Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit

Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit
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By:"Caroline J. Smith"
"Literary Criticism"
Published on 2007-12-12 by Routledge

By permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. From BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY by \u003cb\u003eHelen\u003c/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFielding\u003c/b\u003e. Copyright © 1996 by \u003cb\u003eHelen Fielding\u003c/b\u003e. By permission of Pan Macmillan. \u003cbr\u003e\nFrom BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY by \u003cb\u003eHelen Fielding\u003c/b\u003e, copyright © 1996 by Helen ...

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Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit focuses on the literary phenomenon popularly known as chick lit, and the way in which this genre interfaces with magazines, self-help books, romantic comedies, and domestic-advice publications. This recent trend in women’s popular fiction, which began in 1996 with the publication of British author Helen Fielding’s novel Bridget Jones’s Diary, uses first person narration to chronicle the romantic tribulations of its young, single, white, heterosexual, urban heroines. Critics of the genre have failed to fully appreciate chick lit’s complicated representations of women as both readers and consumers. In this study, Smith argues that chick lit questions the \

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