Dickens's villains: melodrama, character, popular culture

Intellectual incorrectness: melodrama, populism, cultural hierarchies

The villains of stage melodrama: romanticism and the politics of character

Dickens, acting, and ambivalence: periodical passions

Melodramatic poetics and the gothic villain: interiority, deviance, emotion

Twisting the Newgate tale: popular culture, pleasure, and the politics of genre

Dickens and dandyism: masking interiority

Byronic baddies, melodramatic anxieties

Sincerely deviant women.