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Radway, Janice A., 1949-

Reading the romance : women, patriarchy, and popular literature / Janice A. Radway ; with a new introduction by the author. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1991. - x, 276 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-267) and index.

Cover Page--Reading the Romance--Copyright Page--Dedication--Contents--Acknowledgments--Introduction--1 The Institutional Matrix Publishing Romantic Fiction--The Readers and Their Romances--Act of Reading the Romance Escape and Instruction--The Ideal Romance The Promise of Patriarchy--The Failed Romance Too Close to the Problems of Patriarchy--Language and Narrative Discourse The Ideology of Female Identity.


ISBN: 0807843490 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 91050284

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women--Books and reading.
Romance fiction--Appreciation.
Popular literature--History and criticism.
Feminism and literature.
Sex role in literature.
Women in literature.
Patriarchy.

LC Class. No.: Z1039.W65 / R33 1991

Dewey Class. No.: 028/.9082