Radway, Janice A., Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy and Popular Literature, Verso, London, 1987. Radway's research was:

Radway's motives and initial hypotheses were therefore different from my own. However, in order to collect data, Radway combined content analysis, observation and interviewing methods, which would all have been appropriate methods for my research.

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