TY  - GEN
T1  - Circle of fire : Dickens' vision & style & the popular Victorian theater
A1  - Axton, William F.
LA  - English
PP  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
YR  - 2015
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn900345106
AB  - 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
OP  - 311
CN  - PR4581 .A9
SN  - 9780813161884
SN  - 0813161886
SN  - 1322601445
SN  - 9781322601441
SN  - 0813150892
SN  - 9780813150895
KW  - Dickens, Charles, : 1812-1870 : Knowledge : Performing arts.
KW  - Dickens, Charles, : 1812-1870
KW  - Theater : Great Britain : History : 19th century.
KW  - Great Britain : History : Victoria, 1837-1901.
KW  - Performing arts in literature.
KW  - Théâtre : Grande-Bretagne : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Grande-Bretagne : Histoire : 1837-1901 (Victoria)
KW  - Arts du spectacle dans la littérature.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - Performing arts
KW  - Performing arts in literature
KW  - Theater
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - 1800-1901
KW  - History
ER  -