{"id":4709,"date":"2026-03-17T16:03:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/?p=4709"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:30:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T08:30:50","slug":"book-announcement-theatrical-afterlives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/blog\/book-announcement-theatrical-afterlives\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Announcement: Theatrical Afterlives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"908\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/theatrical-alternatives.png?resize=640%2C908&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4708 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Marina Cano,&nbsp;<em>Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women\u2019s Novels on the Stage<\/em>&nbsp;<\/strong><br><strong>Publisher: Oxford University Press<\/strong><br><strong>Publication date: 12 March 2026<\/strong><br><strong>ISBN: 9780198992882<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.&nbsp;<em>Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women\u2019s Novels on&nbsp;the Stage&nbsp;<\/em>examines the dramatic offspring of Jane Austen, the Bront\u00ebs, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More details here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" class=\"wp-image-4587\" style=\"width: 30px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/web-logo.jpg?resize=30%2C30&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/web-logo.jpg?w=512&amp;ssl=1 512w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/web-logo.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/web-logo.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 30px) 100vw, 30px\" \/> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/theatrical-afterlives-9780198992882?q=theatrical%20afterlives&amp;lang=en&amp;cc=es\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women\u2019s Novels on the Stage<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"20\" height=\"18\" class=\"wp-image-4234\" style=\"width: 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/new-window-e1739684988777.png?resize=20%2C18&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marina Cano,&nbsp;Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women\u2019s Novels on the Stage&nbsp;Publisher: Oxford University PressPublication date: 12 March 2026ISBN: 9780198992882 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.&nbsp;Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4709"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4728,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions\/4728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}