Novel Stage
"An important and long-overdue consideration of the relationship between the theater and the novel in the long 18th century, The Novel Stage treats major Restoration and 18th-century dramatic forms—tragicomedy, comedy of manners, and melodrama—as they abandon the stage to take up residence in prose fiction. Essential."
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Marcie Frank's study traces the migration of tragicomedy, the comedy of manners, and melodrama from the stage to the novel, offering a dramatic new approach to the history of the English novel that examines how the collaboration of genres contributed to the novel's narrative form and to the modern organization of literature. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Bucknell University Press,U.S.
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 230
- ISBN
- 9781684481675
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
Anmeldelser
"An important and long-overdue consideration of the relationship between the theater and the novel in the long 18th century, The Novel Stage treats major Restoration and 18th-century dramatic forms—tragicomedy, comedy of manners, and melodrama—as they abandon the stage to take up residence in prose fiction. Essential."
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«“This interesting study explores the ways in which novels borrow from and develop theatrical conventions and forms during the eighteenth century. Examining a spectrum of practices, Frank explores the complex relationships between genre and form and offers new insights into the relationship between eighteenth-century theatre and literature.”»
Helen Brooks, author of Actresses, Gender and the Eighteenth-Century Stage: Playing Women
«“The Novel Stage is an engaging and provocative text; its major insights about the key role of the repertory in eighteenth-century reading habits and the collaborations between theatre and fiction are bracing and of wide-ranging use.” »
Manushug Powell, author of Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century English Periodicals