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Jane Austen

By Lord David Cecil

Georgette Heyer's Regency world

By Jennifer Kloester

Romance Readers and Romance Writers

By Christopher Goulding

The end of the novel of love

By Vivian Gornick

Historical Romance Fiction

By Lisa Fletcher

Doubled plots

By Susan Strehle,Mary Paniccia Carden

Romance Fiction and American Culture

By William A. Gleason,Eric Murphy Selinger

The Private World of Georgette Heyer

By Jane Aiken Hodge

The Outlandish Companion

By Diana Gabaldon

Glass Slipper

By Susan Ostrov Weisser

Lesbian romance novels

By Phyllis M. Betz

Jane Austen and the Body

By John Wiltshire

Romancing Jane Austen

By Ashley Tauchert

Romancing God

By Lynn S. Neal

Pictures of Romance

By Wendy Steiner

Everything I Know about Love I Learned from Romance Novels

By Sarah Wendell

Desire

By Catherine Belsey

Thrill of the Chaste

By Valerie Weaver-Zercher

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

By Harold Bloom

Critical tales

By John D. Lyons,Mary B. McKinley

Romantic conventions

By Anne K. Kaler

THE DANGEROUS LOVER

By DEBORAH LUTZ

Le roman d'Achille Tatios

By Marcelle Laplace

Women and Romance

By Susan Weisser