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Victorian Melodrama in the Twenty-First Century: Jane Eyre, Twilight, and the Mode of Excess in Popular Girl Culture
Katie Kapurch
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Hardback. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; 3JM; DSA; DSB; JFCA; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 218 x 22. Weight in Grams: 468.
This book examines melodramatic impulses in Charlotte Bronte'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 ... Read more
This book examines melodramatic impulses in Charlotte Bronte'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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
468g
Number of Pages
239
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137590602
SKU
V9781137590602
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About Katie Kapurch
Katie Kapurch is Assistant Professor of English at Texas State University, USA. She is currently working on a coedited volume (with Kenneth Womack) entitled New Critical Perspectives on the Beatles: Things We Said Today.
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