About romance without love and love without romance by R. L. Kochnev

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The Cold War Community of Love and Scorn: Robert Duncan, The New American Poetry, and the Lavender Scare by Stephan Delbos

“…In one important letter, Allen suggests that “the community of love” was the central unifying feature of the poetry in the anthology. …”
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Rise of Love and the People: French Matter and Manner in the Early Victorian Drama of Edward Bulwer-Lytton by Ana Fernández-Caparrós Turina

“…The article analyses the French influence in Bulwer’s first dramas that composed his cycle of French history plays, The Duchess de la Vallière (1837), The Lady of Lyons, or Love and Pride (1838) and Richelieu, or The Conspiracy (1839). …”
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Genera Mixta in Herbert George Wells’s Industrial Romance ‘The Cone’ (1895): Realism, the Uncanny Fantastic, the Industrial Sublime and the Tragic by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…‘The Cone’ could be called an ‘industrial romance’, a category subsuming its genera mixta status: its convincing, realistic substratum (the industrial world of the 1890s in the Newcastle area), its love (and revenge) plot within an industrial context, the presence of dark Biblical symbolism within the realistic mode, and an approach to the human psyche inspired from contemporary psychological research and formulated through the uncanny. …”
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«The cavalry rushes, and in battle campaigns the tank rushes along with the war horse»: cavalry romance in Soviet songs on eve of the Great Patriotic War by A. V. Rychkov

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FROM ROSALINE TO JULIET: ROMEO'S ROMANTIC FICKLENESS IN ROMEO AND JULIET by Yadgar Faeq Saeed

“…Shakespeare uses this character to show the irrationality of love and the power of forces pushing outside. The work is not confined to the analysis of romantic love and its reflection, but also looks at the strife of society that make, shape and eventually kill that love. …”
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Malaysia’s Warm Weather as a Metaphor by Wen Fen Beh, Florence Kuek

“…Borrowing from a local Chinese folk song genre, Tan & Teoh (2006)’s “Yong Malaixiya de Tianqi Shuo Ai Ni (Let Me Use Malaysia’s Warm Weather To Say, I Love You)” carries immense love for their native land using an apt metaphor of the “warm” Malaysian weather. …”
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NATIONAL ROMANTICISM IN WALT WHITMAN POEMS by Tomi Arianto

“… Romanticism is often misunderstood as something genuine love and merely about romance. In fact, romanticism is an understanding of great ideas that also be delivered great ideas. …”
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Mariage, littérature courtoise, et structure du désir au XIIème siècle by Cristina Álvares

“…It stresses the larger socio-cultural changes that the Church brought about by imposing celibacy on clerics and the principle of consensual marriage on the lay nobility as a framework for the emergence of literary fin’ amors. Courtly songs and romances are thought of as attempts of building new models for the relationship between men and women and a new ethics of the sexual difference.In short I say that the variety of ethical and esthetical choices explored by medieval romances concerning the connexions between desire, marriage, and sublimation strongly challenges the thesis of  Denis de Rougemont about the adulterous tendency of Western love and the Manichaean background of fin’amors, arguing that the views on sexuality offered by Gratien corroborate the Incarnation-tinged love ethics of marital romances.…”
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