Janice A. Radway is Walter Dill Scott Professor of Communication and professor of American studies and gender studies at Northwestern University and author of A Feeling for Books.
[Reading the Romance] is in a class by itself. It set[s] a standard
for cultural studies, scarcely ever matched in subsequent work, of
testing theories about the effects of mass culture with close study
of the people presumably under its influence.--Journal of American
History
A consistently absorbing and often brilliant analysis of [romance
novels] and their eager consumers.--Sandra M. Gilbert, New York
Times Book Review
A superb analysis of a contemporary phenomenon and an intelligent
and moving depiction of how the women who consume these novels see
their lives.--Journal of Communication
Explores not only the conventions of the romance novel but also the
ways in which both these novels and their readers defy certain
stereotypes, usually proliferated by people who don't read the
books themselves. Radway's study is a fascinating and controversial
bit of sociological literary criticism.--MetroMagazine
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