Unaccounted Modernities in Tess and Trishna
“Unaccounted Modernities” looks at the connection between improvement and modernity by reading Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891) alongside Michael Winterbottom’s Trishna (2011). The chapter offers a reading of the novel’s male protagonists a
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Vivian Y. Kao
Postcolonial Screen Adaptation and the British Novel
Vivian Y. Kao
Postcolonial Screen Adaptation and the British Novel
Vivian Y. Kao Lawrence Technological University Southfield, MI, USA
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To my parents
Acknowledgments
I have received much help and many blessings while working on this book. I must first thank a good number of people at Rutgers, where I began this book as a doctoral dissertation in the English department. I am grateful, first of all, to Dianne Sadoff for her many contributions to my intellectual and personal development as my dissertation advisor and mentor. John Kucich was always ready to offer expertise and empathy throughout my graduate school experience. Kate Flint, Jonah Siegel, Colin Jager, William Galperin, Brad Evans, Edyta Bojanowska, Rebecca Walkowitz, Martin Gliserman, Cheryl Wall, Evie Shockley, Stéphane Robolin, and Larry Scanlon played instrumental roles in my life at Rutgers. They have always been quick to offer support whenever I have needed it. I must thank Mukti Lakhi Mangharam and Meheli Sen as well for graciously agreeing to join my dissertation committee and for offering me advice and encouragement. A special thank-you must also go to Ann Jurecic for her guidance and friendship in the home stretch. Emily Crossen deserves special acknowledgment as my closest comrade throughout the entire process of f
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