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

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Product Description 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 relationship 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 identifies a rich performative potential in Dickens's fiction, and describes new ways to stage that fiction in emotionally powerful, critically acute adaptations. The book as a whole, therefore, offers a reading of Dickens through an unusual alliance between literary criticism and theatrical performance. Review "...this is a title that serious students of Dickens need to read." Choice"After Dickens is a self-consciously clever book that advocates "takings what we want rather than accepting what we are offered"..." Essays in Theatre"The entire study is a virtuoso critical and (play) writerly preformance...brilliant and entertaining." Victorian Studies, Summer 2001 Book Description A study of Dickens's hostility to theatre and theatricality alongside the huge performative potential of his fiction. About the Author fm.author_biographical_note1

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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 0521633222
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Performing Arts > Theatre
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Release Date: 11 February 1999
Listed Since: 04 January 2007

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