The female complaint : the unfinished business of sentimentality in American culture /
The Female Complaint is part of Lauren Berlant's groundbreaking "national sentimentality" project charting the emergence of the U.S. political sphere as an affective space of attachment and identification. In this book, Berlant chronicles the origins and conventions of the first mass-...
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2008.
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Table of 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.
