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Tables of Contents for Fatal Attractions
Chapter/Section Title
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Acknowledgements
vii
1 Rescripting Romance: An Introduction
1
19
Lynne Pearce
Gina Wisker
2 Hollywood Romance in the Aids Era: Ghost and When Harry Met Sally
20
18
Maria Lauret
3 Jane Eyre in Later Lives: Intertextual Strategies in Women's Self-Definition
38
13
Patsy Stoneman
4 If Looks Could Kill: Contemporary Women's Vampire Fictions
51
18
Gina Wisker
5 Prisons, Traps and Escape Routes: Feminist Critiques of Romance
69
15
Flora Alexander
6 Essentially Virtuous? Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac as Generic Subversion
84
14
Maroula Joannou
7 Another Time, Another Place: the Chronotope of Romantic Love in Contemporary Feminist Fiction
98
14
Lynne Pearce
8 Rewriting the Love Story: the Reader as Writer in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca
112
16
Judy Simons
9 Love Transforms: Variations on a Theme in Film and Soap
128
13
Phyllis Creme
10 Mills and Boon's Temptations: Sex and the Single Couple in the 1990s
141
16
Nickianne Moody
11 True Love in Queer Times: Romance, Suburbia and Maculinity
157
17
David Oswell
12 Abject Desire and Basic Instinct: a Tale of Cynical Romance
174
15
Barbara Creed
13 Girl Meets Girl: Changing Approaches to the Lesbian Romance
189
16
Paulina Palmer
14 `They gotta do what they gotta do': Interrogating the Contradictions and Lasting Pleasures of Masculine Romance
205
14
Derek Longhurst
Notes on Contributors
219
3
Index
222