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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 shiftin…
Organized around each decade of the postwar period, this book analyses novels written by and for women since 1945. Each chapter identifies a specific genre in popular fiction for women, focusing on writers such as Barbara Cartland, Barbara Taylor Bradford and Danielle Steel.
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. Examinin…
"Now in its second edition and with new chapters covering two new genres, which include such texts as Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love, and Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It, this is a wide-ranging survey of women's writing from 1945 to the present."--BOOK JACKET.