Elizabeth Kraft

Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films

In Conversation with Stanley Cavell

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Produktbeschreibung

In Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films, Elizabeth Kraft brings the canon of Restoration comedy into the conversation initiated by Stanley Cavell in his book Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Her book will be of interest to specialists in Restoration drama and film scholars.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781472484581
• ISBN-10: 1472484584
• Artikelnr.: 46164937

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Kraft is Professor of English at the University of Georgia, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: The Reason and the Rhyme
1. Something from Nothing: Marriage, Conversation, and the Tragicomic Plot
2. The Thin Man of Mode
3. Whippoorwills, Gypsies, and Fantasies of the Night: Aphra Behn's The
Rover and Frank Capra's It Happened One Night
4. Luck, Be a Lady: Aphra Behn, Preston Sturges, and the Ethics of Genre
5. Playing and Not Playing: William Wycherley's The Country Wife and Howard
Hawks's Bringing Up Baby
6. Forgotten Men: William Wycherley's The Plain Dealer and Gregory La
Cava's My Man Godfrey
7. Provisos and Reprieves: William Congreve's The Way of the World and
Howard Hawks's His Girl Friday
8. Happily Ever After? The Awful Truth about Careless Husbands
Epilogue: Hope Springs Eternal