Women Writers Dramatized

Author : H. Philip Bolton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780720121179

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Women Writers Dramatized by H. Philip Bolton Pdf

This volume, arranged alphabetically by original author, provides basic information about stage and screen productions based upon the novels of 40 women writers before 1900. Each entry includes the novel and its publication date, the published texts or dramatizations based upon the book, and the performances of the piece in live theater and film versions, including the location, dates, and playwright or screenwriter (if there was one). For some of the performances the author includes a brief annotation listing the actors and describing the production.

Author : Dale M. Bauer
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0807887692

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Sex Expression and American Women Writers, 1860-1940 by Dale M. Bauer Pdf

American women novelists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries registered a call for a new sexual freedom, Dale Bauer contends. By creating a lexicon of "sex expression," many authors explored sexuality as part of a discourse about women's needs rather than confining it to the realm of sentiments, where it had been relegated (if broached at all) by earlier writers. This new rhetoric of sexuality enabled critical conversations about who had sex, when in life they had it, and how it signified. Whether liberating or repressive, sexuality became a potential force for female agency in these women's novels, Bauer explains, insofar as these novelists seized the power of rhetoric to establish their intellectual authority. Thus, Bauer argues, they helped transform the traditional ideal of sexual purity into a new goal of sexual pleasure, defining in their fiction what intimacy between equals might become. Analyzing the work of canonical as well as popular writers--including Edith Wharton, Anzia Yezierska, Julia Peterkin, and Fannie Hurst, among others--Bauer demonstrates that the new sexualization of American culture was both material and rhetorical.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : American drama
ISBN : OCLC:1148958992

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Drama by Women to 1900 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wendy C. Nielsen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611494303

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Women Warriors in Romantic Drama by Wendy C. Nielsen Pdf

Women Warriors in Romantic Drama advances scholarship on late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century theater by bringing together, for the first time, female and male dramatists as well as British, German, Irish, and French writers, thinkers, actors, and philosophers. This transnational perspective allows Women Warriors in Romantic Drama to make the provocative claim that in some instances, the violence of the French Revolution--and especially women's participation in it--advances proto-feminist concerns.

Author : Mary Poovey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1985-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226675282

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The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer by Mary Poovey Pdf

"A brilliant, original, and powerful book. . . . This is the most skillful integration of feminism and Marxist literary criticism that I know of." So writes critic Stephen Greenblatt about The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer, Mary Poovey's study of the struggle of three prominent writers to accommodate the artist's genius to the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century ideal of the modest, self-effacing "proper lady." Interpreting novels, letters, journals, and political tracts in the context of cultural strictures, Poovey makes an important contribution to English social and literary history and to feminist theory. "The proper lady was a handy concept for a developing bourgeois patriarchy, since it deprived women of worldly power, relegating them to a sanctified domestic sphere that, in complex ways, nourished and sustained the harsh 'real' world of men. With care and subtle intelligence, Poovey examines this 'guardian and nemesis of the female self' through the ways it is implicated in the style and strategies of three very different writers."—Rachel M. Brownstein, The Nation "The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer is a model of . . . creative discovery, providing a well-researched, illuminating history of women writers at the turn of the nineteenth century. [Poovey] creates sociologically and psychologically persuasive accounts of the writers: Wollstonecraft, who could never fully transcend the ideology of propriety she attacked; Shelley, who gradually assumed a mask of feminine propriety in her social and literary styles; and Austen, who was neither as critical of propriety as Wollstonecraft nor as accepting as Shelley ultimately became."—Deborah Kaplan, Novel

Author : Hariom Prasad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : American drama
ISBN : 9381031118

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American Women Writers and Modern Drama by Hariom Prasad Pdf

Author : Keir Elam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351871181

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Women's Romantic Theatre and Drama by Keir Elam Pdf

As theatre and drama of the Romantic Period undergo a critical reassessment among scholars internationally, the contributions of women as playwrights, actresses, and managers are also being revalued. This volume, which brings together leading British, North American, and Italian critics, is a crucial step towards reclaiming the importance of women's dramatic and theatrical activities during the period. Writing for the theatre implied assuming a public role, a hazardous undertaking for women who, especially after the French Revolution, were assigned to the private, primarily domestic, sphere. As the contributors examine the covert strategies women used to become full participants in the public theatre, they shed light on the issue of women's agency, expressed both through the writing of highly politicized or ethicized drama, as in the case of Elizabeth Inchbald or Joanna Baillie, and through women's professional practice as theatre managers and stage producers, as in the case of Elizabeth Vestris and Jane Scott. Among the topics considered are women's history plays, domesticity, ethics and sexuality in women's closet drama, the politics of drama and performance, and the role of women as managers and producers. Specialists in performance studies, Romantic Period drama, and women's writing will find the essays both challenging and inspiring.

