The female complaint : the unfinished business of sentimentality in American culture /

The female complaint : the unfinished business of sentimentality in American culture /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Berlant, Lauren Gail, 1957-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Subjects:	Sentimentalism. Sentimentalism in literature. Sentimentalism in motion pictures. Mass media and women. Women > Psychology. Emotions. Women in literature. Women in motion pictures.

Table of Contents:

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.