Two Captains from Carolina - Moses Grandy John Newland Maffitt and

Two Captains from Carolina - Moses Grandy John Newland Maffitt and the Coming of the Civil War (Hardcover) - Bland Product Description

This text argues that melodrama is a crucial mode of expression in modern literature. After studying stage melodrama as a dominant popular form in the 1800s, the author looks at Balzac and Henry James, to show how these "realist" novelists created fiction using rhetoric and excess of melodrama.