In a Perpetual Crisis or Shopaholic’s Meanderings in Consumer Paradise: Instantiations of Financial Crisis in Sophie Kinsella’s Shopaholic Abroad

This paper looks at the myriad facets of the generic term ‘crisis’ as apparent in ‘chick lit’, i.e. literature for young ladies; more specifically, one of Sophie Kinsella’s chick lit novels is under scrutiny here: „Shopaholic Abroad“ (2001). ‘Crisis’ is no monolithic concept in the aforementioned genre; indeed it yields a multitude of nuances that I attempt to decode hereby.