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Loving with a vengeance : mass-produced fantasies for women / Tania Modleski.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Modleski, Tania, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Romance fiction, English--History and criticism.
- Romance fiction, English.
- Popular literature--English-speaking countries--History and criticism.
- Popular literature.
- Women--Books and reading--English-speaking countries.
- Women.
- Women and literature--English-speaking countries.
- Women and literature.
- Romance fiction, American--History and criticism.
- Romance fiction, American.
- Television soap operas--History and criticism.
- Television soap operas.
- Literature--Psychological aspects.
- Literature.
- Women in literature.
- Women--Psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (171 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 fo
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction to the Second Edition; 1 Mass-Produced Fantasies For Women; 2 The Disappearing Act; 3 The Female Uncanny; 4 The Search for Tomorrow in Today's Soap Operas; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611394202
- 9781135870195
- 1135870195
- 9781281394200
- 1281394203
- 9780203941102
- 0203941101
- OCLC:
- 476138139
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