Overview: .This book examines melodramatic impulses in Charlotte Brontë’s .Jane Eyre. and Stephenie Meyer’s .Twilight Saga., as well as the series‘ film adaptations and fan-authored texts. Attention to conventions such as crying, victimization, and happy endings in the context of the .Twilight.-.Jane Eyre. relationship reveals melodrama as an empowering mode of communication for girls. Although melodrama has saturated popular culture since the nineteenth century, its expression in texts for, about, and by girls has been remarkably under theorized. By defining melodrama, however, through its Vi
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