Women's Fiction 1945-2005
Subtitle: Writing Romance (Continuum Literary Studies)
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Published: May 27, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780826487469
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Women's studies; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; General; 20th century; 21st century; English fiction; History and criticism; Women authors
Description: "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.