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Ernest Maltravers (novel)
''Ernest Maltravers'' is an 1837 novel by the British writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton, originally published in three volumes. It is Gothic in style, and features a protagonist combining "Byronic stature and Coleridgean philosophical ambition". It was followed by a sequel ''Alice''. The following year it was adapted into a stage play of the same title by Louisa Medina, which first appeared on 28 March 1838 at the National Theatre in New York City. Film versions In 1914 it was adapted into an American short silent film '' Ernest Maltravers'' directed by Travers Vale. A further silent film, the British feature-length '' Ernest Maltravers'' was released in 1920, directed by Jack Denton and starring Lillian Hall-Davis Lillian Hall-Davis (23 June 1898 – 25 October 1933) was an English actress during the silent film era, featured in major roles in English film and a number of German, French and Italian films. Born Lilian Hall Davis, the daughter of a London ....Goble p.296 Referenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, PC (25 May 180318 January 1873) was an English writer and politician. He served as a Whig member of Parliament from 1831 to 1841 and a Conservative from 1851 to 1866. He was Secretary of State for the Colonies from June 1858 to June 1859, choosing Richard Clement Moody as founder of British Columbia. He was created Baron Lytton of Knebworth in 1866. Bulwer-Lytton's works sold and paid him well. He coined famous phrases like "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", " dweller on the threshold", and the opening phrase "It was a dark and stormy night." The sardonic Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, held annually since 1982, claims to seek the "opening sentence of the worst of all possible novels". Life Bulwer was born on 25 May 1803 to General William Earle Bulwer of Heydon Hall and Wood Dalling, Norfolk and Elizabeth Barbara Lytton, daughter of Richard Warburton Lytto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gothic Fiction
Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror in the 20th century, is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting. The name is a reference to Gothic architecture of the European Middle Ages, which was characteristic of the settings of early Gothic novels. The first work to call itself Gothic was Horace Walpole's 1764 novel ''The Castle of Otranto'', later subtitled "A Gothic Story". Subsequent 18th century contributors included Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, William Beckford (novelist), William Thomas Beckford, and Matthew Gregory Lewis, Matthew Lewis. The Gothic influence continued into the early 19th century, works by the Romantic poetry, Romantic poets, and novelists such as Mary Shelley, Charles Maturin, Walter Scott and E. T. A. Hoffmann frequently drew upon gothic motifs in their works. The early Victorian literature, Victorian period continued the use of gothic, in novels by Charles Dickens and the Brontë family, Brontë sisters, as well as works by the American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three-volume Novel
The three-volume novel (sometimes three-decker or triple decker) was a standard form of publishing for British fiction during the nineteenth century. It was a significant stage in the development of the modern novel as a form of popular literature in Western culture. History An 1885 cartoon from the magazine ''Punch'', mocking the clichéd language attributed to three-volume novels Three-volume novels began to be produced by the Edinburgh-based publisher Archibald Constable in the early 19th century. Constable was one of the most significant publishers of the 1820s and made a success of publishing expensive, three-volume editions of the works of Walter Scott; the first was Scott's historical novel ''Kenilworth'', published in 1821, at what became the standard price for the next seventy years. rchibald Constable published Ivanhoe in 3 volumes in 1820, but also, T. Egerton had been publishing the works of Jane Austen in 3 volumes 10 years earlier, Sense and Sensibility in 1811 e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byronic Hero
The Byronic hero is a variant of the Romantic hero as a type of character, named after the English Romantic poet Lord Byron. Both Byron's own persona as well as characters from his writings are considered to provide defining features to the character type. The Byronic hero first reached a very wide public in Byron's semi-autobiographical epic narrative poem ''Childe Harold's Pilgrimage'' (1812–1818). Historian and critic Lord Macaulay described the character as "a man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow, and misery in his heart, a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection". Byron's poems with Oriental settings show more "swashbuckling" and decisive versions of the type. Later works show Byron progressively distancing himself from the figure by providing alternative hero types, like Sardanapalus (''Sardanapalus''), Juan (''Don Juan'') or Torquil ("The Island"), or, when the figure is present, by presenting him as less sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coleridge's Theory Of Life
Coleridge's theory of life is an attempt by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to understand not just inert or still nature, but also vital nature. He examines this topic most comprehensibly in his work ''Hints towards the Formation of a more Comprehensive Theory of Life'' (1818). The work is key to understand the relationship between Romantic literature and science Works of Romanticism, romanticists in the realm of art and medicine, Romantic medicine were a response to the general failure of the application of the method of inertial science to reveal the foundational laws and operant principles of vital nature. German romantic science and medicine sought to understand the nature of the life principle identified by John Hunter (physician), John Hunter as distinct from matter itself via Blumenbach, Johan Friedrich Blumenbach's ''Bildungstrieb'' and Hahnemann, Romantic medicine's ''Lebenskraft'', as well as Röschlaub's development of the Brunonian system of medicine system of John Brown, in hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Medina
