Melodramatic Tactics
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Melodramatic Tactics
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Author : Elaine Hadley
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1995
Melodramatic Tactics written by Elaine Hadley and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Thomas Hardy Sensationalism And The Melodramatic Mode
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Author : R. Nemesvari
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-04-25
Thomas Hardy Sensationalism And The Melodramatic Mode written by R. Nemesvari and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-25 with Fiction categories.
The first full-length study of sensationalist and melodramatic elements in Hardy's novels uses six of his texts to demonstrate the ways in which Hardy uses the melodramatic mode to advance his critique of established Victorian cultural beliefs through the employment of non-realistic plot devices and sensational 'excess.'
Melodramatic Imperial Writing
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Author : Neil Hultgren
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2014-03-01
Melodramatic Imperial Writing written by Neil Hultgren and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Melodrama is often seen as a blunt aesthetic tool tainted by its reliance on improbable situations, moral binaries, and overwhelming emotion, features that made it a likely ingredient of British imperial propaganda during the late nineteenth century. Yet, through its impact on many late-Victorian genres outside of the theater, melodrama developed a complicated relationship with British imperial discourse. Melodramatic Imperial Writing positions melodrama as a vital aspect of works that underscored the contradictions and injustices of British imperialism. Beyond proving useful for authors constructing imperialist fantasies or supporting unjust policies, the melodramatic mode enabled writers to upset narratives of British imperial destiny and racial superiority. Neil Hultgren explores a range of texts, from Dickens’s writing about the 1857 Sepoy Rebellion to W. E. Henley’s imperialist poetry and Olive Schreiner’s experimental fiction, in order to trace a new and complex history of British imperialism and the melodramatic mode in late-Victorian writing.
The Oxford Handbook Of Victorian Literary Culture
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Author : Juliet John
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-06-30
The Oxford Handbook Of Victorian Literary Culture written by Juliet John and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-30 with Literary Collections categories.
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture is a major contribution to the dynamic field of Victorian studies. This collection of 37 original chapters by leading international Victorian scholars offers new approaches to familiar themes including science, religion, and gender, and gives space to newer and emerging topics including old age, fair play, and economics. Structured around three broad sections (on 'Ways of Being: Identity and Ideology', 'Ways of Understanding: Knowledge and Belief', and 'Ways of Communicating: Print and Other Cultures', the volume is sub-divided into 9 sub-sections each with its own 'lead' essay: on subjectivity, politics, gender and sexuality, place and race, religion, science, material and mass culture, aesthetics and visual culture, and theatrical culture. The collection, like today's Victorian studies, is thoroughly interdisciplinary and yet its substantial Introduction explores a concern which is evident both implicitly and explicitly in the volume's essays: that is, the nature and status of 'literary' culture and the literary from the Victorian period to the present. The diverse and wide-ranging essays present original scholarship framed accessibly for a mixed readership of advanced undergraduates, graduate students and established scholars.
Victorian Fiction As A Bildungsroman
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Author : Petru Golban
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2019-09-30
Victorian Fiction As A Bildungsroman written by Petru Golban and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Metaphorically speaking, the nineteenth-century English Bildungsroman, dealing with the principle of identity formation, parallels Victorian fiction as a whole, revealing the completion of its own formation, which began in the eighteenth century. Significantly, the most important and popular Victorian novels are Bildungsromane, in which authors construct or rather reconstruct their own life experiences as formative processes. This book shows that the Bildungsroman has a development history, is a specific literary system, and consists of a thematic and narrative pattern. It details the entrance of this newly established fictional tradition into Victorian culture and literature through Carlyle’s threefold literary reception of the novel of formation and its subsequent flourishing and complexity. In this respect, a number of novelistic works are scrutinized, and each faces the question as to whether its thematic and narrative perspectives fit the pattern and shape of the Bildungsroman.
The Melodramatic Thread
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Author : James R. Lehning
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2007-07-09
The Melodramatic Thread written by James R. Lehning and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-09 with Political Science categories.
“This ambitious undertaking is concerned with the melodramatic form in theatre and film and its impact on French political culture.” —H-France Review In France, both political culture and theatrical performances have drawn upon melodrama. This “melodramatic thread” helped weave the country’s political life as it moved from monarchy to democracy. By examining the relationship between public ceremonies and theatrical performance, James R. Lehning sheds light on democratization in modern France. He explores the extent to which the dramatic forms were present in the public performance of political power. By concentrating on the Republic and the Revolution and on theatrical performance, Lehning affirms the importance of examining the performative aspects of French political culture for understanding the political differences that have marked France in the years since 1789. “In this thoroughly researched and persuasive book, Lehning provides a fascinating reading of public performances in modern France . . . This is an important contribution to the study of French culture and the democratization process . . . Essential.” —Choice “Lehning’s application of the themes of melodrama to French political culture offers new insights into French history. His style is lively, clear, and highly readable.” —Venita Datta, Wellesley College “The analyses in this book make a real contribution to debates about the ways in which art, particularly popular art, and politics interact; how politics itself is theatrical in the French case; and the role of ritual in politics and the function of politics as ritual and ceremony.” —John Gaffney, Aston University
The Melodramatic Moment
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Author : Katherine Hambridge
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2018-07-16
The Melodramatic Moment written by Katherine Hambridge and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-16 with Music categories.
We seem to see melodrama everywhere we look—from the soliloquies of devastation in a Dickens novel to the abject monstrosity of Frankenstein’s creation, and from Louise Brooks’s exaggerated acting in Pandora’s Box to the vicissitudes endlessly reshaping the life of a brooding Don Draper. This anthology proposes to address the sometimes bewilderingly broad understandings of melodrama by insisting on the historical specificity of its genesis on the stage in late-eighteenth-century Europe. Melodrama emerged during this time in the metropolitan centers of London, Paris, Vienna, and Berlin through stage adaptations of classical subjects and gothic novels, and they became famous for their use of passionate expression and spectacular scenery. Yet, as contributors to this volume emphasize, early melodramas also placed sound at center stage, through their distinctive—and often disconcerting—alternations between speech and music. This book draws out the melo of melodrama, showing the crucial dimensions of sound and music for a genre that permeates our dramatic, literary, and cinematic sensibilities today. A richly interdisciplinary anthology, The Melodramatic Moment will open up new dialogues between musicology and literary and theater studies.
By Accident Or Design
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Author : Paul Camm Fyfe
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2015
By Accident Or Design written by Paul Camm Fyfe and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
'Takes Henry James' observation of London in 1888 at his word, arguing that accident was both a powerful metaphor and material context through which the Victorians arrested the paradoxes of metropolitan modernity and reconfigured understandings of form and change.
The Cambridge Companion To English Melodrama
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Author : Carolyn Williams
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-04
The Cambridge Companion To English Melodrama written by Carolyn Williams and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
A lively and accessible account of the most popular form of nineteenth-century English theatre, and its continuing influence today.
Emotions And Surgery In Britain 1793 1912
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Author : Michael Brown
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-10-20
Emotions And Surgery In Britain 1793 1912 written by Michael Brown and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-20 with History categories.
An innovative analytical account of the changing place of emotions in British surgery in the long nineteenth century.
