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

by Katie Kapurch

Book Overview

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"