The Art Of Adapting Victorian Literature 1848 1920

Author : Karen E. Laird
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
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Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317044499

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The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848-1920 by Karen E. Laird Pdf

In The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848-1920, Karen E. Laird alternates between readings of nineteenth-century stage and twentieth-century silent film adaptations to investigate the working practices of the first adapters of Victorian fiction. Laird’s juxtaposition between stage and screen brings to life the dynamic culture of literary adaptation as it developed throughout the long nineteenth-century. Focusing on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield, and Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White, Laird demonstrates how adaptations performed the valuable cultural work of expanding the original novel’s readership across class and gender divides, exporting the English novel to America, and commemorating the novelists through adaptations that functioned as virtual literary tourism. Bridging the divide between literary criticism, film studies, and theatre history, Laird’s book reveals how the Victorian adapters set the stage for our contemporary film adaptation industry.

Author : Dr Karen Laird
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2015-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1472424395

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The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848-1920 by Dr Karen Laird Pdf

In The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848–1920, Karen E. Laird alternates between readings of nineteenth-century stage and twentieth-century silent film adaptations to demonstrate the working practices of the first adapters of Victorian fiction. Focusing on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield, and Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White, Laird charts a new cultural history of literary adaptation as it developed throughout the long nineteenth-century.

Author : Karen Laird
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1472424409

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The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature 1848-1920 Dramatizing Jane Eyre David Copperfield and the Woman in White 1848 by Karen Laird Pdf

In The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848-1920, Karen E. Laird alternates between readings of nineteenth-century stage and twentieth-century silent film adaptations to demonstrate the working practices of the first adapters of Victorian fiction. Focusing on Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens's David Copperfield, and Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, Laird charts a new cultural history of literary adaptation as it developed throughout the long nineteenth-century.

Author : Karen E. Laird
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317044505

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The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848-1920 by Karen E. Laird Pdf

In The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848-1920, Karen E. Laird alternates between readings of nineteenth-century stage and twentieth-century silent film adaptations to investigate the working practices of the first adapters of Victorian fiction. Laird’s juxtaposition between stage and screen brings to life the dynamic culture of literary adaptation as it developed throughout the long nineteenth-century. Focusing on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield, and Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White, Laird demonstrates how adaptations performed the valuable cultural work of expanding the original novel’s readership across class and gender divides, exporting the English novel to America, and commemorating the novelists through adaptations that functioned as virtual literary tourism. Bridging the divide between literary criticism, film studies, and theatre history, Laird’s book reveals how the Victorian adapters set the stage for our contemporary film adaptation industry.

Author : Dr Karen Laird
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472424396

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The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848-1920 by Dr Karen Laird Pdf

In The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848–1920, Karen E. Laird alternates between readings of nineteenth-century stage and twentieth-century silent film adaptations to demonstrate the working practices of the first adapters of Victorian fiction. Focusing on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield, and Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White, Laird charts a new cultural history of literary adaptation as it developed throughout the long nineteenth-century.

Author : Annie Nissen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031468223

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Authors and Adaptation by Annie Nissen Pdf

Author : Lissette Lopez Szwydky,Glenn Jellenik
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031095962

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Adaptation Before Cinema by Lissette Lopez Szwydky,Glenn Jellenik Pdf

Adaptation Before Cinema highlights a range of pre-cinematic media forms, including theater, novelization, painting and illustration, transmedia art, children’s media, and other literary and visual culture. The book expands the primary scholarly audience of adaptation studies from film and media scholars to literary scholars and cultural critics working across a range of historical periods, genres, forms, and media. In doing so, it underscores the creative diversity of cultural adaptation practiced before cinema came to dominate the critical conversation on adaptation. Collectively, the chapters construct critical bridges between literary history and contemporary media studies, foregrounding diverse practices of adaptation and providing a platform for innovative critical approaches to adaptation, appropriation, or transmedia storytelling popular from the Middle Ages through the invention of cinema. At the same time, they illustrate how these forms of adaptation not only influenced the cinematic adaptation industry of the twentieth century but also continue to inform adaptation practices in the twenty-first century transmedia landscape. Written by scholars with expertise in historical, literary, and cultural scholarship ranging from the medieval period through the nineteenth century, the chapters use discourses developed in contemporary adaptation studies to shed new lights on their respective historical fields, authors, and art forms.

Author : Claire Wood,Juliet John
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781474441650

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Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts by Claire Wood,Juliet John Pdf

The Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts explores Dickens's rich and complex relationships with a myriad of art forms and the far-reaching resonance of his works across the arts overall. This volume reassesses Dickens's prescient philosophy of art, both through a historical and a present-day lens and in the context of debates about the cultural value of the arts. Across thirty-three original essays, it outlines the ways in which Dickens broke down oppositions between high and low art, money and the aesthetic, the extraordinary and the ordinary, and art for its own sake and the social good. In doing so, it considers how Dickens prefigured the arts of the future, including rap music, television, fanfiction and global cinema.

Author : Benjamin Poore
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137469632

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Sherlock Holmes from Screen to Stage by Benjamin Poore Pdf

This book investigates the development of Sherlock Holmes adaptations in British theatre since the turn of the millennium. Sherlock Holmes has become a cultural phenomenon all over again in the twenty-first century, as a result of the television series Sherlock and Elementary, and films like Mr Holmes and the Guy Ritchie franchise starring Robert Downey Jr. In the light of these new interpretations, British theatre has produced timely and topical responses to developments in the screen Sherlocks’ stories. Moreover, stage Sherlocks of the last three decades have often anticipated the knowing, metafictional tropes employed by screen adaptations. This study traces the recent history of Sherlock Holmes in the theatre, about which very little has been written for an academic readership. It argues that the world of Sherlock Holmes is conveyed in theatre by a variety of games that activate new modes of audience engagement.

