Chick Lit and Postfeminism
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Author_Stephanie Harzewski
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- ISBN 9780813930725
- Weight: 365g
- Dimensions: 155 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 09 Feb 2011
- Publisher: University of Virginia Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Originally a euphemism for Princeton University’s Female Literary Traditioncourse in the 1980s, ""chick lit"" mutated from a movement in American women’savant-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 ityield social observations on upheavals in Anglo-American marriage and education patterns, heterosexual rituals, feminism, and postmodern values.
Stephanie Harzewski is Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of New Hampshire.
