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Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves: Dickens and the Public Readings.(Brief article)(Book review)

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From: Contemporary Review
Date: 20070622
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Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves: Dickens and the Public Readings. Malcolm Andrews. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]40.00. xiv + 331 pages. ISBN 0-19-927069-4. Dickens' rank as a mega-star was as much due to his readings as to his fiction and journalism. Indeed, one must remember Dickens the showman before one can get a full understanding of Dickens the writer. All Victorian novelists assumed many readers would read aloud to others; Dickens' assumed his prose would not be so much read as performed and he performed them better than anyone else. This intriguing ...

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