1. Lauren Berlant, The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008), xi.
2. See also Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 1998).
3. Sara Ahmed, “Multiculturalism and the Promise of Happiness,” New Formations 63 (2007): 121–37, at 126.
4. Christopher B. Balme, “Playbills and the Theatrical Public Sphere,” in Representing the Past: Essays in Performance Historiography, ed. Charlotte M. Canning and Thomas Postlewait (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2010): 37–62, at 41.
5. James W. Carey, Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society, rev. edn (New York: Routledge, 1992).