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Chick Lit
Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction | Suzanne Ferriss, Mallory Young
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From the bestselling Bridget Jones's Diary that started the trend to the television sensation Sex and the City that captured it on screen, "chick lit" has become a major pop culture phenomenon. Banking on female audiences' identification with single, urban characters who struggle with the same life challenges, publishers have earned millions and even created separate imprints dedicated to the genre. Not surprisingly, some highbrow critics have dismissed chick lit as trashy fiction, but fans have argued that it is as empowering as it is entertaining. This is the first volume of its kind to examine the chick lit phenomenon from a variety of angles, accounting for both its popularity and the intense reactions-positive and negative-it has provoked. The contributors explore the characteristics that cause readers to attach the moniker "chick" to a particular book and what, if anything, distinguishes the category of chick lit from the works of Jane Austen on one end and Harlequin romance novels on the other. They critique the genre from a range of critical perspectives, considering its conflicted relationship with feminism and postfeminism, heterosexual romance, body image, and consumerism. The fourteen original essays gathered here also explore such trends and subgenres as "Sistah Lit," "Mommy Lit," and "Chick Lit Jr.," as well as regional variations. As the first book to consider the genre seriously, Chick Lit offers real insight into a new generation of women's fiction.
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AsYouWish
Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction | Suzanne Ferriss, Mallory Young
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“I like you very much. Just as you are.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary

Who is your favorite Chick Lit leading man? (Photo)

Would you like your life to be like a Chick Lit? Why or Why not?

What is your favorite Chick Lit quote? Or quotes? (No limit)

#NovelWatchingCrew #NWC

Sharpeipup My first though was John Krasinski in Something Borrowed but he‘s not really the leading man. 4y
AsYouWish @Sharpeipup I think he counts! I love him in that movie!!! 4y
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2BR02B
Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction | Suzanne Ferriss, Mallory Young
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Made a fluffy new friend at the petting zoo. #chickensoflitsy

Bookzombie Cute! 🐣 7y
Burghbookaddict I woulda put him in my pocket and left 😍 7y
ReadingVampire 👆🏻 same lol so cute!!! 🐥🐣🐤 7y
2BR02B @laurenashley I was sorely tempted by the baby bunnies. 7y
CouronneDhiver 😍😍😍 7y
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