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Introduction; M.Hays & A.Nikolopoulou - From Melodrama to ModernRealism: A Problem in the Narrative of American Theatre History;T.Postlewait - The Return of Martin Guerre in an Early 19th-CenturyFrench Melodrama; B.Cooper - Radicalism in the Melodrama of the EarlyNineteenth Century; H.Ilsemann - Generic Innovation and IdeologicalReaction in the Melodrama; J.Cox - HE Never Should Bow Down to aDomineering Frown: Class Tensions and Nautical Melodrama; M.Carlson -On the Origins of the English Melodrama in the Tradition ofMiddle-Class Tragedy and Sentimental Drama; L.Fietz - The Lesson of theHeroine, 1830-70; L.Metayer - Soldiers of the Queen: Drury LaneImperialism; M.Booth - The Empire Right of Wrong: Boer War Melodramason the Australian Stage, 1899-1902; J.Davis - MelodramaticContingencies: Tendencies in the Bulgarian Theatre of the Late 19thCentury; K.Tancheva - Melodrama and the Great Famine; or, RepresentingStarvation on Stage; S.Watt & J.Williams - Historical Disruptions: TheWalter Scott Melodramas; A.Nikolopoulou - Parlour and PlatformMelodrama; D.Meyer - Refashioning Cultural Horizons: The West asAllegorical Space for Postbellum Renewal; M.Hays