Nineteenth-century Women at the Movies

Nineteenth-century Women at the Movies

Author: Barbara Tepa Lupack

Publisher: Popular Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780879728052

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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


Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing and Screen Adaptation

Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing and Screen Adaptation

Author: Sarah Wootton

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-01-26

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 113757934X

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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.


Women in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Women in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Author: Rachel Fuchs

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2004-11-21

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1350307351

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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.


Teaching Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Teaching Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Author: A. Maunder

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-04

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 0230281265

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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.


Women in Nineteenth-Century Egypt

Women in Nineteenth-Century Egypt

Author: Judith E. Tucker

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780521314206

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The book provides a unique account of the very active economic, social and political roles of nineteenth-century women.


We are Your Sisters

We are Your Sisters

Author: Dorothy Sterling

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9780393316292

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Contains 1000 oral interviews with American black women who lived between 1800 and the 1880s.


Handbook of the American Novel of the Nineteenth Century

Handbook of the American Novel of the Nineteenth Century

Author: Christine Gerhardt

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2018-06-11

Total Pages: 643

ISBN-13: 3110480913

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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.


A Century in Uniform

A Century in Uniform

Author: Stacy Fowler

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2020-01-17

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1476637970

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 From silents of the early American motion picture era through 21st century films, this book offers a decade-by-decade examination of portrayals of women in the military. The full range of genres is explored, along with films created by today's military women about their experiences. Laws regarding women in the service are analyzed, along with discussion of the challenges they have faced in the push for full participation and of the changing societal attitudes through the years.


The Brontës in the World of the Arts

The Brontës in the World of the Arts

Author: Sandra Hagan

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780754657521

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This interdisciplinary collection presents new research on the Brontës' intense and varied relationship to the wider world of the arts. With essays by scholars who represent the fields of literary studies, music, art, theatre studies, and material culture, the volume brings together the strongest current research and suggests areas for future work on the Brontës and their cultural contexts.