Loving with a Vengeance: Mass Produced Fantasies for WomenUpon 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. |
Contents
HARLEQUIN ROMANCES 27 | |
GOTHIC NOVELS FOR WOMEN 51 | |
THE SEARCH FOR TOMORROW IN TODAYS SOAP OPERAS 77 | |
AFTERWORD 103 | |
BIBLIOGRAPHY 121 | |
INDEX 131 | |
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