Women's Fiction: From 1945 to Today

Women's Fiction: From 1945 to Today
ISBN-10
1441150226
ISBN-13
9781441150226
Series
Women's Fiction
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
224
Language
English
Published
2014-06-19
Publisher
A&C Black
Author
Deborah Philips

Description

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.

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