Reading the Romance
by Janice A. Radway · Janice Radway
Ethnographic study of a community of women romance readers in a Midwestern town, combining interviews with textual analysis to explain why they read. A foundational work in reader-response and cultural studies, showing how to study audiences rather than texts alone.
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