Women''s Fiction 1945-2005 : Writing Romance.
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 wid...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2007.
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| Series: | Continuum literary studies.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | 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 i. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (169 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-154) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441149510 1441149511 |
