Adaptation Revisited

Television and the Classic Novel

Sarah Cardwell, Bethan Hirst

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English

Manchester University Press
29 August 2002

Television; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Media studies

Offering a critical reappraisal of a prolific and popular genre, this text also brings new material into the broader field of television studies. Sarah Cardwell surveys the traditional discourses about adaptation, unearthing the unspoken assumptions and common misconceptions that underlie them, and explores the problems inherent in previous approaches, developing an original perspective that considers the particularly televisual nature of this genre. She examines four major British serials: ""Brideshead Revisited"", ""Pride and Prejudice"", ""Moll Flanders"", and ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"", revealing the genre's importance in constituting and moderating our understanding of the past and of television itself.

By: Sarah Cardwell
Other: Bethan Hirst
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 295g
ISBN: 9780719060465
ISBN 10: 071906046X
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 29 August 2002
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of figures Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Re:writing adaptations 1. What is (an) adaptation? 2. Criticism revealed 3. Theory revisited 4. Television adaptations in the televisual context Part II: The adaptations Introduction to Part II 5. Brideshead Revisited (1981) 6. Pride and Prejudice (1995) 7. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996) 8. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996) 9. Reconfiguring the genre Bibliography Filmography Index -- .

Sarah Cardwell is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury