Title Reading from the heart : women, literature, and the search for true love / Suzanne Juhasz

Published Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin Books, 1994

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W'PONDS	809.385 J9376/R		AVAILABLE

Description x, 292 pages ; 20 cm Contents Prologue: The Passionate Woman Reader and the Story of True Love -- 1. Becoming a Romance Reader: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Elswyth Thane's Tryst -- 2. True Love Is Forever: Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights -- 3. Seduction and Betrayal in the Gothic Romance: The Fantasy of Father Love: Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre -- 4. The Magic Circle: Fictions of the Good Mother: Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and Gloria Naylor's Mama Day -- 5. Coming Out in Lesbian Romance Fiction: Isabel Miller's Patience and Sarah and Valerie Taylor's Prism -- Epilogue. Everyday Reading and True Love -- Appendix: Women's Development, Object-Relations Theory, and Reading Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-283) and index Subject American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism. English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Love. Romance fiction -- Appreciation. Romance fiction, American -- History and criticism. Romance fiction, English -- History and criticism. Women and literature -- History -- 20th century. Women -- Books and reading -- History -- 20th century. Women -- Psychology. ISBN 0140168559 (paperback)

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