Circle of Fire : Dickens' Vision and Style and the Popular Victorian Theater /

This study explores the theater actually known and frequented by Dickens in order to show in terms of concrete structural analysis of his novels the nature of the predominantly ""dramatic"" or ""theatrical"" quality of his genius. Author William F. Axton finds...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Axton, William F. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2015], 1966.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870.
Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870 > Knowledge > Performing arts.
Theater.
Performing arts in literature.
Performing arts.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Arts du spectacle dans la litterature.
Theâtre > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Theater > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Great Britain.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1837-1901 (Victoria)
Great Britain > History > Victoria, 1837-1901.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:This study explores the theater actually known and frequented by Dickens in order to show in terms of concrete structural analysis of his novels the nature of the predominantly ""dramatic"" or ""theatrical"" quality of his genius. Author William F. Axton finds that the three principal dramatic modes or ""voices"" that were characteristically Victorian were burlesquerie, grotesquerie, and the melodramatic, and that the novelist's vision of the world around him was drawn from ways of seeing transformed from those elements in the popular playhouse of his day -- as revealed in the structure and th.
Physical Description:1 online resource (312 pages).
ISBN:9780813161884

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