Dicken's villains : melodrama, character, popular culture / Juliet John.
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Oxford [England] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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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.