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Victorian Melodrama in the Twenty-First Century = Jane Eyre, Twilight, and the Mode of Excess in Popular Girl Culture /

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Title/Author:	Victorian Melodrama in the Twenty-First Century/ by Katie Kapurch.
Reminder of title:	Jane Eyre, Twilight, and the Mode of Excess in Popular Girl Culture /
Author:	Kapurch, Katie.
Description:	XVIII, 239 p.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Literature, Modern—20th century. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58169-3
ISBN:	9781137581693

Victorian Melodrama in the Twenty-First Century = Jane Eyre, Twilight, and the Mode of Excess in Popular Girl Culture /
Kapurch, Katie.

Victorian Melodrama in the Twenty-First CenturyJane Eyre, Twilight, and the Mode of Excess in Popular Girl Culture /[electronic resource] :by Katie Kapurch. - 1st ed. 2016. - XVIII, 239 p.online resource.

Preface -- 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 -- Bibliography .

This book examines melodramatic impulses in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga, as well as the series’ film adaptations and fan-authored texts. Attention to conventions such as crying, victimization, and happy endings in the context of the Twilight-Jane Eyre relationship reveals melodrama as an empowering mode of communication for girls. Although melodrama has saturated popular culture since the nineteenth century, its expression in texts for, about, and by girls has been remarkably under theorized. By defining melodrama, however, through its Victorian lineages, Katie Kapurch recognizes melodrama's aesthetic form and rhetorical function in contemporary girl culture while also demonstrating its legacy since the nineteenth century. Informed by feminist theories of literature and film, Kapurch shows how melodrama is worthy of serious consideration since the mode critiques limiting social constructions of postfeminist girlhood and, at the same time, enhances intimacy between girls—both characters and readers. .

ISBN: 9781137581693

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-58169-3doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1254198
Literature, Modern—20th century.

LC Class. No.: PN695-779

Dewey Class. No.: 809

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