Adapting Nineteenth-Century France : Literature in Film, Theatre, Television, Radio and Print

Griffiths, Kate; Watts, Andrew

ISBN 10: 0708325947 / ISBN 13: 9780708325940

Published by University of Wales Press, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Adapting Nineteenth-Century France : Literature in Film, Theatre, Television, Radio and Print
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0708325947
• ISBN 13: 9780708325940
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book uses six canonical novelists and their recreations in a variety of media to argue a reconceptualisation of our approach to the study of adaptation. The works of Balzac, Hugo, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant and Verne reveal themselves not as originals to be defended from adapting hands, but as works fashioned from the adapted voices of a host of earlier artists, moments and media. The text analyses reworkings of key nineteenth-century texts across time and media in order to emphasise the way in which such reworkings cast new light on many of their source texts, and how they reveal the probing analysis nineteenth-century novelists undertake in relation to notions of originality and authorial borrowing. Adapting Nineteenth-Century France charts such revision through a range of genres encompassing the modern media of radio, silent film, fiction, musical theatre, sound film and television. Contents Introduction, Kate Griffiths I Labyrinths of Voices: Emile Zola, Germinal and Radio, Kate Griffiths II Diamond Thieves and Gold Diggers: Balzac, Silent Cinema and the Spoils of Adaptation, Andrew Watts III Fragmented Fictions: Time, Textual Memory and the (Re)Writing of Madame Bovary, Andrew Watts IV Les Misérables, Theatre and the Anxiety of Excess, Andrew Watts V Chez Maupassant: The (In)Visible Space of Television Adaptation, Kate Griffiths VI Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours: Verne, Todd, Coraci and the Spectropoetics of Adaptation, Kate Griffiths Conclusion, Andrew Watts

About the Author

Kate Griffiths is a Lecturer in French and Translation at Cardiff University, specialising in multi-media adaptation. Andrew Watts is Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Birmingham. His research focuses on adaptations of nineteenth-century prose fiction, with special reference to the work of Honore de Balzac.