The glass slipper : women and love stories / Susan Ostrov Weisser.
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
2013.
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| Genre/Form: | dissertations, Academic theses |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781461944775 1461944775 9780813561790 0813561795 1299953182 9781299953185 |
| Language: | English. |