Romance Resources for Academics
For a bibliography of academic articles and books about romance see the Romance Scholarship page.
For items written about romance by romance authors but not published in academic journals or books see the Writers on Romance page.
For news items/features items about romance see the Romance in the Media page.
Sara Donati's (Rosina Lippi) analysis of a number of sex scenes, some from romance, others from outside the genre. She says that: 'Each scene was chosen because it illustrates something instructive, positive or negative. I have tried to construct a list which contains a range in matters of expliciteness, tone and approach. [...] The idea is [to] look at the choices the author made, the underlying mechanics and process, what works, what doesn't. By the time I'm done I hope to be able to articulate clearly some basic guidelines for effective sex scenes of different types. The introduction and the scene analyses were all posted in August 2004. [1]
Sheikhs and Desert Love has a database of sheik romances and some very snarky analysis of the sub-genre in the features section.
The Cinderella Bibliography Compiled by Russell Peck. This bibliography lists fiction, music, drama, movies, television programmes and criticism related to the Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast stories. This includes a number of modern romance retellings of these fairytales.
American Women's Dime Novel Project which 'grew out of my [Felicia L. Carr's] research for my dissertation entitled "All For Love: Gender and Class and the Woman's Dime Novel in Nineteenth-Century America" '.
