| Description |
235 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-230) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Love stories -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature.
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Women in literature.
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Love in literature.
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| ISBN |
9780813561783 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0813561787 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780813561776 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0813561779 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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