Victorians on Broadway: Literature, Adaptation, and the Modern American Musical by Sharon Aronofsky Weltman (review)

Chapters 2 and 3, examining The King and I (1951) and Oliver! (1968) respectively, illustrate how these musicals negotiate each Victorian source text’s commentary on race, gender, and class for its American audience in the mid-twentieth century. The book’s chronological organization provides a firm...

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Published inVictorian Periodicals Review Vol. 54; no. 4; pp. 662 - 664
Main Author Chung, Sooyoung
Format Journal Article Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 01.12.2021
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
Subjects
20th century
Audiences
Broadway theater
Culture
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
Film adaptations
Intertextuality
Literature
Melodramas
Motion pictures
Musical theater
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
Unfinished works
Victorian period
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Summary:Chapters 2 and 3, examining The King and I (1951) and Oliver! (1968) respectively, illustrate how these musicals negotiate each Victorian source text’s commentary on race, gender, and class for its American audience in the mid-twentieth century. The book’s chronological organization provides a firm socio-historical context in which Broadway adaptations of Victorian literature are examined in multilayered relation to Victorian and twentieth-century American society and culture. Victorians on Broadway makes a significant contribution to both Victorian studies and adaptation studies by situating Broadway musical adaptations not in a linear relationship from literature to stage but in a complex network of literature, theater, film, history, and culture.
ISSN:0709-4698
1712-526X
1712-526X
DOI:10.1353/vpr.2021.0054