The alienated reader : women and romantic literature in the twentieth century

著者

• Fowler, Bridget

書誌事項

The alienated reader : women and romantic literature in the twentieth century

Bridget Fowler

Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991

• : pbk

注記

Bibliography: p. 221-226

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This book is a study of the production and consumption of popular romance. It sets out to challenge the existing prejudices about "escapist literature" by exploring one of its most stigmatized forms: the fiction created by popular women writers. At the same time, it questions prevailing assumptions about the popular romance genre as being nothing more than a mode of collusion with patriarchy. Instead, the genre is assessed in terms of its historical origins and its wider ideological structures, or political unconscious. Drawing on a content analysis of melodramatic romance of 1930s magazines, a feminist materialist approach to the works of Catherine Cookson, and an asssessment of recent bestselling romances of the 1970s and 1980s, Bridget Fowler suggests that the romance can be seen as the dream-book of the family, encoding in its more formulaic fictions, the symbolic annihilation of industrial capitalism through rural retreat or, in its newer versions, images of women as "idols of production", combining fulfilled love and entrepreneurial success.

目次

• Part 1 Cultural production: understanding the romance - the origin and structure of a major mass cultural genre
• cultural theory and the popular romance - exchange-value, fiction and current cultural implications, use-value and the popular romance - theoretical perspectives. Part 2 20th-century romance texts: melodrama and magazines - cheap fiction in the 1930s
• family magazine
• methods of studying popular genres - current analysis and the myth of pure objectivity
• Catherine Cookson - realism and Utopia
• genres of the popular romance - 1970s and the 1980s. Part 3 Cultural reception: cultural consumption
• theoretical context - Bourdieu's theory of culture
• the Scottish study
• reading, pleasures and belief
• radicalism and feminism
• decoding a romance and a realist text.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA12608860
• ISBN:
  • 0745002498
  • 0745002501
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Hemel Hempstead
• ページ数/冊数: vii, 237 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • DC20 : 823.085099287
• 件名:
  • LCSH : English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Love stories, English -- History and criticism