Deborah Vlock

Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre

Herausgeber: Beer, Gillian

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of theatrical sources for many of Dickens' characters and plots.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9780521026888
• ISBN-10: 0521026881
• Artikelnr.: 21211533

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Dickens and the 'imaginary text'
3. Theatrical attitudes: performance and the English imagination
4. Patter and the politics of standard speech in Victorian England
5. Charles Mathews, Charles Dickens, and the comic female voice
6. Patter and the problem of redundancy: odd women and Little Dorrit
7. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.