Victorian Melodrama in the Twenty-First Century

1. Introduction: Melodrama, Power, and Girl Culture
Katie Kapurch

2. Powerless Protagonists: Melodramatic Heroines of Victorian and Postfeminist Girlhood
Katie Kapurch

3. Spatial Invasions and Melodrama’s Narrative Structure: Innocence, Villainy, and Vigilance in Girlhood
Katie Kapurch

4. Musical Gestures: Melodramatic Lullabies of Anxious Desire
Katie Kapurch

5. Secrets Revealed, Feelings Moralized: Girls’ Confessional Intimacy and Emotional Agency
Katie Kapurch

6. Melodrama’s Gothic Remnants: Nightmares and Vampire-Girl Doubles
Katie Kapurch

7. Suffering, Separation, and Crying: Melodrama, Tears, and Girls’ Emotional Empowerment
Katie Kapurch

8. Melodrama’s Happily Ever After? Girls, Rereading, and Resistance
Katie Kapurch

Nyckelord: Literature, Contemporary Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Comparative Literature