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* [[Scholarship in Languages Other than English|Bibliography of Scholarship in Languages Other than English]].
 
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;Swaffield, Audrey-Claire, 1981. : "Paperbacks Promoting Passion! What Is Harlequin Really Presenting?." ''Canadian Woman Studies/Les Cahiers de la Femme'' 3.2: 4-6.
 
;Swaffield, Audrey-Claire, 1981. : "Paperbacks Promoting Passion! What Is Harlequin Really Presenting?." ''Canadian Woman Studies/Les Cahiers de la Femme'' 3.2: 4-6.
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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]]''.]
 
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;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.** [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=103031098 Excerpt] and [http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=hBGWw0HztCwC&oi=fnd&pg=PA106&dq=&ots=krimDrHsOD&sig=ANmfitrOL4dujTF54RZpHQFHD74 a much longer excerpt] [Talbot examines "the representation of women's desire in two [...] romances (''[[No_Guarantees_-_Robyn_Donald|No Guarantees]]'' (1990) by [[Robyn Donald]] and ''[[Passionate Awakening]]'' (1990) by [[Diana Hamilton]])" (107).]
 
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;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.**
 
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;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.
 
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;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.
 
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;Teo, Hsu-Ming, 1999. : 'Shanghaied By Sheiks: Orientalism and hybridity in women's romance writing', ''Olive Pink Society Bulletin'', 11.1: 12–21.
 
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;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. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&id=svPwje0p9uEC&dq=&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=ZpFjifdVLG&sig=N3dqrMXfl0ER1aIkbKfYiLqnCkM&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PRA1-PA279,M1 Excerpt]
 
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;Teo, Hsu-Ming, 2004. : 'Romancing the Raj: Interracial Relations in Anglo-Indian Romance Novels', ''History of Intellectual Culture'', 4.1.[http://www.ucalgary.ca/hic/issues/vol4/3]
 
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;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.
 
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;[[Julie Tetel|Tetel Andresen, Julie]], 1999. : 'Postmodern Identity (Crisis): Confessions of a Linguistic Historiographer and Romance Writer', in ''Romantic Conventions'', see above, pp. 173-86.
 
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;Thomas, Audrey, 1986. : 'A Fine Romance, My Dear, This Is,' '' Canadian Literature,'' no. 108:5-12.
 
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;Thomas, Glen, 2008. : ' "And I Deliver": An Interview with Emma Darcy.' ''Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies'' 22.1: 113-26.
 
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;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.
 
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; 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. 
 
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;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.
 
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;Thompson, Anne Booth, 2005. : 'Rereading Fifties Teen Romance: Reflections on Janet Lambert', ''The Lion and the Unicorn'', 29.3:373-96. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lion_and_the_unicorn/toc/uni29.3.html Abstract]
 
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;Thompson, M., P. Koski, and L. Holyfield, 1997. :"Romance and Agency: An Argument Revisited." ''Sociological Spectrum'' 17.4: 437-51.
 
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;Thurston,Carol M., 1985. : ‘Popular Historical Romances: Agent for Social Change? An Exploration of Methodologies’, ''Journal of Popular Culture'', 19:1: 35-45.
 
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;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).
 
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;Timson, Beth S., 1983 : ‘The Drug Store Novel: Popular Romantic Fiction and the Mainstream Tradition’, ''Studies in Popular Culture'', 6: 88-96. **
 
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;Tobin-McClain, Lee, 2000. : "Paranormal Romance: Secrets of the Female Fantastic." ''Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts'' 11.3 [43]: 294-306. [http://maura.setonhill.edu/~tobin/paranormal_romance.htm A version is available online here]
 
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;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.
 
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;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. [http://www.questiaschool.com/read/112042277?title=What%20Is%20Life%20without%20My%20Love%3a%20Desire%20and%20Romantic%20Fiction First page.] [Takes [[Sally Wentworth]]'s ''[[Say_Hello_To_Yesterday | Say Hello to Yesterday]]'' as a case study.]
 
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;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)
 
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;Ty, Eleanor, 1994. : 'Desire and Temptation: Dialogism and the Carnivalesque in Category Romances', in ''A Dialogue of Voices: Approaches to Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin'', ed. Karen Hohne and Helen Wussow (University of Minnesota Press), pp. 97-113.**
 
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;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.[http://www.teachingamericanlit.com/files/Microsoft_Word_-_TALTP-CrusieJenniferuse.pdf]
 
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;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 [http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=1403903220 from Palgrave Macmillan].]
 
