After Dickens

John Glavin offers both a performative reading of Dickens the novelist and an exploration of the potential for adaptive performance of the novels themselves. Through close study of text and context Glavin uncovers a richly ambivalent often unexpectedly hostile relationship between Dickens and the theater and theatricality of his own time and shows how Dickens'' novels can be seen as a form of counter performance. Yet Glavin also explores the performative potential in Dickens'' fiction and describes new ways to stage that fiction in emotionally powerful critically acute adaptations.