Introduction R. Barton Palmer; 1. A very American fable: the making of a Mohicans adaptation Martin Barker and Roger Sabin; 2. Romancing the letter: screening a Hawthorne classic Michael Dunne; 3. The movies in the rue Morgue: adapting Edgar Allan Poe for the screen Paul Woolf; 4. Re-adapting Uncle Tom's Cabin Stephen Railton; 5. Screening authorship: Little Women on screen 1933–4 Deborah Cartmell and Judy Simons; 6. Screening Melville's Moby-Dick David Lavery; 7. Screening male sentimental power in Ben-Hur Marcia Pentz-Harris, Linda Seger and R. Barton Palmer; 8. John Huston's The Red Badge of Courage Jakob Lothe; 9. Translating Daisy Miller Douglas McFarland; 10. Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady Harriet Margolis and Janet Hughes; 11. The Europeans - and the Americans Brian McFarlane; 12. Sister Carrie becomes Carrie Stephen Brennan; 13. Hollywood and The Sea Wolf Tony Williams; 14. Screening Owen Wister's The Virginian R. Barton Palmer; Filmographies; Index.

'The reader of these essays will gain a fresh appreciation not only of classic literary works but also of film history itself. It is instructive … and indeed fascinating …' Journal of Literary Naturalism