Dickens, Melodrama, and the Parodic Imagination

• Author(s): Tore Rem,
• Publisher: AMS Press
• Pages: 239
• ISBN_10: 0404644589
  ISBN_13: 9780404644581
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Drama / General , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Humor ,

Description:... 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.