After Dickens: Reading, Adaptation and Performance - Couverture rigide

Glavin, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521633222 ISBN 13 : 9780521633222

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1999

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Revue de presse :

"...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

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0521633222
• ISBN 13: 9780521633222
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 244