Victorian Melodrama in the Twenty-First Century

Jane Eyre, Twilight, and the Mode of Excess in Popular Girl Culture

AvKatie Kapurch

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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By defining melodrama, however, through its Victorian lineages, Katie Kapurch recognizes melodrama's aesthetic form and rhetorical function in contemporary girl culture while also demonstrating its legacy since the nineteenth century.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-06-12
Mått:148 x 210 x 15 mm
Vikt:341 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:239
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781349954957

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Katie Kapurch is Assistant Professor of English at Texas State University, USA. She is currently working on a coedited volume (with Kenneth Womack) entitled New Critical Perspectives on the Beatles: Things We Said Today.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface.- Introduction: Melodrama, Power, and Girl Culture.- Powerless Protagonists: Melodramatic Heroines of Victorian and Postfeminist Girlhood.- Spatial Invasions and Melodrama’s Narrative Structure: Innocence, Villainy, and Vigilance in Girlhood.- Musical Gestures: Melodramatic Lullabies of Anxious Desire.- Secrets Revealed, Feelings Moralized: Girls’ Confessional Intimacy and Emotional Agency.- Melodrama’s Gothic Remnants: Nightmares and Vampire-Girl Doubles.- Suffering, Separation, and Crying: Melodrama, Tears, and Girls’ Emotional Empowerment.- Melodrama’s Happily-Ever-After? Girls, Re-Reading, and Resistance.- Epilogue: In the Post-Twilight Afterglow.- Appendix: Methodology: Girls’ Online Fandom.- Bibliography