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The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture
By
Lauren Berlant
Lauren Berlant
Lauren Berlant is the George M. Pullman Professor of English and Chair of the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project at the University of Chicago. She is the author of The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship, also published by Duke University Press, and The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life. She is the editor of Compassion; Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and the National Interest (with Lisa Duggan); and Intimacy.
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Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-8916-3
Publication date:
2008
Book Chapter
Pax Americana: The Case of Show Boat
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Published:February 2008
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