Böcker av Dr Deborah (Professor of Literature and Cultural History Philips

Now in its second edition and with new chapters covering such texts as Elizabeth Gilbert''s Eat, Pray, Love and ''yummy mummy'' novels such as Allison Pearson''s I Don''t Know How She Does It, this is a wide-ranging survey of popular women''s fiction from 1945 to the present.Examining key trends in popular writing for women in each decade, Women''s Fiction offers case study readings of major British and American writers. Through these readings, the book explores how popular texts often neglected by feminist literary criticism have charted the shifting demands, aspirations and expectations of women in the 20th and 21st centuries.

The study investigates the cultural production of the visual iconography of pleasure grounds from the eighteenth century pleasure garden to the contemporary theme park. The book identifies the literary genres common to carnival sites and traces their historical transition across a range of media to become familiar icons of popular culture.

Organised around each decade of the post war period, this book analyses novels written by and for women from 1945 onwards. 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.