Melodrama: The Cultural Emergence of a Genre

By Michael Hays

Book Overview

Using the term melodrama as an abstract category to describe almost any literary mode--from nineteenth-century novels to 20th-century films--modern critics have obscured the genre's historical and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312221274
• ISBN13: 9780312221270
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 5.8"