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[Description: Description: \\capbiz02\images\covers\large\9780821420850.jpg]<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/melodramatic-imperial-writing>Melodramatic Imperial Writing<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/melodramatic-imperial-writing> From the Sepoy Rebellion to Cecil Rhodes<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/melodramatic-imperial-writing> Neil Emory Hultgren “An ambitious book that delivers the goods. The melodramatic mode itself was all over the map — in a remarkable and influential way.”—Emily Allen, associate professor of English, Purdue University Melodrama 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 theater — for example, imperialist ballads, detective novels, travel narratives, and romances. Melodramatic Imperial Writing locates the melodramatic mode within a new and considerably more nuanced 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. Ohio University Press June 2014 256pp 9780821420850 HB £39 now only £29.25 when you quote CS0914VICT<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/melodramatic-imperial-writing> when you order. [Description: Description: Music Hall & Modernity]<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/melodramatic-imperial-writing>Music Hall and Modernity<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/melodramatic-imperial-writing> Late Victorian Discovery Of Popular Culture<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/melodramatic-imperial-writing> Barry J. Faulk "Faulk has incorporated an impressive amount of theoretical writing from a variety of schools, and steers his way through its various pitfalls admirably and instructively. In its ecumenical and measured treatment of the demands of contemporary theory, the book ranks with the best of recent treatments of Victorian London."—David Pike, author of Subterranean Cities: Subways, Cemeteries, Sewers and the Culture of Paris and London “In its subject and detail, Music Hall and Modernity is fascinating and absorbing to specialist and general reader alike.” —Victorian Periodicals Review In examining fiction from Walter Besant, Hall Caine, and Henry Nevinson, performance criticism from William Archer and Max Beerbohm, and late-Victorian controversies over philanthropy and moral reform, scholar Barry Faulk argues that discourse on music-hall entertainment helped consolidate the identity and tastes of an emergent professional class. Critics and writers legitimized and cleaned up the music hall, at the same time allowing issues of class, respect, and empowerment to be negotiated. Music Hall and Modernity offers a complex view of the new middle-class, middle-brow, mass culture of late-Victorian London and contributes to a body of scholarship on nineteenth-century urbanism. The book will also interest scholars concerned with the emergence of a professional managerial class and the genealogy of cultural studies. Ohio University Press April 2014 256pp 9780821420959 PB £17.99 now only £13.49 when you quote CS0914VICT<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/melodramatic-imperial-writing> when you order. [Description: Description: Cover of 'A Room of His Own']<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/room-of-his-own>A Room of his Own<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/room-of-his-own> A Literary-Cultural Study of Victorian Clubland<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/room-of-his-own> Barbara Black “… for Black, the Victorian gentleman’s club is a representation of embattled masculinity just as much as it is a statement of masculine power and confidence […] Black deftly reveals how every club is a statement of both exclusion and inclusion; it needs its outsiders to help define those whom it chooses to let in […] She ranges over the century with ease, and her obvious enthusiasm and love for London’s old clubhouses and club culture makes this a very readable book.”—Mary L. Shannon, Times Literary Supplement A Room of His Own sheds light on the mysterious ways of male associational culture as it examines such topics as fraternity, sophistication, nostalgia, social capital, celebrity, gossip, and male professionalism. The story of clubland (and the literature it generated) begins with Britain’s military heroes home from the Napoleonic campaign and quickly turns to Dickens’s and Thackeray’s acrimonious Garrick Club Affair. It takes us to Richard Burton’s curious Cannibal Club and Winston Churchill’s The Other Club; it goes underground to consider Uranian desire and Oscar Wilde’s clubbing and resurfaces to examine the problematics of belonging in Trollope’s novels. The trespass of French socialist Flora Tristan, who cross-dressed her way into the clubs of Pall Mall, provides a brief interlude. London’s clubland—this all-important room of his own—comes to life as Barbara Black explores the literary representations of clubland and the important social and cultural work that this urban site enacts. Our present-day culture of connectivity owes much to nineteenth-century sociability and Victorian networks; clubland reveals to us our own enduring desire to belong, to construct imagined communities, and to affiliate with like-minded comrades. Ohio University Press July 2014 256pp photographs, b&w drawings 9780821420942 PB £19.99 now only £14.99 when you quote CS0914VICT<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/room-of-his-own> when you order. 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