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Available
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Publication
Methuen Publishing Ltd (1984), Edition: 1ST, Paperback, 140 pages
Description
Upon its first publication, Loving with a Vengeance was a groundbreaking study of women readers and their relationship to mass-market romance fiction. Feminist scholar and cultural critic Tania Modleski has revisited her widely read book, bringing to this new edition a review of the issues that have, in the intervening years, shaped and reshaped questions of women's reading. with her trademark acuity and understanding of the power both of the mass-produced object--film, television, or popular literature--and the complex workings of reading and reception, she offers here a framework for thinking about one of popular culture's central issues. This edition includes a new introduction, a new chapter, and changes throughout the existing text.
User reviews
LibraryThing member readinggeek451
This was recommended to me as a look at the appeal of genre romances to women. Despite a relative lack of jargon, it's too academic for my taste. It's also more than 25 years old, so it misses the recent flowering of the romance field.
If you're interested in Harlequin romances, Gothic romances,
If you're interested in Harlequin romances, Gothic romances,
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and/or soap operas, and don't mind an academic tone, check this out. Show Less
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Language
Original publication date
1982
Physical description
140 p.; 8.3 inches
ISBN
0416009913 / 9780416009910
Local notes
Media and Pop Culture
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