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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      29 October 2009
      11 February 1999
      ISBN:
      9780511484810
      9780521633222
      9780521032377
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484810
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.53kg, 244 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.372kg, 244 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature 1830-1900
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (20)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature 1830-1900
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (20)
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    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.

    Reviews

    "...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

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