Melodrama: the cultural emergence of a genre

Abstract

Introduction M.Hays & A.Nikolopoulou - PART I: GRAND NARRATIVE(S):VARIATIONS ON A THEME - Soldiers of the Queen M.Booth - The Empire Right or Wrong J.Davis - From Melodrama to Realism T.Postlewait - Melodramatic Contingencies K.Tancheva - PART II: GENERIC PATTERNS AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS - On the Origins of the English Melodrama in the Tradition of Bourgeois Tragedy and Sentimental Drama L.Fietz - The Return of Martin Guerre in an Early Nineteenth Century French Melodrama B.T.Cooper - Historical Disruptions A.Nikolopoulou - PART III: RADICALISM CONTAINED - He Never Should Bow Down to a Domineering Frown M.Carlson - The Ideological Tack of Nautical Melodrama J.N.Cox - Radicalism in the Melodrama of the Early Nineteenth Century H.Ilsemann - PART IV: GENDER, CLASS, CULTURE - Parlour and Platform Melodrama D.Mayer - What the Heroine Taught, 1830-1870 L.Metayer - Representing a 'Great Distress' J.Williams & S.Watt - Appendix - List of Contributors - Index

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