The BBC has been adapting the novels of Charles Dickens for as long as it’s been doing drama. What’s new is the depth and breadth — OK, the length — of the latest TV versions, the most recent being ...

Laurel Ann Nattress of AustenProse writes "Affairs of the heart populate episode two with hopes and aspirations for all of the unattached characters in Masterpiece Classic's miniseries of Little ...

Charles Dickens wrote big, long books, and when his books become movies it’s good to make them big and long as well. His many-tendriled, twisty plots can be pruned and compressed with some success -- ...

regulars, Christine Edzard`s adaptation of Charles Dickens` ”Little Dorrit” could easily be mistaken for a public television series that has somehow slipped its moorings. But ”Little Dorrit” is a ...

Little Dorrit is not one of Dickens' best-known works, but it contains all the elements required for a compelling drama, as scriptwriter Andrew Davies reveals. "Television has not tackled this novel ...

My Summer School assignment was going to be “Little Dorrit.” Not that I had passed up “Little Dorrit” on my high school’s summer reading list. It had never been there. Only the most standard of ...

When you spend a third of your day with adolescents, you get a close look at social structures--sometimes too close! Although most of my students would scoff at reading 800 pages of nineteenth century ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Each realist novel collects, interprets, and transmits information about what it means to be human in a certain time and place. Part of ...

BBC Drama Productions today announces the commission of a large-scale, ambitious adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic Little Dorrit, written by acclaimed writer Andrew Davies (Sense And Sensibility, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract ABSTRACT While the concept of emotional labor (the presentation of a feeling as part of a job) is generally applied to a twentieth- and twenty ...