Title Chick lit : the new woman's fiction / edited by Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young

Published New York : Routledge, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 272 pages) Contents Cover; Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I The Hatching of a Genre: Origins and Influences; 1 Who's Laughing Now? A Short History of Chick Lit and the Perversion of a Genre; 2 Tradition and Displacement in the New Novel of Manners; 3 Mothers of Chick Lit? Women Writers, Readers, and Literary History; 4 Narrative and Cinematic Doubleness: Pride and Prejudice and Bridget]ones's Diary; PART II Free Range: Varieties and Variations; 5 "Sistahs Are Doin' It for Themselves": Chick Lit in Black and White 6 Long-Suffering Professional Females: The Case of Nanny Lit; 7 You Are Not Alone: The Personal, the Political, and the "New" Mommy Lit; 8 Chick Lit Jr.: More Than Glitz and Glamour for Teens and Tweens; 9 Ya Yas, Grits, and Sweet Potato Queens: Contemporary Southern Belles and the Prescriptions That Guide Them; 10 Bridget Jones and Hungarian Chick Lit; PART III Sex and the Single Chick: Feminism and Postfeminism, Sexuality and Self-Fashioning; 11 About a Girl: Female Subjectivity and Sexuality in Contemporary 'Chick' Culture 12 No Satisfaction: Sex and the City, Run Catch Kiss, and the Conflict of Desires in Chick Lit's New Heroines;13 Fashionably Indebted: Conspicuous Consumption, Fashion, and Romance in Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic Trilogy; 14 Supersizing Bridget Jones: What's Really Eating the Women in Chick Lit; Afterword: The New Woman's Fiction; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index Summary From the bestselling Bridget Jones's Diary that started the trend to the television sensation Sex and the City that 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-259) and index Notes Print version record Subject American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism Women -- Books and reading -- English-speaking countries Women and literature -- English-speaking countries Single women in literature. Young women in literature. Women in literature. American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. English literature -- Women authors American literature -- Women authors American fiction -- Women authors English fiction -- Women authors Single women in literature Women and literature Women -- Books and reading Women in literature Young women in literature Literatur Junge Frau Frauenliteratur Letterkunde. Vrouwen. Meisjes. Chick lit. Kvinnor i litteraturen. Litteratur -- kvinnliga författare. English-speaking countries USA Englisch. Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Ferriss, Suzanne, 1962- Young, Mallory, 1952- ISBN 9781136092428 1136092420 1299287468 9781299287464 9780203036211 0203036212 9781136092589 1136092587 9781136092503 1136092501

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