TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weisser,Susan Ostrov
TI  - The glass slipper: women and love stories 
SN  - 9781461944775
AV  - PN3448 .G537 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New Brunswick, N.J.
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Romance fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Women in literature
KW  - Love in literature
KW  - Literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - The Glass Slipper is about 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 a
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