Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii Introduction 11. Sex, Love and Marriage 132. The Romance Hero 393. The Victorian Popular Romance 634. Women's Work 935. The Erotics of Property 1256. Romance and Sexual Politics 151 Index 179

Reviews

"Building upon earlier work on the genre of romance, Romance and the Erotics of Property advances a new claim; Cohn argues compellingly that the romance's story of attraction and love masks a more important, more disturbing tale about how women achieve power and economic success within partriarchy."-Janice Radway