Insatiable Appetites: Twentieth-Century American Women's Bestsellers (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313239519)

The women's bestseller has become the acknowledged literary phenomenon of the last half-century. Madonne M. Miner takes the first critical look at this development and offers a serious reading of five of the most famous twentieth-century women's bestsellers--Gone with the Wind, Forever Amber, Peyton Place, Valley of the Dolls, and Scruples. She outlines repeated plot structures, image patterns, and thematic concerns. From these Miner constructs a twentieth-century white middle-class American woman's story, suggests ways in which female readers respond to women's bestsellers, and proposes a matrilineal linkage between the novels.

Author: Madonne M. Miner
ISBN-10: 0313239517
ISBN-13: 9780313239519
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 01/31/1984
Pages: 170
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d