About the Author
Michael Hays is the author and editor of a number of books, including
The Public and Performance and Critical Conditions.
Anastasia Nikolopoulou teaches drama and literary criticism at the University of Cyprus.
Table of Contents
Introduction--Michael Hays and Anastasia Nikolopoulou
Part I: Grand Narrative(s): Variations on a Theme
Soldiers of the Queen--Michael Booth
The Empire Right or Wrong--Jim Davis
From Melodrama to Realism--Thomas Postlewait
Melodramatic Contingencies--Kornelia Tancheva
Part II: Generic Patterns and Social Constructs
On the Origins of the English Melodrama in the Tradition of Bourgeois Tragedy and Sentimental Drama--Lothar Fietz
The Return of Martin Guerre in an Early Nineteenth Century French Melodrama--Barbara T. Cooper
Historical Disruptions--Anastasia Nikolopoulou
Part III: Radicalism Contained
He Never Should Bow Down to a Domineering Frown--Marvin Carlson
The Ideological Tack of Nautical Melodrama--Jeffrey N. Cox
Radicalism in the Melodrama of the Early Nineteenth Century--Hartmut Ilsemann
Part IV: Gender, Class, Culture
Parlour and Platform Melodrama--David Mayer
What the Heroine Taught, 1830-1870--Léon Metayer
Representing a "Great Distress"--Julia Williams & Stephen Watt
Introduction--Michael Hays and Anastasia Nikolopoulou
Part I: Grand Narrative(s): Variations on a Theme
Soldiers of the Queen--Michael Booth
The Empire Right or Wrong--Jim Davis
From Melodrama to Realism--Thomas Postlewait
Melodramatic Contingencies--Kornelia Tancheva
Part II: Generic Patterns and Social Constructs
On the Origins of the English Melodrama in the Tradition of Bourgeois Tragedy and Sentimental Drama--Lothar Fietz
The Return of Martin Guerre in an Early Nineteenth Century French Melodrama--Barbara T. Cooper
Historical Disruptions--Anastasia Nikolopoulou
Part III: Radicalism Contained
He Never Should Bow Down to a Domineering Frown--Marvin Carlson
The Ideological Tack of Nautical Melodrama--Jeffrey N. Cox
Radicalism in the Melodrama of the Early Nineteenth Century--Hartmut Ilsemann
Part IV: Gender, Class, Culture
Parlour and Platform Melodrama--David Mayer
What the Heroine Taught, 1830-1870--Léon Metayer
Representing a "Great Distress"--Julia Williams & Stephen Watt