| Loving with a Vengeance: Mass Produced Fantasies for Women Contributor(s): Modleski, Tania (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415974518 ISBN-13: 9780415974516 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2006 Annotation: 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 for thinking about one of popular culture's central issues. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Gothic & Romance - Literary Criticism | Books & Reading |
| Dewey: 823.009 |
| LCCN: 2007017254 |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6.35" W x 8.99" (0.53 lbs) 170 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 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. |