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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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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: After Dickens
• Subtitle: Reading, Adaptation and Performance
• Author: John Glavin
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244
• EAN: 9780521032377
• ISBN: 0521032377
• ID: 02019138
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 400 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 154 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. November 2006

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