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Author:   Katie Kapurch
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   4.401kg
ISBN:  

9781137590602

ISBN 10:   1137590602
Pages:   239
Publication Date:   25 August 2016
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  Children / Juvenile ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

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    

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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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