Books by Elaine Hadley

This pathbreaking work analyzes melodrama as not merely a theatrical genre but as a behavioral paradigm of the 19th century, manifest in the theater, in literature, and in society.

In the mid-Victorian era, liberalism was a practical politics: it had a party, it informed legislation, and it had adherents who identified with and expressed it as opinion. This title argues that the properties of liberalism - citizenship, the vote, the candidate, and reform - were developed in response to a chaotic and antagonistic world.