After Dickens: Reading, Adaptation and Performance - Couverture souple

Glavin, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521032377 ISBN 13 : 9780521032377

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

A study of Dickens's hostility to theatre and theatricality alongside the huge performative potential of his fiction.

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521032377
• ISBN 13: 9780521032377
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 244
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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