Literature and the Visual Media

Fiction and film interrelate closely to each other, and the specially commissioned essays in this volume all consider different aspects of this relationship. Beginning with discussions of Dickens and Victorian literature, the contributors, all leading scholars in this field, demonstrate how visual devices like the magic lantern caught the interest of writers and affected their choice of subject and method. The impact of the cinema on the British modernists is then discussed, and the remaining essays provide detailed case studies on such subjects as Hemingway, Updike, and the depiction of women in contemporary fiction and film.

Details

First Published: 30 Aug 2005
13 Digit ISBN: 9781843840565
Pages: 206
Size: 21.6 x 13.8
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: D.S.Brewer
Series: Essays and Studies
Subject: Literary Studies & Linguistics
BIC Class: CF

Details updated on 08 Feb 2012

Contents

• 1  Optical Recreations and Victorian Literature
• 2  The Travelling Lanternist and the Uncommercial Traveller: An Experiment in Correspondences
• 3  British Modernist Encounters with the Cinema
• 4  Killing `The Killers': Hemingway, Hollywood and Death
• 5  Burning Too: Consuming Fahrenheit 451
• 6  Updike's Golden Oldies: Rabbit as Spectacular Man
• 7  On Conversation
• 8  Transcendence through Violence: Women and the Martial Arts in Recent American Fiction and Film