Women's fiction, 1945-2005 : writing romance / / Deborah Philips
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| Autore: |
Philips Deborah <1954->
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| Titolo: |
Women's fiction, 1945-2005 : writing romance / / Deborah Philips
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , [2006] |
| ©2006 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (169 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 823.914099287 |
| Soggetto topico: | English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism |
| English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism | |
| English fiction - 21st century - History and criticism | |
| American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism | |
| American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism | |
| American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism | |
| Women - Books and reading | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [146]-154) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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; |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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... |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Women's fiction, 1945-2005 |
| ISBN: | 1-4411-4951-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910786918303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Continuum literary studies.