Author : Barbara Tepa Lupack
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 30,31 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780879728052
Eleven essays analyze the adaptations of novels by eight popular writers such as Jane Austen and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and examine the ways in which those writers' themes are reinterpreted, updated and often misconstrued by the filmmakers who bring them to the screen. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Margaret Fuller
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,60 MB
Release : 1845
Category : Social history
ISBN :
Author : Sarah Wootton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 35,62 MB
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 113757934X
Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing and Screen Adaptation charts a new chapter in the changing fortunes of a unique cultural phenomenon. This book examines the afterlives of the Byronic hero through the work of nineteenth-century women writers and screen adaptations of their fiction. It is a timely reassessment of Byron's enduring legacy during the nineteenth century and beyond, focusing on the charged and unstable literary dialogues between Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and a Romantic icon whose presence takes centre stage in recent screen adaptations of their most celebrated novels. The broad interdisciplinary lens employed in this book concentrates on the conflicted rewritings of Byron's poetry, his 'heroic' protagonists, and the cult of Byronism in nineteenth-century novels from Pride and Prejudice to Middlemarch, and extends outwards to the reappearance of Byronic heroes on film and in television series over the last two decades.
Author : Rachel Fuchs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 21,47 MB
Release : 2004-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1350307351
During the nineteenth century, European women of all countries and social classes experienced dramatic and enduring changes in their familial, working and political lives. However, the history of women at this time is not one of unmitigated progress - theirs was an uphill struggle, fraught with hindrances, hard work and economic downturns, and the increasing intrusion of the public into their innermost private and personal lives. Breaking away from traditional categories, Rachel G. Fuchs and Victoria E. Thompson provide a sense of the variety and complexity of women's lives across national and regional boundaries, juxtaposing the experiences of women with the perceptions of their lives. Three themes unite this study: - The tension between tradition and modernity - The changing relationship between the community and individual - The shifting boundaries between public and private Dealing with individual women's lives within a large social and cultural context, Fuchs and Thompson demonstrate how strong and courageous women refused to live within the prescribed domestic roles - and how many became the modern women of the twentieth century.
Author : Fiona Macdonald
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 35,67 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780872265660
Examines the everyday life of women in the United States during the 1800s, contrasting society's ideal view of women with their real lives.
Author : Judith E. Tucker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 13,47 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521314206
The book provides a unique account of the very active economic, social and political roles of nineteenth-century women.
Author : A. Maunder
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,16 MB
Release : 2015-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230281265
This book brings together the experiences of Anglo-American teachers and discusses some of the challenges which face teachers of nineteenth-century fiction, suggesting practical ways in which these might start to be overcome by considering the constantly changing canon, issues related to course design and the possibilities offered by film and ICT.
Author : Bert James Loewenberg
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 23,9 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0271038241
Author : Dorothy Sterling
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 47,44 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393316292
Contains 1000 oral interviews with American black women who lived between 1800 and the 1880s.
Author : Christine Gerhardt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 26,36 MB
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110480913
This handbook offers students and researchers a compact introduction to the nineteenth-century American novel in the light of current debates, theoretical concepts, and critical methodologies. The volume turns to the nineteenth century as a formative era in American literary history, a time that saw both the rise of the novel as a genre, and the emergence of an independent, confident American culture. A broad range of concise essays by European and American scholars demonstrates how some of America‘s most well-known and influential novels responded to and participated in the radical transformations that characterized American culture between the early republic and the age of imperial expansion. Part I consists of 7 systematic essays on key historical and critical frameworks ― including debates aboutrace and citizenship, transnationalism, environmentalism and print culture, as well as sentimentalism, romance and the gothic, realism and naturalism. Part II provides 22 essays on individual novels, each combining an introduction to relevant cultural contexts with a fresh close reading and the discussion of critical perspectives shaped by literary and cultural theory.