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;Wardrop, Stephanie, 1995. : "The Heroine is Being Beaten: Freud, Sadomasochism, and Reading the Romance." ''Style'' 29: 459-73. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2342/is_n3_v29/ai_18096761 Unpaginated and unofficial copy]
 
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;Wardrop, Stephanie, 1997. : 'Last of the Red Hot Mohicans: Miscegenation in the Popular American Romance', ''MELUS'', 22. 2, Popular Literature and Film: 61-74. [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2278/is_n2_v22/ai_20175894 Unpaginated and unofficial copy]
 
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;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.
 
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;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.
 
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;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.]
 
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;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. .
 
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;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. **
 
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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. [http://books.google.com/books?id=3B-byRPo2WMC&dq=&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=zfstjNM05P&sig=DTg9qdbOWddx4BwwPEZa4SUuHY0&hl=en&ei=_bnwSfmDMYKUjAfvlPW_DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#PPA165,M1 Excerpt]
 
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;Weston, Louise C., and Josephine A. Ruggiero, 1978. : "Male-Female Relationships in Best-Selling 'Modern Gothic' Novels." ''Sex Roles'' 4.5: 647-55. [http://www.springerlink.com/content/b11jr2m0559850t3/ Abstract]
 
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;Whissell, Cynthia, 1996. : ‘Mate Selection in Popular Women's Fiction’, ''Human Nature'', 7: 427-447. **
 
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;Whissell, Cynthia, 1998. : 'The Formula Behind Women's Romantic Formula Fiction (Statistical survey of 50 Harlequin-Presents novels)', ''Arachne'', 5.1:89-119.
 
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;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. [http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-25414370_ITM Excerpt]
 
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;Whitsitt, Novian, 2003. : "Islamic-Hausa Feminism Meets Northern Nigerian Romance: The Cautious Rebellion of Bilkisu Funtuwa." ''African Studies Review'' 46.1: 137-53. [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4106/is_200304/ai_n9219184 Unofficial, unpaginated version]
 
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;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.
 
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;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.
 
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;Williams, Clover, 1998. : "Keepers of the Flame: The Romance Novel and Its Fans." ''Lore and Language'' 16.1-2: 115-138.
 
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;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. [http://www.theminnesotareview.org/journal/ns6566/iae_ns6566_cultureofreading.shtml]
 
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;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. **
 
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;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.[http://info.wlu.ca/~wwwpress/jrls/cjc/BackIssues/23.2/wirten.html]['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 [http://www.abm.uu.se/evahw/ 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.
 
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;Wirten, Eva Hemmungs, 2000. : "Harlequin romances in Swedish: a case study in globalized publishing." ''Logos'' 11.4:203-7.
 
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;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]
 
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;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 [http://spr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/18/2/239 abstract] and a [http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jul01/rom072301.htm press release] reporting Wood's findings.
 
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;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.
 
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;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.[http://www.bridgew.edu/SoAS/jiws/Nov06/RomanceNovels.pdf]
 
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;Wyatt, Neal, Georgine Olsen, Kristen Ramsdell, Joyce Saricks, and Lynne Welch, 2008. : 'Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101', ''Reference & User Services Quarterly'', [http://rusq.org/category/issues/47-no-2/ 47.2]: 120-126.[http://rusq.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/47n2/PDFs/alert_collect.pdf]
 
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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.
 
