Loving with a Vengeance

<p>Upon its first publication <em>Loving with a Vengeance </em>was a groundbreaking study of women readers and their relationship to mass-market romance fiction. Feminist scholar and cultural critic Tania Modleski has revisited her widely read book bringing to this new edition a review of the issues that have in the intervening years shaped and reshaped questions of women's reading. With her trademark acuity and understanding of the power both of the mass-produced object film television or popular literature and the complex workings of reading and reception she offers here a framework for thinking about one of popular culture's central issues.<br><br>This edition includes a new introduction a new chapter and changes throughout the existing text.</p>