Silent Film Adaptations of Novels By British American Women Writers, - Viewer, I Married Him

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.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Recovering and Reclaiming Lost Knowledge
2. Adaptations of British and American Women's Novels, 1903-1910: Viewer, I Saved Him
3. Adaptations of British and American Women's Novels, 1911-1919: Viewer, There's No Place Like Home
4. Adaptation of British and American Women's Novels, 1920-1929: Viewer, Must I Marry Him?
5. Beyond the Silent Era, 1930-2022: Viewer, I Married Him Again and Again

About the author

Jamie Barlowe is Professor Emerita of Women's and Gender Studies and English at the University of Toledo. She is the author of The Scarlet Mob of Scribblers: Rereading Hester Prynne and has published widely on feminist and narrative theory, film studies, and nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American writers.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jamie Barlowe, Barlowe Jamie
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032539874
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3253987-4
• No. of pages: 190
• Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, HISTORY / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Adaptation, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gender studies: women, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form