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Paizis, George, 1987. 
'"Putting People First" or the contemporary romantic novel, critical discourse and ideology', La Chouette, no 18, March: 38-46. [La Chouette is published by the Department of French, School of Languages, Linguistics and Culture, Birkbeck College, University of London] **
Paizis, George, 1987. 
'That's Romance', Socialist Review, July: 24. **
Paizis, George, 1994-95. 
'Love, Ideology and Reality: the popular romantic novel and the reader', Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies, 3: 357-68. **
Paizis, George, 1998. 
'Category Romances - Translation, Realism and Myth', The Translator, 4: 1-24. Abstract
Paizis, George, 1998. 
Love and the Novel: The Poetics and Politics of Romantic Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan). Some details **
Paizis, George, 2006. 
"Category Romance in the Era of Globalization: The Story of Harlequin." The Global Literary Field. (Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars)pp. 126-151.
Palmer, Paulina, 1998. 
‘Girl Meets Girl: Changing Approaches to the Lesbian Romance,’ in Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film, ed. Lynne Pearce & Gina Wisker (London: Pluto), pp. 189-204.
Parameswaran Radhika, 1999. 
'Western Romance Fiction as English-Language Media in Postcolonial India', Journal of Communication, 49.3: 84-105. Abstract
Parameswaran, Radhika, 2002. 
'Reading Fictions of Romance: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in Postcolonial India', Journal of Communication, 52.4: 832-851. Abstract
Patterson, Janet, 1981. 
'Consuming Passion', Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly, 11: 19-33. Reprinted in Fireworks: The Best of Fireweed, Ed. Makeda Silvera (Toronto: The Women’s Press, 1986), pp. 69-82.**
Patthey Chavez, GG, and L. Clare, M. Youmans,1996. 
'Watery passion: The struggle between hegemony and sexual liberation in erotic fiction for women.' Discourse and Society. 7.1: 77-106.
Pearce, Lynne, 2004. 
"Popular Romance and Its Readers." in A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary. ed. Corinne Saunders, (Malden, MA: Blackwell) pp. 521-538.
Pearce, Lynne, 2007. 
Romance Writing. (Cambridge: Polity Press). Historical treatment looking at romance broadly. Does touch on popular romance, but it is not the whole focus of the book. Abstract
Pecora, Norma, 1999. 
"Identity by design : the corporate construction of teen romance novels, " in Growing Up Girls: Popular Culture and the Construction of Identity. Ed. Mazzarella, Sharon R., and Norma Odom Pecora (New York: P. Lang), pp 49-86. ** Excerpt
Philadelphoff-Puren, Nina, 2005. 
"Contextualising Consent: The Problem of Rape and Romance." Australian Feminist Studies 20.46 31-42.
Philips, Deborah, 1990. 
'Mills and Boon: The Marketing of Moonshine,' in Consumption, Identity, and Style: Marketing, Meanings, and the Packaging of Pleasure, ed. Alan Tomlinson (London: Routledge), pp. 139-52. Excerpt here.
Philips, Deborah, 2000. 
'Shopping for Men: The Single Woman Narrative', Women: a Cultural Review, 11.3: 238-251. Abstract
Proctor, Candice, 2007. 
'The Romance Genre Blues or Why We Don't Get No Respect.' in Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels. ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 12-19.
Puente, Sonia Núñez. 2008.
"The romance novel and popular culture during the early Franco regime in Spain: towards the construction of other discourses of femininity." Journal of Gender Studies 17, no. 3: 225-236.
Purdie, Susan, 1992. 
'Janice Radway, Reading the Romance', in Reading into Cultural Studies ed. Martin Barker and Anne Beezer, (London: Routledge), pp. 148-64.
Puri, Jyoti, 1997. 
‘Reading Romance Novels in Postcolonial India’, Gender & Society, 11.4: 434-452. Abstract

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Rabine, Leslie, 1985. 
