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Title:

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

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xxii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Melodrama, English--History and criticism.

Other Authors:

Williams, Carolyn, 1950- editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-315) and index.

Contents:

19. Metamodern melodrama and contemporary mass culture / Juliet John. 2. Early English melodrama / Matthew Buckley -- 3. Gothic melodrama / Michael Gamer -- 4. Nautical melodrama / Ankhi Mukherjee -- 5. Domestic melodrama / Christine Gledhill -- 6. Theatres and their audiences / Jim Davis -- 7. Melodramatic music / Michael V. Pisani -- 8. Melodramatic acting / George Taylor -- 9. Stagecraft, spectacle, and sensation / Hayley Jayne Bradley -- 10. Melodrama and gender / Katherine Newey -- 11. Melodrama and class / Rohan McWilliam -- 12. Melodrama and empire / Marty Gould -- 13. Melodrama and race / Sarah Meer -- 14. Melodrama and the realist novel / Carolyn Williams -- 15. Melodrama and early film / David Mayer -- 16. Moving picture melodrama / Jane M. Gaines -- 17. Melodrama and the modern musical / Sharon Aronofsky Weltman -- 18. Psychoanalysis and melodrama / Peter Brooks -- 19. Metamodern melodrama and contemporary mass culture / Juliet John.

Summary:

"The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama This newly commissioned series of essays by leading scholars is the first volume to offer both an overview of the field and also currently emerging critical views on the history, form, and influence of English melodrama"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Cambridge companions to authors

ISBN:

110709593X
9781107095939
1107479592
9781107479593

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1042079951

LCCN:

2018022346

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)