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028			_aBrijwasi Book Distributors _bH-87, Lalita Park,Laxmi Nagar,Delhi-110092 _cBW/005740 _d20/02/2020
082			_a822.0527 HAD
100			_aElaine Hadley
245			_aMelodramatic tactics _b: theatricalized dissent in the English marketplace, 1800-1885 _c/Elaine Hadley
260			_aStanford, Calif. _b: Stanford University Press _c, 1995.
300			_aviii, 303 pages _c; 24 cm
365			_b6575
505			_a 1. Magyars and Michaels: Unromantic Melodrama -- 2. The Old Price Wars: Melodramatizing the Public Sphere in Early-Nineteenth-Century England -- 3. Storming the "Bastile": Oliver Twist and Melodramatic Resistance to the New Poor Law of 1834 -- 4. The Queen's English: Melodramatic Rhetoric in Victoria's England -- 5. Blows into Whispers: The Melodramatic Mode and Intellectual Culture in the 1870's and 1880's -- Epilogue: The Curtain Falls: Melodrama's Villains.
520			_a This pathbreaking work analyzes melodrama as not merely a theatrical genre but as a behavioral paradigm of the nineteenth century, manifest in the theater, in literature, and in society. With its familial narratives, depictions of bodily torture, scenes of criminal conduct, expressions of highly charged emotion, and simple themes of good and evil, the melodramatic mode reaffirmed the familial, hierarchical, and public grounds for ethical behavior and identity that characterized eighteenth-century models of social exchange and organization. In these enactments, Radicals and Tories, paupers and newsmen, ladies and prostitutes, and men of letters responded to the effects of a consolidating market culture, especially the emergence of bureaucratic procedures of rationalization, classification, and professionalization.
650			_aLiterature
655			_aEnglish drama _bEnglish literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
700			_aElaine Hadley
942			_cBOOK