TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weisser,Susan Ostrov
TI  - The glass slipper: women and love stories 
SN  - 9780813561783
AV  - PN3448.L67 W37 2013
U1  - 809.3/85 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New Brunswick, N.J.
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Love stories
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Women in literature
KW  - Love in literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-230) 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
ER  -