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* [[Bibliography H-O]] - the third part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
 
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* [[Bibliography P-Z]] - the end of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
 
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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]
 
;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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;Dalsgaard, Inger H. 2009. : "Consumed by Romance: Narration, Branding, and Participation in the Digital Marketplace." In ''Internet Fictions,'' 128-146. (Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars). [In the [http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/978-1-4438-0108-9-sample.pdf introduction to this volume of essays] the editors mention that "Inger H. Dalsgaard [...] investigates the practices of romance fiction writers and readers on the net through the lense [sic] of late capitalist marketing strategies and ideologies which seek to market products as goods designed by the customer rather than as prefabricated objects: romance sites, she contends, and the marketing of toys for children have a lot more in common than one might suppose."]
 
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;Daly, Brenda O. 1989. : 'Laughing WITH, or Laughing AT the Young-Adult Romance', ''The English Journal'', 78.6: 50-60.
 
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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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;Dandridge, Rita B., 2004. : ''Black Women's Activism: Reading African American Women's Historical Romances'', African-American Literature and Culture, 5 (New York: Peter Lang). [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=106433704 Index and extracts]
 
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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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;Davis, Sara N., 2004. : 'Values and the Romance Novel: Journeys of the Reader', in ''Education, Arts and Morality: Creative Journeys'', ed. Doris B. Wallace (no publication details available [http://www.springerlink.com/content/p117u4m521658t82/?p=cff70741729244d0828f5b65af2b3e0a&pi=2 here]), pp. 45-62. [http://books.google.com/books?id=VjaK5lke2BUC&pg=PA45&dq=%22values+and+the+romance+novel%22&sig=LMnmHha92Ijpdlb5tll8XuTo7us Excerpt]** [This paper "examines the ways in which reader responses are constructed in dialogue with cultural discourses. These provide the context when students read romance novels. Readers enter the process with many negative evaluations of romance novels which conflict with other prevalent discourses valuing romance for women."]
 
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;DeVries, Susan, Margaret Dunlop, Suzanne Goopy, Wendy Moyle, and Diane Sutherland-Lockhart, 1995. : 'Discipline and Passion: Meaning, Masochism and Mythology in Popular Medical Romances', ''Nursing Inquiry'' 2.4: 203-210. [http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119256839/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 Abstract]
 
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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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;Dillon, George L., 2007. : 'The Genres Speak; Using Large Corpora to Profile Generic Registers.' ''Journal of Literary Semantics,'' 36.2: 159-187. Part II looks at romance fiction. [http://www.msh-reseau.prd.fr/RevuesSom/detailrevue.jsp?Drevue=%22Journalx032;ofx032;literaryx032;semantics%22 Abstract available via this page]
 
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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/books/278 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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;Doyle, Marsha Vanderford, 1985. : "The Rhetoric of Romance: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Barbara Cartland Novels." ''Southern Speech Communication Journal''  51: 24-48.
 
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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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;Duder, C. J. D., 1991. : “Love and the Lions: The Image of White Settlement in Kenya in Popular Fiction, 1919-1939.” ''African Affairs'', 90.360: 427-38. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/722940 First page.]
 
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;Dudovitz, Resa L., 1990. : ''The Myth of Superwoman: Women's Bestsellers in France and the United States.'' (New York: Routledge). Chapter 4 is 'The boundary between the romance and the bestseller: Harlequins, historical novels and family.'
 
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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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;Edmondson, Belinda, 2007.: 'The Black romance.' " ''Women's Studies Quarterly''  35.1/2: 191-211.
 
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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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;Ehnenn, Jill, 1998. : 'Desperately Seeking Susan Among the Trash: Reinscription, Subversion and Visibility in the Lesbian Romance Novel', ''Atlantis'', special issue on "Sexualities and Feminisms",  23.1: 120-127. [http://www.msvu.ca/atlantis/frame/volumes.htm?http://www.msvu.ca/atlantis/vol/abstract/23.1ab.htm Abstract]
 
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;Emrys, A. B., 1994. : "Magic Regencies: How Fantasy Forms a Hybrid." ''Popular Culture Review'' 5.1: 85-93.
 
