Description: Melodramatic Tactics by Elaine Hadley This analyses melodrama as a behavioural paradigm of the nineteenth century, manifest in the theatre, in literature, and in society. In it, people of all walks of life responded to the effects of a consolidating market culture. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 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. Back Cover "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 "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 she covers the whole of the nineteenth century and cites multiple examples, Hadleys approach is unified, fresh, and innovative. She suggests new and significant ways of looking at Victorian culture and challenging some traditional judgments."-Choice Author Biography Elaine Hadley is Assistant Professor of English and of the Humanities at the University of Chicago. Table of Contents Introduction: staging the melodramatic mode 1. Unromantic melodrama 2. The old price wars: melodramatising the public sphere in early nineteenth-century England 3. Storming the Bastille: Oliver Twist and the melodramatic resistance to the new Poor Law of 1834 4. The Queens English: melodramatic rhetoric in Victorias England 5. Blows into whispers: the melodramatic mode and intellectual culture in the 1870s and 1880s. Review "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 "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 she covers the whole of the nineteenth century and cites multiple examples, Hadleys approach is unified, fresh, and innovative. She suggests new and significant ways of looking at Victorian culture and challenging some traditional judgments." - Choice Long Description 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. Review Quote "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." Details ISBN0804724032 Author Elaine Hadley Publisher Stanford University Press Edition Description Anniversary and Language English ISBN-10 0804724032 ISBN-13 9780804724036 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 1995 Imprint Stanford University Press Place of Publication Palo Alto Country of Publication United States Illustrations 9 half-tones Short Title MELODRAMATIC TACTICS Pages 320 Birth 1960 Subtitle Theatricalized Dissent in the English Marketplace, 1800-1885 DOI 10.1604/9780804724036 UK Release Date 1995-10-01 AU Release Date 1995-10-01 NZ Release Date 1995-10-01 US Release Date 1995-10-01 Publication Date 1995-10-01 Alternative 9780804731607 DEWEY 822.05270907 Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159796708;
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Book Title: Melodramatic Tactics: Theatricalized Dissent in the English Marketplace, 1800-1885
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Author: Elaine Hadley
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Literature
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 1995
Item Weight: 630g
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
