Melodramatic tactics
theatricalized dissent in the English marketplace, 1800-1885
by Elaine Hadley
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.
With its familial narratives, depictions of bodily torture, scenes of criminal conduct, expressions of highly charged emotion, and simple themes of good and evil, the melodramatic mode reaffirmed the familial, hierarchical, and public grounds for ethical behavior and identity that characterized eighteenth-century models of social exchange and organization.
In these enactments, Radicals and Tories, paupers and newsmen, ladies and prostitutes, and men of letters responded to the effects of a consolidating market culture, especially the emergence of bureaucratic procedures of rationalization, classification, and professionalization.
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Dissenters in literature, English Melodrama, English drama, English literature, History, History and criticism, Literature and society, Melodrama, English, Social problems in literature, Theater and society, English drama, history and criticism, 19th century, Melodrama, English literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Theater, great britain, history, Great britain, history, 19th centuryPlaces
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Melodramatic Tactics: Theatricalized Dissent in the English Marketplace, 1800-1885
November 1997, Stanford University Press
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in English
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Melodramatic tactics: theatricalized dissent in the English marketplace, 1800-1885
1995, Stanford University Press
in English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-295) and index.
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