Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre

by Deborah Vlock

Book Overview

Dickens' novels, like those of his contemporaries, are more explicitly indebted to the theatre than scholars have supposed: his stories and characters were often already public property by the time they were published, circulating as part of a current theatrical repertoire well known to many Victorian readers. In this 1998 study, Deborah Vlock argues that novels - and novel-readers - were in effect created by the popular theatre in the nineteenth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521026881
• ISBN13: 9780521026888
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"