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Contemporary Women's Writing 2008 2(1):86-88; doi:10.1093/cww/vpn005
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Women's Fiction 1945–2005: Writing Romance. Deborah Phillips

Maroula Joannou

Anglia Ruskin University, UK

Correspondence: mary.joannou@btopenworld.com

2006. Continuum, London, pp. 162. £60 hardback, £25 paperback

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Deborah Phillips has produced a most welcome addition to the existing critical work on the "woman's novel," which is to say the novel written by women that constructs its readers as feminine. This type of fiction is, for the most part, absent from academic syllabuses and is seldom reviewed or criticized, failing to qualify for critical attention because it is not what the academy and literary world value: such novels are usually neither recognizably literary nor formally innovative and experimental. Thus the history of the popular woman's novel from the second half of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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