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It may be a common experience to enjoy or dislike film adaptations of your favorite literary works. If you are a high school or university student, you may also have watched film versions of textbooks discussed in class. In spite of its ubiquity, film adaptation had long been considered a relatively marginal topic in traditional literary studies; a focus on canonical texts tended to regard adaptations as merely derivative works. Meanwhile, “literary films” had also been considered as rather impure subjects from the perspective of film studies that had traditionally valued “pure cinema.” Yet the recent rise of Adaptation Studies (especially since the 1990s) has produced a number of exciting scholarly works that reevaluate these relatively neglected works of film adaptation.
 
Following this trend, the essays collected in British Film and Literature have examined a number of films based on major British literary works. In this collection, we emphasized three points: (1) the detailed comparative analysis between literature and film, (2) the close attention to the processes of adaptation as specific socio-historical practices, and (3) the construction of a certain historical framework as a whole. To explain the third point in more detail, this collection tried to situate a number of case studies within the dual frameworks of (a) the history of British literature, and