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The female complaint : the unfinished business of sentimentality in American culture / Lauren Berlant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berlant, Lauren Gail, 1957-2021.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sentimentalism.
- Sentimentalism in literature.
- Sentimentalism in motion pictures.
- Mass media and women.
- Women--Psychology.
- Women.
- Emotions.
- Women in literature.
- Women in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (370 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A literary critical and historical chronicle of women s culture in the United States from 1830 to the present, by a leading Americanist.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction: intimacy, publicity, and femininity
- Poor Eliza
- Pax americana : the case of Show Boat
- National brands, national body : imitation of life
- Uncle Sam needs a wife : citizenship and denegation
- Remembering love, forgetting everything else : now, Voyager
- "It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes" : femininity, formalism, and Dorothy Parker
- The compulsion to repeat femininity : landscape for a good woman and the life and loves of a she-devil.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613022820
- 9781283022828
- 1283022826
- 9780822389163
- 0822389169
- OCLC:
- 223445460
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