Nemesvari, Richard
Thomas Hardy, Sensationalism, and the Melodramatic Mode
1. Introduction: Thomas Hardy and the Melodramatic Imagination
Richard Nemesvari
Part 1. Melodramas of Masculinity—
2. “‘I love you better than any man can’”: Sensation Fiction, Class, and Gender Role Anxiety in
Richard Nemesvari
3. “‘No man ever loved another as I did thee’”: Melodrama, Masculinity, and the Moral Occult (I) in
Richard Nemesvari
Part II. Sensational Bodies, Melodramatic Spectacles—
4. “‘Kiss me too, Frank … You will Frank kiss me too!’” Sensationalism, Surveillance, and Gazing at the Body in
Richard Nemesvari
5. “‘A mixed young lady, rather’”: Melodrama, Technology, and Dis/Embodied Sensation in
Richard Nemesvari
Part III. Melodramas of Modernity and Class Status—
6. “‘Lady—not a penny less than lady’”: Satire, Melodrama, and the Sensational Fiction of Class Status in
Richard Nemesvari
7. “‘Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery?’”: Sensationalist Tragedy, Melodramatic Modernity, and the Moral Occult (II) in
Richard Nemesvari
Keywords: Literature, Fiction, British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Social Sciences, general
- Author(s)
- Nemesvari, Richard
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2011
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 257 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230118843
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-38340-5