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;Engler, Sandra, 2005. :'' "A Career's Wonderful, but Love is More Wonderful Still" : Femininity and Masculinity in the Fiction of Mills & Boon.'' Tübingen: Francke.
 
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;Erwin, Lee. 2002. : "Genre and Authority in Some Popular Nigerian Women's Novels." ''Research in African Literatures'' 33, no. 2: 81-99.
 
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;Esquibel, Catrióna Rueda, 1992. : "A Duel of Wits and the Lesbian Romance Novel: Or, Verbal Intercourse in Fictional Regency England." in ''New Perspectives on Women and Comedy.'' Ed. Regina Barreca, (Philadelphia, PA: Gordon and Breach) pp. 123-133.
 
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;Fahnestock-Thomas, Mary, 2001. : ''[[Georgette Heyer]]: a Critical Retrospective.'' Saraland,AL: PrinnyWorld Press. [[http://www.amazon.com/Georgette-Heyer-Retrospective-Mary-Fahnestock-Thomas/dp/0966800532 Excerpt available] via Amazon's "Look Inside!" feature. [http://www.biggerbooks.com/bk_detail.aspx?ISBN=9780966800531 Index]]
 
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;Faura, Salvador, Shelley Godsland, and Nickianne Moody, 2004. : "The Romance Novel, or, the Generalisimo's Control of the Popular Imagination." in ''Reading the Popular in Contemporary Spanish Texts.'' pp. 46-58. (Newark, DE: U of Delaware P.)(About Corin Tellado, Spanish romance novelist) [[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=twRJwNrGreIC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA46,M1 Excerpt here].]
 
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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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;Finn, Geraldine, 1988. : 'Women, Fantasy, and Popular Culture: The Wonderful World of Harlequin Romance', ''Popular Cultures and Political Practices'', Ed. Richard Gruneau (Toronto: Garamond Press), 51-67.** [A review by Herman Gray in ''Contemporary Sociology'' 19.1 (1990) describes Finn's article as "The real joy of the volume" and there are further details as follows: "Consistent with the Cultural Studies approach, Finn convincingly demonstrates how Harlequin texts and women's experiences of them express the contradictions that structure women's lives. She argues that women readers find refuge in the Harlequin novels, while at the same time such refuge helps to maintain and reproduce structures of domination that women experience" (74). Another summary of Finn's essay can be found in [http://irs.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/25/3/248 a review in the ''International Review for the Sociology of Sport'', 25.3, 248-249 (1990).]
 
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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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;Flesch, Juliet, 1997. : 'Not just housewives and old maids', ''Collection Building'', 16.3: 119-124. [Describes the content of The Romance Fiction Collection in the University of Melbourne Library, 'the reasons for its establishment and some special aspects of its housing and bibliographical control. Also suggests some of the uses to which it may be put'.] [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mcb/171/1997/00000016/00000003/art00003 Abstract]
 
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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, 2005. : ‘Blushing Bride to Bush Matriarch: Women in the Fiction of [[Lucy Walker]].’ ''Journal of Publishing''. Australian Special Issue. 1 (October 2005): 37-52.**
 
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;Flesch, Juliet, 2007. : 'Love under the Coolabah: Australian Romance Publishing since 1990', in ''Making books: Contemporary Australian Publishing''. Ed. David Carter and Anne Galligan. St. Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press. 279-285. ** [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=p4wu8G4XgH0C&lpg=PP1&ots=XhPwRmBzdP&dq=Making%20books%3A%20Contemporary%20Australian%20Publishing&pg=PA280 Excerpt]
 
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;Fletcher, Lisa, 2003. : "Historical Romance, Gender and Heterosexuality: John Fowles's ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'' and A.S. Byatt's ''Possession''." ''Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies'' 7.1-2: 26-42. [http://eprints.utas.edu.au/540/1/jigs_LF.pdf PDF]
 
