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: value: Poor Eliza; value: Pax Americana : the case of Show boat; value: National brands, national body : Imitation of life; value: Uncle Sam needs a wife : citizenship and denegation; value: Remembering love, forgetting everything else : Now, voyager; value: "It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes" : femininity, formalism, and Dorothy Parker; value: The compulsion to repeat femininity : Landscape for a good woman and The life and loves of a she-devil.