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

Author/creator Berlant, Lauren Gail
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Descriptionxiv, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [319]-346) and index.
LCCN 2007043974
ISBN9780822341840 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822341840 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780822342021 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0822342022 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks BH301.E45 B47 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold