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Talbot, Mary M., 1995. 
Fictions at Work: Language and Social Practice in Fiction, (New York: Longman). [See Chapter 4, entitled "Escaping into Romance," pages 75-116. In this chapter she analyses, at some length, Kate Walker's No Gentleman.]
Talbot, Mary M., 1997. 
“‘An Explosion Deep inside Her’: Women’s Desire and Popular Romance Fiction,” in Language and Desire: Encoding Sex, Romance, and Intimacy, ed. Keith Harvey and Celia Shalom (London: Routledge), pp. 106–22.** Excerpt and a much longer excerpt [Talbot examines "the representation of women's desire in two [...] romances (No Guarantees (1990) by Robyn Donald and Passionate Awakening (1990) by Diana Hamilton)" (107).]
Taylor, Helen, 1989. 
'Romantic Readers" in From My Guy to Sci-Fi;Genre and Women's Writing in the Postmodern World., ed. Helen Carr, (London: Pandora), pp. 58-77.**
Taylor, Jessica, 2007. 
"And You Can Be My Sheikh: Gender, Race, and Orientalism in Contemporary Romance Novels." Journal of Popular Culture 40.6: 1032-1051.
Tegan, Mary Beth, 2007. 
'Becoming Both Poet and Poem: Feminists Repossess the Romance.' in Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels. ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp.231-263.
Teo, Hsu-Ming, 1999. 
'Shanghaied By Sheiks: Orientalism and hybridity in women's romance writing', Olive Pink Society Bulletin, 11.1: 12–21.
Teo, Hsu-Ming, 2003. 
'The Romance of White Nations: Imperialism, Popular Culture and National Histories', in After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation, ed. Antoinette Burton (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press), pp. 279-292. Excerpt
Teo, Hsu-Ming, 2004. 
'Romancing the Raj: Interracial Relations in Anglo-Indian Romance Novels', History of Intellectual Culture, 4.1.[1]
Teo, Hsu-Ming. 2007. 
'Orientalism and Mass Market Romance Novels in the Twentieth Century,' in Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual, ed Ned Curthoys and Debjani Ganguly (Carlton Vic.: Melbourne University Press), pp. 241-262. Excerpt
Teo, Hsu-Ming, 2010. 
'Historicizing The Sheik: Comparisons of the British Novel and the American Film', Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1. [2] [Also available as a pdf.]
Tetel Andresen, Julie, 1999. 
'Postmodern Identity (Crisis): Confessions of a Linguistic Historiographer and Romance Writer', in Romantic Conventions, see above, pp. 173-86.
Thomas, Audrey, 1986. 
'A Fine Romance, My Dear, This Is,' Canadian Literature, no. 108:5-12.
Thomas, Glen, 2008. 
' "And I Deliver": An Interview with Emma Darcy.' Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 22.1: 113-26.
Thomas, Glen, 2007. 
'Australia’s Best Romance Novelist: Emma Darcy.' in Beautiful Things in Popular Culture. ed. Alan McKee, (New York: Blackwell) pp. 64–78. Excerpt
Thomas, Glen & Bridie James, 2006. 
'The Australian Romance Industry: A Study of Reading and Writing Romance.' in The Reinvention of Everyday Life. ed. Howard McNaughton & Adam Lam, (Canterbury, NZ: U of Canterbury Press) pp. 164–74.
Thomas , Glen, 2007. 
'Romance: The Perfect Creative Industry? A Case Study of Harlequin-Mills and Boon Australia.' in Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels. ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 20-29.
Thompson, Anne Booth, 2005. 
'Rereading Fifties Teen Romance: Reflections on Janet Lambert', The Lion and the Unicorn, 29.3:373-96. Abstract
Thompson, M., P. Koski, and L. Holyfield, 1997. 
"Romance and Agency: An Argument Revisited." Sociological Spectrum 17.4: 437-51.
Thurlow, Michelle. 2010. 
"'A Whisper of Satin': The Infant Dress Leitmotif in Beverly Lewis's 'Heritage of Lancaster County' Series." Journal of the Center for Mennonite Writing 2, no. 4: 1-14. [3]
Thurston,Carol M., 1985. 
‘Popular Historical Romances: Agent for Social Change? An Exploration of Methodologies’, Journal of Popular Culture, 19:1: 35-45. Excerpt
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., 1983 
‘The Drug Store Novel: Popular Romantic Fiction and the Mainstream Tradition’, Studies in Popular Culture, 6: 88-96. **
Tobin-McClain, Lee, 2000. 
"Paranormal Romance: Secrets of the Female Fantastic." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 11.3 [43]: 294-306. A version was available online here but it has now been removed. It can still be viewed, however, via the Internet Archive.
Trachsel, Mary, 1997. 
'Horse Stories and Romance Fiction: Variants or Alternative Texts of Female Identity?', Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy , 38-39: 20-41.
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. First page. [Takes Sally Wentworth's Say Hello to Yesterday as a case study.]
Turnbull, Sue. 2002. 
"'Nice Dress, Take It Off': Crime, Romance and the Pleasure of the Text." International Journal of Cultural Studies 5, no. 1: 67-82. (about Janet Evanovich)
Ty, Eleanor, 1994. 
'Desire and Temptation: Dialogism and the Carnivalesque in Category Romances', in A Dialogue of Voices: Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin, ed. Karen Hohne and Helen Wussow (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press), pp. 97-113. Excerpt

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Uszkurat, Carol Ann, 1993. 
'Mid Twentieth Century Lesbian Romance: Reception and Redress', Outwrite: Lesbianism and Popular Culture, ed. Gabriele Griffin (London: Pluto Press), pp. 26-47.

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Valverde, Mariana, 1985. 
Sex, Power and Pleasure (Toronto: Women's Press). [Mentions "formula romance" novels. Excerpt.]
Vivanco, Laura and Kyra Kramer, 2010. 
'There Are Six Bodies in This Relationship: An Anthropological Approach to the Romance Genre', Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1.[4] [Also available in pdf format.]
Voaden, Rosalynn, 1995. 
'The Language of Love: Medieval Erotic Vision and Modern Romance Fiction', in Romance Revisited , ed. Jackie Stacey and Lynne Pearce (New York: New York UP), pp. 78-88.

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Wagner, Wendy, 2008. 
'Jennifer Crusie', Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3. [Formerly at [5]. This link no longer works but a pdf of the entire issue can be downloaded from [6]].
Wallace, Diana, 2005. 
The Woman's Historical Novel: British Women Writers, 1900-2000. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan. Has the following sections about romance novels - "Captive Women: 'Jean Plaidy' and 'Victoria Holt'","Gender as Masquerade; Georgette Heyer's Mask of Romance", "Selling Women's History: Popular Historical Fiction in the 1970s" [Abstract, Index and Excerpt available from Palgrave Macmillan.]
Wardrop, Stephanie, 1995. 
"The Heroine is Being Beaten: Freud, Sadomasochism, and Reading the Romance." Style 29: 459-73. Unpaginated and unofficial copy
Wardrop, Stephanie, 1997. 
'Last of the Red Hot Mohicans: Miscegenation in the Popular American Romance', MELUS, 22. 2, Popular Literature and Film: 61-74. Excerpt
Wareing, Shan, 1994. 
'And Then He Kissed Her: The Reclamation of Female Characters to Submissive Roles in Contemporary Fiction', in Feminist Linguistics in Literary Criticism, ed. Katie Wales, Essays and Studies, 47 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer), pp. 117-36.
Watson, Daphne, 1995. 
Their Own Worst Enemies; Women Writers of Women's Fiction. (London: Pluto Press). Chapter on 'Two for the Price of One; the novels of Mills and Boon' pp. 75-94.
Weibel, Kathryn, 1977. 
Mirror Mirror: Images of Women Reflected in Popular Culture, (Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday). [Romances are mainly discussed on pages 32-40.]
Weir, Angela, and Elizabeth Wilson, 1992.
"The Greyhound Bus Station in the Evolution of Lesbian Popular Culture." in New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings ed. Sally Munt (New York: Columbia UP) pp. 95-113. .
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. **
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. Excerpt
Weston, Louise C., and Josephine A. Ruggiero, 1978. 
"Male-Female Relationships in Best-Selling 'Modern Gothic' Novels." Sex Roles 4.5: 647-55. Abstract
Whissell, Cynthia, 1994. 
'Objective analysis of text: I. A comparison of adventure and romance novels', Perceptual and Motor Skills, 79 (3.2): 1567-1570. Abstract
Whissell, Cynthia, 1996. 
‘Mate Selection in Popular Women's Fiction’, Human Nature, 7: 427-447. **
Whissell, Cynthia, 1998. 
'The Formula Behind Women's Romantic Formula Fiction (Statistical survey of 50 Harlequin-Presents novels)', Arachne, 5.1:89-119.
Whitsitt, Novian, 2002. 
"Islamic-Hausa Feminism and Kano Market Literature: Qur'anic Reinterpretation in the Novels of Balaraba Yakubu." Research in African Literatures 33.2: 119-136. Excerpt
Whitsitt, Novian, 2003. 
