03267nam 2200601 450 991078902760332120200520144314.00-8214-4483-2(CKB)3710000000088628(SSID)ssj0001134340(PQKBManifestationID)11604156(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001134340(PQKBWorkID)11161651(PQKB)11386913(OCoLC)870646808(MdBmJHUP)muse34909(Au-PeEL)EBL1743580(CaPaEBR)ebr10837922(MiAaPQ)EBC1743580(EXLCZ)99371000000008862820140302h20142014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrMelodramatic imperial writing from the Sepoy Rebellion to Cecil Rhodes /Neil HultgrenAthens, Ohio :Ohio University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (272 pages)Series in Victorian studies Melodramatic imperial writing Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8214-2085-2 Includes bibliographical references and index."Melodrama, as an aesthetic, has long been criticized for its reliance on improbable situations and overwhelming emotion. These very aspects, however, made it a useful and appealing literary mode for British imperial propagandists in the late nineteenth century. Though stage melodrama may have been declining in prominence, the melodramatic style influenced many late-Victorian genres outside of the theater-for example, imperialist ballads, detective novels, travel narratives, and romances-and developed a complicated relationship with British imperial discourse. Melodramatic Imperial Writing: From the Sepoy Rebellion to Cecil Rhodes locates melodrama within a new and considerably more complicated history of British imperialism: beyond its use in constructing imperialist fantasies or supporting unjust policies, the melodramatic style also enabled writers to upset narratives of British imperial destiny or racial superiority. This book examines works by both canonical and lesser-known authors writing after the Sepoy Rebellion, including Wilkie Collins, Marie Corelli, Charles Dickens, H. Rider Haggard, W. E. Henley, Rudyard Kipling, Olive Schreiner, and Robert Louis Stevenson, and encompasses representations of British imperialism from India, to South Africa and the South Seas"--Provided by publisher.English prose literatureHistory and criticismMelodrama, EnglishHistory and criticismLiterature and societyEnglandHistoryImperialism in literatureEnglish prose literatureHistory and criticism.Melodrama, EnglishHistory and criticism.Literature and societyHistory.Imperialism in literature.828/.08LIT004120bisacshHultgren Neil1533942MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789027603321Melodramatic imperial writing3781092UNINA