The naive idealistic hopeful Muslim girl about to marry her Hindi beloved (from Bombay) Bhuvan’s heroic stand as batter (from Lagaan) Dear Friends, The last week or so I’ve returned to working on my book on Austen movies. One of the Sense and Sensibility movies is a Tamil free adaptation, Rajiv Menon’s I Have Found [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Indian movies: Lagaan, Bombay, Guru, with a commentary on Mississippi Masala and Charulata
Posted in Indian Films, Movies, tagged Gurinder Chadha, Maniratnam, Mira Nair on September 29, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Pallisers 11:23: The end of Lopez: mockery of marital sex, despair, suicide yet keeping faith as he understood it
Posted in 19th century novels, Costume drama, Film adaptations, political novels/films, Trollope on September 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
“”There is no mercy, nor friendship anywhere” — Ferdinand Lopez (an abbreviated version of a line from Trollope’s The Prime Minister Duchess (Susan Hampshire) rushes into Marie Finn’s (Barbara Murray) arms On their last evening Lopez (Stuart Wilson) kneels before Emily (Sheila Rusking), puts his head on her lap, seeking comfort Dear Friends, Perhaps because [...]
Jane Austen: the last quarter century
Posted in Austen, feminism, Film adaptations, French culture, gothic, translation art, women's novels on September 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Latest Oxford Persuasion Dear Friends, Although my Reveries under the Sign of Austen is intended for blogs about and connected to Jane Austen, I thought I’d continue to make announcements of online publications and progress in other venues here too. So the editor of the Jane Austen Center Magazine has added two more to the [...]
Paul Scott’s The Raj Quartet: vast panoramic political cycle, yet mostly narrated by heroines
Posted in 19th century novels, 20th century culture, Movies, political novels/films, Uncategorized, tagged Jewel in the Crown on September 7, 2009 | 12 Comments »
“It is by reading . . . that we imbibe those sentiments & gain that knowledge which by degrees is wrought into the very texture of our minds . . . ” (Anna Barbauld) The original cover, focusing on the main lovers, Daphne Manners, Hari Kumar, with Ronald Merrick just behind. To the side an [...]
