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Women's fiction, 1945-2005 : writing romance
- Title
- Women's fiction, 1945-2005 : writing romance / Deborah Philips.
- Author
- Philips, Deborah, 1954-
- Publication
- London ; New York : Continuum, ©2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PR888.F45 P48 2006 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 162 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Organized around each decade of the postwar 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 ideals of femininity, and in the tensions and contradictions in gender identities in the postwar period."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Continuum literary studies series
- Uniform Title
- Continuum literary studies
- Subject
- 1900-2099
- Geschichte 1945-2005
- 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
- 17.91 literature from and for special groups
- American fiction
- American fiction > Women authors
- English fiction
- English fiction > Women authors
- Englisch
- Frauenliteratur
- Roman
- Vrouwelijke auteurs
- Populaire literatuur
- Engels
- Amerikaans
- Roman
- USA
- USA
- Englisch
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [146]-154) and index.
- Contents
- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. What did women want? : post-war masculinity in the woman's novel of the 1950s -- 2. 'Mothers without partners' : the single mother novel of the 1960s -- 3. 'She's leaving home' : the college novel of the 1970s -- 4. Shopping as work : the sex and shopping novel of the 1980s -- 5. Keeping the home fires burning : the Aga-saga and the domestic romance of the 1990s -- 6. Shopping for men : the single woman novel -- 7. Resentful daughters : the post-feminist novel? -- 8. Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index.
- ISBN
- 0826487467
- 9780826487469
- 0826499961
- 9780826499967
- LCCN
- 2006276405
- OCLC
- ocm62761124
- 62761124
- SCSB-1389035
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library