Chick lit and postfeminism

Chick lit and postfeminism / Stephanie Harzewski.

The author offers a scholarly dissection of "chick lit" from a post-feminist perspective. She analyzes the novel Bridget Jones' Diary and the HBO series Sex and the City while making parallels back to writings of Jane Austen and the Victorian novel in general. She looks at what these...

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Main Author: Harzewski, Stephanie, 1974-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Series:Cultural frames, framing culture.
Subjects:
Chick lit, American > History and criticism.
Chick lit, English > History and criticism.
Chick lit > History and criticism.
Women > Books and reading.
Single women in literature.
Consumption (Economics) in literature.
Man-woman relationships in literature.
Popular culture in literature.
Social values in literature.
Feminist theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Chick lit
Chick lit, American
Chick lit, English
Consumption (Economics) in literature
Feminist theory
Man-woman relationships in literature
Popular culture in literature
Single women in literature
Social values in literature
Women > Books and reading
Englisch
Junge Frau
Roman
Trivialer Frauenroman
Litteraturvetenskap > populärlitteratur > Storbritannien > Förenta Staterna > 2000-talet.
Läsning.
Postfeminism.
Chick lit > historia.
Amerikanska romaner > kvinnliga författare > historia.
Engelska romaner > kvinnliga författare > historia.
Kvinnor > böcker och läsning.
Feministisk teori.
USA
Englisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: heels over Hemingway
  • Postmodernism's last romance
  • Bridget Jones's diary and the production of a popular Austen
  • Sex and the city and the New York novel
  • The legacy of working-girl fiction
  • Theorizing postfeminist fictions of development
  • Epilogue.

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