The glass slipper : women and love stories /

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This book is about the persistence of a familiar Anglo-American love story into the digital age. The author compares diverse narratives, historical and contemporary from high literature and "low" genres, discussing novels by Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, Victorian women's magazin...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Weisser, Susan Ostrov
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Romance fiction > History and criticism.
Women and literature.
Women in literature.
Love in literature.
Femmes et littérature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Amour dans la littérature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Romance-language fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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