A Black Bridget Jones? Candice Carty-Williams’s <em>Queenie</em> (2019): Challenging Discourses of Race and Gender in the Chick-Lit Genre

Mißler, Heike

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A Black Bridget Jones? Candice Carty-Williams’s Queenie (2019): Challenging Discourses of Race and Gender in the Chick-Lit Genre

Published February 13, 2023

1. Introduction: Black British Chick Lit? Candice Carty-Williams’s best-selling debut novel Queenie (2019) has been marketed and reviewed as the story of a Black Bridget…

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Fifty Shades of Remix: The Intersecting Pleasures of Commercial and Fan Romances

Published February 8, 2014

The commercial success of the Fifty Shades of Grey books has prompted an outpouring of media coverage on the trilogy and its rapid success. Much…

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‘Who the devil wrote that?’: Intertextuality and Authorial Reputation in Georgette Heyer’s Venetia

Published June 14, 2013

During a career that spanned the years 1921 to her death in 1974, British author Georgette Heyer wrote fifty-six novels and achieved enviable fame and…

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