![]() ![]() ![]() By living through the female heroines, these women are able to unify what Jacque Lacan calls the Imaginary and Symbolic self. The novels, “permits its readers the experience of feeling cared for and the sense of having been reconstituted affectively, even if both are lived only vicariously,” (Radway 97). Their roles as mothers and wives are defined by taking care of others, with no one to care of them emotionally. The women Radway interview justify reading these books in several ways, including fulfilling an emotional need that they might not get from being a housewife. In Janice Radway’s chapter “The Act of Reading the Romance: Escape and Instruction” in her book Reading the Romance, she uses interviews with women who buy and read romance novels to uncover the reasons behind their attraction to these books. ![]()
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