Other Publications

Selinger, Eric Murphy and Laura Vivanco, 2021. “Romance and/as religion.” The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction. Ed. Hsu-Ming Teo, Eric Murphy Selinger and Jayashree Kamblé. Abingdon: Routledge. 485-510.

Vivanco, Laura, 2020. Faith, Love, Hope and Popular Romance Fiction. Self-published.

Vivanco, Laura, 2020. “Let’s Not Get Carried Away by The Sheik.” Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9.

Vivanco, Laura, 2020. “Changing Attitudes to Others: Meljean Brook’s Riveted (2012) and Its Context.” Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other. Ed. María T. Ramos-García and Laura Vivanco. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington. 113-126.

Vivanco, Laura, 2017. ” ‘A Place We All Dream About’: Greece in Mills & Boon Romances.” Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013. Ed. Eleni Papargyriou, Semele Assinder and David Holton. New York: Peter Lang. 81-98. [Abstract and pdf]

Vivanco, Laura, 2016. Pursuing Happiness: Reading American Romance as Political Fiction. Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks.

Vivanco, Laura, 2013. “Georgette Heyer: The Nonesuch of Regency Romance.” Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.2.

Vivanco, Laura, 2012. “Feminism and Early Twenty-First Century Harlequin Mills & Boon Romances.” Journal of Popular Culture 45.5: 1060–1089.

Vivanco, Laura, 2012. “Jennifer Crusie’s Literary Lingerie.” Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2.

Vivanco, Laura, 2012. “One Ring to Bind Them: Ring Symbolism in Popular Romance Fiction.”  New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays. Ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. 99-107.

Vivanco, Laura, 2011. For Love and Money: The Literary Art of the Harlequin Mills & Boon Romance. Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks.

Vivanco, Laura and Kyra Kramer, 2010. “There Are Six Bodies in This Relationship: An Anthropological Approach to the Romance Genre.” Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1.

2008. ‘The Poems in Diego de San Pedro’s Arnalte y Lucenda and Arnalte’s Imitatio Mariae‘, The Spain of the Catholic Monarchs: Papers from the Quincentenary Conference (Bristol, 2004), ed. David Hook, University of Bristol Hispanic, Portuguese, and Latin American Monographs (Bristol: Department of Hispanic, Portuguese, & Latin American Studies, School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol), pp. 131-153. [Abstract. Full text and pdf available.]

2004. Death in Fifteenth-Century Castile: Ideologies of the Elites, Colección Tamesis, A 205 (Woodbridge: Tamesis).

2004. ‘ “Parece cuento de historias viejas”: Cárcel de Amor and the Crónica del Rey Don Pedro’, Bulletin of Spanish Studies 81.2: 157-173.

2003. ‘Calisto, his Falcon, and the Ape: the Iconography of the Sanguine in Celestina?’, in Proceedings of the Twelfth Colloquium, ed. Alan Deyermond & Jane Whetnall, Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, 35 (London: Dept of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary, University of London), pp. 89-100. [Abstract. Full text and pdf available.]

2002. ‘Birds of a Feather: Predator and Prey in Celestina’, Celestinesca 26: 5-27.