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;Fletcher, Lisa, 2004. : ‘“Mere Costumery”? Georgette Heyer’s Cross-Dressing Novels,’ in ''Masquerades: Disguise in English Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present'', Eds. Pilar Sánchez Calle and Jesús López-Paláez Casellas, (Gdansk: University of Gdansk Press), pp. 196-212. [http://eprints.utas.edu.au/538/ Abstract]
 
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;Fletcher, Lisa, 2008. : ''Historical Romance Fiction and Heterosexuality: Heterosexuality and Performativity'', (Ashgate). [Fletcher examines "the connections between popular “classics” by [...] Georgette Heyer, a selection of mass market historical romances published between 1980 and 2005," John Fowles’s ''The French Lieutenant’s Woman'' and A.S. Byatt’s ''Possession''.] [https://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=9945&edition_id=10544 Abstract, Index and Excerpt] and [http://books.google.com/books?id=GK3m60_Q6WIC&dq=&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=I0c5aQHGTM&sig=JjYPIXBRcP6YrWE7-AJxzKOMl5g&hl=en&ei=F40aSuTBI8irjAfz_fDwDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPP1,M1 Excerpts via Google Books].
 
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;Foster, Guy Mark, 2007. : 'How Dare a Black Woman Make Love to a White Man! Black Women Romance Novelists and the Taboo of Interracial Desire.' in ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 103-128. [http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1academicnews/004466.shtml Article about Foster's research and this item.]
 
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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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;Fowler, Bridget, 1991. : ''The Alienated Reader: Women and Popular Romantic Literature in the Twentieth Century'' (Brighton: Harvester Wheatsheaf). **
 
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;Franco, Jean, 1986. : "The Incorporation of Women: A Comparison of North American and Mexican Popular Narrative." in ''Studies in Entertainment: Critical Approaches to Mass Culture.'' Ed. Tania Modleski, (Bloomington: Indiana UP), pp. 119-138. [Especially Harlequin Romances; treatment of women; compared to photonovel. Franco says that "While there is an obvious risk in laying too much emphasis on a single example, I am now going to do precisely that" and chooses to take as a specific example of a Harlequin romance ''[[Moon Witch |Moonwitch]]'' [sic] by [[Anne Mather |Ann Mather]] [sic]."]
 
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;Franco, Jean, 2004. : "Plotting Women: Popular Narratives for Women in the United States and in Latin America." in ''The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader.'' Eds. Ana Del Sarto, Alicia Ríos, and Abril Trigo, (Durham, NC: Duke UP) pp. 183-202.
 
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;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2002. : "'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) pp. 17-36.
 
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;Frantz, Sarah S. G., 2008. : '[[Suzanne Brockmann]]', ''Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice'' 2.2/3.[http://www.teachingamericanlit.com/files/Microsoft_Word_-_TALTP-BrockmannSuzanne.pdf]
 
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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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;Frolund, Tina, 2007.: ''Genrefied Classics: A Guide to Reading Interests in Classic Literature.'' (Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited) Has a section on Romance Literature. [According to [http://doi.contentdirections.com/mr/greenwood.jsp?doi=10.1336/1591581729 the abstract], "By identifying the genre characteristics of more than 400 classic fiction works, and organizing titles according to those features, it helps readers find the types of books they enjoy; and it helps you promote classics to teen (and adult!) readers."]
 
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;Gagne-Hawes, Genevieve. 2006. : "Anatomy of a Romance: Questioning genre conventions in the novels of Nora Roberts." ''Modern Mask'' 1.2.[http://modernmask.org/Issue_II/modernmask_literature/anatomy.html]
 
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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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;Garton, Stephen, 2008. : "'Fit Only for the Scrap Heap': Rebuilding Returned Soldier Manhood in Australia After 1945." ''Gender & History'' 20.1: 48-67. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/gend/2008/00000020/00000001/art00004?crawler=true Abstract]
 
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;Gill, Rosalind and Elena Herdieckerhoff. 2006. : “Rewriting the Romance: New Femininities in Chick Lit?”  ''Feminist Media Studies'' 6.4 (2006): 487-504.[http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a768577256~db=all] Rpt. in ''LSE Research Online''. 2007. LSE Lib., London School of Economics and Political Science. <http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/2514>.
 
