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001			182997
003			InACL
005			20260927132837.0
008			260927s2006 xxk 0 eng d
020			_a9780199249848
020			_a0199249849
040			_aInACL _beng _erda _cInACL
082	0	4	_a843.085 _bHOL _223
100	1		_aHolmes, Diana _eauthor
245	1	0	_aRomance and readership in twentieth century France / _cDiana Holmes
264		1	_aOxford University Press : _bNew York, _c2006
300			_a154 pages
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"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	_aFrench fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
650		0	_aFrench fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
650		0	_aRomance fiction -- France -- History and criticism
650		0	_aBooks and reading -- France -- History -- 20th century
650		0	_aBooks and reading -- France -- History -- 19th century
650		0	_aBooks and reading
650		0	_aFrench fiction
650		0	_aHistory
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