Chick Lit (eBook, PDF)

The New Woman's Fiction
Redaktion: Ferriss, Suzanne; Young, Mallory

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136092428
• Artikelnr.: 38452431

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young
Introduction The Hatching of a Genre: Origins and Influences Cris Mazza
Tome of the Unknown Chick: A Short History of Chick-Lit and the Perversion of a Genre Stephanie Harzewski
Tradition and Displacement in the New Novel of Manners Juliette Wells
Mothers of Chick Lit?: Women Writers
Readers
and Literary History Suzanne Ferriss
Narrative and Cinematic Doubleness: Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones's Diary Free Range: Varieties and Variations Lisa A. Guerrero
'Sistahs Are Doin' It for Themselves': Chick Lit in Black and White Elizabeth Hale
Long-Suffering Professional Females: The Case of Nanny-Lit Heather Hewett
You Are Not Alone: The Personal
the Political
and the 'New' Mommy Lit Joanna Webb Johnson
Chick Lit Jr.: More Than Just Glitz and Glamour for Teens and Tweens Elizabeth B. Boyd
Ya Yas
Grits and Sweet Potato Queens: Contemporary Southern Belles and the Prescriptions That Guide Them Nóra Séllei
Bridget Jones and Hungarian Chick Lit Sex and the Single Chick: Feminism and Postfeminism
Sexuality and Self-Fashioning A. Rochelle Mabry
About a Girl: Female Subjectivity and Sexuality in Contemporary 'Chick' Culture Anna Kiernan
No Satisfaction: Sex and the City
Run Catch Kiss
and the Conflict of Desires in Chick Lit's New Heroines Jessica Lyn Van Slooten
Fashionably Indebted: Fashion
Romance
and Conspicuous Consumption in Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic Trilogy Alison Umminger
Super-Sizing Bridget Jones: What's Really Eating the Women in Chick Lit Shari Benstock
Afterword Selected Bibliography Contributors' Notes