After Dickens : reading, adaptation, and performance / John Glavin.

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Glavin, John

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 20.Publication details: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 226 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0511003706
9780511003707
0511035985
9780511035982
0511051212
9780511051210
0511117132
9780511117138
9780511484810
051148481X
1107115884
9781107115880
0521032377
9780521032377
1280161906
9781280161902
0511149433
9780511149436

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: After Dickens.DDC classification:

823/.8 21

LOC classification:

PR4592.P45 G57 1999eb

Other classification:

18.05

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Contents:

pt. I. Set up. Dickens, adaptation and Grotowski. ... as upon a theatre -- pt. II. Flashback. ... to be a Shakespeare. Exit: "the sanguine mirage" -- pt. III. Resolution. How to do it. Coda.

Summary: 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 relation 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 explores the paradoxically rich performative potential in Dickens's fiction, and describes new ways to stage that fiction in emotionally powerful, critically acute adaptations.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-222) and index.

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 relation 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 explores the paradoxically rich performative potential in Dickens's fiction, and describes new ways to stage that fiction in emotionally powerful, critically acute adaptations.

pt. I. Set up. Dickens, adaptation and Grotowski. ... as upon a theatre -- pt. II. Flashback. ... to be a Shakespeare. Exit: "the sanguine mirage" -- pt. III. Resolution. How to do it. Coda.