Women's Fiction

From 1945 to Today

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

Now in its second edition and with new chapters covering such texts as Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love and 'yummy mummy' novels such as Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It, this is a wide-ranging survey of popular women's fiction from 1945 to the present.Examining key trends in popular writing for women in each decade, Women's Fiction offers case study readings of major British and American writers. Through these readings, the book explores how popular texts often neglected by feminist literary criticism have charted the shifting demands, aspirations and expectations of women in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-06-19
Mått:156 x 234 x 12 mm
Vikt:322 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:224
Upplaga:2
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781441104267

Utforska kategorier

Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Deborah Philips is Professor of Literature and Cultural History at the University of Brighton, UK. Her books include Fairground Attractions (2012), The Trojan Horse (2013) with Garry Whannel and Brave New Causes (1999) with Ian Haywood.

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Her study will be welcomed by many women who have also read and enjoyed 'middlebrow' novels alongside 'highbrow' counterparts. It reveals the cultural currency of feminine popular fictions, and elucidates the pleasures they offer, without denying their occasionally serious limitations.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments1. Introduction2. What Did Women Want?: Post-War Masculinity in the Woman's Novel of the 1950s3. 'Mothers Without Partners': the Single Mother Narrative of the 1960s4. She's Leaving Home: the 'College Girl' Narrative of the 1970s5. Shopping as Work: the Sex and Shopping Novel of the 1980s6. Keeping the Home Fires Burning: the Aga Saga of the 1990s7. Shopping for Men: the Single Woman Narrative8. Resentful Daughters: the Post-Feminist Novel?9. Shopping for Meaning: The Spiritual Quest10. Having It All: Work and MotherhoodAfterwordBibliographyIndex