6/22/2023 0 Comments Radway reading the romance![]() ![]() Radway also had informative conversations with 16 of Dorothy's customers, and analyzed 42 responses to 50 questionnaires she sent out. ![]() Dorothy believed that "a good romance focuses on an intelligent and able heroine who finds a man who recognizes her special qualities and is capable of loving and caring for her as she wants to be loved" (p. Radway studied a selection of women's romance novels and, more importantly, had a series of conversations with an informant, Dorothy Evans, who worked at a Mid-Western branch of an American chain bookstore and published a monthly newsletter in which she reviewed newly published romances. It's brilliant in its thoughtfulness about a subject-women's reading of romance novels-that is usually dismissed without much thought. An important book that I dipped into years ago, but have only now read completely, is Janice Radway's Reading the romance. ![]()
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