Circle of Fire: Dickens' Vision and Style and the Popular Victorian Theater - Couverture souple

Axton, William F

 
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Synopsis

This study explores the theater actually known and frequented by Dickens in order to show in terms of concrete structural analysis of his novels the nature of the predominantly "dramatic" or "theatrical" quality of his genius. Author William F. Axton finds that the three principal dramatic modes or "voices" that were characteristically Victorian were burlesquerie, grotesquerie, and the melodramatic, and that the novelist's vision of the world around him was drawn from ways of seeing transformed

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À propos de l?auteur

William F. Axton is associate professor of English at the University of Kentucky.

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