The melodramatic moment : music and theatrical culture, 1790-1820 / edited by Katherine Hambridge an...
The melodramatic moment : music and theatrical culture, 1790-1820 / edited by Katherine Hambridge an...
The melodramatic moment : music and theatrical culture, 1790-1820 / edited by Katherine Hambridge and Jonathan Hicks.
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Publisher
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Call Numbers
G 2018/4657
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Language
English
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Physical content
xii, 282 pages ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Foreword / James Chandler -- The melodramatic moment, 1790-1820 / Katherine Hambridge, Jonathan Hicks -- Forms and themes of early melodrama / Ellen Lockhart -- Continental trouble: the nationality of melodrama and the national stage in early nineteenth-century Britain / Diego Saglia -- Between the...
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Publisher
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
2018.
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Summary
We seem to see melodrama everywhere we look - from the soliloquies of devastation in a Dickens novel to the abject monstrosity of Frankenstein?s creation, and from Louise Brooks?s exaggerated acting in Pandora's Box to the vicissitudes endlessly reshaping the life of a brooding Don Draper. This anthology proposes to address the sometimes bewilderin...
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The melodramatic moment : music and theatrical culture, 1790-1820 / edited by Katherine Hambridge and Jonathan Hicks.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2018
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G 2018/4657
Record Identifier
74VKVkGjlGKb
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ISBN
9780226543659 hardcover ; alkaline paper
022654365X hardcover ; alkaline paper
DDC
781.552
MMS ID
991024183228902626
