Chick lit and postfeminism /
Stephanie Harzewski.
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
- xii, 247 p. ; 23 cm.
- Cultural frames, framing culture .
Includes bibliographical references 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.
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.