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Chick Lit : The New Woman's Fiction
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Chick Lit : The New Woman's Fiction Paperback - 2005

by Suzanne Ferriss (Editor); Mallory Young (Editor)

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  • Title Chick Lit : The New Woman's Fiction
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 282
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, Florence, Kentucky, U.S.A.
  • Date 2005-10-17
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 8661112-6
  • ISBN 9780415975032 / 0415975034
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.02 x 0.6 in (23.11 x 15.29 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Women's Interest
  • Library of Congress subjects Women in literature, English fiction - Women authors - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005013904
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.540

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From the publisher

From the bestselling Bridget Jones's Diary that started the trend to the television sensation Sex and the Citythat captured it on screen, "chick lit" has become a major pop culture phenomenon. Banking on female audiences' identification with single, urban characters who struggle with the same life challenges, publishers have earned millions and even created separate imprints dedicated to the genre. Not surprisingly, some highbrow critics have dismissed chick lit as trashy fiction, but fans have argued that it is as empowering as it is entertaining.

This is the first volume of its kind to examine the chick lit phenomenon from a variety of angles, accounting for both its popularity and the intense reactions-positive and negative-it has provoked. The contributors explore the characteristics that cause readers to attach the moniker "chick" to a particular book and what, if anything, distinguishes the category of chick lit from the works of Jane Austen on one end and Harlequin romance novels on the other. They critique the genre from a range of critical perspectives, considering its conflicted relationship with feminism and postfeminism, heterosexual romance, body image, and consumerism. The fourteen original essays gathered here also explore such trends and subgenres as "Sistah Lit," "Mommy Lit," and "Chick Lit Jr.," as well as regional variations.

As the first book to consider the genre seriously, Chick Lit offers real insight into a new generation of women's fiction.

About the author

Suzanne Ferriss is Professor of English at Nova Southeastern University. She is co-author of A Handbookof Literary Feminisms and co-editor of two volumes on the cultural study of fashion: On Fashion and Footnotes: OnShoes.

Mallory Young is Professor of English and French at Tarleton State University.

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