Weisser, Susan Ostrov. <br/><br/>
The glass slipper :  women and love stories / 
Susan Ostrov Weisser. 
 - 235 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-230) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813561783 9780813561776 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012051437 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Love stories--History and criticism.<br/>Women and literature.<br/>Women in literature.<br/>Love in literature.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN3448.L67  / W37 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>809.3/85