Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature

5 best books like Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature (Janice A. Radway): Life Among the Savages, Let's Talk About Love, Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Mooncop

Life Among the Savages

Author	Shirley Jackson
ISBN	0140267670

Shirley Jackson, author of the classic short story The Lottery, was known for her terse, haunting prose. But the writer possessed another side, one which is delightfully exposed in this hilariously charming memoir of her family's life in rural Vermont. Fans of Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Cheaper...

Let's Talk About Love

Author	Claire Kann
ISBN	1250138825

Alice had her whole summer planned. Non-stop all-you-can-eat buffets while marathoning her favorite TV shows (best friends totally included) with the smallest dash of adulting--working at the library to pay her share of the rent. The only thing missing from her perfect plan? Her girlfriend (who...

Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites

Author	Evan Dorkin
ISBN	1595825134

Welcome to Burden Hill - A peaceful suburb like any other with white picket fences and vibrant green grass - home to an unlikely team of paranormal investigators.

Black magic, demonic frogs, and zombie roadkill are just a few of the problems plaguing this seemingly sleepy little town. With...

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

Author	Benedict Anderson
ISBN	0860915468

What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality--the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to a nation--has not received proportionate attention. In this widely...

Mooncop

Author	Tom Gauld
ISBN	1770462546

"Living on the moon . . . Whatever were we thinking? . . . It seems so silly now."

The lunar colony is slowly winding down, like a small town circumvented by a new super highway. As our hero, the Mooncop, makes his daily rounds, his beat grows ever smaller, the population dwindles. A young girl runs...