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Romance and readership in twentieth century France / (Record no. 633004)
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| fixed length control field | 01986nam a2200325 i 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 260927s2006 xxk 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780199249848 |
| ISBN | 0199249849 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 843.085 |
| Item number | HOL |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Holmes, Diana |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Romance and readership in twentieth century France / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Diana Holmes |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 154 pages |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "Romance in modern times is the most widely read yet the most critically despised of genres. Associated almost entirely with women, as readers and as writers, its popularity has been argued by gender traditionalists to confirm women's innate sentimentality, while feminist critics have often condemned the genre as a dangerous opiate for the female masses." "Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France adopts the more positive perspective of critics such as Janice Radway, and takes seriously the pleasure that women readers consistently seem to find in romance. Drawing on the social constructionist feminism of Simone de Beauvoir, the psychoanalytical theories of Jessica Benjamin, and a range of social theorists from Bourdieu to Zygmunt Bauman, the book uncovers the history of romantic fiction in France from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, and explores its place |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | French fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism |
| Topical Term | French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism |
| Topical Term | Romance fiction -- France -- History and criticism |
| Topical Term | Books and reading -- France -- History -- 20th century |
| Topical Term | Books and reading -- France -- History -- 19th century |
| Topical Term | Books and reading |
| Topical Term | French fiction |
| Topical Term | History |
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| -- | New York, |
| -- | 2006 |
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| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Anna Centenary Library | Anna Centenary Library | 27.09.2026 | 843.085 HOL | 182997 | 27.09.2026 | Books |