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Geographies of Love : The Cultural Spaces of Romance in Chick- and Ladlit / Christian Lenz.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cultural Studies ; 47Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2016]Copyright date: 2016Description: 1 online resource (356 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783837634419
  • 9783839434413
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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's Diary«, »About a Boy« and »Almost Single«, the book explores how women and men search for love and how they commit themselves to romances 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 multiple points of access and easily-relatable situations. It applies the complex phenomenon of cultural geographies within the field of literary studies and sheds new light on a most passionate feeling.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9783839434413

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

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»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's Diary«, »About a Boy« and »Almost Single«, the book explores how women and men search for love and how they commit themselves to romances 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 multiple points of access and easily-relatable situations. It applies the complex phenomenon of cultural geographies within the field of literary studies and sheds new light on a most passionate feeling.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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