Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 2011 Framing empire: Victorian literature, Hollywood international, and postcolonial film adaptation Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College,
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[email protected]. FRAMING EMPIRE: VICTORIAN LITERATURE, HOLLYWOOD INTERNATIONAL, AND POSTCOLONIAL FILM ADAPTATION A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The Department of English by Jerod Ra‘Del Hollyfield B.S., University of Tennessee, 2005 M.A., University of Tennessee, 2007 May 2011 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I owe my deepest gratitude to my director, Professor Pallavi Rastogi, as well as the other members of my dissertation committee, Professors Carl Freedman, John May, and Sharon Aronofsky Weltman. Without their suggestions, directions, and wealth of knowledge, this dissertation would not have been possible. I am also grateful to English department graduate secretary Rhonda Amis, who has been central to the completion of this project with her knowledge of university protocol, invaluable advice, and excellent conversation.