The Cambridge companion to English melodrama / edited by Carolyn Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williams, Carolyn, 1950- editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Melodrama, English--History and criticism.

Melodrama, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 324 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

This newly commissioned series of essays by leading scholars is the first volume to offer both an overview of the field and also current emerging critical views on the history, form, and influence of English melodrama. Authoritative voices provide an introduction to melodrama's early formal features such as tableaux and music, and trace the development of the genre in the nineteenth century through the texts and performances of its various sub-genres, the theatres within which the plays were performed, and the audiences who watched them. The historical contexts of melodrama are considered through essays on topics including contemporary politics, class, gender, race, and empire. And the extensive influences of melodrama are demonstrated through a wide-ranging assessment of its ongoing and sometimes unexpected expressions - in psychoanalysis, in other art forms (the novel, film, television, musical theatre), and in popular culture generally - from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.

Contents:

Early English melodrama / Matthew Buckley

Gothic melodrama / Michael Gamer

Nautical melodrama / Ankhi Mukherjee

Domestic melodrama / Christine Gledhill

Theatres and their audiences / Jim Davis

Melodramatic music / Michael V. Pisani

Melodramatic acting -/ George Taylor

Stagecraft, spectacle, and sensation / Hayley Jayne Bradley

Melodrama and gender / Katherine Newey

Melodrama and class / Rohan McWilliam

Melodrama and empire / Marty Gould

Melodrama and race / Sarah Meer

Melodrama and the realist novel / Carolyn Williams

Melodrama and early [silent] film / David Mayer

Moving picture melodrama / Jane M. Gaines

Melodrama and the modern musical / Sharon Aronofsky Weltman

Melodrama and psychoanalysis / Peter Brooks

Metamodern Melodrama and contemporary mass culture / Juliet John.

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ISBN:

9781316155875

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