Silent Film Adaptations of Novels by British and American Women Writers, 1903-1929?focuses on fifty-three silent film adaptations of the novels of acclaimed authors George Eliot, Charlotte Bront?, Emily Bront?, Mary Shelley, Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Willa Cather, and Edith Wharton.?
1. Introduction: Recovering and Reclaiming Lost Knowledge
2. Adaptations of British and American Womens Novels, 19031910: Viewer, I Saved Him
3. Adaptations of British and American Womens Novels, 19111919: Viewer, Theres No Place Like Home
4. Adaptation of British and American Womens Novels, 19201929: Viewer, Must I Marry Him?
5. Beyond the Silent Era, 19302022: Viewer, I Married Him Again and Again
Jamie Barlowe is Professor Emerita of Womens and Gender Studies and English at the University of Toledo. She is the author of
The Scarlet Mob of Scribblers: Rereading Hester Prynne and has published widely on feminist and narrative theory, film studies, and nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American writers.
Silent Film Adaptations of Novels by British and American Women Writers, 19031929 focuses on fifty-three silent film adaptations of the novels of acclaimed authors George Eliot, Charlotte Bront?, Emily Bront?, Mary Shelley, Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Willa Cather, and Edith Wharton. Many of the films are unknown or dismissed, and most of them are degraded, destroyed, or lostburned in warehouse fires, spontaneously combusted in storage cans, or quietly turned to dust. Their content and production and distribution details are reconstructed through archival resources as individual narratives that, when considered collectively, constitutel#-
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