Title Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit

Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (193 pages) Series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory ; v. 10 Literary criticism and cultural theory. Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Permissions; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter One Introduction; Chapter Two One Simple Step to Becoming a V.G. Consumer: Read Women's Magazines; Chapter Three The Girls' Guide to Breaking The Rules; Chapter Four Down with Marriage: The Search for Romantic Alternatives; Chapter Five Living the Life of a Domestic Goddess: "It's a Good Thing"; Chapter Six Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index Summary Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit examines the way in which the popular women's fiction genre of the late 1990s, known as chick lit, responds to women's advice manuals such as women's magazines, self-help books, romantic comedies, and domestic-advice manuals Notes Print version record Subject American fiction. Chick lit. Consumption (Economics) in literature. Cosmopolitanism in literature. English fiction. Single women in literature. Women. Young women in literature. Literature. Women Literature women (female humans) American fiction Chick lit Consumption (Economics) in literature Cosmopolitanism in literature English fiction Literature Single women in literature Women Young women in literature Form Electronic book ISBN 9780203929148 0203929144 1281101966 9781281101969

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