In this study Deborah Vlock shows that characters, dialogue, and plots from many of Charles Dickens' novels can be traced to the Victorian stage, and that contemporary readers and writers of fiction were strongly influenced by what they saw at the theater. Through an examination of theatrical and popular-cultural sources--including accounts of noted actors and actresses, and of popular theatrical characters of the time--Vlock uncovers unexpected precursors for some popular Dickensian characters, and throws new light on the conditions in which Dickens' novels were initially received.
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"[Vlock] has shown why explanations of the cultural context of novel-reading that emphasize privacy and domesticity are unsatisfactory. She has pointed to a more promising direction for research." D.G. Paz, Albion
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In this study Deborah Vlock shows that characters, dialogue, and plots from many of Charles Dickens' novels can be traced to the Victorian stage, and that contemporary readers and writers of fiction were strongly influenced by what they saw at the theatre. Through an examination of theatrical and popular-cultural sources--including accounts of noted actors and actresses, and of popular theatrical characters of the time--Vlock uncovers unexpected precursors for some popular Dickensian characters, and throws new light on the conditions in which Dickens' novels were initially received.
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pattered voice, street patter, redundant women, redundant woman, imaginary text, comic idiom, comic voice, female celibacy, theatrical signs, standard idiom, theatre industry, odd women, theatrical voices, novel reading, prompt copies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Little Dorrit, London Labour, Miss Harlow, Miss Knag, Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Mathews, Dick Cypher, Ralph Nickleby, David Copperfield, Don Giovanni, Henry Mayhew, Seven Dials, Covent Garden, Felix Holt, Bleak House, Drury Lane, Miss Euphemia Blight, Miss Flyte, Miss Wade, Victorian England, Arthur Clennam, All the Year Round, Charles Dickens, Cheap John, Daddy Berridge New!
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pattered voice, street patter, redundant women, redundant woman, imaginary text, comic idiom, comic voice, female celibacy, theatrical signs, standard idiom, theatre industry, odd women, theatrical voices, novel reading, prompt copies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Little Dorrit, London Labour, Miss Harlow, Miss Knag, Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Mathews, Dick Cypher, Ralph Nickleby, David Copperfield, Don Giovanni, Henry Mayhew, Seven Dials, Covent Garden, Felix Holt, Bleak House, Drury Lane, Miss Euphemia Blight, Miss Flyte, Miss Wade, Victorian England, Arthur Clennam, All the Year Round, Charles Dickens, Cheap John, Daddy Berridge New!
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- London Labour and the London Poor (Penguin Classics) by Henry Mayhew on 12 pages
- Felix Holt, the Radical (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot on 10 pages
- David Copperfield (Modern Library Classics) by Charles Dickens on 8 pages
- Bleak House (Macmillan Readers) by Dickens on 8 pages
- Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel by Joseph Litvak on 6 pages
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- Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves: Dickens and the Public Readings by Malcolm Andrews on page 36, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain) (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain) by Sophie Fuller on page 112, and Back Matter
- Social Dreaming: Dickens and the Fairy Tale (Studies in Major Literary Authors) by Elaine Ostry in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Voice and the Victorian Storyteller (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Ivan Kreilkamp in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Victorian Religious Discourse: New Directions in Criticism by Jude V. Nixon on page 231, and Back Matter
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