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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 May 2019
...John Kucich Abstract Generic innovation has the potential to create strong new frameworks for political discourse. Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South hybridizes two nineteenth-century narrative genres—political melodrama and domestic fiction—to invite readerly involvement in the creation of new...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 79–100.
Published: 01 May 2018
... melodrama, epic, and, in this case, romance) that the realist tradition had ostensibly superseded. Understanding how the formal expansiveness of literary genres can be mobilized strategically, it concludes, affords a critical perspective for analyzing the Anthropocene—a concept whose narrative...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 112–122.
Published: 01 May 2017
... styles and markets is subdued through melodrama's focus on affective rather than taste-making practices, appearing as a viable metaphor of the fate of book-objects in a zero-sum marketplace. This article focuses on Rich and Famous , which explores the question of affinity between women, lowbrow...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 323–327.
Published: 01 August 2013
.... These include the subgenre of nautical
melodrama in its heyday, the play of Heathcliff and Cathy in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering
Heights, the American nature writing of Scottish émigrés John Muir and Robert Louis Ste-
venson, and the life and death of Oscar Wilde. These four readings follow a chapter theo...
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Novel (2021) 54 (2): 227–247.
Published: 01 August 2021
... encounters are crucial and characters can find one another in a crowd with the help of visual markers. See Christine Gledhill on the interaction between public and private experience in the context of urban melodrama. 15 Weinstein is especially helpful on the way such circular formulations...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 308–321.
Published: 01 August 2018
... in the elaborate psychological structure it is able to build upon them. In this way, the entire text mimics the action of book 2, where Maggie refuses her role in the melodrama, only to engage in a cruel, if immensely subtle, manipulation of Charlotte Stant into defeat. The novel, that is to say, is antitheatrical...
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“No Such Thing as a Voice Pure and Simple”: Henry James's Elocutionary Insecurities and The American
Novel (2018) 51 (3): 502–524.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., the Théâtre Français started James on a road that led him toward discovery of the impersonal sound of the literary text and, ultimately, to the inauguration of the modernist novel. It did so because the French melodrama's stylized declamatory technique released James from the naturalist imperative...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 188–209.
Published: 01 August 2018
... America (1810–24), the cultural and intellectual historians who ask field-shaping questions about the prehistory of neoliberalism have inadvertently formed a substantial network of like-minded arguments on the power of emotion, sentimentality, morality, melodrama, or what I call epistemological affect...
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Novel (2024) 57 (2): 268–272.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Chloë Kitzinger Works Cited Felski Rita . The Limits of Critique . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2015 . Kurnick David . “ A Few Lies: Queer Theory and Our Method Melodramas .” English Literary History 87 . 2 ( 2020 ): 349 – 74 . Nabokov Vladimir . “ The Art...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 393–399.
Published: 01 November 2009
... Works Cited Bright , Susan . Art Photography Now . New York: Aperture, 2005 . Edwards , Kathleen . Acting Out: Invented Melodrama in Contemporary Photography . Seattle: U of Washington P, 2005 . Edwards , Kim . The Memory Keeper's Daughter . New York: Penguin, 2005...
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 166–168.
Published: 01 May 2007
... on the pleasures of melodrama, Lesjak reads &IS relation
in the novel's well-known generic swerve as Mary rushes to save Jem at his trial. Melo-
drama, Lesjak reminds us, dramatizes working class oppression, while vitiating working-
class agency. She argues, however, that Mary Barton does not simply erase...
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Novel (2002) 36 (1): 126–128.
Published: 01 May 2002
... and a melodrama about the ill-fated Franklin expedition to
the Arctic, The Frozen Deep. But Collins was also beginning to prosper under his own
name-The Woman in White came out in 1860-and, as Lillian Nayder tells the story, he
increasingly chafed at Dickens's heavy-handed editorial authority...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 140–143.
Published: 01 May 2012
... working-class men were eventually given the vote by the 1867 Reform Act,
the debate that forms the deep background for all of Daly’s readings.) The Colleen Bawn uses
melodrama to investigate a cross-class liaison; the “rescue” of the peasant girl by a gentle-
man is perhaps a compensatory fantasy...
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Novel (2001) 34 (3): 411–433.
Published: 01 November 2001
... marry a pair of lovers-is
magnetically repellant, both absorbing and unbearable. Its relentless melodrama
forces the reader's sympathies, and yet the novel confounds such sympathies by
shifting into a preposterous alienation from that melodrama and the persons in-
volved. The radical deflection...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 132–135.
Published: 01 May 2018
... contradiction through affect, or what in other contexts comes under the heading of melodrama. So while not a staunch partisan on this point—readers will marvel at his equanimity—Jagoda wants to push past history, infrastructure, and the sciences of control, swinging our collective attention back toward...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 139–142.
Published: 01 May 2016
.... The modernists shunned romantic excess and melodrama, thus were suspicious of the grand sweeping worldview that gives us the tearful recognition scenes in Charles Dickens or the coups de théâtre in Victor Hugo. Deprived of such events, the modernist novel tends to plotlessness and presents the novelist...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 481–484.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., and melodrama and then moving to nontheatrical perfor-
mances. Most sustained is Rigney’s analysis of the craze for medieval ‘‘tourneys’’ based on
Ivanhoe after the Civil War in the American South, which, unlike theatrical adaptations of
Scott’s novel, entirely ignored Rebecca in favor of the Saxon Rowena...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 83–92.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., the woman’s film
(the melodrama or romance) seduces female spectators to the theater and later
to the ancillary market and its various exhibition windows. This has been true
historically. Melvyn Stokes concludes that however limited geographically and by
education, age, and sex, 1920s and 1930s...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 121–125.
Published: 01 May 2011
... rhythm of
American melodramas and detective thrillers” (68); it was a style that departed radically
from every type of theatrical naturalism, but more important it challenged the very notion
that modernity still allowed for the “somber interiority of bourgeois psychology” in the
first place (68...
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Novel (2021) 54 (2): 310–314.
Published: 01 August 2021
... the hermeneutics of suspicion, the canon wars, the new materialism, and so on. Willing to try old as well as new tools and observe how they work, he never claims that any one approach can create order out of the masses of print. He is not writing a melodrama with data as the villain, hoping unfettered aesthetics...
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