On the Internet:
Bornschein, Anne N. '
The Stars (and bars): race and racism in Susan Elizabeth Phillips’s Chicago Stars series'.
Horne, Jackie C. reviews Catherine M. Roach's
Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture.
Part 1,
Part 2,
Part 3.
Linda. Review of Rita-nominated
Toward the Sunrise by Elizabeth Camden
at Smart Bitches Trashy Books ["unfortunately, underneath the charming plot ... was a
backbone of unremitting Orientalism and historical revisionism."]
In the Media:
Anonymous, 2016. '
Roberta Gellis (1927-2016): Obituary'.
Bilde, Marie, 2016. '
It’s Springtime for Romance in Denmark',
Publishing Perspectives, April 25, 2016.
["Romantic fiction in Copenhagen has mainly lived in kiosks alongside
magazines — until now. As April smiles on Denmark, new imprints are
bringing romance into the open."]
Owen, Jonathan, 2016. '
Gransnet jumps into bed with racy publisher Mills & Boon for content partnership',
Campaign, May 03, 2016. ['Romantic
publisher Mills & Boon and the website Gransnet have announced what
they call a "budding romance", and will begin working together to
capitalise on the interest of older women in sex and romance.']
Sanusi, Isa, 2016. '
A hunger for romance in northern Nigeria', BBC, 4 May 2016.
Academic Articles:
- Hess, Jonathan M., 2010.
- Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity.
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. [See Chapter 3:
"Middlebrow Culture in Pursuit of Romance: Love, Fiction, and the
Virtues of Marrying In"] Excerpt
- Salmon, Catherine, 2016.
- "What Do Romance Novels, Pro Wrestling, and Mack Bolan Have in Common?: Consilience and the Pop Culture of Storytelling." Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences. Ed. Joseph Carroll, Dan P. McAdams and Edward O. Wilson. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016. 167-182. Excerpt
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- Tidwell, Christy, 2016.
- "“A Little Wildness”: Negotiating Relationships between Human and Nonhuman in Historical Romance", Creatural Fictions: Human-Animal Relationships in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature, Ed. David Herman, Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan). 151-171. Excerpt Abstract [Focuses on Bertrice Small's Sky O'Malley and Patricia Gaffney's Wild at Heart]
