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Using the term "melodrama" as an abstract category to describe almost any literary mode--from nineteenth-century novels to 20th-century films--modern critics have obscured the genre's historical and cultural functions as well as the nature of its specific appeal to working-class audiences. To rectify this situation, the essays in this innovative and international collection redirect attention to the historical, social, and cultural milieu in which melodrama emerged.
Using the term "melodrama" as an abstract category to describe almost any literary mode--from nineteenth-century novels to 20th-century films--modern critics have obscured the genre's historical and cultural functions as well as the nature of its specific appeal to working-class audiences. To rectify this situation, the essays in this innovative and international collection redirect attention to the historical, social, and cultural milieu in which melodrama emerged.
Using the term "melodrama" as an abstract category to describe almost any literary mode--from nineteenth-century novels to 20th-century films--modern critics have obscured the genre's historical and cultural functions as well as the nature of its specific appeal to working-class audiences. To rectify this situation, the essays in this innovative and international collection redirect attention to the historical, social, and cultural milieu in which melodrama emerged.
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Michael Hays is the author and editor of a number of books, including The Public and Performance and Critical Conditions.
Anastasia Nikolopoulou teaches drama and literary criticism at the University of Cyprus.
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Anastasia Nikolopoulou teaches drama and literary criticism at the University of Cyprus.
"The breadth of coverage along with the authority of the essayists are the real strengths of the book." -- Choice
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- PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
- ISBN 10 0312126921
- ISBN 13 9780312126926
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages288
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