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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, hierarchical, and public grounds for ethical behavior and identity that characterized models of social exchange and organization.
Price: $80.00
Pages: 320
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Imprint: Stanford University Press
Publication Date:
01 October 1995
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780804724036
Format: Hardcover
"This is a very significant and original contribution to our understanding of melodrama per se and, more generally, of Victorian social relations and cultural representations. Moreover, it is a masterful demonstration of the kind of historical research that many in literary studies now talk of doing, but few do with such vigor and thoroughness."—Christina Crosby, Wesleyan University
Elaine Hadley is Assistant Professor of English and of the Humanities at the University of Chicago.