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| − | ;Bott, Amber, 1999. : 'Cavewoman Impulses: The Jungian Shadow Archetype in Popular Romantic Fiction', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 62-74. **
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| − | ;Brackett, Kim Pettigrew, 2000. : "Facework Strategies Among Romance Fiction Readers", ''The Social Science Journal'', 37.3: 347-60.
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| − | ;Breslin, Carol Ann, 1999. : 'Medieval Magic and Witchcraft in the Popular Romance Novel', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 75-85. **
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| − | ;Brunt, Rosalind., 1984. : '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.
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| − | ;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. **
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| − | ;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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| − | ;Cadogan, Mary, 1994. : ''And Then Their Hearts Stood Still: An Exuberant Look at Romantic Fiction Past and Present'' (London: Macmillan).
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| − | ;Calhoun-French, Diane M., 1999. : 'Time-Travel and Related Phenomena in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 100-12. **
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| − | ;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. **
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| − | ;Chappel, Deborah K., 1997. : 'La Vyrle Spencer and the Anti-Essentialist Argument.' ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2:107-120
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| − | ;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)'.]
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| − | ;Chelton, Mary K., 1991. : 'Unrestricted Body Parts and Predictable Bliss: The Audience Appeal of Formula Romances.' '' Library Journal'' 116.12: 44-49.
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| − | ;Christian-Smith, Linda K., 1987. : 'Gender, Popular Culture, and Curriculum - Adolescent Romance Novels as Gender Text', ''Curriculum Inquiry'', 17.4:365-406.
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| − | ;Christian-Smith, Linda K., 1990. : ''Becoming a Woman Through Romance'' (New York; London: Routledge).
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| − | ;Clark, Beverly Lyon; Bernier, Karen Gennari; Henneberry-Nassau, Michelle; Jenks, Lauren Beth; Moorman, Angie J.; Rhoades, Marah Bianca, 1996. : 'Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves', ''The Centennial Review'', 40.2: 359-84.
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| − | ;Clawson, L., 2005. : 'Cowboys and schoolteachers: Gender in romance novels, secular and Christian', ''Sociological Perspectives'',48.4:461-79. [http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/abs/10.1525/sop.2005.48.4.461 Abstract]
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| − | ;Cohn, Jan, 1988. : Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for Women (Durham and London: Duke UP). [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5634004 Contents page and excerpts]
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| − | ;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.]
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| − | ;Crane, Lynda L., 1994. : 'Romance Novel Readers: in Search of Feminist Change?', ''Women's Studies'', 23.3: 257-69.
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| − | ;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] **
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| − | ;[[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.
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| − | ;[[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://www.jennycrusie.com/essays/thisisnotyourmothers.php]
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| − | ;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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| − | ;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-???. **
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| − | ;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]
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| − | ;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.
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| − | ;Diekman, A. B., McDonald, M., & Gardner, W. 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] **
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| − | ;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]
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| − | ;[http://www.upress.state.ms.us/catalog/fall2003/doubled_plots.html Doubled Plots: Romance and History], 2003. : eds. Susan Strehle and Mary Paniccia Carden (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi).
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| − | ;Douglas, Ann, 1980. : 'Soft-Porn Culture: Punishing the Liberated Woman.' ''The New Republic'' Vol.183, No.9 （August 30, 1980): 25-29.
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| − | ;Dubino, Jeanne. 1993. : “The Cinderella Complex: Romance Fiction, Patriarchy, and Capitalism.” ''Journal of Popular Culture'', 27.3: 103-118.
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| − | ;Ebert, Teresa L., 1988. : 'The Romance of Patriarchy: Ideology, Subjectivity, and Postmodern Feminist Cultural Theory', ''Cultural Critique'', 10: 19-57.
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| − | ;Eike, Ann M., 1986. : ‘An Investigation of the Market for Paperback Romance Novels’, ''Journal of Cultural Economics'', 10:1: 25-36.
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| − | ;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/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED401924&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=eric_accno&objectId=0900000b8012d294 Abstract] and [http://eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2/content_storage_01/0000000b/80/23/c3/7a.pdf PDF]
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| − | ;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]
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| − | ;Flesch, Juliet, 2004. : ''From Australia With Love: A History of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels'' (Fremantle, W.A.: Curtin University Books).
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| − | ;Flesch, Juliet, 1996. : 'A Labour of Love? Compiling a Bibliography of Twentieth Century Australian Romance Novels', ''APLIS'', 9.3-4: 170-78.
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| − | ;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.
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| − | ;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.
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| − | ;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]
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| − | ;Ganguly, Keya. 1991. : 'Alien(ated) Readers: Harlequin Romances and the Politics of Popular Culture', ''Communication'', 12: 129-50. **
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| − | ;Grescoe, Paul, 1996. : ''The Merchants of Venus: Inside [[Harlequin]] and the Empire of Romance'' (Vancouver, B.C.: Raincoast). **
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| − | ;Heinecken, Dawn, 1999. : 'Changing Ideologies in Romance Fiction', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 149-72. **
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| − | ;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.
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| − | ;Hermes, Joke, 1992. : ‘Sexuality in Lesbian Romance Fiction’, ''Feminist Review'', 42: 49-66.
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| − | ;Hermes, Joke, 1992. : 'Entertainment or Enlightenment - Sexuality In Lesbian Romance Novels', ''Argument'', 34.3:389-402.
