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Tables of Contents for The Melodramatic Imagination
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface 1995
vii
Preface to the original edition
xiii
The Melodramatic Imagination
1
23
The Aesthetics of Astonishment
24
32
The Text of Muteness
56
25
Melodrama and Romantic Dramatization
81
29
Balzac: Representation and Signification
110
43
Henry James and the Melodrama of Consciousness
153
45
Conclusion: Melodrama, A Central Poetry
198
9
Notes
207
22
Index
229