LEADER 03788nam 22005895 450 001 9910255236103321 005 20251030100546.0 010 $a9781137581693 010 $a1137581697 024 7 $a10.1057/978-1-137-58169-3 035 $a(CKB)3710000000838157 035 $a(EBL)4716233 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-58169-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4716233 035 $a(Perlego)3490197 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000838157 100 $a20160824d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aVictorian Melodrama in the Twenty-First Century $eJane Eyre, Twilight, and the Mode of Excess in Popular Girl Culture /$fby Katie Kapurch 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aNew York :$cPalgrave Macmillan US :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (254 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781137590602 311 08$a1137590602 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreface -- 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 . 330 $aThis book examines melodramatic impulses in Charlotte Brontė?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. . 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y21st century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y19th century 606 $aComparative literature 606 $aContemporary Literature 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aComparative Literature 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aComparative literature. 615 14$aContemporary Literature. 615 24$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aComparative Literature. 676 $a813.009 700 $aKapurch$b Katie$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01064856 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255236103321 996 $aVictorian Melodrama in the Twenty-First Century$92541223 997 $aUNINA