Literature and Languages
Staff Information
Professor Grahame Smith (Emeritus) |
||
 |
School of Arts and Humanities Division of Literature and Languages University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA UK |
|
 |
Email: grahame.smith@dsl.pipex.com |
| About |
M.A. (Aberdeen), Ph.D. (Cambridge) |
| Research |
| Grahame Smith retired from Stirling in 2000 after 30 years service, but retains active
research interests in all aspects of Dickens, in the pre-history of cinema, with special emphasis on the nineteenth century, and in film in relation to questions of adaptation. His most recent research has focused on the attempt to transfer the theory of correspondences as it is used in art history to the study of literature and film.
In addition to book chapters and articles he is the author of the following monographs: Dickens, Money and Society (1968), The Novel and Society: from Defoe to George Eliot (1984), The Achievement of Graham Greene (1985), Charles Dickens: A Literary Life (1996) and Dickens and the Dream of Cinema (2003). Work in progress is represented by a study of the Scottish film director Bill Douglas in relation to aspects of the work of Dickens: 'The Travelling Lanternist and the Uncommercial Traveller: an Experiment in Correspondences', Essays and Studies, Literature and the Visual Media, ed. David Seed (2005). |