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Dickens, Melodrama, and the Parodic Imagination - AMS Studies in the Nineteenth-century Tore Rem
Dickens, Melodrama, and the Parodic Imagination - AMS Studies in the Nineteenth-century
Tore Rem
The traditional view of parody as a low and parasitic form has been challenged by a number of critics. This text examines the exemplary use of parody in the novels of Charles Dickens, focusing on how he parodies the mode of melodrama while simultaneously employing melodramatic devices.
239 pages, bibliography