Exhibition Catalog for the Exhibition “Jane Austen 2.00”, part of the Project Receiving|Perceiving English Literature (https://receivingperceiving.wordpress.com)

Estudo sobre as adaptações de Pride and Prejudice para televisão e cinema.

Jane Austen (1775–1817) is not only a paradigmatic example in adaptation studies but
also one of the most complex cultural phenomena of our times. The countless adaptations
in various media and a seemingly never-ending interest in everything Austen-related have
led to a popular construction of both Austen and her work that is equally defined b…[Read more]

“Book review: The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction”, edited by Daniel Cook and Nicholas Seager, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015, 316 pp., £65/US$99 hb, ISBN: 978-1-10-705468-4

Besides being one of the most acclaimed English novelists, Jane Austen (1775-1817) is widely recognised as one of the most adapted authors. Her works have originated countless screen and television adaptations, not to mention works in other media, turning her into one of the most complex cultural constructs in modernity. In 2009, the publication…[Read more]

Jane Austen’s adaptations on screen have multiplied during the last decades, giving rise to a phenomenon which not only challenges common assumptions about the relationship between literature and audiovisual products, whether in film or television format, but also questions our shared beliefs as individuals both mirrored and shaped by our own e…[Read more]