| #1329416 in Books | Stanford University Press | 1997-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .81 x6.06 x9.03l, | File type: PDF | 318 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Academicians only|By Jeffrey Briar|A difficult read. For academics, scholars and students only. The book is more for sociologists (I am not) than for lovers of Melodrama (I am).||"Centering her discussion around the term 'melodramatic modes,' Hadley examines a response to the social, economic, and epistemological changes that characterized the Consolidation of market society in the nineteenth century. . . . In spite of the fact that sh
This pathbreaking work analyses melodrama as a behavioural paradigm of the nineteenth century, manifest in the theatre, 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 behaviour and identity that characterized eighteenth-century models o...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Melodramatic Tactics: Theatricalized Dissent in the English Marketplace, 1800-1885 | Elaine Hadley. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
