Melodramatic Imperial Writing

Melodramatic Imperial Writing positions melodrama as a vital aspect of works that underscored the contradictions and injustices of British imperialism. Hultgren explores a range of texts, from Dickens’s writing about the 1857 Sepoy Rebellion to W. E. Henley’s imperialist poetry in order to trace a new and complex history of British imperialism and the melodramatic mode in late-Victorian writing.