Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface IX
4. 1. The Melodramatic Imagination 1
5. 2. The Aesthetics of Astonishment 24
6. 3. The Text of Muteness 56
7. 4. Melodrama and Romantic Dramatization 81
8. 5. Balzac: Representation And Signification 110
9. 6. Henry James And The Melodrama Of Consciousness 153
10. Conclusion: Melodrama, A Central Poetry 198
11. Notes 207
12. Index 229