After Dickens (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521633222)

John Glavin offers both a performative reading of Dickens the novelist and an exploration of the potential for adaptive performance of the novels themselves. Through close study of text and context Glavin uncovers a richly ambivalent, often unexpectedly hostile, relationship between Dickens and the theater and theatricality of his own time, and shows how Dickens' novels can be seen as a form of counter performance. Yet Glavin also explores the performative potential in Dickens' fiction, and describes new ways to stage that fiction in emotionally powerful, critically acute adaptations.

Author: John Glavin
ISBN-10: 0521633222
ISBN-13: 9780521633222
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/28/1999
Pages: 244
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.80w x 0.90d