The female complaint
Subtitle: the unfinished business of sentimentality in American culture
By: Lauren Berlant.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780822341840; 9780822342021
Subjects: Sentimentalism; Sentimentalism in literature; Sentimentalism in motion pictures; Mass media and women; Women -- Psychology; Emotions; Women in literature; Women in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-346) and index.
Table of contents: title: Poor Eliza; title: Pax Americana : the case of Show boat; title: National brands, national body : Imitation of life; title: Uncle Sam needs a wife : citizenship and denegation; title: Remembering love, forgetting everything else : Now, voyager; title: "It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes" : femininity, formalism, and Dorothy Parker; title: The compulsion to repeat femininity : Landscape for a good woman and The life and loves of a she-devil.