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Author Dudovitz, Resa L.

Title The myth of superwoman : women's bestsellers in France and the United States / Resa L. Dudovitz
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1990

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Description 1 online resource (v, 208 pages)
Contents Definitions of the bestseller [lists] -- The Institutional and cultural network of the bestseller system -- The sentimental novel : A history of popular women writers i the United States and France -- The boundary between romance and the bestseller : Harlequin, historical novels and family sagas -- The dilemma of marriage -- Superwoman : The new woman of the 1980s [social and political condition of women in USA and France ; Career-women novels, etc.]
Summary "Reviled by the critics but loved by the readers, the bestseller has until recently provoked little serious critcal interest. In The Myth of Superwoman Resa Dudovitze looks at this international phenomenon, particularly at the origins of the bestseller system in the United States and France. Her cross-cultural study including interviews with publishers, literatry agents, and bestselling authors, gives a lively picture of the contrasting ways in which the bestseller is produced, marketed, and received in two countries. It pays special attention to the international bestsellers of the 1980s to writers like Judith Krantz, Colleen McCullough, and Barbara Taylor Bradford ... Dudovitz shows how women's best selling fiction has, over the last two hundred years, kept pace with the social evolution of contemporary women, culminating in the myth of superwoman in women's bestsellers of the 1980s."--Back cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-202) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Best sellers -- United States -- Bibliography
Popular literature -- History and criticism
American fiction -- History and criticism
Women -- Books and reading -- United States
French fiction -- History and criticism
Best sellers -- France -- Bibliography
Women -- Books and reading -- France
Literature publishing.
Women in literature.
Myth in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
American fiction
Best sellers
French fiction
Literature publishing
Myth in literature
Popular literature
Women
Women -- Books and reading
Women in literature
Bestsellers.
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Triviale literatuur.
Vrouwen.
France
United States
Genre/Form Bibliographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780429324291
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