Susan Ostrov Weisser

The Glass Slipper

Women and Love Stories

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the persistence of a familiar Anglo-American love story into the digital age. Susan Ostrov Weisser compares diverse narratives, historical and contemporary from high literature and "low” genres, discussing novels by Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, Victorian women's magazines, and D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover; romantic movies; popular Harlequin romance novels; masochistic love in films; pornography and its relationship to romance; and reality TV and Internet ads as romantic stories.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780813561776
• ISBN-10: 0813561779
• Artikelnr.: 39531270

Autorenporträt

SUSAN OSTROV WEISSER is a professor of English at Adelphi University. She is the author of A Craving Vacancy: Women and Sexual Love in the British Novel 1740–1880, and the editor of Women and Romance: A Reader,as well as three scholarly editions of classic novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and D. H. Lawrence.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. The Odd Couple
2. Why Charlotte Bronte Despised Jane Austen
3. The True and Real Thing
4. Victorian Desires and Modern Romances
5. For the Love of Mermaids, Beasts, and Vampires (and Ghosts, Robots,
Monsters, Witches, and Aliens)
6. Women Who Love Too Much . . . or Not Enough . . . or the Wrong Way
7. Feminism and Harlequin Romance
8. A Genre of One’s Own
9. Is Female to Romance as Male Is to Porn?
10. Modern Romance
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index