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CHARLES DICKENS AND HIS PERFORMING SELVES: DICKENS AND THE By Malcolm Andrews
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- ISBN-10
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- 9780199270699
- Book Title
- Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves: Dickens and the Public
- ISBN
- 9780199270699
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism
- Publication Name
- Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves : Dickens and the Public Readings
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Subject
- European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Item Weight
- 18.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0199270694
ISBN-13
9780199270699
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Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves : Dickens and the Public Readings
Publication Year
2006
Subject
European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Format
Hardcover
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Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
18.9 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Additional Product Features
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Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2006-027702
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"A lively evocation of the overlapping artistic and commercial contexts of Dickens' performances."--Margaret Russett,Studies in English Literature, [a] subtle and probing study...Andrews writes with deep imaginative sympathy of the phenomenon that was Dickens, "A lively evocation of the overlapping artistic and commercial contexts of Dickens' performances."--Margaret Russett, Studies in English Literature
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Yes
Dewey Decimal
823/.8
Table Of Content
Premiere: New York, December 18671. A Community of Readers2. Reading, Reciting, Acting3. Impersonation4. Celebrity on Tour5. Performance'Sikes and Nancy': A Re-enactment6. A 'New Expression of the Meaning of my Books'Finale: London, March 1870Appendix: Schedule of the Reading Tours
Synopsis
Charles Dickens had three professional careers: novelist, journalist and public Reader. That third career has seldom been given the serious attention it deserved. For the last 12 years of his life he toured Britain and America giving 2-hour readings from his work to audiences of over two thousand. These readings were highly dramatic performances in which Dickens's great gift for mimicry enabled him to represent the looks and voices of his characters, to the point where audiences forgot they were watching Charles Dickens. His novels came alive on the platform: at the end of a reading, it seemed to many that a whole society had broken up rather than that a solitary recitalist had concluded. This book tries to recreate, in greater detail than hitherto, the sense of how those readings were performed and how they were received, how Dickens devised his stage set and tailored his books to make them into performance scripts, how he conducted his reading tours all around the country and developed a quite extraordinary rapport with his listeners. No single study of this late career of Dickens has drawn to such an extent on contemporary witnesses to the readings as well as tried to assess in some depth the significance of what Dickens called "this new expression of the meaning of my books." "I shall tear myself to pieces," he said as he waited eagerly to go on stage for his performance, and that is ironically what he did, in ways he perhaps had not quite intended: he fractured into dozens of different characters up there on the platform, and as he thus tore himself to pieces his health collapsed irretrievably under the pressures he put upon himself to achieve these masterly illusions., Charles Dickens had three professional careers: novelist, journalist and public Reader. That third career has seldom been given the serious attention it deserved. For the last 12 years of his life he toured Britain and America giving 2-hour readings from his work to audiences of over two thousand. These readings were highly dramatic performances in which Dickens's great gift for mimicry enabled him to represent the looks and voices of his characters, to the point where audiences forgot they were watching Charles Dickens. His novels came alive on the platform: at the end of a reading, it seemed to many that a whole society had broken up rather than that a solitary recitalist had concluded. This book tries to recreate, in greater detail than hitherto, the sense of how those readings were performed and how they were received, how Dickens devised his stage set and tailored his books to make them into performance scripts, how he conducted his reading tours all around the countryand developed a quite extraordinary rapport with his listeners. No single study of this late career of Dickens has drawn to such an extent on contemporary witnesses to the readings as well as tried to assess in some depth the significance of what Dickens called 'this new expression of the meaning of my books'. 'I shall tear myself to pieces', he said as he waited eagerly to go on stage for his performance, and that is ironically what he did, in ways he perhaps had not quite intended: he fractured into dozens of different characters up there on the platform, and as he thus tore himself to pieces his health collapsed irretrievably under the pressures he put upon himself to achieve these masterly illusions., Charles Dickens's public readings have not had the attention they deserve; and yet Dickens put as much effort into perfecting his performances as he did with his novels. These performances were sensational events and won Dickens thousands of new admirers. This book tells that story and brings the events alive, with more detail than ever before., Charles Dickens had three professional careers: novelist, journalist and public Reader. That third career has seldom been given the serious attention it deserved. For the last 12 years of his life he toured Britain and America giving 2-hour readings from his work to audiences of over two thousand. These readings were highly dramatic performances in which Dickens's great gift for mimicry enabled him to represent the looks and voices of his characters, to the point where audiences forgot they were watching Charles Dickens. His novels came alive on the platform: at the end of a reading, it seemed to many that a whole society had broken up rather than that a solitary recitalist had concluded. This book tries to recreate, in greater detail than hitherto, the sense of how those readings were performed and how they were received, how Dickens devised his stage set and tailored his books to make them into performance scripts, how he conducted his reading tours all around the country and developed a quite extraordinary rapport with his listeners. No single study of this late career of Dickens has drawn to such an extent on contemporary witnesses to the readings as well as tried to assess in some depth the significance of what Dickens called 'this new expression of the meaning of my books'. 'I shall tear myself to pieces', he said as he waited eagerly to go on stage for his performance, and that is ironically what he did, in ways he perhaps had not quite intended: he fractured into dozens of different characters up there on the platform, and as he thus tore himself to pieces his health collapsed irretrievably under the pressures he put upon himself to achieve these masterly illusions.
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Copyright Date
2006
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