A book devoted to Victorian literature and film adaptation is long overdue. Hundreds of essays and chapters have been published on the subject; prior edited collections have addressed literary film adaptation more broadly (e.g., Michael Klein and Gillian Parker, eds., The English Novel and the Movies...
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Over the past half century, the reputation of George Gissing, the late Victorian English novelist (1857 1903), has risen quite impressively, rather like a once undervalued stock in the Dow Jones or FTSE Literary Average. For many decades, this steady climb has owed much to Pierre Coustillas himself...
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T. Carlo Matos is not a virologist. Nevertheless, the playwright and professor has identified a new disease, or rather an old one, which struck a highly select populace of critics and dramatists in 1890s London. In this book, Matos introduces the "Ibsen Strain," which attacked reviewers in three phases,...
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According to William P. MacNeil, studies in law and literature need to pay more attention to the law. While saluting the work done by prominent law-and-literature scholars such as Meredith McGill, Lisa Rodensky, Brook Thomas, and Alexander Welsh, MacNeil finds their interests primarily socio-legal,...
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In their Introduction to this book, Samuel Otter and Geoffrey Sanborn observe that American literary studies divide the practice of aesthetic criticism in two, setting an exclusionary exercise in cultural elitism against an inclusionary view of "aesthetics as the basis of a radically democratic...
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