MARC Record from harvard_bibliographic_metadata

LEADER: 02845cam a2200445 i 4500
001 014085159-3
005 20140607224648.0
008 140113s2014 ohu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014000852
016 7 $a016649607$2Uk
020 $a9780821420850 (hardback)
020 $a0821420852 (hardback)
020 $z9780821444832 (pdf)
035 0 $aocn861676592
035 $a(PromptCat)40023668303
040 $aDLC$erda$beng$cDLC$dYDX$dBTCTA$dBDX$dOCLCO$dUKMGB$dYDXCP$dCUV
042 $apcc
043 $ae-uk-en
050 00 $aPR751$b.H76 2014
082 00 $a828/.08$223
084 $aLIT004120$2bisacsh
100 1 $aHultgren, Neil,$eauthor.
245 10 $aMelodramatic Imperial Writing :$bFrom the Sepoy Rebellion to Cecil Rhodes /$cNeil Hultgren.
264 1 $aAthens, Ohio :$bOhio University Press,$c[2014]
300 $axi, 259 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aSeries in Victorian Studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"Melodrama, as an aesthetic, has long been criticized for its reliance on improbable situations and overwhelming emotion. These very aspects, however, made it a useful and appealing literary mode for British imperial propagandists in the late nineteenth century. Though stage melodrama may have been declining in prominence, the melodramatic style influenced many late-Victorian genres outside of the theater-for example, imperialist ballads, detective novels, travel narratives, and romances-and developed a complicated relationship with British imperial discourse. Melodramatic Imperial Writing: From the Sepoy Rebellion to Cecil Rhodes locates melodrama within a new and considerably more complicated history of British imperialism: beyond its use in constructing imperialist fantasies or supporting unjust policies, the melodramatic style also enabled writers to upset narratives of British imperial destiny or racial superiority. This book examines works by both canonical and lesser-known authors writing after the Sepoy Rebellion, including Wilkie Collins, Marie Corelli, Charles Dickens, H. Rider Haggard, W. E. Henley, Rudyard Kipling, Olive Schreiner, and Robert Louis Stevenson, and encompasses representations of British imperialism from India, to South Africa and the South Seas"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aEnglish prose literature$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aMelodrama, English$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zEngland$xHistory.
650 0 $aImperialism in literature.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.$2bisacsh
830 0 $aOhio University Press series in Victorian Studies.
899 $a415_565471
988 $a20140607
906 $0DLC