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Circle of Fire [electronic resource] : Dickens' Vision and Style and the Popular Victorian Theater / [by] William F. Axton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Axton, William F.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Performing arts in literature.
- Theater--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Theater.
- Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.
- Great Britain.
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Knowledge--Performing arts.
- Dickens, Charles.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (311 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, [Kentucky] : University of Kentucky Press, 1966.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [277]-289)
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8131-6188-6
- OCLC:
- 563678002
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