Adapting Nineteenth-Century France: Literature in Film, Theatre, Television, Radio and Print (French and Francophone Studies)

Watts, Andrew; Griffiths, Kate

ISBN 10: 1783163089 / ISBN 13: 9781783163083

Published by University of Wales Press, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Adapting Nineteenth-Century France: Literature in Film, Theatre, Television, Radio and Print (French and Francophone Studies)
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783163089
• ISBN 13: 9781783163083
• Binding: Soft cover
• 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.

About the Author

Kate Griffiths is a Lecturer in French and Translation at Cardiff University. She specialises in multi-media adaptation and is author of a series of books, articles and chapters on the topic. Andrew Watts is Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Birmingham. His research focuses on the adaptation of nineteenth-century fiction, with special reference to the work of Honoré de Balzac.