Chick Lit and Postfeminism - Brossura

Harzewski, Stephanie

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ISBN 10: 0813930723 ISBN 13: 9780813930725

Casa editrice: Univ of Virginia Pr, 2011

Riassunto

Originally a euphemism for Princeton University’s Female Literary Tradition course in the 1980s, "chick lit" mutated from a movement in American women’s avant-garde fiction in the 1990s to become, by the turn of the century, a humorous subset of women’s literature, journalism, and advice manuals. Stephanie Harzewski examines such best sellers as Bridget Jones’s Diary The Devil Wears Prada, and Sex and the City as urban appropriations of and departures from the narrative traditions of the novel of manners, the popular romance, and the bildungsroman. Further, Harzewski uses chick lit as a lens through which to view gender relations in U.S. and British society in the 1990s. Chick Lit and Postfeminism is the first sustained historicization of this major pop-cultural phenomenon, and Harzewski successfully demonstrates how chick lit and the critical study of it yield social observations on upheavals in Anglo-American marriage and education patterns, heterosexual rituals, feminism, and postmodern values.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Stephanie Harzewski is Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of New Hampshire.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Virginia Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0813930723
• ISBN 13: 9780813930725
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 247