Chick lit : the new woman's fiction
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- ISBN: 0415975026 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780415975025 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0415975034 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780415975032 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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ix, 272 p. ; 24 cm. - Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2006.
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-259) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | pt. I. The hatching of a genre : origins and influences. Who's laughing now? : a short history of chick lit and the perversion of a genre / Cris Mazza -- Tradition and displacement in the new novel of manners / Stephanie Harzewski -- Mothers of chick lit? : women writers, readers, and literary history / Juliette Wells -- Narrative and cinematic doubleness : Pride and prejudice and Bridget Jones's diary / Suzanne Ferriss -- pt. II. Free range : varieties and variations. "Sistahs are doin' it for themselves" : chick lit in black and white / Lisa A. Guerrero -- Long-suffering professional females : the case of nanny lit / Elizabeth Hale -- You are not alone : the personal, the political, and the "new" mommy lit / Heather Hewett -- Chick lit jr. : more than glitz and glamour for teens and tweens / Joanna Webb Johnson -- Ya yas, grits, and sweet potato queens : contemporary Southern belles and the prescriptions that guide them / Elizabeth B. Boyd -- Bridget Jones and Hungarian chick lit / Nóra Séllei -- pt. III. Sex and the single chick : feminism and postfeminism, sexuality and self-fashioning. About a girl : female subjectivity and sexuality in conteporary 'chick' culture / A. Rochelle Mabry -- No satisfaction : Sex and the city, Run catch kiss, and the conflict of desires in chick lit's new heroines / Anna Kiernan -- Fashionably indebted : conspicuous consumption, fashion and romance in Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic trilogy / Jessica Lyn Van Slooten -- Supersizing Bridget Jones : what's really eating the women in chick lit / Alison Umminger -- Afterword : The new woman's fiction / Shari Benstock. |
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