Novel Images - Literature in Performance

This book demonstrates how we can look critically at adaptations of literary texts for screen, stage and television. The contributors argue that adaptations should not be seen as secondary or marginal, because through them we can enter into an exciting debate with the literary text itself.
The texts discussed include: Brideshead Revisited, The Color Purple, Dracula, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Nice Work, Nicholas Nickleby, The Playmaker, Women in Love and Wuthering Heights.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Dangerous Les’s Liaisons Graham Holderness 2. Dismembering Devils: The Demonology of Arashi ga oka (1988) and Wuthering Heights (1939) John Collick 3. Dickens and Adaptation: Imagery in Words and Pictures Grahame Smith 4. Adapting Dickens to the Modern Eye: Nicholas Nickleby and Little Dorrit Christopher Innes 5. ‘The Devil is Beautiful’: Dracula: Freudian Novel and Feminist Drama Jan McDonald 6. A Woman’s Love: D.H. Lawrence on Film Neil Taylor 7. Shared Dreams: Reproducing Gone with the Wind Harriett Hawkins 8. Spies in the House of Quality: The American Reception of Brideshead Revisited Spencer Golub 9. From Walker to Spielberg: Transformations of The Color Purple Joan Digby 10. A Play for England: The Royal Court Adapts The Playmaker Jim Davis 11. Adapting Nice Work for Television David Lodge

About the author

Peter Reynolds is Professor of Theatre Studies in the School of English at Newcastle University, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Reynolds
• Assisted by: Peter Reynolds (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.04.2013
• EAN: 9780415826358
• ISBN: 978-0-415-82635-8
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Business; History, Media Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, Humanities, Literary theory, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Reference