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Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre

Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre

Vlock, Deborah

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu, Book 19

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521640849
ISBN13: 9780521640848
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 10 1998
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.31 Depth: 9.08
Language: English
In this study Deborah Vlock shows that characters, dialogue, and plots from many of Charles Dickens' novels can be traced to the Victorian stage, and that contemporary readers and writers of fiction were strongly influenced by what they saw at the theater. Through an examination of theatrical and popular-cultural sources--including accounts of noted actors and actresses, and of popular theatrical characters of the time--Vlock uncovers unexpected precursors for some popular Dickensian characters, and throws new light on the conditions in which Dickens' novels were initially received.

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