Author Radford, Jean Publisher Routledge & Kegan Paul Location London and New York Publication year 1986 Link https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cMhRDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&… https://archive.org/details/progressofromanc0000unse/ Comment The Google Books link is to a reissued edition, I think from 2017. There is a review of it in Feminist Review, Volume 26, pages 119–121, (1987), by Jenny Taylor (there's also a copy at Springer and at Academia.edu).
Jones, Ann Rosalind (1986) "Mills & Boon meets feminism " The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction 195-218 Topic feminism Harlequin Mills & Boon work social/economic class gender sex/sexuality
Radford, Jean (1986) "Introduction " The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction 1-20 Topic trash/literary and or intellectual quality romance scholarship genre definitions Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) socialism and/or communism feminism readers
Williamson, Margaret (1986) "The Greek romance " The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction 23-45 Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Chariton Xenophon of Ephesus Achilles Tatius Longus Heliodorus love rural romance
The Google Books link is to a reissued edition, I think from 2017. There is a review of it in Feminist Review, Volume 26, pages 119–121, (1987), by Jenny Taylor (there's also a copy at Springer and at Academia.edu).