Author : Lesa Scholl,Emily Morris
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1753 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030783181

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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing by Lesa Scholl,Emily Morris Pdf

Since the late twentieth century, there has been a strategic campaign to recover the impact of Victorian women writers in the field of English literature. However, with the increased understanding of the importance of interdisciplinarity in the twenty-first century, there is a need to extend this campaign beyond literary studies in order to recognise the role of women writers across the nineteenth century, a time that was intrinsically interdisciplinary in approach to scholarly writing and public intellectual engagement.

Author : Devoney Looser
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781421422824

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The Making of Jane Austen by Devoney Looser Pdf

"Returning author Devoney Looser has written a study of Jane Austen's legacy in high and popular culture, looking at stage and film adaptations of her work, how Austen has been taught in classrooms, Austen's depiction in visual culture, and Austen's role in the women's suffragist movement. Looser draws on popular print and unpublished archival sources, amassing evidence from high, middlebrow, and popular culture, in order to craft a more capacious history of posthumous reception. The book is a detailed and revealing account of what Looser calls the "public dimension" of Jane Austen, who is a "manufactured creation." Looser has dug deep and come up with brand-new material on Austen, something that is very hard to do. This is the kind of material that Janeites and Austen scholars live for"--

Author : Juliet John
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191082108

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The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture by Juliet John Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture is a major contribution to the dynamic field of Victorian studies. This collection of 37 original chapters by leading international Victorian scholars offers new approaches to familiar themes including science, religion, and gender, and gives space to newer and emerging topics including old age, fair play, and economics. Structured around three broad sections (on 'Ways of Being: Identity and Ideology', 'Ways of Understanding: Knowledge and Belief', and 'Ways of Communicating: Print and Other Cultures', the volume is sub-divided into 9 sub-sections each with its own 'lead' essay: on subjectivity, politics, gender and sexuality, place and race, religion, science, material and mass culture, aesthetics and visual culture, and theatrical culture. The collection, like today's Victorian studies, is thoroughly interdisciplinary and yet its substantial Introduction explores a concern which is evident both implicitly and explicitly in the volume's essays: that is, the nature and status of 'literary' culture and the literary from the Victorian period to the present. The diverse and wide-ranging essays present original scholarship framed accessibly for a mixed readership of advanced undergraduates, graduate students and established scholars.

Author : Annie Nissen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031468223

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Authors and Adaptation by Annie Nissen Pdf

Author : Dr Karen Laird
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472424419

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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 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 : Karen E. Laird
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Marina Cano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319439884

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Jane Austen and Performance by Marina Cano Pdf

This is the first exploration of the performative and theatrical force of Austen’s work and its afterlife, from the nineteenth century to the present. It unearths new and little-known Austen materials: from suffragette novels and pageants to school and amateur theatricals, passing through mid-twentieth-century representations in Scotland and America. The book concludes with an examination of Austen fandom based on an online survey conducted by the author, which elicited over 300 responses from fans across the globe. Through the lens of performative theory, this volume explores how Austen, her work and its afterlives, have aided the formation of collective and personal identity; how they have helped bring people together across the generations; and how they have had key psychological, pedagogical and therapeutic functions for an ever growing audience. Ultimately, this book explains why Austen remains the most beloved author in English Literature.

Author : Katherine E. Kelly
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780415124942

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Modern Drama by Women, 1880s-1930s by Katherine E. Kelly Pdf

This anthology shakes up the traditional canon and recovers a neglected treasure trove of plays by the women of the modernist era. Unprecedented in diversity and scope, it is a collection for scholars, students or lovers of modern drama.