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Dickens's villains : melodrama, character, popular culture /

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This study argues that Dickens' villains embody the crucial fusion between the deviant and theatrical aspects of his writing.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: John, Juliet, 1967-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870 > Characters > Criminals.
Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870 > Characters > Villains.
Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870.
Popular culture > England > History > 19th century.
Villains in literature.
Melodrama.
Méchants dans la littérature.
Mélodrame.
18.05 English literature.
Criminals in literature.
Popular culture.
England.
Schurken.
Populaire cultuur.
Melodrama's.
English Literature.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
1800-1899
Electronic books.
History.
Melodramas (Drama)
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.