Adaptation Before Cinema: Literary and Visual Convergence from Antiquity Through the Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9783031095955 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Szwydky, Lissette Lopez

Recenzje

"Adaptation Before Cinema is most certainly a welcome introduction to this possibility for the un-siloing of humanities into intellectual common spaces, and it helpfully points towards some opportunities presented by this possibility. ... the book fulfils admirably the generic promise of the best essay collections, offering a glimpse at a wide range of perspectives, whose heterogeneity remains the primary attraction." (Joe Kember, Adaptation, September 7, 2023)

Spis treści

Introduction “Adaptation’s Past, Adaptation’s Future”, Glenn Jellenik and Lissette Lopez Szwydky

Part 1: Reframing Adaptation’s Potential, Historically

Chapter 1 “Of Human Bondage: Recombinant Replications of Supplication and Social Justice since Antiquity”, Mary-Antoinette Smith

Chapter 2 “Adaptation as the Art Form of Democracy: Romanticism and the Rise of Novelization”, Glenn Jellenik

Chapter 3 “Poetry after Descartes: Henry More’s Adaptive Poetics”, Melissa Caldwell

Chapter 4 “History and/as Adaptation: MacBeth and the Rhizomatic Adaptation of History”, Anja Hartl

Chapter 5 “Fakespeare; or, Authorship by Any Other Name”, Jim Casey

Part 2: Transmedia Culture-Texts

Chapter 6 “Shakespeare’s Adaptations of Fairy Stories”, Valerie Guyant

Chapter 7 “The Medea Network: Adapting Medea in Eighteenth-Century Theater and Visual Culture”, Katie Noble

Chapter 8 “The Making of Monsters: Thomas Potter Cooke and the Theatrical Debuts of Frankenstein and The Vampyre in the 1820s”, Eleanor Bryan

Chapter 9 “Dante Gabriel Rossetti at the Intersection of Painting and Poetry”, Dominique Gracia

Chapter 10 “Markers of Class: The Antebellum Children’s Book Adaptations of The Lamplighter and Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, Maggie E. Morris Davis

Chapter 11 “Alice, Animals, and Adaptation: John Tenniel’s Influence on Wonderland and Its Early Adaptation History”, Kristen L. Figgins

CODA “Transmedia Cultural History in/and the Future of Adaptation Studies”, Lissette Lopez Szwydky

O autorze

Lissette Lopez Szwydky is Associate Professor of English at the University of Arkansas, USA, and author of Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century (2020). She specializes in nineteenth-century literature and culture, adaptation and transmedia storytelling, and gender studies.

Glenn Jellenik is Associate Professor of English at the University of Central Arkansas, USA. His research focuses on long-eighteenth-century adaptation. His essay, “The Origins of Adaptation, as Such: The Birth of a Simple Abstraction” (Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies (2017)), traces the rise of contemporary notions of adaptation to the Romantic period.

Blurb

Adaptation Before Cinema highlights a range of pre-cinematic media forms, including theater, novelization, painting and illustration, transmedia art, children’s media, and other literary and visual culture. The book expands the primary scholarly audience of adaptation studies from film and media scholars to literary scholars and cultural critics working across a range of historical periods, genres, forms, and media. In doing so, it underscores the creative diversity of cultural adaptation practiced before cinema came to dominate the critical conversation on adaptation. Collectively, the chapters construct critical bridges between literary history and contemporary media studies, foregrounding diverse practices of adaptation and providing a platform for innovative critical approaches to adaptation, appropriation, or transmedia storytelling popular from the Middle Ages through the invention of cinema. At the same time, they illustrate how these forms of adaptation not only influenced the cinematic adaptation industry of the twentieth century but also continue to inform adaptation practices in the twenty-first century transmedia landscape. Written by scholars with expertise in historical, literary, and cultural scholarship ranging from the medieval period through the nineteenth century, the chapters use discourses developed in contemporary adaptation studies to shed new lights on their respective historical fields, authors, and art forms.

Lissette Lopez Szwydky is Associate Professor of English at the University of Arkansas, USA, and author of Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century (2020). She specializes in nineteenth-century literature and culture, adaptation and transmedia storytelling, and gender studies.

Glenn Jellenik is Associate Professor of English at the University of Central Arkansas, USA. His research focuses on long-eighteenth-century adaptation. His essay, “The Origins of Adaptation, as Such: The Birth of a Simple Abstraction” (Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies (2017)), traces the rise of contemporary notions of adaptation to the Romantic period.