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| − | ;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.
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| − | ;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.
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| − | ;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. **
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| − | ;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.
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| − | ;Jarvis, Christine, 1995. : 'Romancing the Curriculum: Empowerment through Popular Culture',''Convergence'', 28.3: 71-7. [http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ515606&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=eric_accno&objectId=0900000b80021272 Abstract]
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| − | ;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]
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| − | ;Jensen, Margaret Ann, 1984. : ''Love's $weet Return: The [[Harlequin]] Story'' (Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press). **
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| − | ;Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E., 1999. : ' "I Am Not a Bimbo": Persona, Promotion, and the Fabulous Fabio', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 35-50. **
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| − | ;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. **
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| − | ;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.
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| − | ;Juhasz, Suzanne, 1988. : ‘Texts to Grow On: Reading Women’s Romance Fiction’, ''Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature'', 7:2: 239-259.
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| − | ;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.
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| − | ;Kaler, Anne K., 1999. : 'Conventions of Captivity in Romance Novels', in ''Romance Conventions'', see below, pp. 86-99. **
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| − | ;Kaler, Anne K., 1999. : ' Hero, Heroine, or HERA: A New Name for an Old Problem', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 187-92. **
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| − | ;Kapell, Matthew, and Suzanne Becker., 2005. : 'Patriarchy, the Christian Romance Novel, and the 'Ecosystem of Sex'.' ''Popular Culture Review'' 16.1:147-155.
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| − | ;Kramer, Daniela & Moore, Michael, 2001. : ‘Gender Roles, Romantic Fiction and Family Therapy’, ''Psycoloquy'' 12,#24 [http://psycprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/archive/00000153/]
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| − | ;Kramer, Daniela & Moore, Michael, 2001. : 'Family Myths in Romantic Fiction', ''Psychological Reports'', 88.1:29-41.
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| − | ;[[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).
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| − | ;Light, Alison. 1984. : ‘Returning to Manderley – Romance Fiction, Female Sexuality and Class’, ''Feminist Review'', 16: 7-25.
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| − | ;Litton, Joyce, 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: Popular), pp. 19-34.
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| − | ;Maher, Jennifer, 2001. : 'Ripping the Bodice: Eating, Reading, and Revolt', ''College Literature'', 28.1:64-83.
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| − | ;Mangat, T.K., 1998. : 'The surgeon in popular fiction - The Mills and Boon doctor-nurse romance', ''Theoretical Surgery'', 3.2:89-92.
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| − | ;Mann, Peter H., 1969. : ''The Romantic Novel: A Survey of Reading Habits'' (London: Mills & Boon).
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| − | ;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. **
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| − | ;Mann, Peter H., 1981. : 'The Romantic Novel and its Readers', ''Journal of Popular Culture'', 15.1: 9-18.
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| − | ;Mann, Peter H., 1985. : 'Romantic Fiction and Its Readership', ''Poetics'', 14.1-2: 95-105. **
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| − | ;Margolies, David, 1982. : ‘[[Mills and Boon|Mills & Boon]] -- Guilt without sex’, ''Red Letters'', 14: 5-13. **
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| − | ;Markert, John, 1985. : 'Romance Publishing and the Production of Culture', ''Poetics'', 14.1-2: 69-93. **
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| − | ;Marks, Pamela. 1999. : 'The Good Provider in Romance Novels', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see below, pp. 10-22. **
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| − | ;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). **
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| − | ;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]
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| − | ;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. **
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| − | ;McKnight-Trontz, Jennifer, 2002. : ''The Look of Love: The Art of the Romance Novel'' (Princeton Architectural Press). ** [This is about the cover art of romance novels from the 1940s to the 1970s]
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| − | ;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. **
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| − | ;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]
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| − | ;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']
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| − | ;Modleski, Tania, 1980. : ‘The Disappearing Act: A Study of [[Harlequin]] Romances’, ''Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society'' 5: 435-448.
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| − | ;Modleski, Tania, 1982. : ''Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-produced fantasies for women'' (New York: Routledge).
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| − | ;Moody, N., 1998. : ‘Mills & Boon’s ''Temptations'': Sex and the Single Couple in the 1990s’ in ''Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film'', ed. L. Pearce & G. Wisker (London: Pluto), pp. 141-156. **
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| − | ;Moran, Albert, 1990. : '"No More Virgins": Writing Romance - an Interview with [[Darcy, Emma|Emma Darcy]]', ''Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture'', 4.1.[http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/4.1/Darcy.html]
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| − | ;Morgan, Paula, 2003. : “Like Bush Fire in My Arms”: Interrogating the World of Caribbean Romance, ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 36.4: 804-827.
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| − | ;Mulhern, Chieko Irie, 1989. : 'Japanese Harlequin Romances as Transcultural Woman's Fiction', ''The Journal of Asian Studies'', 48.1: 50-70.
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| − | ;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-???. **
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| − | ;Ramsdell, Kristin, 1999. 'The Literature of Romance: A Librarian's Viewpoint', originally published in ''Romance Writers' Report'' 19 (June 1999): 37-39.[http://www.library.csuhayward.edu/staff/Ramsdell/romance/TheLiteratureofRomance.htm]
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| − | ;Westman, Karin E., 2003. : 'A Story of Her Weaving: The Self-Authoring Heroines of Georgette Heyer's Regency Romance', in ''Doubled Plots: Romance and History'', see above, pp. 165-184. **
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