Victorians on Broadway literature, adaptation, and the modern American musical
"Victorians on Broadway" is a wide-ranging interdisciplinary study of live stage musicals from the mid- to late twentieth century adapted from British literature written between 1837 and 1886. Investigating musical dramatizations of works by Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Christina Ro...
| Autor principal: | |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press
2020.
|
| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
|
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b45640178*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Broadway, Victorian Venus, and the middlebrow
- 2. The King and who?
- 3. Performing Jewishness in Oliver!
- 4. Dickens, cultural anxiety, and Victorianness in Sweeney Todd
- 5. The meta-mystery of Edwin Drood
- 6. Goblin market, performance, and sexuality
- 7. "Bring on the men" and women
- 8. Broadway's "Jane! Jane! Jane!"
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
