Fashionably indebted: Conspicuous consumption, fashion, and romance in Sophie Kinsella’s Shopaholic trilogy

Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 219-238

  Van Slooten, Jessica Lyn ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203036211     Document Type: Chapter

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