The female complaint : the unfinished business of sentimentality in American culture / Lauren Berlant.
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TextPublication details: Durham, N.C. : Chesham : Duke University Press ; Combined Academic [distributor], 2008Description: 368 p. : illISBN: 9780822342021 (pbk.) :; 0822342022 (pbk.) :; 9780822341840 (hbk.) :; 0822341840 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Sentimentalism | Sentimentalism in literature | Sentimentalism in motion pictures | Mass media and women | Women -- Psychology | Emotions (Psychology) | Women in literature | Women in motion picturesDDC classification: 305.4'2'0973 Summary: 'The Female Complaint' is part of Laura Berlant's 'national sentimentality' project, a charting of the emergence of the US political sphere as an affective space of identification and attachment. Here she examines the development of sentimental 'women's culture' in the US, from 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' to 1950s melodramas to chick lit.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
'The Female Complaint' is part of Laura Berlant's 'national sentimentality' project, a charting of the emergence of the US political sphere as an affective space of identification and attachment. Here she examines the development of sentimental 'women's culture' in the US, from 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' to 1950s melodramas to chick lit.
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