The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction (History Workshop Series)

by Radford, Jean (editor)

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Book desription: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. This is a collection of essays on popular literature, originally presented at the first History Workshop Conference held at Ruskin College in May, 1984; these essys provide an historical perspective on a specific form of popular fiction, the romance: they reflect different positions and methods within the current debate on popular culture: sociological, psychoanalytic, and literary; some focus more on texts or readers, others on theoretical questions about narrative or ideology; introduction by Jean Radford, essays by Margaret Williamson, Anna Clark, Derrick Price, Jean Radford, Helen Taylor, Alison Light, Christine Bridgwood, Ann Rosalind Jones, and Michele Roberts (dark gray textured cloth with gold lettering on front & spine, corners & spine ends very slightly bumped, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

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