The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848-1920: Dramatizing Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, and the Woman in White

ISBN-13: 9780367880095 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 248 str.

Karen E. Laird

Opis

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 Colli

Recenzje

'Karen E. Laird's work on silent films is truly a seminal work.' Brontë Blog

Spis treści

Upstairs, downstairs: Jane Eyre's transatlantic theatrical debut.  Adapting melodramatically: Jane Eyre of the silent screen.  Adapting the seduction plot: David Copperfield on the Victorian stage.  The posthumous Dickens: David Copperfield on screen.  Adapting the sensation plot: The Woman in White on the Victorian stage.  Sensational modernity: The Woman in White on the American screen.  Works cited.

O autorze

Karen E. Laird has taught courses in Victorian literature and film history at the University of Colorado, the University of Missouri, Stephens College, and the University of Salford. She has published articles on literary adaptation in such journals as Women’s Writing, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, and Literature/Film Quarterly. Karen lives and writes in Manchester, England.