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The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction

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).

Works in this collection

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
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