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Victorian Writers and the Stage: The Plays of Dickens, Browning, Collins and Tennyson (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
Richard Pearson
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Description for Victorian Writers and the Stage: The Plays of Dickens, Browning, Collins and Tennyson (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
Hardcover. This book examines the dramatic work of Dickens, Browning, Collins, and Tennyson, their interaction with the theatrical world, and their attempts to develop their reputations as playwrights. These major Victorian writers each authored several professional plays, but why has their achievement been overlooked? Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 262 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
This book examines the dramatic work of Dickens, Browning, Collins, and Tennyson, their interaction with the theatrical world, and their attempts to develop their reputations as playwrights. These major Victorian writers each authored several professional plays, but why has their achievement been overlooked?
This book examines the dramatic work of Dickens, Browning, Collins, and Tennyson, their interaction with the theatrical world, and their attempts to develop their reputations as playwrights. These major Victorian writers each authored several professional plays, but why has their achievement been overlooked?
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Number of Pages
249
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137504678
SKU
V9781137504678
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Ref
99-15
About Richard Pearson
Richard Pearson lectures at the National University of Ireland Galway and was previously Head of Arts and Humanities at the University of Worcester. He is the director of an AHRC-funded digital archive, The Victorian Plays Project. His publications include W.M. Thackeray and the Mediated Text, The Victorians and the Ancient World, and The Index of English Literary Manuscripts.
Reviews for Victorian Writers and the Stage: The Plays of Dickens, Browning, Collins and Tennyson (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
“Pearson’s work makes significant contributions to the study of each of its four central authors and connects in interesting ways with work undertaken on female authorship and the stage in relation to writers like Charlotte Brontë and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Victorian Writers and the Stage is a valuable and highly insightful monograph that traverses literary and theatrical history with ease.” ... Read more