Nemesvari Thomas Hardy, Sensationalism, and the Melodramatic Mode

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-11884-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 245 Seiten

Reihe: Palgrave Literature Collection

The first full-length study of sensationalist and melodramatic elements in Hardy's novels uses six of his texts to demonstrate the ways in which Hardy uses the melodramatic mode to advance his critique of established Victorian cultural beliefs through the employment of non-realistic plot devices and sensational 'excess.'

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nemesvari, R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Thomas Hardy and the Melodramatic Imagination PART I: MELODRAMAS OF MASCULINITY – DESPERATE REMEDIES AND THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE 'I love you better than any man can': Sensation Fiction, Class, and Gender Role Anxiety in Desperate Remedies 'No man ever loved another as I did thee': Melodrama, Masculinity, and the Moral Occult (I) in The Mayor of Casterbridge PART II: SENSATIONAL BODIES, MELODRAMATIC SPECTACLES – FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD AND A LAODICEAN 'Kiss me too, Frank….You will Frank kiss me too!': Sensationalism, Surveillance, and Gazing at the Body in Far from the Madding Crowd 'A mixed young lady, rather': Melodrama, Technology, and Dis/Embodied Sensation in A Laodicean PART III: MELODRAMAS OF MODERNITY AND CLASS STATUS – THE HAND OF ETHELBERTA AND JUDE THE OBSCURE 'Lady – not a penny less than lady': Social Satire, Melodrama, and the Sensational Fiction of Class Status in The Hand of Ethelberta Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery?': Sensationalist Tragedy, Melodramatic Modernity, and the Moral Occult (II) in Jude the Obscure Conclusion: Hardy, the Melodramatic Mode, and Victorian Fiction

Über Autor(innen)

RICHARD NEMESVARI is a Professor and Dean of Arts at St. Francis Xavier University, USA.