Guides to the Genre

From this page you may return to the main Romance Scholarship page or go directly to

• Academics Who Write Romance
• Academic Online Essays (not published in academic journals or volumes)
• Bibliography A-G - the first part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
• Bibliography H-O - the second part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
• Bibliography P-Z - the end of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
• Bibliography of Scholarship in Languages Other than English.
• Dissertation Abstracts
• Romance in the Media - lists news items/features items about romance.
• 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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Charles, John, Shelley Mosley, Joanne Hamilton-Selway, and Sandra Van Winkle, 2007. 

Romance Today: An A-to-Z Guide to Contemporary American Romance Writers (Westport, Conn: Greenwood Publishers). Table of Contents from WorldCat.

Falk, Kathryn, 1982. 

Love's Leading Ladies (New York: Pinnacle Books).

Fallon, Eileen, 1984. 

Words of Love: A Complete Guide to Romance Fiction (New York: Garland). Some further details via Google Books

Happily Ever After: A Guide to Reading Interests in Romance Fiction 1987. 

(Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited, Inc;, 1987).

Mussell, Kay, 1981. 

Women's Gothic and Romantic Fiction: A Reference Guide (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood).

Mussell, Kay and Johanna Tuñon, 1999. 

North American Romance Writers: 1985-1995 (Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow).

Romance Fiction: A Guide to the Genre, 1999. 

(Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1999).

Vasudevan, Aruna (ed.) and Lesley Henderson (consulting editor), 1994. 

Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (London: St. James). [Preface to the 1st and 2nd eds. by Kay Mussell; preface to the 3rd ed. by Alison Light.]

Vinson, James (ed.) and D.L. Kirkpatrick (associate ed.), 1982. 

Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers (Detroit, MI: Gale). [With a preface by Kay Mussell.]

What Romance Do I Read Next?: A Reader's Guide to Recent Romance Fiction, 1997. 

(Detroit: Gale).