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