Originally a euphemism for Princeton University's Female Literary Tradition course in the 1980s, -chick lit- mutated from a movement in American women's avant-garde fiction in the 1990s to become, by the turn of the century, a humorous subset of women's literature, journalism, and advice manuals. Stephanie Harzewski examines such best sellers as Bridget Jones's DiaryThe Devil Wears Prada, and Sex and the City as urban appropriations of and departures from the narrative traditions of the novel of manners, the popular romance, and the bildungsroman. Further, Harzewski...
Originally a euphemism for Princeton University's Female Literary Tradition course in the 1980s, -chick lit- mutated from a movement in American wo...
