The glass slipper : women and love stories /

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 magazine...

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Main Author: Weisser, Susan Ostrov
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2013
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Summary: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 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.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781461944775
1461944775
9780813561790
0813561795
1299953182
9781299953185
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.