Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Introduction: Women and the Story of Romantic Love 1
4. 1. The Odd Couple: Mating Jane Austen with D. H. Lawrence 17
5. 2. Why Charlotte Brontë Despised Jane Austen (and What That Tells Us about the Modern Meaning of Love) 35
6. 3. The True and Real Thing: Victorian and Modern Magazine Cultures of Romance 50
7. 4. Victorian Desires and Modern Romances: Pocahontas on a Bridge in Madison County 70
8. 5. For the Love of Mermaids, Beasts, and Vampires (and Ghosts, Robots, Monsters, Witches, and Aliens): Romancing the Other 79
9. 6. Women Who Love Too Much . . . or Not Enough . . . or the Wrong Way: The Tragedy and Comedy of Romantic Love in Modern Movies 105
10. 7. Feminism and Harlequin Romance: The Problem of the Love Story 130
11. 8. A Genre of One’s Own: African American Romance Imprints and the “Universality” of Love 146
12. 9. Is Female to Romance as Male Is to Porn? 171
13. 10. Modern Romance: Two Versions of Love in Reality/“Reality” 182
14. Conclusion: If the Glass Slipper Fits 206
15. Notes 213
16. Selected Bibliography 229
17. Index 231
18. About the Author 237