Irony and idyll : : Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park on screen / / Marie N. Sørbø ; Aart Jan Bergshoeff, cover design.

Jane Austen’s worldwide popularity is not least due to the remaking of her novels for the visual media. Of the fifty-odd Austen related productions since 1938, forty-three of them adapt her novels to the various screens of cinema, television, computer and tablet. However, her attraction for film-mak...

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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam, Netherlands : : Rodopi,, 2014.
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Costerus New Series 203.
Physical Description:1 online resource (423 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • RESPONSES TO AUSTEN’S NOVELS
  • THE NOVEL: AUSTEN’S IRONIC VOICE
  • THE NOVEL: COURTSHIP COUCHED IN IRONY
  • THE 1940 FILM: OLD ENGLAND INVOKED
  • THE 1980 MINISERIES: FAITHFUL TO THE FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE?
  • THE 1995 MINISERIES: FAITHFUL TO THE FEMALE AUDIENCE
  • THE 2005 FILM: EVERYBODY LOVES THE BENNET FAMILY
  • THE NOVEL: CLASS AND PATRIARCHY UNDERMINED
  • THE NOVEL: MARRIAGE AS A GAME OF SPECULATION
  • THE 1983 MINISERIES: THE BEAUTY OF TRADITION
  • THE 1999 FILM: AIMING FOR AUSTEN’S VOICE
  • THE 1999 FILM: THE TARGETS OF IRONY–RACISM, SEXISM AND CLASS
  • THE 2007 TV FILM: “SOME MUCH NEEDED SIZZLE”
  • THE VOICE OF IRONY AND THE URGE FOR IDYLL
  • FILMOGRAPHY
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • Appeared earlier in the COSTERUS NS series.