Chick lit : the new woman's fiction

Ferriss, Suzanne, 1962- (Added Author). Young, Mallory, 1952- (Added Author).

Summary: Chick lit has emerged as a popular genre in English and American literature over recent years. This collection of essays represents the first academic approach to the study of this phenomenon.

Item details

ISBN: 0415975026 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780415975025 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0415975034 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780415975032 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
application/pdf
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.