Reading the Romantic Heroine: Text, History, Ideology, (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press).** [This is described in Williams and Freedman as a "study of the romantic quest from Tristan and Isolde to the Harlequin novel" (145). A chapter each is devoted to the Tristan/Isolde legend, Prévost's Manon Lescaut, Stendhal's The Red and the Black, Charlotte Brontë's Shirley, Alain-Fournier's Big Meaulnes and Harlequin romances.]
Rabine, Leslie W., 1985. 
‘Romance in the Age of Electronics: Harlequin Enterprises’, Feminist Studies 11.1: 39-60.
Radford, Jean, 1992. 
"A Certain Latitude: Romance as Genre." in Gender, Language, and Myth: Essays and Popular Narrative. ed. Glenwood Irons, (Toronto: U of Toronto P), pp. 3-19.
Radway, Janice, 1981. 
'The Utopian Impulse in Popular Literature: Gothic Romances and "Feminist" Protest', American Quarterly, 33.2 (Summer, 1981): 140-162. [First page available here]
Radway, Janice A., 1983. 
‘Women Read the Romance: The Interaction of Text and Context’, Feminist Studies, 9.1: 53-78. [First page available here]
Radway, Janice A., 1984. 
'Interpretive Communities And Variable Literacies: The Functions Of Romance Reading', Daedalus, 113.3:49-73.
Radway, Janice A., 1991. 
Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press). First published in 1984. The 1991 edition contains a new introduction by the author.
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-???. **
Rapp, Adrian, Dodgen, Lynda, and Anne K. Kaler, 2000. 
"A Romance Writer Gets Away with Murder." Clues: A Journal of Detection 21.1: 17-21.
Rasley, Alicia, 1999. 
'Paradox in Balance: Some Feminist Themes in Romance', originally published in North American Romance Writers, see above.[1]
Raub, Patricia, 1992.
"Issues of Passion and Power in E. M. Hull's The Sheik." Women's Studies, 21: 119-128.
Reep, Diana, 1982
The Rescue And Romance: Popular Novels Before World War I, Bowling Green Sate University Popular Press.
Regis, Pamela., 1997. 
'Complicating Romances and Their Readers: Barrier and Point of Ritual Death in Nora Roberts's Category Fiction.' Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:145-154.
Regis, Pamela, 2003. 
A Natural History of the Romance Novel (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press). Excerpt
Rholetter, Wylene, 2008. 
'Nora Roberts', Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3.[2]
Ricker-Wilson, Carol, 1999. 
‘Busting Textual Bodices: Gender, Reading, and the Popular Romance’, English Journal, 88:3: 57-64.
Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth, 2002. 
'Meet Jessica and Elizabeth from Sweet Valley: Who Are the Female Role Models in Popular Romance Novels for Children?', Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (New Orleans, LA, April 1-5, 2002). 21 pgs. ERIC document ED470819.
Robinson, Lillian S., 1978. 
'Reading Trash', in Sex, Class, and Culture. Ed. Lillian S. Robinson (Bloomington: Indiana University Press), pp. 200-222. Excerpt from a later edition ["Most of this essay will be focused on a contrast between the works of Jane Austen and those of Georgette Heyer" (202)]
Romantic Conventions, 1999. 
Anne K. Kaler and Rosemary E. Johnson-Kurek, eds. (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press). [Preview of parts of this available via Google Books.]
Rose, Suzanna, 1985. 
"Is Romance Dysfunctional?." International Journal of Women's Studies, 8.3: 250-265.
Ruggiero, Josephine A. and Weston, Louise C., 1983. 
'Conflicting Images Of Women In Romance Novels', International Journal of Women's Studies, 6.1:18-25.
Russ, Joanna, 1973. 
'Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic', Journal of Popular Culture, 6.4: 666-691.
Ryder, M. E., 1999. 
'Smoke and mirrors: Event patterns in the discourse structure of a romance novel', Journal of Pragmatics, 31.8: 1067-1080. Abstract **

