Victorian Vogue: British Novels on Screen
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Victorian Vogue: British Novels on Screen
By (Author) Dianne F. Sadoff
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
10th March 2010
United States
Classifications
Adult Education
Non Fiction
791.436
Physical Properties
Paperback
360
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 25mm
Description
Ranging from cinematic images of Jane Austen's estates to Oscar Wilde's drawing rooms, Dianne F. Sadoff looks at popular heritage films, often featuring Hollywood stars, that have been adapted from nineteenth-century novels. Victorian Vogue argues that heritage films perform different cultural functions at key historical moments in the twentieth century. According to Sadoff, they are characterized by a double historical consciousnessone that is as attentive to the concerns of the time of production as to those of the Victorian period.
Author Bio
Dianne F. Sadoff is professor of English at Rutgers University. She is author of several books and coeditor of Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century (Minnesota, 2000).
