Harzewski, Stephanie,

Chick lit and postfeminism / Stephanie Harzewski. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011. - xii, 247 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - 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.

ISBN: 9780813930718 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780813930725 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780813930756 (e-book) 0813930715 (cloth : alk. paper) 0813930723 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0813930758 (e-book)

LCCN: 2010018728

Subjects--Topical Terms:
American fiction
English fiction
Chick lit
Women
Single women in literature.
Consumption (Economics) in literature.
Man-woman relationships in literature.
Popular culture in literature.
Social values in literature.
Feminist theory.

LC Class. No.: PS374.W6 / H379 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.6099287