In a new introduction, Janice Radway places the book within the context of current scholarship and offers both an explanation and. Front cover image for Reading the romance. The Politics of Popular Romance Studies by Lynn S. Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishings most lucrative categories, captivates millions of women readers. Reading the romance : women, patriarchy, and popular literature. To My Mentor, Jan Radway, With Love by Deborah Chappel Traylor The papers published in that section of issue 4.2 of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies were: This is from Eric Selinger's Reading the Romance: A Thirtieth Anniversary Roundtable, Editor’s Introduction ' What Reading the Romance Did for Us,' in the European Journal of Cultural Studies, 7.2 (2004): 147-54Īt the annual meeting of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (April 16-18, 2014, Chicago), scholars of English, cultural studies, fandom, religious studies, and other disciplines gathered to mark the thirtieth anniversary of Janice Radway’s Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature. 'Janice Radway, Reading the Romance,' in Reading into Cultural Studies, edited by Martin Barker and Anne Beezer (London and New York: Routledge, 1992): 148-164

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