Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 552 g
Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 552 g
Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
ISBN: 978-0-521-63322-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
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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Acknowledgments; Note on the text; Introduction; Part I. Set Up: 1. Dickens, adaptation and Grotowski; 2. … as upon a theatre; Part II. Flashback: 3. … to be a Shakespeare; 4. Exit: 'the sanguine mirage'; Part III. Resolution: 5. How to do it; 6. Coda; Notes; References; Index.
