num_pages: 158
description: The women's bestseller has become the acknowledged literary phenomenon of the last half-century. Madonne M. Miner takes the first critical look at this development and offers a serious reading of five of the most famous twentieth-century women's bestsellers-- Gone with the Wind , Forever Amber , Peyton Place , Valley of the Dolls , and Scruples . She outlines repeated plot structures, image patterns, and thematic concerns. From these Miner constructs a twentieth-century white middle-class American woman's story, suggests ways in which female readers respond to women's bestsellers, and proposes a matrilineal linkage between the novels.
language: English
title: Insatiable Appetites: Twentieth-Century American Women's Bestsellers
titlecomplete: Insatiable Appetites: Twentieth-Century American Women's Bestsellers (Contributions in Women's Studies)
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Praeger