The glass slipper [electronic resource] : women and love stories / Susan Ostrov Weisser.
Material type: TextPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9780813561790
- 0813561795
- 809.3/85 23
- PN3448.L67 W37 2013
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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