Chick Lit as Healing and Self-Help Manual?

Spectacular Selves: Fashion and Identity in Lee Tulloch’s Fabulous Nobodies

“…This triangulation of commodities, consumption, and identity construction pervades the genre of popular fiction that is often called “chick lit,” a genre that became a “commercial tsunami” in the publishing world in the 1990s and 2000s and is written by, for, and about women, featuring “stylish, career‐driven, urban female protagonists in their twenties or thirties” (Zernike qtd. in Ferris and Young 2; Leffler 155). Joanne Knowles adds that the typical chick lit protagonist is “seeking personal fulfilment in a romance‐consumer‐comedic vein” (qtd.…”