| Titre : |
After Dickens : reading, adaptation and performance / |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
John Glavin |
| Editeur : |
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press |
| Année de publication : |
1999 |
| Importance : |
xiii, 226 p. |
| Format : |
23 cm |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-0-521-03237-7 |
| Mots-clés : |
the sickroom in victorian fiction,victorian masculinities,the gothic body |
| Index. décimale : |
823.8 |
| Résumé : |
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. |
After Dickens : reading, adaptation and performance / [texte imprimé] / John Glavin . - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999 . - xiii, 226 p. ; 23 cm. ISBN : 978-0-521-03237-7
| Mots-clés : |
the sickroom in victorian fiction,victorian masculinities,the gothic body |
| Index. décimale : |
823.8 |
| Résumé : |
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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