Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women's Novels on the Stage by Cano, Marina

Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women's Novels on the Stage (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198992882)

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Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women's Novels on the Stage by Cano, Marina

Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women's Novels on the Stage

$105.00
Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women's Novels on the Stage by Cano, Marina

Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women's Novels on the Stage

$105.00
Format: Hardcover
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This is the first in-depth study of the theatrical afterlives of nineteenth-century women novelists. Whereas previous scholarship has shown a strong bias towards male writers, especially Charles Dickens, this book innovatively brings woman-authored novels centre stage--literally and metaphorically. Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women's Novels on the Stage examines the dramatic offspring of Jane Austen, the Brontës, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Ellen Wood, and George Eliot, through particular, and sometimes unexpected, theatrical lenses (e.g., prison drama, Irish theatre, suffrage drama). It prioritises the performance event--what actually happens onstage--through attention to a series of theatre ephemera, unpublished manuscript material, and specially commissioned interviews with practitioners. The book argues that the theatrical afterlives allegorize key socio-political debates and tensions of the past two hundred years, including the woman question, the Irish question, colonial legacies, and the #MeToo era.

All these foci allow Marina Cano to investigate the dramatizations as expressions and affirmation of identities that have at one point been marginalized, while also enabling creative interconnections to emerge through the juxtaposition of novelists, plays, historical movements, and locations. The dramatizations, the book concludes, matter, not only for what they tell us about how woman-authored novels have been utilised, but also because these plays provide a fresh methodology to access and reread the novels themselves, and read them anew.

Author: Marina Cano
ISBN-10: 0198992882
ISBN-13: 9780198992882
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/12/2026
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
By Marina Cano
By Marina Cano
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Marina Cano, Assistant Professor of English, University of Valencia

Marina Cano is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Valencia. She has taught at universities in Scotland, Ireland and Norway. She is the author of Jane Austen and Performance (Palgrave, 2017), and the co-editor of Jane Austen and William Shakespeare: A Love Affair in Literature, Film and Performance (Palgrave, 2019). More recently, she has co-edited the collection Women, "Failure" and Academia: Activism, Creativity and Critique in the Contemporary University (Bloomsbury Gender and Education, 2026).

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