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Geographies of love : the cultural spaces of romance in Chick- and Ladlit / Christian Lenz.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cultural studies (Transcript (Firm)) ; Bd. 47.Publication details: Bielefeld (Germany) : Transcript, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 3839434416
  • 9783839434413
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823.08509 23
LOC classification:
  • PR830.L69 L45 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Spaces of Love -- Sprightly Ladies and Lost Boys -- Cultural Geographies -- Where We Love Is Home -- Work Placements on Three Continents -- A Metropolitan Pleasure Hunt -- Placing the Happily Ever After -- Bibliography
Summary: "Geographies of Love" is the first study to explore the cultural lifeworlds of British, Australian and Indian chick- and ladlit characters. Offering unique case studies including Bridget Jones and Will Freeman ("About a Boy"), the book explores how love and romance are looked for, begun and conducted in specific spaces and places: the home and the office as well as shops, clubs and bars. This cross-disciplinary study provides scholars, students and keen readers with different points of access and easily-relatable situations so as to apprehend the complex phenomenon of cultural geographies within the field of literary studies.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Spaces of Love -- Sprightly Ladies and Lost Boys -- Cultural Geographies -- Where We Love Is Home -- Work Placements on Three Continents -- A Metropolitan Pleasure Hunt -- Placing the Happily Ever After -- Bibliography

"Geographies of Love" is the first study to explore the cultural lifeworlds of British, Australian and Indian chick- and ladlit characters. Offering unique case studies including Bridget Jones and Will Freeman ("About a Boy"), the book explores how love and romance are looked for, begun and conducted in specific spaces and places: the home and the office as well as shops, clubs and bars. This cross-disciplinary study provides scholars, students and keen readers with different points of access and easily-relatable situations so as to apprehend the complex phenomenon of cultural geographies within the field of literary studies.

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