Adapting Gaskell

Author : Loredana Salis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443853354

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Adapting Gaskell by Loredana Salis Pdf

“This book offers a range of perspectives on Elizabeth Gaskell and adaptation. The contributors – Alan Shelston, Raffaella Antinucci, Thomas Recchio, Brenda McKay, Katherine Byrne, Patricia Marchesi, Marcia Marchesi and Loredana Salis – discuss the afterlives of Gaskell’s fiction, from the author as adaptor of her own work to the role of the BBC in re-inventing Gaskell’s narratives. Loredana Salis is to be congratulated for bringing together a collection that tackles the remediation of Gaskell’s fiction from Gaskell’s own time to the 21st century, enabling her to join those authors, most prominently, Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens, who have received full-length book studies on adaptations of their work. The collection, as a whole, seems to confirm the notion that since the inception of film, the number of adaptations of an author’s work equates to the writer’s canonical status. No doubt, this book will prompt many more investigations into the adaptability of Elizabeth Gaskell’s fiction.” – Deborah Cartmell, De Montfort University, Leicester

Author : Meghan Lowe
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030483975

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Masculinity in the Work of Elizabeth Gaskell by Meghan Lowe Pdf

This book is the first full-length study to focus on the representation of masculinity in Elizabeth Gaskell’s novels. In examining Gaskell’s understanding of masculine identity as a social construct and considering how her writing engages with Victorian ideologies of gender, this book demonstrates that Gaskell defies an essentialist approach to gender and instead explores masculinity over time, genre, region, and class, making it clear that masculinity is not monolithic but relational, culturally constructed, and dependent on many contexts. It analyses Gaskell’s depiction of what it means to be a ‘man’ and a ‘gentleman’, exploring Mary Barton, North and South, Ruth, Cousin Phillis, Sylvia’s Lovers, and Wives and Daughters, as well as contemporary Victorian works and key contexts such as sympathy, historic change, and industrialism. The target audiences are academics, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students and research specialists, and it will most appeal to Victorian Literature, Gender Studies, and Masculinity Studies disciplines.

Author : Lesa Scholl,Emily Morris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317080701

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Place and Progress in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell by Lesa Scholl,Emily Morris Pdf

Critical assessments of Elizabeth Gaskell have tended to emphasise the regional and provincial aspects of her writing, but the scope of her influence extended across the globe. Building on theories of space and place, the contributors to this collection bring a variety of geographical, industrial, psychological, and spatial perspectives to bear on the vast range of Gaskell’s literary output and on her place within the narrative of British letters and national identity. The advent of the railway and the increasing predominance of manufactory machinery reoriented the nation’s physical and social countenance, but alongside the excitement of progress and industry was a sense of fear and loss manifested through an idealization of the country home, the pastoral retreat, and the agricultural south. In keeping with the theme of progress and change, the essays follow parallel narratives that acknowledge both the angst and nostalgia produced by industrial progress and the excitement and awe occasioned by the potential of the empire. Finally, the volume engages with adaptation and cultural performance, in keeping with the continuing importance of Gaskell in contemporary popular culture far beyond the historical and cultural environs of nineteenth-century Manchester.

Author : Dr Thomas Recchio
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409475576

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Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford by Dr Thomas Recchio Pdf

Tracing the publishing history of Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford from its initial 1851-53 serialization in Dickens's Household Words through its numerous editions and adaptations, Thomas Recchio focuses especially on how the text has been deployed to support ideas related to nation and national identity. Recchio maps Cranford's nineteenth-century reception in Britain and the United States through illustrated editions in England dating from 1864 and their subsequent re-publication in the United States, US school editions in the first two decades of the twentieth century, dramatic adaptations from 1899 to 2007, and Anglo-American literary criticism in the latter half of the twentieth century. Making extensive use of primary materials, Recchio considers Cranford within the context of the Victorian periodical press, contemporary reviews, theories of text and word relationships in illustrated books, community theater, and digital media. In addition to being a detailed publishing history that emphasizes the material forms of the book and its adaptations, Recchio's book is a narrative of Cranford's evolution from an auto-ethnography of a receding mid-Victorian English way of life to a novel that was deployed as a maternal model to define an American sensibility for early twentieth-century Mediterranean and Eastern European immigrants. While focusing on one novel, Recchio offers a convincing micro-history of the way English literature was positioned in England and the United States to support an Anglo-centric cultural project, to resist the emergence of multicultural societies, and to ensure an unchanging notion of a stable English culture on both sides of the Atlantic.

