A series of articles relating to our recent reading of “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists”:
This article directly references Eliot in her review of “Confessions of a Shopaholic.”
This is the one I read out in class, talking about a new line of bad “feminist” fiction.
This is the very amusing discussion of Twilight that I read from in class. By the way, one or two of you might like to do your paper on the Twilight books!
This is a rather more comprehensive discussion of “chick-lit” from the Salon.
And finally, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper
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