Melodramatic Tactics: Theatricalized Dissent in the English Marketplace, 1800-1885 by Elaine Hadley

Melodramatic Tactics: Theatricalized Dissent in the English Marketplace, 1800-1885

Elaine Hadley

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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, ...

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