Title:
Romance revisited
Author:
Pearce, Lynne.
ISBN:
9780814766309
9780814766316
Publication Information:
New York : New York University Press, c1995.
Physical Description:
310 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents:
The Heart of the Matter: Feminists Revisit Romance / Jackie Stacey and Lynne Pearce -- Women and Heterosexual Love: Complicity, Resistance and Change / Stevi Jackson -- Romancing the Helix: Nature and Scientific Discovery / Sarah Franklin -- The Language of Love: Medieval Erotic Vision and Modern Romance Fiction / Rosalynn Voaden -- Literature Beyond Modernism: Middlebrow and Popular Romance / Bridget Fowler -- The Space Between: Daughters and Lovers in Anne Trister / Lizzie Thynne -- Addicted to Love / Sue Vice -- Bryher's Two Selves as Lesbian Romance / Diana Collecott -- Safe and Sexy: Lesbian Erotica in the Age of AIDS / Gabriele Griffin -- The Postmodern Romances of Feminist Science Fiction / Jenny Wolmark -- The Heart of Whiteness: White Subjectivity and Interracial Relationships / Kathryn Perry -- White Girls are Easy, Black Girls are Studs / Inge Blackman -- (Not) Compromising: Inter-skin Colour Relations / Helen (charles).
Love in Black and White / Felly Nkweto Simmonds -- A Public Romance: 'The Charles and Di Story' / Celia Lury -- 'Can Men Love?': 'Reading', 'Staging' and 'Resisting' the Romance / Jean Duncombe and Dennis Marsden -- 'Snuglet Puglet Loves to Snuggle with Snuglet Piglet': Alter Personalities in Heterosexual Love Relationships / Wendy Langffrd -- 'I never felt as though I fitted': Family Romances and the Mother-Daughter Relationship / Steph Lawler -- 'You Meet 'Em and That's It': Working Class Women's Refusal of Romance Between the Wars in Britain / Judy Giles -- Anti-Romantic Discourse as Resistance: Women's Fiction 1775-1820 / Joan Forbes.