After Dickens: Reading, Adaptation and Performance (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

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

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 theatre and theatricality of his own time, and shows how Dickens's novels can be seen as a form of counter-performance. Yet Glavin also explores the performative potential in Dickens's fiction, and describes new ways to stage that fiction in emotionally powerful, critically acute adaptations.Read More

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  • 0521032377
  • 9780521032377
  • John Glavin
  • 23 November 2006
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 244
  • New Ed
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