The glass slipper : : women and love stories / / Susan Ostrov Weisser.
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, New Jersey : : Rutgers University Press,, [2013] 2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (253 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Women and the story of romantic love
- The odd couple: mating Jane Austen with D. H. Lawrence
- Why Charlotte Bronte despised Jane Austen (and what that tells us about the modern meaning of love)
- The true and real thing: Victorian and modern magazine cultures of romance
- Victorian desires and modern romances: Pocahontas on a bridge in Madison County
- For the love of mermaids, beasts, and vampires (and ghosts, robots, monsters, witches, and aliens): romancing the other
- Women who love too much ... or not enough...or the wrong way: the tragedy and comedy of romantic love in modern movies
- Feminism and Harlequin romance: the problem of the love story
- A genre of one's own: African American romance imprints and the "universality" of love
- Is female to romance as male is to porn?
- Modern romance: three versions of love in reality/"reality"
- Conclusion: If the glass slipper fits.