Understanding middle class adolescent leisure: A cultural studies approach to romance novel reading

The cultural studies perspective offers interpretations of the appeal of the cultural form of the romance novel and the pleasure of the cultural practice of leisure reading through recognition of meaning and affective processes. Findings from this dissertation's three studies suggest that leisure practices for female and male adolescents are an important way, among others, to allow for management of identity in this important developmental stage--adolescence--preceding college/work/adulthood/marriage expectations. A survey study reveals that leisure reading is a relatively popular leisure pursuit for adolescents, from students who might read a magazine or novel occasionally for fun to those students who are addictive leisure readers, for example, in this study of female adolescent readers of romance novels.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communications

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Moffitt, Mary Anne Smeltzer

Contributors dc:contributor

• Grossberg, Lawrence

• Women's Studies
• Sociology, Individual and Family Studies
• Mass Communications

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1990 Moffitt, Mary Anne Smeltzer

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9026270
(UMI)AAI9026270

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/21371