Author : Dr Karen Laird
Release : 2015-08-28
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 395/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848-1920 by : Dr Karen Laird
Download or read book The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848-1920 written by Dr Karen Laird. This book was released on 2015-08-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Collins’s The Woman in White, Laird charts a new cultural history of literary adaptation as it developed throughout the long nineteenth-century.