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Baroness Orczy's The scarlet pimpernel : a publishing history / Sally Dugan.
Van Pelt Library PR6029.R25 S2834 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dugan, Sally.
- Series:
- Ashgate studies in publishing history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness, 1865-1947. Scarlet Pimpernel.
- Orczy, Emmuska Orczy.
- Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness, 1865-1947--Adaptations.
- Blakeney, Percy, Sir (Fictitious character).
- Blakeney, Percy.
- Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness, 1865-1947.
- Adaptations.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012]
- Summary:
- Dugan (English, Oxford Brookes U.) traces the emergence of Emmuska Orczy's (1865-1947) play (1903) and novel (1905) The Scarlet Pimpernel from two of her short stories featuring plots against the Russian Tsar. The metamorphosis of her hero from a Polish anarchist plotter to counter-revolutionary English nobleman suggest a myth that transcends politics, she says, and indicates that a dialogue on questions of nationality forms an integral part of Orczy's work. She charts that dialogue from the its first appearance through novels and short stories published up until 1940; through film, a musical, even children's ballet to its reinvention in popular culture. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781409427179
- 140942717X
- 9781409427186
- 1409427188
- OCLC:
- 780415738
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