Bronte Transformations by Patsy Stoneman
Brand: Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd
Product Description
This landmark book entirely unobtainable for several years is the single essential study of how the bestknown Bront novels Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights achieved their worldwide fame. It offers a fascinating account of how the novels have passed into the general culture through a wide variety of media on the stage in film and television in books illustrations comic books and paintings operas ballets and musical versions parodies and allusions as well as later reworkings of the original plots. No other book provides such a thorough record of the processes by which the novels have been transmitted and transformed. Now regarded as a seminal work in the field of adaptation studies this exhaustive study offers analysis of the various texts in terms of their historical and generic construction aiming to relate the form of each derivative to its ideological function. Its methodology is eclectic mixing traditional literary criticism with feminist psychoanalytic and deconstructive techniques to create a work which is both entertaining and scholarly. The book includes a uniquely detailed listing of Bront derivatives as well as a general bibliography and is enhanced by black and white illustrations. show more
Condition : New
Author : Patsy Stoneman
Weight : 696.06
Publisher : Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd
Language : English
EAN : 9781911454342
ISBN10 : 191145434X
Format : Paperback Softback
Date of Publication : 20193011
Place of Publication : United Kingdom
Pagination : 388 Pages
Dimensions : 156 X 234 X 23