Henry James on Stage and Screen

by John Bradley (Editor)

Overview

In the 1890s, when Henry James tried to achieve fame and financial security by turning to the theatre, he was unceremoniously booed off the stage. Since the 1940s and 50s his fiction has nevertheless been consistently interpreted by composers and film directors, culminating in the recent film adaptations of his novels by Merchant-Ivory, Jane Campion and Iain Softley. Henry James on the Stage and Screen traces this historical development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333792148
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/25/2000
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

MICHAEL ANESKO Lecturer in English and American Studies, Pennsylvania State University NEIL BERRY Writer ELIZABETH BRAKE Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Auburn University, Alabama DAVID CROSS Lecturer in English Literature, University College London MICHELLE DEUTSCH Manager of Technology Projects, London Office of a United States Investment Bank MARK EATON Assistant Professor of English, Oklahoma City University MICHAEL HALLIWELL Director of Creative Work and Research, Sydney University Conservatorium of Music PHILIP HORNE Reader in English, University College London MARICA IAN Associate Professor of Modern British and American Literature, Rutgers University RICHARD A. KAYE Assistant Professor of English, Davidson College, North Carolina DAVID VAN LEER Professor of English, University of California SHELDON M. NOVICK Scholar in Residence, Vermont Law School PETER SWAAB Lecturer in English, University College London JOHN CARLOS ROWE Lecturer in Cultures of the United States and Critical Theory, University of California VAL WILSON Lecturer in English, International House London

Table of Contents

Introduction Henry James on Stage: 'That Sole Intensity which the Theatre can Produce'; S.M.Novick 'The Master's Voice: Henry James and Opera; M.Halliwell Henry James: Varieties of Cinematic Experience; P.Horne The End of Embroidery: From Washington Square to The Heiress ; P.Swaab Ceremonies of Innocence: Men, Boys and Women in The Turn of the Screw ; M.Deustch Frank and Jim Go Boating: Henry James and the French New Wave; D.V.Leer Black and White and Shades of Grey: Ambiguity in The Innocents; V.Wilson Enduring Ephemera: James Cellan Jones, Henry James and the BBC; N.Berry Framing the 'Sketch': Bogdanovich's D aisy Miller; D.Cross Marriage, Influence and Deception: Merchant-Ivory's The Europeans and The Bostonians; E.Brake 'Exquisite Taste': The Recent Henry James Films as Middlebrow Culture; M.Eaton The Consciousness on the Cutting Room Floor: Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady; M.Anesko For Mature Viewers: Sexuality and Gender in Recent Film Adaptations of Henry James's Fiction; J.C.Rowe How To Do Things To Words: Making Language Immaterial in The Wings of the Dove ; M.Ian Portraits of Lady Chatterley: Jamesean Dilemmas, Lawrencian Eros and the Triumph of Cinematic Adaptation in The Wings of the Dove; R.A.Kaye Index

Editorial Reviews

As we learn in the opening essay, in the 1890's James himself tried to write for theater, with no success. Half a century later, James's work began appearing on stage and on screen, including recent films (all discussed here) by Merchant-Ivory, Jane Campion, and Iain Softley. Bradley (former editor, , and writer and editor of studies on Henry James) has selected 15 essays by writers and professors of English that trace the work of James in opera, film, theater, and the BBC. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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