Cambridge Companions to Literature: The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama by Williams, Carolyn -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Coverpage Half title Title page Imprints page Dedication Contents Illustrations Contributors Acknowledgements A Note on Citations of Plays Chronology 1 Introduction

What This Companion Provides Scholarship on Melodrama: A Brief Overview Notes

I Histories of English Melodrama

2 Early English Melodrama

Development and Growth 1800–1820: Generic Expansion 1820–1840: Repetition and Change

3 Gothic Melodrama

Cataloguing ‘Melodrama’ Gothic Origins: The Supernatural Onstage Sonic Innovations Genre Crossings Notes

4 Nautical Melodrama

Notes

5 Domestic Melodrama

The Meaning of the Domestic Domesticating the Gothic Home and Community Fathers and Daughters – and Absent Mothers Villainy Domestic Melodrama’s Comedic Interface The Heroine; Or, When the Woman Weeps Marital Relations; Or, Gender Wars The Knock at the Door; or, Melodramatizing Domestic Architecture Confronting the Past Home and the World: Later Domestic Melodrama Notes

6 Theatres and Their Audiences

The West End East End Audiences South of the Thames: Surrey-side Audiences Provincial Theatres and Audiences Notes

II Melodramatic Technique

7 Melodramatic Music

The ‘Melo’ in Melodrama Music and Staging Music and Character Interpretive Functions of Melodramatic Music Eight Types of Music Cues Music Placement in Later Melodramatic Practice Notes

8 Melodramatic Acting

Notes

9 Stagecraft, Spectacle, and Sensation

Notes

III Melodrama and Nineteenth-Century English Culture

10 Melodrama and Gender

Domestic Melodrama Masculinity Women Writing Melodrama Notes

11 Melodrama and Class

Social Class and the Nineteenth-Century Stage Melodrama’s Political Imaginary Visions of the Social Order Notes

12 Melodrama and Empire

Origins and Development of Imperialist Melodrama Domesticating the Empire Criticism, Questions, Challenges Notes

13 Melodrama and Race

Notes

IV Extensions of Melodrama

14 Melodrama and the Realist Novel

Genre Matters Probability and Improbability Type and Individual Melodramatic Realism Revising the History of Realism on the Nineteenth-Century Stage Notes

15 Melodrama in Early Film

Appendix

Appendix 1 Melodramas Available on DVD Appendix 2 Melodramas Available on YouTube

Notes

16 Moving Picture Melodrama

The Raw Material of Contradiction The ‘Melos’ Given to the Drama The Cross-Cut Sequence: From Way Down East (1920) to Interstellar (2014) How Many Realisms? Progressive or Reactionary Notes

17 Melodrama and the Modern Musical

Reviewing the Situation: A Brief History of Melodrama in the Broadway Musical Food, Glorious Food! Or, Well-Cured Bacon and Meat Pies Conclusion Notes

18 Psychoanalysis and Melodrama

The Melodramatics of Psychic Enactment Irreducible Sadism Freud Reads Balzac, Balzac Reads Freud Desire, Aggression, Kultur Notes

19 Metamodern Melodrama and Contemporary Mass Culture

Notes

Guide to Further Reading

Primary Sources: Selected Anthologies Secondary Sources

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