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Melodramatic Imperial Writing : From the Sepoy Rebellion to Cecil Rhodes /

"Melodrama, as an aesthetic, 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...

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Autor principal: Hultgren, Neil (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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