Chick lit and postfeminism

Harzewski, Stephanie, 1974-

Chick lit and postfeminism [electronic resource] / Stephanie Harzewski. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011. - xii, 247 p. : ill. - Cultural frames, framing culture . - Cultural frames, framing culture. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-233) and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

0813930758 (electronic bk.) 9780813930756 (electronic bk.)




American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
Chick lit--History and criticism.
Women--Books and reading.
Single women in literature.
Consumption (Economics) in literature.
Man-woman relationships in literature.
Popular culture in literature.
Social values in literature.
Feminist theory.


Electronic books.

PS374.W6 / H379 2011

813/.6099287