Introduction / R. Barton Palmer
A very American fable: the making of a Mohicans adaptation / Martin Barker and Roger Sabin
Romancing the letter: screening a Hawthorne classic / Michael Dunne
The movies in the Rue Morgue: adapting Edgar Allan Poe for the screen / Paul Woolf
Readapting Uncle Tom's Cabin / Stephen Railton
Screening authorship: Little Women on screen 1933-1994 / Deborah Cartmell and Judy Simons
Melville's Moby Dick and Hollywood / David Lavery
Screening male sentimental power in Ben-Hur / Marcia L. Pentz-Harris, Linda Seger, and R. Barton Palmer
John Huston's The red badge of courage / Jakob Lothe
Translating Daisy Miller / Douglas McFArland
Jane Campion's The portrait of a lady / Harriet Margolis and Janet Hughes
The Europeans-and the Americans / Brian McFarlane
Sister Carrie becomes Carrie / Stephen C. Brennan
Hollywood and The sea-wolf / Tony Williams
An untypical typicality: screening Owen Wister's The Virginian / R. Barton Palmer.
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Nineteenth-century American fiction on screen. ISBN 9780521603164. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
