Janice A. Radway

Professor Emeritus of Literature

jradway@duke.edu

Box 90670, Durham, NC 27708-0670

109 Art Museum, Buchanan and Trinity, Durham, NC 27701

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Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature

Book · January 1, 2009 Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's most lucrative categories, captivates millions of women readers. Among those who have disparaged romance readin ... Cite

American Studies: An Anthology

Book · August 2008 Cite

A History of the Book in America, Vol. IV

Book · 2008 Cite

What’s the Matter with Reception Study?: Some Thoughts on the Disciplinary Origins, Conceptual Constraints and Persistent Viability of a Paradigm

Journal Article · 2008 Cite

Learned and Literary Print Cultures in an Age of Professionalization and Diversification

Journal Article · 2008 Cite

Preface to Avery F. Gordon, Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination

Other · 2008 Cite

Little Magazines, Underground Publications and Zine Culture

Journal Article PMLA · 2008 Cite

Bridget Jones, Girls' Zines and the Problem of the Future: Gender, Narrative, and Subjectivity in the Nineties

Journal Article Narrative · 2008 Cite

Girls, Zines, and Their Afterlives: Sex, Gender, Capitalism, and Everyday Life in the Nineties and Beyond

Other · 2007 Cite

The Library as Place, Collection, or Service: Promoting Book Circulation in Durham, NC and at the Book-of-the-Month Club

Journal Article · 2007 Cite

Pisanje Cintanja romance

Journal Article · 2007 Cite

The Culture of Books: An Interview with Janice A. Radway

Journal Article The Minnesota Review · 2006 Cite

Richard Ohmann's Voice

Journal Article Works and Days · 2006 Cite

Research Universities, Periodical Publication and the Circulation of Professional Expertise: On the Significance of Middlebrow Authority

Journal Article Critical Inquiry · October 2004 Cite

What’s In a Name?

Journal Article · 2003 Cite

Richard Ohmann’s Voice

Other · 2003 Cite

Girls, Reading, and Narrative Gleaning: Crafting Repertoires for Self-Fashioning Within Everyday Life

Journal Article · 2002 Cite

What's In a Name?: Presidential Address to the American Studies Association

Journal Article American Quarterly · March 1999 Cite

A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste and Middle Class Desire

Book · 1999 Cite

A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste and Middle Class Desire

Book · October 1997 Cite

Books and Reading in the Age of Mass Production: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Middlebrow Culture and the Transformation of the Literary Field in the U.S., 1926-1940

Journal Article · 1996 Cite

Beyond Mary Bailey and Old Maid Librarians: Reimagining Readers and Thinking Reading

Journal Article Journal of Education for Library and Information Science · October 1994 Cite

On the Gender of the Middlebrow Consumer and the Threat of the Culturally Fraudulant Female

Journal Article South Atlantic Quarterly · October 1994 Cite

Dialogue About Instituting Cultural Studies: Gerald Graff, Janice Radway, Gita Rajan, and Robert Con Davis

Journal Article · 1993 Cite

Romance and the Work of Fantasy: Struggling with Female Subjectivity and Sexuality at Century’s End

Journal Article · 1993 Cite

Mail Order Culture and Its Critics: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Commodification, Consumption and the Problem of Cultural Authority

Journal Article · 1992 Cite

Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature

Book · 1991 Cite

Ethnography Among Elites: Comparing Discourses of Power

Journal Article Journal of Communication Inquiry · October 1990 Cite

The Scandal of the Middlebrow: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Class Fracture and Cultural Authority

Journal Article South Atlantic Quarterly · October 1990 Cite

Maps and the Construction of Boundaries: A Response to Michael Dennings

Journal Article International Labor and Working Class History · March 1990 Cite

The Book-of-the-Month Club and the General Reader

Journal Article · 1989 Cite

Reception Study: Ethnography and the Problems of Dispersed Audiences and Nomadic Subjects

Journal Article Cultural Studies · October 1988 Cite

The Book-of-the-Month Club and the General Readers: On the Uses of Serious Fiction

Journal Article Critical Inquiry · March 1988 Cite

Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature

Book · 1987 Cite

Reading is Not Eating: Mass-Produced Literature and the Theoretical, Methodological, and Political Consequences of A Metaphor

Journal Article Book Research Quarterly · October 1986 Cite

IDENTIFYING IDEOLOGICAL SEAMS - MASS-CULTURE, ANALYTICAL METHOD, AND POLITICAL PRACTICE

Journal Article COMMUNICATION · January 1, 1986 Link to item Cite

American Studies, Reader Theory, and the Literary Text: From the Study of Material Objects to the Study of Social Processes

Journal Article · 1985 Cite

Interpretive Communities and Variable Literacies: The Functions of Romance Reading

Journal Article Daedalus · July 1984 Cite

Women Read the Romance: The Interaction of Text and Context

Journal Article Feminist Studies · 1983 Full text Cite

The Aesthetic in Mass Culture: Reading and the ’Popular’ Literary Text

Journal Article · 1982 Cite

The Utopian Impluse in Popular Literature: Gothic Romances and 'Feminist' Protest

Journal Article American Quarterly · July 1981 Cite

Popular Culture as Play

Journal Article Texas Studies in Literature and Language · July 1980 Cite

Popular Verse and Poetry

Journal Article · 1980 Cite

Phenomenology, Linguistics, and Popular Literature

Journal Article Journal of Popular Culture · January 1, 1978 Full text Cite