Straub, Julia (2014). Melodrama and Narrative Fiction: Towards a Typology. Anglia - journal of English philology / Zeitschrift für englische Philologie, 132(2), pp. 225-241. De Gruyter 10.1515/ang-2014-0027
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Recent research on melodrama has stressed its versatility and ubiquity
by approaching it as a mode of expression rather than a theatrical genre. A
variety of contexts in which melodrama is at work have been explored, but
only little scholarly attention has been paid to the relationship between melodrama
and novels, short stories and novellas. This article proposes a typology
of melodrama in narrative prose fiction, examining four different categories:
Melodrama and Sentimentalism, Depiction of Melodramatic Performances in
Narrative Prose Fiction, Theatrical Antics and Aesthetics in Narrative Prose
Fiction and Meta-Melodrama. Its aim is to clarify the ways in which melodrama,
ever since its early days on the stages of late eighteenth-century Europe,
has interacted with fictional prose narratives, thereby shaping the literary imagination
in the Anglophone world.
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