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

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: John, Juliet, 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870 > Characters > Villains.
Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870 > Characters > Criminals.
Popular culture > England > History > 19th century.
Villains in literature.
Melodrama.
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