In this Book
- Melodramatic Imperial Writing: From the Sepoy Rebellion to Cecil Rhodes
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Ohio University Press
- Series: Series in Victorian Studies
summary
Melodrama is often seen as a blunt aesthetic tool tainted by its reliance on improbable situations, moral binaries, and overwhelming emotion, features that made it a likely ingredient of British imperial propaganda during the late nineteenth century.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-26
- Part One: Melodrama as Plot
- Part Two: Melodrama as Aestheticized Feeling
- Four: Stevenson’s Melodramatic Anthropology
- pp. 126-152
- Part Three: Melodrama as Distant Homeland
- Conclusion: Pirates and Spies
- pp. 188-194
- Bibliography
- pp. 233-246
Additional Information
ISBN
9780821444832
MARC Record
OCLC
870646808
Pages
272
Launched on MUSE
2014-05-07
Language
English
Open Access
No