Chick lit and postfeminism / Stephanie Harzewski.

The author offers a scholarly dissection of "chick lit" from a post-feminist perspective. She analyzes the novel Bridget Jones' Diary and the HBO series Sex and the City while making parallels back to writings of Jane Austen and the Victorian novel in general. She looks at what these...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Harzewski, Stephanie, 1974-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Series:Cultural frames, framing culture.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: heels over Hemingway
  • Postmodernism's last romance
  • Bridget Jones's diary and the production of a popular Austen
  • Sex and the city and the New York novel
  • The legacy of working-girl fiction
  • Theorizing postfeminist fictions of development
  • Epilogue.