Contesting Tears

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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.