Melodramatic Tactics: Theatricalized Dissent in the English Marketplace, 1800-1885Stanford University Press, 1995 - 303 pages This pathbreaking work analyzes melodrama as not merely a theatrical genre but as a behavioral paradigm of the nineteenth century, manifest in the theater, in literature, and in society. It shows how the melodramatic mode reaffirmed the familial, hierarchical, and public grounds for ethical behavior and identity that characterized models of social exchange and organization. |
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| Title | Melodramatic Tactics: Theatricalized Dissent in the English Marketplace, 1800-1885 |
| Author | Elaine Hadley |
| Edition | illustrated, annotated |
| Publisher | Stanford University Press, 1995 |
| ISBN | 0804724032, 9780804724036 |
| Length | 303 pages |
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