Victorian melodrama in the twenty-first century
Subtitle: Jane Eyre, Twilight, and the mode of excess in girl culture
By: by Katie Kapurch
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137590602
Subjects: Fan fiction; Books and reading; English literature; Girls in literature; Influence; History and criticism; Girls; Melodrama in motion pictures; Melodrama; Emotions in literature; Heroines in literature; American fiction; Excess (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Melodrama, power, and girl culture; title: Powerless protagonists: melodramatic heroines of Victorian and postfeminist girlhood; title: Spatial invasions and melodrama's narrative structure: innocence, villainy, and vigilance in girlhood; title: Musical gestures: melodramatic lullabies of anxious desire; title: Secrets revealed, feelings moralized: girls' confessional intimacy and emotional agency; title: Melodrama's gothic remnants: nightmares and vampire-girl doubles; title: Suffering, separation, and crying: melodrama, tears, and girls' emotional empowerment; title: Melodrama's happily-ever-after? girls, re-reading, and resistance; title: Epilogue: In the post-Twilight afterglow; title: Appendix: Methodology: girls' online fandom.