Circle of Fire: Dickens' Vision and Style and the Popular Victorian Theater

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

Author: William F. Axton
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780813150895

About the Author

William F. Axton is associate professor of English at the University of Kentucky.

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