國立高雄大學圖資館 |

Language: English

Back

Victorian melodrama in the twenty-fi...

Bronte, Charlotte, (1816-1855.)

Victorian melodrama in the twenty-first centuryJane Eyre, Twilight, and the mode of excess in girl culture /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Victorian melodrama in the twenty-first centuryby Katie Kapurch.
Reminder of title:	Jane Eyre, Twilight, and the mode of excess in girl culture /
Author:	Kapurch, Katie.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :2016.
Description:	xviii, 239 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	American fictionHistory and criticism.21st century
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58169-3
ISBN:	9781137581693$q(electronic bk.)

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

Victorian melodrama in the twenty-first centuryJane Eyre, Twilight, and the mode of excess in girl culture /[electronic resource] :by Katie Kapurch. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :2016. - xviii, 239 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

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$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-58169-3doiSubjects--Personal Names:

191700
Bronte, Charlotte,
1816-1855.Subjects--Topical Terms:

473760
American fiction
--History and criticism.--21st century

LC Class. No.: PS374.G55 / K37 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 813.009352352

Victorian melodrama in the twenty-first centuryJane Eyre, Twilight, and the mode of excess in girl culture /
LDR:02819nmm a2200313 a 4500 001 496235
003 DE-He213
005 20160824161255.0
006 m d
007 cr nn 008maaau
008 170323s2016 nyu s 0 eng d
020 $a 9781137581693$q(electronic bk.)
020 $a 9781137590602$q(paper)
024 7 $a 10.1057/978-1-137-58169-3 $2 doi
035 $a 978-1-137-58169-3
040 $a GP $c GP
041 0 $a eng
050 4 $a PS374.G55 $b K37 2016
072 7 $a DSBH $2 bicssc
072 7 $a LIT024000 $2 bisacsh
082 0 4 $a 813.009352352 $2 23
090 $a PS374.G55 $b K17 2016
100 1 $a Kapurch, Katie. $3 750241
245 1 0 $a Victorian melodrama in the twenty-first century $h [electronic resource] : $b Jane Eyre, Twilight, and the mode of excess in girl culture / $c by Katie Kapurch.
260 $a New York : $b Palgrave Macmillan US : $b Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2016.
300 $a xviii, 239 p. : $b ill., digital ; $c 24 cm.
505 0 $a 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.
520 $a 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.
600 1 0 $a Bronte, Charlotte, $d 1816-1855. $3 191700
600 1 0 $a Meyer, Stephenie, $d 1973- $3 306835
650 0 $a American fiction $y 21st century $x History and criticism. $3 473760
650 0 $a Emotions in literature. $3 178769
650 0 $a English literature $y 19th century $x Influence. $3 758647
650 0 $a Excess (Philosophy) $3 758648
650 0 $a Fan fiction $x History and criticism. $3 687856
650 0 $a Girls in literature. $3 481385
650 0 $a Girls $x Books and reading. $3 689401
650 0 $a Heroines in literature. $3 220725
650 0 $a Melodrama in motion pictures. $3 326933
650 0 $a Melodrama $x History and criticism. $3 758649
650 1 4 $a Literature. $3 179186
650 2 4 $a Contemporary Literature. $3 744998
650 2 4 $a Nineteenth-Century Literature. $3 740268
650 2 4 $a Comparative Literature. $3 357341
710 2 $a SpringerLink (Online service) $3 273601
773 0 $t Springer eBooks
856 4 0 $u http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58169-3
950 $a Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (Springer-41173)