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Dickens's villains : melodrama, character, popular culture

Title
Dickens's villains : melodrama, character, popular culture / Juliet John.
Author
John, Juliet, 1967-
Publication
Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

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Description
xiii, 258 p.; 23 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [238]-252) and index.
Contents
Intellectual incorrectness: melodrama, populism, cultural hierarchies -- The villains of stage melodrama: romanticism and the politics of character -- Dickens, acting, and ambivalence: periodical passions -- Melodramatic poetics and the gothic villain: interiority, deviance, emotion -- Twisting the Newgate tale: popular culture, pleasure, and the politics of genre -- Dickens and dandyism: masking interiority -- Byronic baddies, melodramatic anxieties -- Sincerely deviant women
Call Number
JFD 01-11670
ISBN
0198184611 (acid-free paper)
LCCN
00053038
OCLC
45438180
Author
John, Juliet, 1967-
Title
Dickens's villains : melodrama, character, popular culture / Juliet John.
Imprint
Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [238]-252) and index.
Research Call Number
JFD 01-11670
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