Louisa Medina (c.1813–1838), also known as Louisa Honore de Medina, Louisa Medina Hamblin, and the nickname Louisine, was a playwright and literary figure in New York City between the years 1833 and her death. She wrote poems, short stories, and approximately 34 melodramas of which only 11 remain extant. She is mostly known for adapting dramatic versions of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's ''Last Days of Pompeii'' (1835) and '' Ernest Maltravers'' (1838), and Robert Montgomery Bird's ''Nick of the Woods'' (1838), among others. In an era when successful plays typically ran 3-4 nights, ''Last Days of Pompeii'' set a record by running for twenty-nine days. This was the earliest known example of a "long run" for a play, a technique which became regularly used by Thomas Hamblin. Medina is also accredited as the first women in American Theatre to earn her living exclusively as a dramatist. Louisa Medina's progressive inclinations concerning her education and self-reliance marks her as an ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Film
A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all credits". In the United States, short films were generally termed short subjects from the 1920s into the 1970s when confined to two 35 mm reels or less, and featurettes for a film of three or four reels. "Short" was an abbreviation for either term. The increasingly rare industry term "short subject" carries more of an assumption that the film is shown as part of a presentation along with a feature film. Short films are often screened at local, national, or international film festivals and made by independent filmmakers with either a low budget or no budget at all. They are usually funded by film grants, nonprofit organizations, sponsor, or personal funds. Short films are generally used for industry experience and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silent Film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when necessary, be conveyed by the use of title cards. The term "silent film" is something of a misnomer, as these films were almost always accompanied by live sounds. During the silent era that existed from the mid-1890s to the late 1920s, a pianist, theater organist—or even, in large cities, a small orchestra—would often play music to accompany the films. Pianists and organists would play either from sheet music, or improvisation. Sometimes a person would even narrate the inter-title cards for the audience. Though at the time the technology to synchronize sound with the film did not exist, music was seen as an essential part of the viewing experience. "Silent film" is typically used as a historical term to describe an era of cinema pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Maltravers (1914 Film)
Ernest Maltravers may refer to: * ''Ernest Maltravers'' (novel), an 1837 novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, PC (25 May 180318 January 1873) was an English writer and politician. He served as a Whig member of Parliament from 1831 to 1841 and a Conservative from 1851 to 1866. He was Secret ... * ''Ernest Maltravers'' (play), an 1838 American stage adaptation by Louisa Medina * ''Ernest Maltravers'' (1914 film), an American film adaptation * ''Ernest Maltravers'' (1920 film), A British film adaptation directed by Jack Denton {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Travers Vale
Travers Vale (31 January 1865 – 10 January 1927) was an English-born silent film film director, director. He directed more than 70 films between 1910 and 1926. He was born in Liverpool and died in Hollywood, California from cancer. Travers Vale's actual birth name was Solomon Flohm, son of Joseph Flohm and Esther Flegeltaub who were both Russian Polish Jews who had emigrated to the UK during the Crimean War. Biography Soon after Solomon's birth, they set sail to Australia on the SS Great Britain with other family members and ended up settling in Ballarat, Victoria although had spent time prior to this in Sandhurst [Bendigo, Victoria] and Pleasant Creek [Stawell, Victoria]. Travers Vale [Solomon Flohm] married his first cousin, Leah Flegeltaub [daughter of Esther's brother Aaron] on 24 July 1893 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. By this time Solomon had been working as a photographer [his father-in-law, Aaron Flegeltaub was a respected photographer]. However Travers had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Maltravers (1920 Film)
''Ernest Maltravers'' is a 1920 British silent drama film directed by Jack Denton and starring Cowley Wright, Lillian Hall-Davis and Gordon Hopkirk. It is an adaptation of the 1838 novel '' Ernest Maltravers'' by Edward Bulwer-Lytton which had previously been made into an American film '' Ernest Maltravers'' in 1914. Cast * Cowley Wright - Ernest Maltravers * Lillian Hall-Davis - Alice Darvil * Gordon Hopkirk - George Legard * Norman Partridge - Luke Darvil * George Bellamy - Mr Merton * Florence Nelson Florence Nelson (25 October 1864 – 12 January 1953) was an English stage and film actress of the silent film era. Life Born in Chelsea, London, in 1864, the daughter of John Henry Fielder, gentleman, of Nelson Lodge, Trafalgar Square, Chelsea, ... - Mrs Merton * Ernest A. Douglas - Lord Vargrave * Stella Wood-Sims - Evelyn * N. Watt-Phillips - Waters References External links * 1920 films British silent feature films Films directed by Jack Denton 1920s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Denton
John Fleming St. Andrew Denton (11 September 1872 – 19 April 1949) was a British actor and film director of the silent era. Denton was born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire and died at age 76 in Redhill, Surrey. Selected filmography Actor * ''Little Lord Fauntleroy'' (1914) * ''In the Ranks'' (1914) * '' The World, the Flesh and the Devil'' (1914) * '' Flying from Justice'' (1915) * ''She'' (1916) * ''The Bachelor's Club'' (1921) * ''The Card'' (1922) * ''The Fair Maid of Perth'' (1923) * ''The York Mystery'' (1924) * '' Old Bill Through the Ages'' (1924) * '' The Notorious Mrs. Carrick'' (1924) * '' Tons of Money'' (1924) * ''The Gay Corinthian'' (1924) Director * ''Barnaby'' (1919) * ''A Lass o' the Looms'' (1919) * ''The Heart of a Rose'' (1919) * '' Ernest Maltravers'' (1920) * '' The Twelve Pound Look'' (1920) * ''Lady Audley's Secret'' (1920) * ''Sybil Sibyls were oracular women believed to possess prophetic powers in ancient Greece. Sybil or Sibyl may also refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
