Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xviii, 239 pages; 22 cm

Subject

1. Fan fiction > History and criticism
2. Emotions in literature
3. Melodrama > History and criticism
4. Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 > Jane Eyre
5. Girls > Books and reading
6. Heroines in literature
7. Girls in literature
8. American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism
9. English literature > 19th century > Influence
10. Melodrama in motion pictures
11. Meyer, Stephenie, 1973- > Twilight saga
12. Excess (Philosophy)

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. JFD 16-5876

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Kapurch, Katie, 1983- author.

Title

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

Publisher

1. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, imprint is published by Springer Nature, [2016]

Copyright date

1. ©2016

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN

1. 2015039267

ISBN

1. 9781137590602 hardback alkaline paper
2. 1137590602 hardback alkaline paper

Research call number

1. JFD 16-5876