Considers the development of sentimental "women's culture" in the U.S.--from Uncle Tom's Cabin to 1950s melodrama to contemporary chick lit--and the forms of politics and national belonging that emerge out of it.
Considers the development of sentimental "women's culture" in the U.S.--from Uncle Tom's Cabin to 1950s melodrama to contemporary chick lit--and the forms of politics and national belonging that emerge out of it.
Preface vii Introduction: Intimacy, Publicity, and Femininity 1 1. Poor Eliza 33 2. Pax Americana: The Case of Show Boat 69 3. National Brands, National Body: Imitation of Life 107 4. Uncle Sam Needs a Wife: Citizenship and Denegation 145 5. Remembering Love, Forgetting Everything Else: Now, Voyager 169 6. "It's Not the Tragedies That Kill Us, It's the Messes": Femininity, Formalism, and Dorothy Parker 207 7. The Compulsion to Repeat Femininity: Landscape for a Good Woman and The Life and Loves of a She-Devil 233 Overture/Aperture: Showboat 1988—The Remake 265 Notes 281 Bibliography 319 Index 347
Preface vii Introduction: Intimacy, Publicity, and Femininity 1 1. Poor Eliza 33 2. Pax Americana: The Case of Show Boat 69 3. National Brands, National Body: Imitation of Life 107 4. Uncle Sam Needs a Wife: Citizenship and Denegation 145 5. Remembering Love, Forgetting Everything Else: Now, Voyager 169 6. "It's Not the Tragedies That Kill Us, It's the Messes": Femininity, Formalism, and Dorothy Parker 207 7. The Compulsion to Repeat Femininity: Landscape for a Good Woman and The Life and Loves of a She-Devil 233 Overture/Aperture: Showboat 1988—The Remake 265 Notes 281 Bibliography 319 Index 347
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