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Sales, Roger, 1999. 
"The Loathsome Lord and the Disdainful Dame: Byron, Cartland and the Regency Romance." in Byromania: Portraits of the Artist in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Culture. ed. Frances Wilson, (Basingstoke, England; New York, NY: Macmillan; St. Martin's) pp. 166-183.
Salmon, Catherine and Donald Symons, 2003. 
Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution and Female Sexuality (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press). ** Abstract ["The stark contrasts between romance novels and pornography underscore how different female and male erotic fantasies are. These differences reflect human evolutionary history [...]. The authors focus particular attention on slash fiction [...] [and] argue that—despite some differences—slash fiction has much in common with romance novels."]
Samuel, Barbara, 1997. 
"The Art of Romance Novels." Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2: 78-80.
Santaulària, Isabel, 2002. 
"The Fallacy of Eternal Love: Romance, Vampires and Love in Linda Lael Miller's Forever and the Night and For All Eternity." in The Aesthetics of Ageing: Critical Approaches to Literary Representations of the Ageing Process.(Lleida, Spain: Universitat de Lleida), pp. 111-126.
Schell, Heather, 2007. 
"The Big Bad Wolf: Masculinity and Genetics in Popular Culture." Literature and Medicine 26.1: 109-125. (Christine Feehan is the author addressed in this article). Abstract
Scott, Alison M. 2002. 
'Romance in the Stacks; or, Popular Romance Fiction Imperiled', in Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America, ed. Lydia Cushman Schurman and Deidre Johnson, Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture, 75 (Westport, CT: Greenwood),pp. 213-224.
Seale,Maura, 2007. 
'"I find some Hindu practices, like burning widows, utterly bizarre": Representation of Sati and Questions of Choice in Veils of Silk.' in Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels. ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 129-147. Unpaginated version
Seidel, Kathleen Gilles, 1997. 
"Half-Risen Venus", Paradoxa 3.1-2: 250-252. [This is a review of Paul Grescoe's Merchants of Venus: Inside Harlequin and the Empire of Romance.]
Selinger, Eric Murphy, 2007. 
'Rereading the Romance', Contemporary Literature, 48.2: 307-324.[3] [This is a review article, critiquing earlier works on the romance genre (such as those by Radway and Modleski) and giving more favourable opinions about the newer works under review: Juliet Flesch's From Australia with Love: A History of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels; Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels, edited by Sally Goade; Deborah Lutz's The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative; Lynn S. Neal's Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction; Pamela Regis's A Natural History of the Romance Novel.]
Shapiro, Joan, & Lee Kroeger, 1991. 
‘Is Life a Romantic Novel? The Relationship Between Attitudes About Intimate Relationships and the Popular Media’, American Journal of Family Therapy, 19.3: 226-236. **
Smith, Janet S. Shibamoto. 1999. 
"From Hiren to Happi-endo: Romantic Expression in the Japanese Love Story." In Languages of Sentiment: Cultural Constructions of Emotional Substrates, 131-150. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Benjamins. [Extensive excerpt available from Benjamins' website (click on the "Google Preview" button).]
Shibamoto Smith, Janet S., 2004. 
'Language and Gender in the (Hetero)Romance: "Reading" the Ideal Hero/ine through Lovers' Dialogue in Japanese Romance Fiction', in Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People, ed. Shigeko Okamoto and Janet S. Shibamoto Smith (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 113-130. ** Review
Shibamoto-Smith, Janet S., 2005. 
‘Translating True Love: Japanese Romantic Fiction, Harlequin-Style’ in Gender, Sex and Translation: The Manipulation of Identities, ed. José Santaemilia (Manchester: St. Jerome Publishing), pp. 97-116. ** Summary
Shibamoto Smith, Janet S., 2008. 
"Changing Lovestyles: Fictional Representations of Contemporary Japanese Men in Love." Positions 16.2: 359-87. First Page
Smith, Faith, 1999. 
"Beautiful Indians, Troublesome Negroes, and Nice White Men: Caribbean Romances and the Invention of Trinidad." in Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation. ed. Belinda Edmondson (Charlottesville, VA: UP of Virginia) pp. 163-182.
Snitow, Ann Barr, 1979. 
‘Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women is Different’, Radical History Review 20 (Spring/Summer 1979):141-61. Republished in Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality 1983., ed. Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell & Sharon Thompson (New York: Monthly Review Press), pp. 245-263. Republished in "Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader", ed. Mary Eagleton. New York: Basil Blacwell, 1986.
Sonnet, Esther, 1999. 
"'Erotic Fiction by Women for Women’: The Pleasures of Post-Feminist Heterosexuality." Sexualities,2.2:167-187. [From the abstract: "This article addresses the material construction of female heterosexuality through examination of the mass marketing of women’s pornography - ‘erotic fiction for women by women’ as exemplified by Virgin Publishing’s Black Lace imprint."]
Spehner, Norbert, 1997. 
'L'Amour, toujours l'amour ...: The Popular Love Story and Romance: A Basic Checklist of Secondary Sources', Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2: 253-268.
Spigel, Lynn. 1985. 
"Detours in the Search for Tomorrow: Tania Modleski's Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women." Camera Obscura: A Journal of Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies 13-14: 215-234.
Stacey, Jackie & Lynne Pearce, 1995. 
'The Heart of the Matter: Feminists Revisit Romance', in Romance Revisited, ed. Lynne Pearce & Jackie Stacey (New York: New York University Press), pp. 11-45.
Stieg, Margaret F., 1985. 
'Indian Romances: Tracts for the Times', Journal of Popular Culture, 18.4: 2-15. ['the Indian Romance, flourished between 1890 and 1930. It was a romantic novel set in India, featuring Anglo-Indians (English expatriates living in India) as the leading characters.' (1985: 2)]
Stotesbury, John A, 1994. 
"Language and Mindstyle in Anglophone Popular Romantic Fiction under Apartheid." Logos 14: 18-32.
Stotesbury, John A., 2004 
'Genre and Islam in Recent Anglophone Romantic Fiction', in Refracting the Canon in Contemporary British Literature and Film, ed. Christian Gutleben & Susana Onega, Postmodern Studies, 35 (Amsterdam: Rodopi), pp. 69-82. Abstract **
Stout, Diana, 2008. 
'Karen Robards', Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3.[4]
Stowers, Eva, 2007. 
'City of Fantasy: Romance Novels in Las Vegas.' in Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels. ed. Sally Goade, (Newcastle, U.K.:Cambridge Scholars Pub.) pp. 198-205.
Sucatre, Conrad V., 2005 
Old School Romance (Vintage Romance Publishing).** [I have not been able to identify a place of publication, and clearly this is not an academic publisher. The author says that the book is about 'the romance writing industry as it existed prior to 1950. At my fingertips were the books and biographies of such authors as Faith Baldwin, Emilie Loring, Kathleen Norris, Temple Bailey, Elsa Barker and many others. I assembled all these facts into my book'.[5] ]
Swaffield, Audrey-Claire, 1981. 
"Paperbacks Promoting Passion! What Is Harlequin Really Presenting?." Canadian Woman Studies/Les Cahiers de la Femme 3.2: 4-6.
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