Victorian Melodrama in the Twenty-First Century
Jane Eyre, Twilight, and the Mode of Excess in Popular Girl Culture
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book examines melodramatic impulses in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga, as well as the series' film adaptations and fan-authored texts. Attention to conventions such as crying, victimization, and happy endings in the...
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This book examines melodramatic impulses in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga, as well as the series' film adaptations and fan-authored texts. Attention to conventions such as crying, victimization, and happy endings in the context of the Twilight-Jane Eyre relationship reveals melodrama as an empowering mode of communication for girls. Although melodrama has saturated popular culture since the nineteenth century, its expression in texts for, about, and by girls has been remarkably under theorized. 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. Informed by feminist theories of literature and film, Kapurch shows how melodrama is worthy of serious consideration since the mode critiques limiting social constructions of postfeminist girlhood and, at the same time, enhances intimacy between girls-both characters and readers.
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Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Melodrama, Power, and Girl CultureChapter 1: Powerless Protagonists: Melodramatic Heroines of Victorian and Postfeminist GirlhoodChapter 2: Spatial Invasions and Melodrama's Narrative Structure: Innocence, Villainy, and Vigilance in GirlhoodChapter 3: Musical Gestures: Melodramatic Lullabies of Anxious DesireChapter 4: Secrets Revealed, Feelings Moralized: Girls' Confessional Intimacy and Emotional AgencyChapter 5: Melodrama's Gothic Remnants: Nightmares and Vampire-Girl DoublesChapter 6: Suffering, Separation, and Crying: Melodrama, Tears, and Girls' Emotional EmpowermentChapter 7: Melodrama's Happily-Ever-After? Girls, Re-Reading, and ResistanceEpilogue: In the Post-Twilight AfterglowAppendix: Methodology: Girls' Online FandomBibliography
Autoren-Porträt von Katie Kapurch
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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Katie Kapurch
- 2016, 1st ed., 239 Seiten, Maße: 15,3 x 21,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 1137590602
- ISBN-13: 9781137590602
- Erscheinungsdatum: 25.08.2016
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Englisch
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