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100 1 _aAxton, William F.
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245 1 0 _aCircle of fire
_bDickens' vision & style & the popular Victorian theater /
_cWilliam F. Axton.
260 _aLexington :
_bThe University Press of Kentucky,
_c(c)1966.
300 _a1 online resource (311 pages)
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505 0 0 _aCOVER; 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.
505 0 0 _aAPPENDIX 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.
520 0 _aThis 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 --
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650 4 _aDickens, Charles, 1812-1870
_xKnowledge
_xPerforming arts.
650 4 _aDickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
650 4 _aGreat Britain
_xHistory
_xVictoria, 1837-1901.
650 4 _aPerforming arts in literature.
650 4 _aTheater
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory
_y19th century.
600 1 0 _aDickens, Charles,
_d1812-1870
_xKnowledge
_xPerforming arts.
650 0 _aTheater
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aPerforming arts in literature.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
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_dCynthia Snell