The Glass Slipper: Women and Love Stories

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Notes preface 1 Laurie Rudman and Kim Fairchild, “The F Word: Is Feminism Incompatible with Beauty and Romance?” Psychology of Women Quarterly 31, no. 2 (2007): 125–136. introduction 1 I refer to the date (1971) when Harlequin Enterprises bought the publisher Mills and Boon and began its phenomenally successful mass-market publishing of category romances. 2 See Wendy Langford’s overview in Revolutions of the Heart: Gender, Power and the Delusions of Love (London: Routledge, 1999). 3 For “postmodern” cynicism along with idealism, see Catherine Belsey, “Postmodern Love: Questioning the Metaphysics of Desire,” New Literary History 25, no. 3 (1994): 683–705; Aaron Ben-Ze’ev and Ruhama Goussinsky, In the Name of Love: Romantic Ideology and Its Victims (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), chapter 8; Eva Illouz, “The Lost Innocence of Love,” Theory, Culture & Society 15, no. 3 (2001): 161–186. 4 See Yvonne Tasker and Diane Negra, Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007). 5 Susan Ostrov Weisser, A Craving Vacancy: Women and Sexual Love in the British Novel (New York: New York University Press, 1997). 6 Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch (1970; New York: HarperCollins, 2008). 7 For the “competing discourses” of love, see David Shumway, Modern Love (New York: New York University Press, 2003). 8 My thanks to Eric Reinemann for his permission to use this passage. 9 bell hooks, All about Love: New Visions (New York: William Morrow, 2000), 196. 10 Mary-Lou Galician, Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003), 9. 11 Laura Kipnis, Against Love: A Polemic (New York: Vintage, 2004); Cristina Nehring, A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century (New York: Harper, 2009). 12 Daniel Harris, Cute, Quaint, Hungry, and Romantic (New York: Basic Books, 2000), 84. 13 Jan Cohn, Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for Women (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1987). 14 See Robert Sternberg, “Love as a Story,” Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 12, no. 4 (1995): 541–546, for a psychological approach to this topic. 15 Fredric Jameson, “Magical Narratives: Romance as Genre,” New Literary History 7, no. 1 (1975): 135–163. For a critique of Jameson’s approach to gender, see Laurie Langbauer, Women and Romance: The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990). 16 Gabriele Schäfer, “Romantic Love in Heterosexual Relationships: Women’s Experiences,” Journal of Social Science 16, no. 3 (2008): 189. In a review of recent scholarly books on romantic love, Virginia L. Blum says, “It is telling that none of these . . . grapples seriously with the role played by gender in one’s experience of love”; Blum, “Love Studies: Or, Liberating Love,” 213 214 Notes to Pages 14–40 American Literary History 17 (2005): 335–338. 17 Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart, trans. Burton Raffel (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997), 147. 18 See Merri Lisa Johnson, “Fuck You & Your Untouchable Face: Third Wave Feminism & the Problem of Romance,” in Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire, ed. M. L. Johnson (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002). 19 See Eva Illouz, “Reason within Passion: Love in Women’s Magazines,” Critical Studies in Mass Communication 8, no. 3 (1991): 231–248. Chapter 1 The Odd Couple 1 Kate Millett, Sexual Politics (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970), 238. 2 See A. Walton Litz, “Recollecting Jane Austen,” Critical Inquiry 1, no. 3 (1975): 669–682. 3 There is also a remarkable amount of fan fiction, as well as books that are “continuations” of Austen’s novels, with titles like My Dearest Mr. Darcy: An Amazing Journey into Love Everlasting (The Darcy Saga). 4 Frieda Lawrence, “Not I, but the Wind . . . ” (New York: Viking Press, 1934), 165. 5 In R. P. Draper, ed., D. H. Lawrence: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979), 96–97, 108. 6 Jane Austen, Persuasion, ed. with introduction and notes by Susan Ostrov Weisser (New York: Barnes and Noble, 2003), 22. Hereafter cited in text. 7 Juliet McMaster, Jane Austen the Novelist: Essays Past and Present (London: Macmillan, 1975). 8 D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, ed. with introduction and notes by Susan Ostrov Weisser (New York: Barnes and Noble, 2005), 300. Hereafter cited in text. 9 D. H. Lawrence, A Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays, ed. Bruce Steele (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), 173. 10 Ibid., 203. 11...