Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Historical Newspapers and Journals Cited vii
4. Foreword ix
5. Chapter 1. The Melodramatic Moment 1
6. Chapter 2. Forms and Themes of Early Melodrama 25
7. Chapter 3. Continental Trouble: The Nationality of Melodrama and the National Stage in Early Nineteenth- Century Britain 43
8. Chapter 4. Between the Sacred and the Profane: French Biblical Melodrama in Vienna c. 1800 59
9. Chapter 5. Scenography, Spéculomanie, and Spectacle: Pixerécourt’s La citerne (1809) 79
10. Chapter 6. Compositional Gestures: Music and Movement in Lenardo und Blandine (1779) 95
11. Chapter 7. Music and Subterranean Space in La citerne (1809) 117
12. Chapter 8. The First English Melodrama: Thomas Holcroft’s Translation of Pixerécourt 137
13. Chapter 9. Benevolent Machinery: Techniques of Sympathy in Early German Melodrama 151
14. Chapter 10. Vienna, 18 October 1814: Urban Space and Public Memory in the Napoleonic “Occasional Melodrama” 171
15. Afterword: Looking Back at Rousseau’s Pygmalion 191
16. Acknowledgments 199
17. Notes 201
18. Bibliography 247
19. Contributors 265
20. Index 269