1st Edition

Silent Film Adaptations of Novels by British and American Women Writers, 1903-1929 Viewer, I Married Him

By Jamie Barlowe Copyright 2025
200 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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 Brontë, Emily Brontë, 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... Read more

1. Introduction: Recovering and Reclaiming Lost Knowledge

2. Adaptations of British and American Women’s Novels, 1903–1910: Viewer, I Saved Him

3. Adaptations of British and American Women’s Novels, 1911–1919: Viewer, There’s No Place Like Home

4. Adaptation of British and American Women’s Novels, 1920–1929: Viewer, Must I Marry Him?

5. Beyond the Silent Era, 1930–2022: Viewer, I Married Him Again and Again

 

 

 

Biography

Jamie Barlowe is Professor Emerita of Women’s 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.