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After Dickens

After Dickens

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu, Book 20

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521032377
ISBN13: 9780521032377
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 23 2006
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
John Glavin offers both a performative reading of Dickens the novelist and an exploration of the potential for adaptive performance of the novels themselves. Through close study of text and context Glavin uncovers a richly ambivalent, often unexpectedly hostile, relationship between Dickens and the theater and theatricality of his own time, and shows how Dickens' novels can be seen as a form of counter performance. Yet Glavin also explores the performative potential in Dickens' fiction, and describes new ways to stage that fiction in emotionally powerful, critically acute adaptations.

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