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Author:

Kapurch, Katie, 1983- author.

Title:

Victorian melodrama in the twenty-first century : Jane Eyre, Twilight, and the mode of excess in girl culture / Katie Kapurch.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillanimprint is published by Springer Nature,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xviii, 239 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Bronte˜, Charlotte,--1816-1855.--Jane Eyre.
Meyer, Stephenie,--1973---Twilight saga.
American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
English literature--19th century--Influence.
Girls in literature.
Heroines in literature.
Melodrama--History and criticism.
Melodrama in motion pictures.
Girls--Books and reading.
Excess (Philosophy)
Emotions in literature.
Fan fiction--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

1137590602
9781137590602

OCLC:

(OCoLC)931226667

LCCN:

2015039267

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)