After Dickens : reading, adaptation, and performance

The Resource After Dickens : reading, adaptation, and performance

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After Dickens : reading, adaptation, and performance

Title remainder

reading, adaptation, and performance

Statement of responsibility

John Glavin

Language

eng

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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N$T

Dewey number

823/.8

Index

index present

LC call number

PR4592.P45

LC item number

G57 1999eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries
bibliography

Series statement

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture

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