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;Glass, E. R., and A. Mineo. 1986. : "Georgette Heyer and the Uses of Regency." In Marucci, Franco (ed.); Bruttini, Adriano (ed.) ''La performance del testo,'' 283-292. Siena: Ticci.
 
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;Goade, Sally, 2007. :  'Introduction' pp. 1-11 and 'Understanding the Pleasure: An Undergraduate Romance Reading Community.' pp. 206-230  in  ''Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels.'' (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing). Edited by Goade. [pdf of table of contents, introduction and first chapter [http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Empowerment-versus-Oppression--Twenty-First-Century-Views-of-Popular-Romance-Novels.htm here]]
 
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;Goodwin, Sarah Webster, 1997. : "Romance and Change: Teaching the Romance to Undergraduates.", ''Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres'' 3.1-2: 233-241.
 
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;Goris, An, 2009. : "Romance the World Over," in ''Global Cultures''. Ed. Frank A. Salamone. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars. pp. 59-?? ** [Discusses the worldwide translation, production and distribution of Harlequins.] [http://kuleuven.academia.edu/AnGoris/Papers/88815/Romance-the-World-Over Abstract]
 
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;Greenwood, Alice. 1983. : "Language Stereotypes in Mass Market Romances." ''CUNYForum: Papers in Linguistics'' 9: 157-173.
 
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;Greer, Germaine, 1971. : ''The Female Eunuch'' (London: Paladin). [First published in 1970, there is a chapter on romance (pages 171-189in this edition) in which she critiques [[Georgette Heyer]]'s ''Regency Buck'', [[Barbara Cartland]]'s ''The Wings of Love'' and [[Lucy Walker]]'s ''The Loving Heart''.]
 
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;Grescoe, Paul, 1996. : ''The Merchants of Venus: Inside [[Harlequin]] and the Empire of Romance'' (Vancouver: Raincoast). [ [[Kathleen Gilles Seidel]]'s "Half-Risen Venus", ''Paradoxa'' 3.1-2 (1997): 250-252 is a review of this book.]
 
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;Griswold, Wendy, and Misty Bastian, 1987. : “Continuities and Reconstructions in Cross-cultural Literary Transmission: The Case of the Nigerian Romance Novel.” ''Poetics'' 16.3-4: 327-351. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0304-422X(87)90010-6 Abstract]
 
