03228nam 2200589 450 991015469740332120210203215932.01-4411-4951-1(CKB)3710000000109438(EBL)1748357(MiAaPQ)EBC1748357(EXLCZ)99371000000010943820060515h20062006 uy| 0engrdacontentrdamediardacarrierWomen's fiction, 1945-2005 writing romance /Deborah PhilipsLondon ;New York :Continuum,[2006]©20061 online resource (169 p.)Continuum literary studies seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8264-9996-1 Includes bibliographical references (pages [146]-154) and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 What did Women Want?: Post-war Masculinity in the Woman's Novel of the 1950's; 2 'Mothers without Partners': The Single Mother Novel of the 1960's; 3 'She's Leaving Home': The College Novel of the 1970's; 4 Shopping as Work: The Sex and Shopping Novel of the 1980's; 5 Keeping the Home Fires Burning: The Aga-saga and the Domestic Romance of the 1990's; 6 Shopping for Men: The Single Woman Novel; 7 Resentful Daughters: The Post-feminist Novel?; 8 Afterword; Bibliography; Index;Organised around each decade of the post war period, this book analyses novels written by and for women from 1945 to the present. Each chapter identifies a specific genre in popular fiction for women which marked that period and provides case studies focusing on writers and texts which enjoyed a wide readership. Despite their popularity, these novels remain largely outside the ''canon'' of women's writing, and are often unacknowledged by feminist literary criticism. However, these texts clearly touched a nerve with a largely female readership, and so offer a means of charting the changes in...Continuum literary studies.English fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismEnglish fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish fiction21st centuryHistory and criticismAmerican fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican fiction21st centuryHistory and criticismWomenBooks and readingElectronic books.English fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.American fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.WomenBooks and reading.823.914099287Philips Deborah1954-274973MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910154697403321Women's fiction, 1945-20052259592UNINA