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Dickens's Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture Book

This text argues that Dicken's villains embody the fusion between the 'deviant' and 'theatrical' aspects of his writing. It sets up a dialogue between the macabre and the dramatic, stemming from the dichotomy between the Post-Romantic privileging of mind and the melodramtic model.Read More

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  • ASDA

    The first major study of Dickens's villains argues that they embody the crucial fusion between the 'deviant' and the 'theatrical' aspects of Dickens's writing. Dickens's Villains locates the rationale for his theatrical characters in his political commitment to the principle of cultural inclusivity and his related resistance to 'psychology'.

  • Blackwell

    This is the first major study of Dickens's villains. They embody, John argues, the crucial fusion between the deviant and theatrical aspects of his writing. Though there have been many studies of both the macabre and the dramatic Dickens...

  • 0199261377
  • 9780199261376
  • Juliet John
  • 13 February 2003
  • OUP Oxford
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 272
  • New Ed
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