| Description |
ix, 272 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-259) and index. |
| Contents |
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 / Nora Sellei -- pt. III. Sex and the single chick : feminism and postfeminism, sexuality and self-fashioning. -- About a girl : female subjectivity and sexuality in contemporary '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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Chick lit -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Women -- Books and reading -- English-speaking countries.
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Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.
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Single women in literature.
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Young women in literature.
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Women in literature.
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| Added Author |
Ferriss, Suzanne, 1962-
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Young, Mallory, 1952-
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| ISBN |
0415975034 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780415975032 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0415975026 (alk. paper) |
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9780415975025 (alk. paper) |
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