Introduction to Reading the Romance by Janice A. Radway

Janice A. Radway Janice A. Radway teaches at the Duke University literature course. Before moving to Duke, she taught at the Department of American Civilization at the University of Pennsylvania. Her interest in educational research includes the history of American books and literary works, especially those affecting the history of reading and consumer culture, especially women's lives. Radway also teaches cultural research and feminist theory. The author of "Higher Education Chronicle" explained Ladaway as "one of the leaders in the prosperous interdisciplinary cultural research". Her first book, "Reading Romance" (1984), sells over 30,000 copies.

Janice Radway discussed his reading behavior in his book "Reading Romance" (1991). This is a personal experience and is considered important for women in the 1980s. Radway concluded that reading romantic novels is a way for many women to spend time for themselves and it also helps them form communities with other readers. This supports the idea of ​​reading social roles. She saw the importance of reading myself, not the content or meaning of the book. One of the themes raised in her discovery is evolving around the philosophy that women see reading as a means of accepting a kind of escape and a lack of emotional experience in everyday life. One of the aims of reading is doing different things from daily life or still, but this "innocent" escape from reality is not so addictive. (Radway 87-90)

In her basic academic research on romance novels, women, patriarchalism and popular literature (1984), Janice Radway says that romance novels are a woman, especially when wives and mothers spend time for themselves and their " I believe that it will allow us to recover "depletion". "However, according to Radway, these novels" actually do not change the social situation of women, because such activities can be satisfied fantasy well and need to be satisfied in the real world "Tania Modleschi's 1982 study" Love and Revenge: Large Fantasy of Female Fantasy ", 1991, including a particularly harsh chapter of romance novels published by Harlequin. In her new edition of revision, Moddleschi admits that "understanding Harlequin Romance reluctantly should not condemn the novel rather than make them a necessary condition." Such as Pamela Regis Early and influential academic books pointed out by late scholars are from the sample of very small books about the "type of romanticism" There is a tendency to infer the conclusion.