Melodramatic Tactics: Theatricalized Dissent in the English Marketplace, 1800-1885

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.

Author: Elaine Hadley
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 10/01/1995
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.39lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.36w x 1.01d
ISBN: 9780804724036

About the Author
Elaine Hadley is Assistant Professor of English and of the Humanities at the University of Chicago.