Table of Contents:
  • Popular imagination in melodrama and penny dreadful
  • Virtue triumphant
  • Mystery and terror
  • Tampering with morality
  • Drama of democracy
  • Gothic sunset
  • Domestic versus demonic
  • Drama of oppression
  • Crime exultant
  • Tempting providence
  • Mysteries of Paris
  • Highly moral and instructive
  • La femme fatale
  • Class conscious
  • La belle sauvage.