"Don't be so melodramatic!" Dickens and the affective mode
Beginning with Martin Meisel's account of theatrical and fictional tableaux as 'effects', this article explores Dickens's staging of sentimental affect both in his performed readings of his fiction and in the works of fiction themselves. Initially focusing on a private reading of...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2007-04-01
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| Series: | 19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century |
| Online Access: | http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/456 |