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Contesting Tears : The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman

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The author provides close readings of four melodramas he finds definitive of the genre: Letter From An Unknown Woman; Gaslight; Now, Voyager; and Stella Dallas. The women in these melodramas, like the women in the comedies, demand equality, shared education, and transfiguration, exemplifying for the author a moral perfectionism he identifies as Emersonian.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780226098166
  • ISBN-10: 0226098168
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • Publish Date: February 1997
  • Dimensions: 9.01 x 6.05 x 0.67 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.78 pounds
  • Page Count: 272

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