Melodrama : the cultural emergence of a genre

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION / Michael Hays and Anastasia Nikolopoulou = ⅶ
• PART Ⅰ : GRAND NARRATIVE(S) : VARIATIONS ON A THEME
• 1. Soldiers of the Queen : Drury Lane Imperialism / Michael Booth = 3
• 2. The Empire Right or Wrong : Boer War Melodrama on the Australian Stage, 1899-1901 / Jim Davis = 21
• 3. From Melodrama to Realism : The Suspect History of American Drama / Thomas Postlewait = 39
• 4. Melodramatic Contingencies : Tendencies in the Bulgarian Drama and Theatre of the Late Nineteenth Century / Kornelia Tancheva = 61
• PART Ⅱ : GENERIC PATTERNS AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS
• 5. On the Origins of the English Melodrama in the Tradition of Bourgeois Tragedy and Sentimental Drama : Lillo, Schroder, Kotzebue, Sheridan, Thompson, Jerrold / Lothar Fietz = 83
• 6. The Return of Martin Guerre in an Early Nineteenth Century French Melodrama / Barbara T. Cooper = 103
• 7. Historical Disruptions : The Walter Scott Melodramas / Anastasia Nikolopoulou = 121
• PART Ⅲ : RADICALISM CONTAINED
• 8. He Never Should Bow Down to a Aomineering Frown : Class Tensions and Nautical Melodrama / Marvin Carlson = 147
• 9. The Ideological Tack of Nautical Melodrama / Jeffrey N. Cox = 167
• 10. Radicalism in the Melodrama of the Early Nineteenth Century / Hartmut Ilsemann = 191
• PART Ⅳ : GENDER, CLASS, CULTURE
• 11. Parlour and Platform Melodrama / David Mayer = 211
• 12. What the Heroine Taught, 1830-1870 / Leon Metayer = 235
• 13. Representing a "Great Distress" : Melodrama, Gender, and the Irish Famine / Julia Williams and Stephen Watt = 245
• Appendix : "The Uncle." Poem by H. G. Bell as recited by Sir Henry Irving with musical accompaniments composed expressly by Sir Julius Benedict = 267
• LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS = 277
• INDEX = 281