Author Sanders, Lise Shapiro Publisher Ohio State University Press Location Columbus Publication year 2006 Link https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/6327/Sanders_T-S_Final.pdf?sequence=1&… Comment See in particular "Coda: The Shopgirl as Romance Reader" in Chapter 3 and Chapter 4, "Imagining Alternatives to the Romance: Absorption and Distraction as Modes of Reading." Topic social/economic class history gender readers Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Publishing romances in magazines and newspapers work
See in particular "Coda: The Shopgirl as Romance Reader" in Chapter 3 and Chapter 4, "Imagining Alternatives to the Romance: Absorption and Distraction as Modes of Reading."