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Abartis, Caesarea, 1979. 
'The Ugly-Pretty, Dull-Bright, Weak-Strong Girl in the Gothic Mansion', Journal of Popular Culture, 13.2: 257-63.
Adams, Lisa, and John Heath, 2007. 
Why We Read What We Read: A Delightfully Opinionated Journey Through Contemporary Bestsellers. (Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks) Has a chapter titled, Hopefully Ever After: Love, Romance, and Relationships.
Adkins, Denice, Linda Esser & Diane Velasquez, 2006. 
‘Relations Between Librarians and Romance Readers: A Missouri Survey’, Public Libraries, 45.4, (July/August 2006): 54-64. Whole issue available as a pdf.
Adkins, Denice, Linda Esser, Diane Velasquez, and Heather L. Hill. 2008. 
"Romance novels in american public libraries: A study of collection development practices." Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services 32, no. 2: 59-67.
Ahlberg, Sofia, 2009. 
"Women and War in Contemporary Love Stories from Uganda and Nigeria." Comparative Literature Studies 46.2: 407-424.
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. **
Anderson, Jennifer, 1981. 
Mills and Boon: Love and Oppression. Broadway [N.S.W.] : New South Wales Institute of Technology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.** Details from the National Library of Australia
Anderson, Rachel, 1974. 
The Purple Heart Throbs: The Sub-literature of Love (London: Hodder and Stoughton).
Andresen, Julie Tetel, 1999. 
"Postmodern Identity (Crisis): Confessions of a Linguistic Historiographer and Romance Writer." in Romantic Conventions. Ed. Anne K. Kaler and Rosemary E. Johnson-Kurek (Bowling Green, OH: Popular) pp. 173-186. Excerpt
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']
Ardis, Ann. 1996. 
"E. M. Hull, Mass Market Romance and the New Woman Novel in the Early Twentieth Century." Women's Writing 3, no. 3: 287-296. Abstract
Arnold, Marilyn. 1981.
"Pornography, Romance, and the Paradox of Freedom." In Ye Are Free to Choose: Agency and the Latter-Day Saint Woman, 50-62. Provo: Brigham Young Univ.
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. Abstract
Aronowitz, Beverly-Lynne, 1991. 
"The Dilemma of Teaching Women's Fiction: Is It Pop, Pulp, Porn-or Poetry?." Pennsylvania English 15.2: 1-20.
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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Bach, Evelyn, 1997.
'Sheik Fantasies: Orientalism and Feminine Desire in the Desert Romance', Hecate, 23.1: 9-40. Unpaginated version
Badik, Victoria L., 1997. 
"On Using Genre Fiction in Bibliotherapy", Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2: 242-245.
Barrett, Rebecca Kaye, 2003. 
‘Higher Love: What Women Gain from Christian Romance Novels’, Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, 4. [1]
Barrett-Fox, Rebecca, 2007. 
'Hope, Faith and Toughness: An Analysis of the Christian Hero.' in Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels. ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 93-102.
Batsleer, Janet, 1981. 
‘Pulp in the Pink’, Spare Rib, 109: 52-5. Repr. in Bob Ashley (ed.), Reading Popular Narrative: A Source Book (London: Leicester University Press, 1989), 217-22. **
Batsleer, Janet, Tony Davies, Rebecca O'Rourke and Chris Weedon, 1985. 
Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class (London: Methuen). There are also a couple of other editions of this book, both published by Routledge. The chapter with most relevance for this bibliography is Chapter 5, "Gender and Genre: Women's Stories," on pages 86-105. A partial preview of that chapter, in one of the Routledge editions, is available.
Bell, Kathleen, 1995. 
