After Dickens : reading, adaptation, and performance / John Glavin.
After Dickens is both a performative reading of Dickens the novelist and an exploration of the potential for adaptive performance of the novels themselves. John Glavin conducts a historical inquiry into Dickens's relation to the theatre and theatricality of his own time, and uncovers a much mor...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
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| Summary: | After Dickens is both a performative reading of Dickens the novelist and an exploration of the potential for adaptive performance of the novels themselves. John Glavin conducts a historical inquiry into Dickens's relation to the theatre and theatricality of his own time, and uncovers a much more ambivalent, often hostile, relationship than has hitherto been noticed. In this context, Dickens's novels can be seen as a form of counter-performance, one which would allow the author to perform without being seen or scrutinized. But Glavin also explores the paradoxically rich performative potential in Dickens's fiction, and describes new ways to stage that fiction in emotionally powerful, critically acute adaptations. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 226 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-222) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511003706 9780511003707 0511035985 9780511035982 0511051212 9780511051210 0511117132 9780511117138 9780511484810 051148481X 1107115884 9781107115880 0521032377 9780521032377 1280161906 9781280161902 0511149433 9780511149436 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511484810 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |