Melodramatic tactics : theatricalized dissent in the English marketplace, 1801885
This pathbreaking work analyzes melodrama as not merely a theatrical genre but as a behavioral paradigm of the 19th century, manifest in the theater, in literature, and in society.
Print Book, English, 1995
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1995
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780804724036, 0804724032
1004783604
Introduction: staging the melodramatic mode 1. Unromantic melodrama 2. The old price wars: melodramatising the public sphere in early nineteenth-century England 3. Storming the Bastille: Oliver Twist and the melodramatic resistance to the new Poor Law of 1834 4. The Queen's English: melodramatic rhetoric in Victoria's England 5. Blows into whispers: the melodramatic mode and intellectual culture in the 1870s and 1880s.