After Dickens: Reading, Adaptation and Performance: 20 (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 20)

Glavin, John

ISBN 10: 0521032377 / ISBN 13: 9780521032377

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2008

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A study of Dickens's hostility to theatre and theatricality alongside the huge performative potential of his fiction. Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 400. . 2008. Revised ed. paperback. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: After Dickens: Reading, Adaptation and Performance: 20 (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 20)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521032377
• ISBN 13: 9780521032377
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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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