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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1984.Description: x, 274 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 080781590X
  • 0807841250 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 028/.9/024042 19
LOC classification:
  • Z1039.W65 R32 1984
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks Z1039.W65R32 1984 1 Available 33710000006291

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [257]-265.

WAR, NEWBERY,

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.