Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction

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ISBN: 9780415975032 | 0415975034
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Copyright: 10/17/2005

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From the bestselling Bridget Jones's Diary that started the trend to the TV sensation Sex and the City that captured it on screen, "chick lit" has become a major pop culture phenomenon. This volume examines chick lit from a wide range of perspectives, accounting for both its popularity and the intense reactions-positive and negative-it has provoked. Book jacket.

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Hatching of a Genre: Origins and Influences
Who's Laughing Now? A Short History of Chick Lit and the Perversion of a Genre	p. 17
Tradition and Displacement in the New Novel of Manners	p. 29
Mothers of Chick Lit? Women Writers, Readers, and Literary History	p. 47
Narrative and Cinematic Doubleness: Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones's Diary	p. 71
Free Range: Varieties and Variations
"Sistahs Are Doin' It for Themselves": Chick Lit in Black and White	p. 87
Long-Suffering Professional Females: The Case of Nanny Lit	p. 103
You Are Not Alone: The Personal, the Political, and the "New" Mommy Lit	p. 119
Chick Lit Jr.: More Than Glitz and Glamour for Teens and Tweens	p. 141
Ya Yas, Grits, and Sweet Potato Queens: Contemporary Southern Belles and the Prescriptions That Guide Them	p. 159
Bridget Jones and Hungarian Chick Lit	p. 173
Sex and the Single Chick: Feminism and Postfeminism, Sexuality and Self-Fashioning
About a Girl: Female Subjectivity and Sexuality in Contemporary 'Chick' Culture	p. 191
No Satisfaction: Sex and the City, Run Catch Kiss, and the Conflict of Desires in Chick Lit's New Heroines	p. 207
Fashionably Indebted: Conspicuous Consumption, Fashion, and Romance in Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic Trilogy	p. 219
Supersizing Bridget Jones: What's Really Eating the Women in Chick Lit	p. 239
Afterword: The New Woman's Fiction	p. 253
Selected Bibliography	p. 257
Contributors	p. 261
Index	p. 265
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