After Dickens : reading, adaptation, and performance /
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ISBN: | 0511003706 9780511003707 0511035985 9780511035982 0511051212 9780511051210 0511117132 9780511117138 9780511484810 051148481X 9780521633222 0521633222 |
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-222) and index. Print version record. |
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. |
Other form: | Print version: Glavin, John. After Dickens. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999 0521633222 |
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