"Islamic-Hausa Feminism Meets Northern Nigerian Romance: The Cautious Rebellion of Bilkisu Funtuwa." African Studies Review 46.1: 137-53. Unofficial, unpaginated version
Whitsitt, Novian, 2003. 
"Hausa Women Writers Confronting the Traditional Status of Women in Modern Islamic Society: Feminist Thought in Nigerian Popular Fiction." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 22.2: 387-408.
Williams, Clover, and Jean R. Freedman, 1995. 
"Shakespeare's Step-Sisters: Romance Novels and the Community of Women." in Folklore, Literature, and Cultural Theory: Collected Essays. ed. Cathy Lynn Preston (New York, NY: Garland) pp. 135-168.
Williams, Clover, 1998. 
"Keepers of the Flame: The Romance Novel and Its Fans." Lore and Language 16.1-2: 115-138.
Williams, Jeffrey J., 2006. 
"The Culture of Books: An Interview with Janice Radway." Minnesota Review: A Journal of Committed Writing. ns 65-66: 133-148. [7]
Williamson, Val, 1998. 
'Labour of Love: Gender and the Delivery of the Nineties Mills & Boon "Medical"', Medical Fictions, ed. Nickianne Moody, & Julia Hallam (Liverpool: Liverpool John Moores University and the Association for Research in Popular Fictions), pp. 103-116. **
Wirtén, Eva Hemmungs, 1998. 
' "They Seek It Here, They Seek It There, They Seek It Everywhere": Looking for the "Global" Book', Canadian Journal of Communication, 23.2.[8]['this article uses Harlequin's Stockholm office as a case study for a closer look at just how Harlequin romances are transposed from one cultural context into another']. According to the author's website This is an abbreviated version of a chapter from her thesis, the details of, and a link for which, are provided on the page for dissertation abstracts.
Wirten, Eva Hemmungs, 2000. 
"Harlequin romances in Swedish: a case study in globalized publishing." Logos 11.4:203-7.
Wood, Helen, 2004. 
'What Reading the Romance Did for Us', European Journal of Cultural Studies, 7.2:147-54. [This is about the place of Radway's Reading the Romance in the history/development of cultural studies] Excerpt
Wood, Julia T., 2001. 
'The normalization of violence in heterosexual romantic relationships: Women's narratives of love and violence', Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 18.2: 239-261.** There is an abstract and a press release reporting Wood's findings.
Woodruff, Juliette, 1985. 
'A spate of words, full of sound & fury, signifying nothing: or, How to read in Harlequin', Journal of Popular Culture, 19.2 :25-32.
Wu, Huei-Hsia. 2006. 
'Gender, Romance Novels and Plastic Sexuality in the United States: A Focus on Female College Students', Journal of International Women’s Studies, 8.1: 125-134.[9]
Wu, Huei-Hsia. 2007. 
“Reading Romance Novels and Female Sexuality among American Heterosexual and Lesbian College Students.” The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations 6.6: 31-38. Abstract
Wyatt, Neal, Georgine Olsen, Kristen Ramsdell, Joyce Saricks, and Lynne Welch, 2008. 
'Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101', Reference & User Services Quarterly, 47.2: 120-126.[10]

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Young, Beth Rapp, 1997. 
"Accidental Authors, Random Readers, and the Art of Popular Romance." Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2: 29-45.
Young, Erin S., 2010. 
'Escaping the “Time Bind”: Negotiations of Love and Work in Jayne Ann Krentz's “Corporate Romances”', Journal of American Culture 33.2: 92–106. Excerpt. Unofficial, unpaginated version.

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Zidle, Abby, 1999. 
'From Bodice-Ripper to Baby-Sitter: The New Hero in Mass-Market Romance', in Romantic Conventions, see above, pp. 23-34. Excerpt
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