Carolyn Williams is Professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University, New Jersey. She is the author of Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody (2010), Transfigured World: Walter Pater's Aesthetic Historicism (1990) and the co-edited collection of essays (with Laurel Brake and Lesley Higgins), Walter Pater: Transparencies of Desire (2003).

• 1. Introduction Carolyn Williams; Part I. Histories of English Melodrama: 2. Early English melodrama Matthew Buckley; 3. Gothic melodrama Michael Gamer; 4. Nautical melodrama Ankhi Mukherjee; 5. Domestic melodrama Christine Gledhill; 6. Theatres and their audiences Jim Davis; Part II. Melodramatic Technique: 7. Melodramatic music Michael V. Pisani; 8. Melodramatic acting George Taylor; 9. Stagecraft, spectacle, and sensation Hayley Jayne Bradley; Part III. Melodrama and Nineteenth-Century English Culture: 10. Melodrama and gender Katherine Newey; 11. Melodrama and class Rohan McWilliam; 12. Melodrama and empire Marty Gould; 13. Melodrama and race Sarah Meer; Part IV. Extensions of Melodrama: 14. Melodrama and the realist novel Carolyn Williams; 15. Melodrama and early [silent] film David Mayer; 16. Moving picture melodrama Jane M. Gaines; 17. Melodrama and the modern musical Sharon Aronofsky Weltman; 18. Melodrama and psychoanalysis Peter Brooks; 19. Metamodern melodrama and contemporary mass culture Juliet John.

Carolyn Williams is Professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University, New Jersey. She is the author of Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody (2010), Transfigured World: Walter Pater's Aesthetic Historicism (1990) and the co-edited collection of essays (with Laurel Brake and Lesley Higgins), Walter Pater: Transparencies of Desire (2003).

• 1. Introduction Carolyn Williams; Part I. Histories of English Melodrama: 2. Early English melodrama Matthew Buckley; 3. Gothic melodrama Michael Gamer; 4. Nautical melodrama Ankhi Mukherjee; 5. Domestic melodrama Christine Gledhill; 6. Theatres and their audiences Jim Davis; Part II. Melodramatic Technique: 7. Melodramatic music Michael V. Pisani; 8. Melodramatic acting George Taylor; 9. Stagecraft, spectacle, and sensation Hayley Jayne Bradley; Part III. Melodrama and Nineteenth-Century English Culture: 10. Melodrama and gender Katherine Newey; 11. Melodrama and class Rohan McWilliam; 12. Melodrama and empire Marty Gould; 13. Melodrama and race Sarah Meer; Part IV. Extensions of Melodrama: 14. Melodrama and the realist novel Carolyn Williams; 15. Melodrama and early [silent] film David Mayer; 16. Moving picture melodrama Jane M. Gaines; 17. Melodrama and the modern musical Sharon Aronofsky Weltman; 18. Melodrama and psychoanalysis Peter Brooks; 19. Metamodern melodrama and contemporary mass culture Juliet John.