The Dickens pantomime
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The Dickens pantomime
University of California Press, c1989
大学図書館所蔵 全29件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
All his life Charles Dickens was fascinated by the Christmas Pantomime, one of the most popular and least respectable of nineteenth-century genres and still one of the most successful forms of British drama. In The Dickens Pantomime Edwin Eigner shows how Dickens based his characters on the dramatis personae of Pantomime and how he structured his novels according to the two-part pattern of the early nineteenth-century panto, a pattern based on transformations effected by stage magic. In Dickens' hands the Pantomime characters expressed some of the most significant concerns of the times, and the transformations they underwent, mirroring the structural transformations of the Pantomime itself, provided means of rescuing Victorians from problems which seemed unsolvable given their prevailing world view.
This book deals with all of Dickens' novels, the so-called light novels and the dark, and with the comic as well as the tragic characters. It concentrates, however, on David Copperfield, the middle novel in the Dickens' canon. Eigner places Wilkins Micawber at the center of the author's vision, where this supreme comic creation can illuminate the behavior of a zany like Dick Swiveller of The Old Curiosity Shop as well as the desperation of such tragic figures from the late novels as Sydney Carton of A Tale of Two Cities. Micawber, Eigner argues, provides the creative absurdity necessary to change the lives of both the characters and the readers of the novels.
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