Nineteenth-century American fiction on screen
By: edited by R. Barton Palmer
Contributors: Palmer, R. Barton, 1946-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780521842211; 9780521603164
Subjects: American fiction -- 19th century -- Film and video adaptations; Film adaptations -- History and criticism
Genres: Film and video adaptations
Other titles: 19th-century American fiction on screen
Notes: Includes index

Includes filmography
Table of contents: title: Introduction / R. Barton Palmer; title: A very American fable: the making of a Mohicans adaptation / Martin Barker and Roger Sabin; title: Romancing the letter: screening a Hawthorne classic / Michael Dunne; title: The movies in the Rue Morgue: adapting Edgar Allan Poe for the screen / Paul Woolf; title: Readapting Uncle Tom's Cabin / Stephen Railton; title: Screening authorship: Little Women on screen 1933-1994 / Deborah Cartmell and Judy Simons; title: Melville's Moby Dick and Hollywood / David Lavery; title: Screening male sentimental power in Ben-Hur / Marcia L. Pentz-Harris, Linda Seger, and R. Barton Palmer; title: John Huston's The red badge of courage / Jakob Lothe; title: Translating Daisy Miller / Douglas McFArland; title: Jane Campion's The portrait of a lady / Harriet Margolis and Janet Hughes; title: The Europeans-and the Americans / Brian McFarlane; title: Sister Carrie becomes Carrie / Stephen C. Brennan; title: Hollywood and The sea-wolf / Tony Williams; title: An untypical typicality: screening Owen Wister's The Virginian / R. Barton Palmer