Dr. or Prof. Lise Shapiro Sanders

Asserts that the popular romance offered new possibilities for young working women as social actors and media consumers in early 20th-century Britain. Young working women were the target audience for popular romance fiction and film in early 20th-century Britain, and as such, were often seen as impressionable consumers of escapist fantasies. Reading for Pleasure complicates this narrative, revealing how women...

Asserts that the popular romance offered new possibilities for young working women as social actors and media consumers in early 20th-century Britain. Young working women were the target audience for popular romance fiction and film in early 20th-century Britain, and as such, were often seen as impressionable consumers of escapist fantasies. Reading for Pleasure complicates this narrative, revealing how women...