Victorians on Broadway : literature, adaptation, and the modern American musical /

Victorians on Broadway : literature, adaptation, and the modern American musical / Sharon Aronofsky Weltman.

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"Victorians on Broadway" is a wide-ranging interdisciplinary study of live stage musicals from the mid- to late twentieth century adapted from British literature written between 1837 and 1886. Investigating musical dramatizations of works by Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Christina Ros...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Weltman, Sharon Aronofsky, 1957- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Musicals > United States > 20th century > History and criticism.
Musical theater > United States > History > 20th century.
English literature > 19th century > Influence.
Musicals > Stories, plots, etc.
English literature > Influence.
Musical theater.
Musicals.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Stories, plots, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Broadway, Victorian Venus, and the middlebrow
  • 2. The King and who?
  • 3. Performing Jewishness in Oliver!
  • 4. Dickens, cultural anxiety, and Victorianness in Sweeney Todd
  • 5. The meta-mystery of Edwin Drood
  • 6. Goblin market, performance, and sexuality
  • 7. "Bring on the men" and women
  • 8. Broadway's "Jane! Jane! Jane!"
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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