Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France: Love Stories

by Diana Holmes

Romance in modern times is the most widely read yet the most critically despised of genres. Associated almost entirely with women, as readers and as writers, its popularity has been argued by gender traditionalists to confirm women's innate sentimentality, while feminist critics have often condemned the genre as a dangerous opiate for the female masses. This study adopts the more positive perspective of critics such as Janice Radway, and takes seriously...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199249849
• ISBN13: 9780199249848
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.1" x 8.6"