Circle of fire Dickens' vision & style & the popular Victorian theater /
Axton, William F.
Circle of fire Dickens' vision & style & the popular Victorian theater / William F. Axton. - Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)1966. - 1 online resource (311 pages)
Includes bibliographical references.
COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; PREFACE; CONTENTS ; BOOK ONE: Dickens and the Theater; Chapter One: THE WRITER AS ACTOR; Chapter Two: MODES OF THE POPULAR VICTORIAN THEATER; BOOK TWO: Dickens' Theatrical Vision; Chapter Three: SKETCHES BY BOZ AND THE THEATRUM MUNDI; Chapter Four: PICKWICK PAPERS AND THE THEATRUM MUNDI; Chapter Five: OLIVER TWIST AND GROTESQUERIE; Chapter Six: GREAT EXPECTATIONS AND BURLESQUE FORM; BOOK THREE: Dickens' Theatrical Style; Chapter Seven: INTRODUCTORY; Chapter Eight: GROTESQUE SCENE; Chapter Nine: BURLESQUE PEOPLE; Chapter Ten: MELODRAMATIC NARRATIVE. APPENDIX A: An Evening at a Victorian PlayhouseAPPENDIX B: The News of Nemo's Death Reaches Cook's Court; NOTES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z.
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 --
9780813161884
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 --Knowledge--Performing arts.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Knowledge--Performing arts.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.
Performing arts in literature.
Theater--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Theater--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Performing arts in literature.
Electronic Books.
PR4581 / .C573 2015
Circle of fire Dickens' vision & style & the popular Victorian theater / William F. Axton. - Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)1966. - 1 online resource (311 pages)
Includes bibliographical references.
COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; PREFACE; CONTENTS ; BOOK ONE: Dickens and the Theater; Chapter One: THE WRITER AS ACTOR; Chapter Two: MODES OF THE POPULAR VICTORIAN THEATER; BOOK TWO: Dickens' Theatrical Vision; Chapter Three: SKETCHES BY BOZ AND THE THEATRUM MUNDI; Chapter Four: PICKWICK PAPERS AND THE THEATRUM MUNDI; Chapter Five: OLIVER TWIST AND GROTESQUERIE; Chapter Six: GREAT EXPECTATIONS AND BURLESQUE FORM; BOOK THREE: Dickens' Theatrical Style; Chapter Seven: INTRODUCTORY; Chapter Eight: GROTESQUE SCENE; Chapter Nine: BURLESQUE PEOPLE; Chapter Ten: MELODRAMATIC NARRATIVE. APPENDIX A: An Evening at a Victorian PlayhouseAPPENDIX B: The News of Nemo's Death Reaches Cook's Court; NOTES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z.
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 --
9780813161884
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 --Knowledge--Performing arts.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Knowledge--Performing arts.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.
Performing arts in literature.
Theater--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Theater--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Performing arts in literature.
Electronic Books.
PR4581 / .C573 2015