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Author Radway, Janice A., 1949-

Title Reading the romance : women, patriarchy, and popular literature / Janice A. Radway.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1984]
©1984

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  028.902 R132R    Check Shelf
Description x, 274 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [257]-265.
Note Includes index.
Contents 1. The institutional matrix : publishing romantic fiction -- 2. The readers and their romances -- 3. The act of reading the romance : escape and instruction -- 4. The ideal romance : the promise of patriarchy -- 5. The failed romance : too close to the problems of patriarchy -- 6. Language and narrative discourse : the ideology of female identity.
Subject Women -- Books and reading.
Love stories -- History and criticism.
Popular literature -- History and criticism.
Feminism and literature.
Sex role in literature.
Women in literature.
Patriarchy.
ISBN 080781590X
9780807815908
0807841250 paperback
9780807841259 paperback
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