books.google.com.au - In this study Deborah Vlock shows that characters, dialogue, and plots from many of Charles Dickens' novels can be traced to the Victorian stage, and that contemporary readers and writers of fiction were strongly influenced by what they saw at the theater. Through an examination of theatrical and popular-cultural...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/Dickens_Novel_Reading_and_the_Victorian.html?id=StwqgB7C9cYC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareDickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre
