BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Cawelti, John G., Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories As Art and Popular Culture (1976).

• Drew, Bernard Alger, Heroines: A Bibliography of Women Series Characters in Mystery, Espionage, Action, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Western, Romance, and Juvenile Novels (1989).

• Frenier, Mariam Darce, Good-bye Heathcliff: Changing Heroes, Heroines, Roles and Values in Women's Category Romances (1988).

• Marchetti, Gina, Romance and the  "Yellow Peril": Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction (1993).

• Mussell, Kay, Fantasy and Reconciliation: Contemporary Formulas of Women's Romance Fiction (1984).

• The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction (Jean Radford ed.; 1986). Includes Anna Clark, "The Politics of Seducation in English Popular Culture, 1748-1848," Ann Rosalind Jones, "Mills & Boon Meets Feminism."

• Ramsdell, Kristin, What Romance Do I Read Next?: A Reader's Guide to Recent Romance Fiction (1997).

• Ramsdell, Kristin, Happily Ever After: A Guide to Reading Interests in Romance Fiction (1987).

• Reep, Diana C., The Rescue and Romance: Popular Novels Before World War I (1982).

• Thurston, Carol, The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels For Women and the Quest for a New Sexual Identity (1987).

• Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers (James Vinson ed.; 1982).

Some Suggested Subject Headings

• American fiction--20th century--Bibliography

• Erotic stories, American--History and criticism

• Heroines in literature--Bibliography

• Love stories, American--Bibliography

• Popular literature--United States--History and criticism

• Reader-response Criticism

• Sex role in literature

• Women in literature--Bibliography

• Women--United States--Books and reading--History--20th century

WEBSITES

• Resources on Romance Fiction and Law

• Romance Genre Analysis (from Michelle Jerrott's Website)