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Contents Preface ix Introduction: Women and the Story of Romantic Love 1 1 The Odd Couple: Mating Jane Austen with D. H. Lawrence 17 2 Why Charlotte Brontë Despised Jane Austen (and What That Tells Us about the Modern Meaning of Love) 35 3 The True and Real Thing: Victorian and Modern Magazine Cultures of Romance 50 4 Victorian Desires and Modern Romances: Pocahontas on a Bridge in Madison County 70 5 For the Love of Mermaids, Beasts, and Vampires (and Ghosts, Robots, Monsters, Witches, and Aliens): Romancing the Other 79 6 WomenWhoLoveTooMuch...orNotEnough...ortheWrong Way:TheTragedyandComedyofRomanticLovein ModernMovies 105 7 Feminism and Harlequin Romance: The Problem of the Love Story 130 8 A Genre of One’s Own: African American Romance Imprints and the “Universality” of Love 146 9 Is Female to Romance as Male Is to Porn? 171 10 ModernRomance:TwoVersionsofLoveinReality/“Reality” 182 Conclusion: If the Glass Slipper Fits 206 Notes 213 Selected Bibliography 229 Index 231 ...

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