Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit

English

Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Ser.

ISBN: 0203929144

EAN: 9780203929148

Category: Literary Criticism / Women Authors/Literary Criticism / American / General/Literary Criticism / General/Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh/

Publisher: Routledge

Release Date: 11/08/2007

Synopsis: Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit focuses on the literary phenomenon popularly known as chick lit, and the way in which this genre interfaces with magazines, self-help books, romantic comedies, and domestic-advice publications. This recent trend in womens popular fiction, which began in 1996 with the publication of British author Helen Fieldings novel Bridget Joness Diary, uses first person narration to chronicle the romantic tribulations of its young, single, white, heterosexual, urban heroines. Critics of the genre have failed to fully appreciate chick lits complicated representations of women as both readers and consumers. In this study, Smith argues that chick lit questions the consume and achieve promise offered by advice manuals marketed toward women.

Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit

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