"Gender in Film Adaptations of the British Nineteenth-Century Novel" is a major study of how women have been represented in film and television adaptations of British nineteeth-century novels. Exploring classics like "Wuthering Heights" (1939) and "Jane Eyre" (1944), this book shows how cultural anxieties about women shaped such adaptations in Britain and America during the Depression and after World War II, then going on to approach the more recent wave of adaptations in the 1990s.

From Hollywood classics like Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights to the 1990s wave of Jane Austen films, adaptations of the British Nineteenth-century novel have been sensationally popular. This book examines how British and American filmmakers used the domestic novels of the past to construct stable gender ideals for the present.