'Cross-dressing in Wartime: Georgette Heyer's The Corinthian in its 1940 Context'. War Culture: Social Change and Changing Experience in World War Two Britain, Ed. Pat Kirkham and David Thoms (London: Lawrence and Wishart), 151-60. ** Reprinted in Georgette Heyer: A Critical Retrospective, ed. Mary Fahnestock-Thomas (Saraland AL: Prinny World Press, 2001): 461-72. **
Belsey, Catherine, 1993. 
'Writing About Desire', The Glasgow Review, 2. [2]
Belsey, Catherine, 1994. 
Desire; Love Stories in Western Culture. (Oxford: Blackwell). Chapter 2( Reading Love Stories) touches on popular romance. Abstract.
Beidler, Peter G., 1991. 
'The Contemporary Indian Romance: A Review Essay', American Indian Culture and Research Journal , 15.4:97-125.
Bettinotti, Julia and Marie-Françoise Truel, 1997. 
"Lust and Dust: Desert Fabula in Romances and Media." Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2: 184-194.
Bettinotti, Julia, 1998. 
'Re-imagining the Gold Rush; Prospectors, Log Cabins and Mail-Order Brides in Contemporary Western Romances.' Northern Review, No. 19(Winter 1998): 170-180.
Betz, Phyllis M. 2009. 
Lesbian romance novels: a history and critical analysis. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. Description from the publisher.
Blake, Susan L., 2003. 
'What "Race" is the Sheik?: Rereading a Desert Romance', in Doubled Plots: Romance and History, see below, pp. 67-85. Via GoogleBooks[This is about E. M. Hull's The Sheik.]
Bold, Rudolph, 1980. 
'Trash in the Library', Library Journal, 105.10: 1138-39.
Booth, Sandra, 1997. 
"Paradox in Popular Romances of the 1990s: The Paranormal versus Feminist Humor." Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2: 94-106.
Bostian, Patricia Kennedy, 2008. 
'Amanda Scott: Bringing History to Life', Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3.[3]
Botts, Amber, 1999. 
'Cavewoman Impulses: The Jungian Shadow Archetype in Popular Romantic Fiction', in Romantic Conventions, see below, pp. 62-74.
Bowman, Barbara. 1983. 
"Victoria Holt's Gothic Romances: A Structuralist Inquiry." In Fleenor, Julian E. (ed.)The Female Gothic, 69-81. Montreal: Eden.
Bowring, Joanna and Margaret O’Brien, 2008. 
The Art of Romance: Mills & Boon and Harlequin Cover Designs, (Munich: Prestel). [This has a short history of the companies and some descriptions of the covers and then the rest of the book consists of photos of Mills & Boon and Harlequin book covers, many of which can be viewed here, and there are smaller selections here and here.]
Brackett, Kim Pettigrew, 2000. 
"Facework Strategies Among Romance Fiction Readers", The Social Science Journal, 37.3: 347-60.
Breslin, Carol Ann, 1999. 
'Medieval Magic and Witchcraft in the Popular Romance Novel', in Romantic Conventions, see below, pp. 75-85. Excerpt
Brown, Fahamisha Patricia, 2008. 
'Beverly Jenkins', Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3.[4]
Brown, Fahamisha Patricia, 2008. 
'Anita Richmond Bunkley', Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3.[5]
Brunt, Rosalind., 1984. 
'A 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. **
Bryce, Jane, 1996. 
"'A World of Caribbean Romance' Reformulating the Legend of Love or: 'Can a Caress Be Culturally Specific?'." in Framing the Word: Gender and Genre in Caribbean Women's Writing. Ed. Joan Anim-Addo (London: Whiting and Birch), pp. 108-127. **
Burley, Stephanie, 2000. 
"Shadows and Silhouettes: The Racial Politics of Category Romance." Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 5.13-14: 324-343.
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. Excerpt
Burnett, Ann, & Rhea Reinhardt Beto, 2000. 
‘Reading Romance Novels: An Application of Parasocial Relationship Theory’, North Dakota Journal of Speech & Theatre, 13. [6]
Byatt, A.S. 1991. 
"An Honourable Escape: Georgette Heyer." in Passions of the Mind: Selected writings. London: Chatto & Windus. 258-265.

