Robert Mayer (ed.)

Eighteenth-Century Fiction on Screen

Herausgeber: Mayer, Robert

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection offers an extensive introduction to cinematic representations of the eighteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780521529105
• ISBN-10: 0521529107
• Artikelnr.: 20968765

Autorenporträt

Robert Mayer is Associate Professor of English at Oklahoma State University. He is the author of History and the Early English Novel: Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe (Cambridge, 1997).

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Introduction: Is there a text in the screening room? Robert Mayer
1. The cinema of attractions and the novel in Barry Lyndon and Tom Jones Peter Cosgrove
2. Three cinematic Robinsonades Robert Mayer
3. Adaptations of Moll Flanders Catherine N. Parke
4. Film, censorship, and the 'corrupt original' of Gulliver's Travels Alan Chalmers
5. Adapting Fielding for film and television Martin C. Battestin
6. The spaces of Clarissa in text and film Cynthia Wall
7. Jacques le fataliste on film: from metafiction to metacinema Alan J. Singerman
8. 'Carnal to the point of scandal': on the affair of La religieuse Kevin Jackson
9. Adaptations and cultural criticism: Les liaisons dangereuses 1960 and Dangerous Liaisons Richard Frohock
10. Mapping Goethe's Wilhelm Meister onto Wenders's Wrong Move Margaret McCarthy
11. Rob Roy: the other eighteenth century? Janet Sorensen
Filmography
Bibliography.