Professors of Desire@@@A Future for Astyanax: Character and Desire in Literature@@@The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess

In this richly illustrated study of the relationship of art, drama, and fiction in the nineteenth century, Martin Meisel illuminates the collaboration between storytelling and picturemaking that informed narrative painting, pictorial dramaturgy, and serial illustrated fiction.Originally published in 1984.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Realizations: Narrative, Pictorial, and Theatrical Arts in Nineteenth-Century England.

This first in-depth study of women’s politeness examines the complex relationship individuals had with the discursive ideals of polite femininity. Contextualising women’s autobiographical writings (journals and letters) with a wide range of eighteenth-century printed didactic material, it analyses the tensions between politeness discourse which aimed to regulate acceptable feminine identities and women’s possibilities to resist this disciplinary regime. Ylivuori focuses on the central role the female body played as both the means through which individuals actively fashioned themselves as polite and feminine, and the supposedly truthful expression of their inner status of polite femininity.

Women and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England: Bodies, Identities, and Power

History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction combines innovative literary and historiographical analysis to investigate the way neo-Victorian novels conceptualise our relationship to the Victorian past, and to analyse their role in the production and communication of historical knowledge. Positioning neo-Victorian novels as dynamic participants in the contemporary historical imaginary, it explores their use of the Victorians' own vocabularies of history, memory and loss to re-member the nineteenth century today. While her focus is neo-Victorian fiction, Mitchell positions these novels in relation to debates about historical fiction's contribution to historical knowledge since the eighteenth century. Her use of memory discourse as a framework for understanding the ways in which they do lay claim to historical recollection, one which opens up a range of questions beyond historical fidelity on the one hand, and the problematics of representation on the other, suggests new ways of thinking about contemporary historical fiction and its prevalence, popular appeal, and nmnenonic function today.

History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction

Realizations: Narrative, Pictorial, and Theatrical Arts in Nineteenth-Century England

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS EDITIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION PART ONE - DICKENS IN HIS DAY 1. The Amusements of the People: Cultural Politics, Class and Commerce 2. 'A body without a head': Culture Shock in Dickens's American Notes (1842) 3. 'Personal' Journalism: Getting Down into the Masses 4. 'Coming Face to Face with Multitudes': The Public Readings 5. Culture, Machines and Cultural Industry PART TWO - AFTERLIVES 6. Moving Pictures and Moving People: The Aesthetics of 'Mass Success' 7. The Making of a Cultural Myth: Oliver Twist on Screen 8. Heritage Dickens or, Culture and the Commodity Conclusion: Dickens World Past, Present and Future BIBLIOGRAPHY

Dickens and Mass Culture

Note on the text Abbreviations Introduction I: MELODRAMA, VILLAINY, ACTING 1. Intellectual Incorrectness: Melodrama, Populism, Cultural Hierarchies 2. The Villains of Stage Melodrama: Romanticism and the Politics of Character 3. Acting and Ambivalence: Periodical Passions II: DICKENS'S NOVELS 4. Melodramatic Poetics and the Gothic Villain: Interiority, Deviance, Emotion 5. Twisting the Newgate Tale: Popular Culture, Pleasure and the Politics of Genre 6. Dickens and Dandyism: Masking Interiority 7. Byronic Baddies, Melodramatic Anxieties 8. Sincerely Deviant Women Afterword Bibliography Index

Dickens's Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture

Dickens's Villains

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Foreword JSutherland Introduction JJohn & AJenkins From 'Non-Fiction Prose' to 'Cultural Criticism': Genre and Disciplinarity in Victorian Studies SCollin Republican versus Victorian: Radical Writing in the Later Years of the Nineteenth Century JLucas 'The Mote Within the Eye': Dust and Victorian Vision KFlint Purging Christianity of its Semitic Origins: Kingsley, Arnold and the Bible SPrickett Dickens and the Millennium ASanders Re-Arranging the Year: The Almanac, The Day Book and The Year Book as Popular Literary Forms, 1789-1860 BMaidment Tennyson and the Apostles JCoyle & RCronin Twisting the Newgate Tale: Dickens, Popular Culture and the Politics of Genre JJohn 'More Interesting Than All the Books, Save One': Charles Kingsley's Construction of Natural History FO'Gorman Writing the Self and Writing Science: Mary Somerville as Autobiographer AJenkins A Taste For Change in Our Mutual Friend Cultivation or Education? PMorris 'The Mother of our Mothers': Ghostly Strategies in Women's Writing ATrodd Actresses, Autobiography and the 1980s GMarshall Modernity and Progress in Economics and Aesthetics RGagnier Index

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Rethinking Victorian Culture

The sudden, unexpected death of Sally Ledger in January has deeply affected all who were fortunate enough to know and work with her. In this specially commissioned piece, Juliet John reviews the historiography of melodrama and considers its psychology, aesthetics and ethics. She goes on to discuss Sally's work on Dickens's melodramatic aesthetics and radical politics. As Michael Dobson writes in his Introduction: 'Sally was a warm defender of the rights of the people to emotional intensity, both inside the theatre and beyond it, and the grief experienced across the scholarly world and beyond on Sally's sudden death is a fitting tribute to that critical priority.'

https://19.bbk.ac.uk/article/1640/galley/1924/download/

Juliet John

Papers

Dickens and Mass Culture

Dickens's Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture

Dickens's Villains

Rethinking Victorian Culture

Melodrama and its Criticism: An Essay in Memory of Sally Ledger