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Cadogan, Mary, 1994. 
And Then Their Hearts Stood Still: An Exuberant Look at Romantic Fiction Past and Present (London: Macmillan).
Calhoun-French, Diane M. 2000. 
"Of Love and Death: Murder and Mayhem Meet the Romance." Clues: A Journal of Detection, 21.1: 1-16.
Calhoun-French, Diane M., 1999. 
'Time-Travel and Related Phenomena in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction', in Romantic Conventions, see below, pp. 100-12. Excerpt
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. ** Excerpt 1, Excerpt 2
Carter, Catherine, 2008. 
"Poverty, Payment, Power: Kathleen Thompson Norris and Popular Romance." Studies in American Fiction 36.2: 197-220. Excerpt and Unpaginated version.
Castagna, JoAnn and Robin Radespiel, 1990. 
'Making Rape Romantic: A Study of Rosemary Rogers' "Steve and Ginny" Novels', in Women and Violence in Literature: An Essay Collection, ed. Katherine Anne Ackley (New York : Garland). **
Cawelti, John G. 1976. 
Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
Chappel, Deborah K., 1997. 
'LaVyrle Spencer and the Anti-Essentialist Argument.' Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:107-120
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)'.]
Chelton, Mary K., 1991. 
'Unrestricted Body Parts and Predictable Bliss: The Audience Appeal of Formula Romances.' Library Journal 116.12: 44-49.
Chen, Eva Y.I., 2007. 
'Forms of Pleasure in the Reading of Popular Romance:Psychic and Cultural Dimensions.' in Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels. ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 30-41.
Chopra, Radhika, 1995. 
'Wanted Men: Imaging the Hero in Popular Romantic Fiction' in Perspectives on Women: Canada and India, ed. Aparna Basu (Bombay: Allied Publishers). **
Chopra, Radhika, 1998. 
"Whose Face Do I See?: Anonymity and Authorship in Popular Romances." Indian Journal of Gender Studies 5.2: 185-200. **
Christian-Smith, Linda K., 1987. 
'Gender, Popular Culture, and Curriculum - Adolescent Romance Novels as Gender Text', Curriculum Inquiry, 17.4:365-406.
Christian-Smith, Linda K., 1988. 
"Romancing the girl : adolescent romance novels and the construction of femininity." in Becoming Feminine: The Politics of Popular Culture. Ed. by Roman, Leslie G., Linda K. Christian-Smith, and Elizabeth Ann Ellsworth (London: Falmer Press) pp. ?
Christian-Smith, Linda K., 1990. 
Becoming a Woman Through Romance (New York; London: Routledge).
Christian-Smith, Linda K., 1993. 
"Voices of Resistance: Young Women Readers of Romance Fiction." in Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schoools, Ed. by Lois Wies and Michelle Fine (Albany: State University of New York Press) pp. 169-189. Excerpt
Christian-Smith, Linda K., 1994. 
"Young Women and Their Dream Lovers: Sexuality in Adolescent Fiction." in Sexual Cultures and the Construction of Adolescent Identities. Ed. Janice M. Irvine (Philadelphia : Temple University Press) pp. 206-227. Excerpt
Clancy, Kim, 1992. 
"Tania Modleski, Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women." in Reading into Cultural Studies. Ed. Martin Barker and Anne Beezer, (London: Routledge) pp. 119-133.
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.
Clawson, Laura, 2005. 
'Cowboys and Schoolteachers: Gender in Romance Novels, Secular and Christian', Sociological Perspectives, 48.4: 461-79. AbstractPDF
Cockin, Katharine, 2007. 
"Chicks and Lads in Contemporary Fiction." Anglistik und Englischunterricht, issue on Teaching Contemporary British Fiction, 69: 107-123. Index page only, as pdf.
Coddington, Lynn, 1997. 
"Wavering Between Worlds: Feminist Influences in the Romance Genre." Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2: 58-77.
Cohn, Jan, 1977. 
'The Romances of Mary Roberts Rinehart: Some Problems in the Study of Popular Culture', Journal of Popular Culture, 11.3: 581-590.
Cohn, Jan, 1988. 
Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for Women (Durham and London: Duke UP). Contents page and excerpts
Coles, Claire D., and M. Johnna Shamp, 1984. 
“Some Sexual, Personality, and Demographic Characteristics of Women Readers of Erotic Romances.” Archives of Sexual Behavior 13.3: 187-209.
Cook, Jon, 1988. 
“Fictional Fathers.” Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender and Popular Fiction. Ed. Susannah Radstone. (London: Lawrence & Wishart), pp. 137-64. First page.
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.]
Crane, Lynda L., 1994. 
'Romance Novel Readers: in Search of Feminist Change?', Women's Studies, 23.3: 257-69.
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. Fragment of Article **
Creed, Barbara, 1984. 
'The Woman's Romance as Sexual Fantasy: Mills & Boon', in All Her Labours II: Embroidering the framework, ed. Margaret Allen, Jean Blackburn, Carol Johnson, Margaret King and Alison Mackinnon (Sydney: Hale and Iremonger). **
Creed, Barbara, 2003. 
Media Matrix: Sexing the New Reality (Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin). review here Contents page and excerpts [contains a chapter on Mills & Boon romances, titled 'Mills & Boon dot com: The beast in the bedroom']
Crusie, Jennifer, 1997. 
‘Romancing Reality: The Power of Romance Fiction to Reinforce and Re-Vision the Real’, first published in Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres, 3.1-2: 81-93. [An unpaginated version is available on Crusie's website.]
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. Excerpt. Unpaginated version on Crusie's website.
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.[7]
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