"Dreams May End, But Love Never Does": Marriage and Materialism in American Romance Comics, 1947-1954

Publication year
2012
Pages
94-109
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A review at the European Journal of American Studies offers the following summary:

Jeanne Emerson Gardner’s “‘Dreams May End, But Love Never Does:’ Marriage and Materialism in American Romance Comics, 1947-1954” examines and confirms themes existing within the relatively neglected romance comics. While offering a plethora of summaries and commentaries, this article succeeds in showing how even romance comics, when read “against the grain” have a lot more meaning to offer towards topics such as post-war society, gender roles, domestic-gendered consumption than conventional readings would have us believe.  

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