{"product_id":"9781349954957","title":"Victorian Melodrama in the Twenty-First Century: Jane Eyre, Twilight, and the Mode of Excess in Popular Girl Culture","description":"\u003ch1\u003eVictorian Melodrama in the Twenty-First Century: Jane Eyre, Twilight, and the Mode of Excess in Popular Girl Culture\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eKapurch, Katie\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines melodramatic impulses in Charlotte Brontë’s \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e and Stephenie Meyer’s \u003ci\u003eTwilight Saga\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eTwilight\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2018-06-12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781349954957\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1057\/978-1-137-58169-3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 239\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44753477599372,"sku":"9781349954957","price":89.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781349954957.jpg?v=1776778734","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781349954957","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}