num_pages: 179
description: From Hollywood classics like Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights to the 1990s wave of Jane Austen films, adaptations of the British Nineteenth-century novel have been sensationally popular. This book examines how British and American filmmakers used the domestic novels of the past to construct stable gender ideals for the present.
language: English
title: Screening Novel Women: From British Domestic Fiction to Film
titlecomplete: Screening Novel Women: From British Domestic Fiction to Film
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan