Victorians on Broadway : literature, adaptation, and the modern American musical /
"Victorians on Broadway" is a wide-ranging interdisciplinary study of live stage musicals from the mid- to late twentieth century adapted from British literature written between 1837 and 1886. Investigating musical dramatizations of works by Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Christina Ro...
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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press
2020.
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| Acesso em linha: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv138wqvr |
Sumário:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Broadway, Victorian Venus, and the middlebrow
- 2. The King and who?
- 3. Performing Jewishness in Oliver!
- 4. Dickens, cultural anxiety, and Victorianness in Sweeney Todd
- 5. The meta-mystery of Edwin Drood
- 6. Goblin market, performance, and sexuality
- 7. "Bring on the men" and women
- 8. Broadway's "Jane! Jane! Jane!"
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.