Adapting Nineteenth-Century France
Literature in Film, Theatre, Television, Radio and Print
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Series Editors’ Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Kate Griffiths
Chapter 1: Labyrinths of Voices: Emile Zola, Germinal and Radio
Kate Griffiths
Chapter 2: Diamond Thieves and Gold Diggers: Balzac, Silent Cinema and the Spoils of Adaptation
Andrew Watts
Chapter 3: Fragmented Fictions: Time, Textual Memory and the (Re) Writing of Madame Bovary
Andrew Watts
Chapter 4: Les Misérables, Theatre and the Anxiety of Excess
Andrew Watts
Chapter 5: Chez Maupassant: The (In) Visible Space of Television Adaptation
Kate Griffiths
Chapter 6: Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours: Verne, Todd, Coraci and the Spectropoetics of Adaptation
Kate Griffiths
Conclusion
Andrew Watts
Bibliography
Index
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