Author : Sarah Wootton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137579348

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Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing and Screen Adaptation by Sarah Wootton Pdf

Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing and Screen Adaptation charts a new chapter in the changing fortunes of a unique cultural phenomenon. This book examines the afterlives of the Byronic hero through the work of nineteenth-century women writers and screen adaptations of their fiction. It is a timely reassessment of Byron's enduring legacy during the nineteenth century and beyond, focusing on the charged and unstable literary dialogues between Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and a Romantic icon whose presence takes centre stage in recent screen adaptations of their most celebrated novels. The broad interdisciplinary lens employed in this book concentrates on the conflicted rewritings of Byron's poetry, his 'heroic' protagonists, and the cult of Byronism in nineteenth-century novels from Pride and Prejudice to Middlemarch, and extends outwards to the reappearance of Byronic heroes on film and in television series over the last two decades.

Author : Deborah Cartmell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118312049

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A Companion to Literature, Film, and Adaptation by Deborah Cartmell Pdf

This is a comprehensive collection of original essays that explore the aesthetics, economics, and mechanics of movie adaptation, from the days of silent cinema to contemporary franchise phenomena. Featuring a range of theoretical approaches, and chapters on the historical, ideological and economic aspects of adaptation, the volume reflects today’s acceptance of intertextuality as a vital and progressive cultural force. Incorporates new research in adaptation studies Features a chapter on the Harry Potter franchise, as well as other contemporary perspectives Showcases work by leading Shakespeare adaptation scholars Explores fascinating topics such as ‘unfilmable’ texts Includes detailed considerations of Ian McEwan’s Atonement and Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

Author : George Arthur Gaskell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Bookkeeping
ISBN : UCSC:32106000002755

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Gaskell's Compendium of Forms, Educational, Social, Legal and Commercial, Embracing a Complete Self-teaching Course in Penmanship and Bookkeeping, and Aid to English Composition ... by George Arthur Gaskell Pdf

Author : George A. Gaskell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 958 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Bookkeeping
ISBN : MINN:31951001875194F

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Gaskell's Compendium of Forms by George A. Gaskell Pdf

Author : Elisabeth-Cleghorn Gaskell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : EHC:148101026140S

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Mary Barton, a Tale of Manchester Life by Elisabeth-Cleghorn Gaskell Pdf

Author : George A. Gaskell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Business
ISBN : OSU:32435083873612

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Gaskell's Compendium of Forms, Educational, Social, Legal and Commercial by George A. Gaskell Pdf

Author : George Arthur Gaskell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Bookkeeping
ISBN : UIUC:30112072471458

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Gaskell's Compendium of Forms, Educational, Social, Legal and Commercial, Embracing a Complete Self-teaching Course in Penmanship and Bookkeeping, and Aid to English Composition ; Together with the Laws and By-laws of Social Etiquette, and Business Law and Commercial Forms, .. Forming a Complete Encyclopedia of Reference by George Arthur Gaskell Pdf

Author : George Arthur Gaskell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Bookkeeping
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU51621738

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Gaskell's Compendium of Forms by George Arthur Gaskell Pdf

Author : Lesa Scholl,Emily Morris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317080718

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Place and Progress in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell by Lesa Scholl,Emily Morris Pdf

Critical assessments of Elizabeth Gaskell have tended to emphasise the regional and provincial aspects of her writing, but the scope of her influence extended across the globe. Building on theories of space and place, the contributors to this collection bring a variety of geographical, industrial, psychological, and spatial perspectives to bear on the vast range of Gaskell’s literary output and on her place within the narrative of British letters and national identity. The advent of the railway and the increasing predominance of manufactory machinery reoriented the nation’s physical and social countenance, but alongside the excitement of progress and industry was a sense of fear and loss manifested through an idealization of the country home, the pastoral retreat, and the agricultural south. In keeping with the theme of progress and change, the essays follow parallel narratives that acknowledge both the angst and nostalgia produced by industrial progress and the excitement and awe occasioned by the potential of the empire. Finally, the volume engages with adaptation and cultural performance, in keeping with the continuing importance of Gaskell in contemporary popular culture far beyond the historical and cultural environs of nineteenth-century Manchester.

Author : George A. Gaskell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Bookkeeping
ISBN : UIUC:30112057270552

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Gaskell's Compendium of Forms, Educational, Social, Legal and Commercial, Embracing a Complete Self-teaching Course in Penmanship and Bookkeeping and Aid to English Composition by George A. Gaskell Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10746564

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Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Pdf