LEADER 03194nam 2200577 450 001 9910786918303321 005 20230828235626.0 010 $a1-4411-4951-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000000109438 035 $a(EBL)1748357 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1748357 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000109438 100 $a20060515h20062006 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aWomen's fiction, 1945-2005 $ewriting romance /$fDeborah Philips 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cContinuum,$d[2006] 210 4$dİ2006 215 $a1 online resource (169 p.) 225 1 $aContinuum literary studies series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8264-9996-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [146]-154) and index. 327 $aCover; 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; 330 $aOrganised around each decade of the post war period, this book analyses novels written by and for women from 1945 to the present. Each chapter identifies a specific genre in popular fiction for women which marked that period and provides case studies focusing on writers and texts which enjoyed a wide readership. Despite their popularity, these novels remain largely outside the ''canon'' of women's writing, and are often unacknowledged by feminist literary criticism. However, these texts clearly touched a nerve with a largely female readership, and so offer a means of charting the changes in... 410 0$aContinuum literary studies. 606 $aEnglish fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish fiction$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen$xBooks and reading 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen$xBooks and reading. 676 $a823.914099287 700 $aPhilips$b Deborah$f1954-$0274973 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786918303321 996 $aWomen's fiction, 1945-2005$93790161 997 $aUNINA