Marina Cano, Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage (Oxford University Press, March 2026)
This is the first in-depth study of the theatrical afterlives of nineteenth-century women novelists. Whereas previous scholarship has shown a strong bias towards male writers, especially Charles Dickens, this book innovatively brings woman-authored novels centre stage. Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage examines the dramatic offspring of Jane Austen, the Brontës, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Ellen Wood and George Eliot, through particular, and sometimes unexpected, theatrical lenses (e.g., prison drama, Irish theatre, suffrage drama). In so doing, the book provides a new way of doing literary history of the nineteenth century and allows us to read the novels afresh.
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