After Dickens : Reading, Adaptation and Performance

Name: After Dickens
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521032377
Price: 6250 KES
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ISBN: 9780521032377

by John Glavin

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

ISBN-10 0521032377

ISBN-13 9780521032377

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 23rd, 2006

Print length 244 Pages

Weight 400 grams

Dimensions 22.90 x 15.40 x 1.50 cms

Product Classification: English 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899 Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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John Glavin uncovers a richly ambivalent, often unexpectedly hostile, relationship between Dickens and the theatre and theatricality of his own time. Yet he also explores the performative potential in Dickens's fiction, and describes ways to stage that fiction in emotionally powerful, critically acute adaptations.

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.

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