See for example: Radway, Janice A., Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy and Popular Literature, Verso, London, 1987; Modleski, Tania, Loving With a Vengeance, Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women, Archan Books, Hamden, Conn., 1982.

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