Janice Radway’s Reading the Romance (RTR) is a book that was published at the University of Pennsylvania, United States, in 1984 and soon after republished as a second edition (1987). RTR combines a text analysis with a reception study and an ethnographic study of mass-produced romance literature. The book revolves around a circle of female romance readers in a small American town and the bookseller who merchandises, recommends, and discusses the literature with the readers. The books themselves are also discussed as texts. Radway conducts narrative analyses and a psychoanalytic interpretation of the texts, uses questionnaires, and interviews readers, producers, and distributors. The book is considered a classic within Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, and Comparative Literature.