Melodramatic Imperial Writing: From the Sepoy Rebellion to Cecil Rhodes
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
Melodrama is often seen as a blunt aesthetic tool tainted by its reliance on improbable situations, moral binaries, and overwhelming emotion, features that made it a likely ingredient of British imperial propaganda during the late nineteenth century. Yet, through its impact on many late-Victorian genres outside of the theater, melodrama developed a complicated relationship with British imperial discourse.
Melodramatic Imperial Writing positions melodrama as a vital aspect of works that underscored the contradictions and injustices of British imperialism. Beyond proving useful for authors constructing imperialist fantasies or supporting unjust policies, the melodramatic mode enabled writers to upset narratives of British imperial destiny and racial superiority.
Neil Hultgren explores a range of texts, from Dickens’s writing about the 1857 Sepoy Rebellion to W. E. Henley’s imperialist poetry and Olive Schreiner’s experimental fiction, in order to trace a new and complex history of British imperialism and the melodramatic mode in late-Victorian writing.
Related to Melodramatic Imperial Writing
Related ebooks
Melodramatic Imperial Writing: From the Sepoy Rebellion to Cecil Rhodes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRude Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Populating the Novel: Literary Form and the Politics of Surplus Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEmpire of Pictures: Global Media and the 1960s Remaking of American Foreign Policy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War, 1954-1965 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Spaces of Danger: Culture and Power in the Everyday Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsArchives of Authority: Empire, Culture, and the Cold War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Mediterranean World: From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Napoleon Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAwaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America's Culture of Death Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5After Aquarius Dawned: How the Revolutions of the Sixties Became the Popular Culture of the Seventies Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Viktor Frankl's Search for Meaning: An Emblematic 20th-Century Life Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Made in Britain: Nation and Emigration in Nineteenth-Century America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTurncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers: Culture and Politics of the Early Cold War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Stigma of Surrender: German Prisoners, British Captors, and Manhood in the Great War and Beyond Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsReproducing the State Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCosmopolitan Patriots: Americans in Paris in the Age of Revolution Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHistorians across Borders: Writing American History in a Global Age Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThomas Holcroft’s Revolutionary Drama: Reception and Afterlives Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Republic in the Ranks: Loyalty and Dissent in the Army of the Potomac Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Semi-Detached: The Aesthetics of Virtual Experience since Dickens Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSecret Wars and Secret Policies in the Americas, 1842-1929 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDemographic Angst: Cultural Narratives and American Films of the 1950s Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIndian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTom Paine's America: The Rise and Fall of Transatlantic Radicalism in the Early Republic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beyond the Civil War Hospital: The Rhetoric of Healing and Democratization in Northern Reconstruction Writing, 1861-1882 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Performing Arts For You
Yes Please Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Robin Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Macbeth (new classics) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Our Town: A Play in Three Acts Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Importance of Being Earnest: A Play Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Diamond Eye: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hollywood's Dark History: Silver Screen Scandals Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Romeo and Juliet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sisters Brothers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unsheltered: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hamlet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wuthering Heights Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Best Women's Monologues from New Plays, 2020 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book: The Script Book Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Coreyography: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Midsummer Night's Dream, with line numbers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lucky Dog Lessons: Train Your Dog in 7 Days Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Woman Is No Man: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Dolls House Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Strange Loop Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Trial Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Into the Woods: A Five-Act Journey Into Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mash: A Novel About Three Army Doctors Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Count Of Monte Cristo (Unabridged) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Melodramatic Imperial Writing
0 ratings0 reviews