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

by Katie Kapurch

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This book examines melodramatic impulses in Charlotte Bront '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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1349954950

ISBN13:9781349954957

Release Date:June 2018

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:239 Pages

Weight:0.69 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"

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