Deborah Viock," Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre"(Book Review)

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But most of all we must concentrate on the sounds of the novel: we must read with our ears as well as our eyes. Yet there is a paradox that Vlock has to confront: the fact that performance created guilt as well as pleasure and that, while theatre was all-pervasive in nineteenth-century England, a strong anti-theatrical prejudice also survived.(This is a conundrum that Glavin also considers in his book.) Yet this was a culture, says Vlock,“which thoroughly embraced the tropes of performance, incorporating them into its conceptual framework." Such ambivalence about the theatre appears even in the very novels that draw on it, such as those of Dickens, and is reflected in the social unease felt by professional actors such as William Macready and Fanny Kemble.(Glavin on this issue uses the more extreme notion of “shame.”) Such ambivalence reflects the unease with which the theatre was often viewed: as something …

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2000

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