Author : Jamie Barlowe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-08-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781040100806

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Silent Film Adaptations of Novels by British and American Women Writers, 1903-1929 by Jamie Barlowe Pdf

Silent Film Adaptations of Novels by British and American Women Writers, 1903–1929 focuses on fifty-three silent film adaptations of the novels of acclaimed authors George Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Mary Shelley, Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Willa Cather, and Edith Wharton. Many of the films are unknown or dismissed, and most of them are degraded, destroyed, or lost—burned in warehouse fires, spontaneously combusted in storage cans, or quietly turned to dust. Their content and production and distribution details are reconstructed through archival resources as individual narratives that, when considered collectively, constitute a broader narrative of lost knowledge—a fragmented and buried early twentieth-century story now reclaimed and retold for the first time to a twenty-first-century audience. This collective narrative also demonstrates the extent to which the adaptations are intertextually and ideologically entangled with concurrently released early “woman’s films” to re-promote and re-instill the norm of idealized white, married, domesticated womanhood during a time of extraordinary cultural change for women. Retelling this lost narrative also allows for a reassessment of the place and function of the adaptations in the development of the silent film industry and as cinematic precedent for the hundreds of sound adaptations of the literary texts of these eight women writers produced from 1931 to the 2020s.

Author : Décio Torres Cruz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027261816

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The Cinematic Novel and Postmodern Pop Fiction by Décio Torres Cruz Pdf

Décio Torres Cruz approaches connections between literature and cinema partly through issues of gender and identity, and partly through issues of reality and representation. In doing so, he looks at the various ways in which people have thought of the so-called cinematic novel, tracing the development of that genre concept not only in the French ciné-roman and film scenarios but also in novels from the United States, England, France, and Latin America. The main tendency he identifies is the blending of the cinematic novel with pop literature, through allusions to Pop Art and other postmodern cultural trends. His prime exhibits are a number of novels by the Argentinian writer Manuel Puig: Betrayed by Rita Hayworth; Heartbreak Tango; The Buenos Aires Affair; Kiss of the Spider Woman; and Pubis angelical. Bringing in suggestive sociocultural and psychoanalytical considerations, Cruz shows how, in Puig’s hands, the cinematic novel resulted in a pop collage of different texts, films, discourses, and narrative devices which fused reality and imagination into dream and desire.

Author : Lynne Tatlock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501382369

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Jane Eyre in German Lands by Lynne Tatlock Pdf

Lynne Tatlock examines the transmission, diffusion, and literary survival of Jane Eyre in the German-speaking territories and the significance and effects thereof, 1848-1918. Engaging with scholarship on the romance novel, she presents an historical case study of the generative power and protean nature of Brontë's new romance narrative in German translation, adaptation, and imitation as it involved multiple agents, from writers and playwrights to readers, publishers, illustrators, reviewers, editors, adaptors, and translators. Jane Eyre in German Lands traces the ramifications in the paths of transfer that testify to widespread creative investment in romance as new ideas of women's freedom and equality topped the horizon and sought a home, especially in the middle classes. As Tatlock outlines, the multiple German instantiations of Brontë's novel-four translations, three abridgments, three adaptations for general readers, nine adaptations for younger readers, plays, farces, and particularly the fiction of the popular German writer E. Marlitt and its many adaptations-evince a struggle over its meaning and promise. Yet precisely this multiplicity (repetition, redundancy, and proliferation) combined with the romance narrative's intrinsic appeal in the decades between the March Revolutions and women's franchise enabled the cultural diffusion, impact, and long-term survival of Jane Eyre as German reading. Though its focus on the circulation of texts across linguistic boundaries and intertwined literary markets and reading cultures, Jane Eyre in German Lands unsettles the national paradigm of literary history and makes a case for a fuller and inclusive account of the German literary field.

Author : Richard D. Graham
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0364871385

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The Masters of Victorian Literature by Richard D. Graham Pdf

Excerpt from The Masters of Victorian Literature: 1837-1897 The following pages have been written chiefly for the younger students of English Literature. Existing works on this subject usually st0p at the threshold of our own time, but the interest of young students, so far from ending there, is strongly attracted towards the authors of to-day. To gratify their natural curiosity, and especially to foster in them a taste for what is beautiful, and of permanent value in the literature of the Victorian era, is the aim which the author has had in view. No scheme of ex amination has been present to his thoughts in writing. At the same time he has made ample use of facts, and even of dates, in connection with the per sonal element in the literature of the period, and has sought to show into what setting of circumstances in the life-history of the writer himself, the works of his genius are to be fitted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Grace Moore
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441112675

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The Victorian Novel in Context by Grace Moore Pdf

This book introduces students to the Victorian novel and its contexts, teaching strategies for reading and researching nineteenth-century literature. Combining close reading with background information and analysis it considers the Victorian novel as a product of the industrial age by focusing on popular texts including Dickens's Oliver Twist, Gaskell's North and South and Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge. The Victorian Novel in Context examines the changing readership resulting from the growth of mass literacy and the effect that this had on the form of the novel. Taking texts from the early, mid and late Victorian period it encourages students to consider how serialization shaped the nineteenth-century novel. It highlights the importance of politics, religion and the evolutionary debate in 'classic' Victorian texts. Addressing key concerns including realist writing, literature and imperialism, urbanization and women's writing, it introduces students to a variety of the most important critical approaches to the novels. Introducing texts, contexts and criticism, this is a lively and up-to-date resource for anyone studying the Victorian novel.

Author : Francis O'Gorman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470779859

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The Victorian Novel by Francis O'Gorman Pdf

This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.