The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction

The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Author: Daniel Cook
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2015-09-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107054680

This collection of essays offers insights into the ways in which eighteenth-century novels have been adapted and appropriated by later writers. It will be of interest to students of the rise of the novel, interdisciplinary approaches to literature, and the developing field of adaptation studies.


Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Author: Jakub Lipski
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2021-08-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000409783

Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel adds to the dynamically developing subfield of reception studies within eighteenth-century studies. Lipski shows how secondary visual and literary texts live their own lives in new contexts, while being also attentive to the possible ways in which these new lives may tell us more about the source texts. To this end the book offers five case studies of how canonical novels of the eighteenth century by Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding and Laurence Sterne came to be interpreted by readers from different historical moments. Lipski prioritises responses that may seem non-standard or even disconnected from the original, appreciating difference as a gateway to unobvious territories, as well as expressing doubts regarding readings that verge on misinterpretative appropriation. The material encompasses textual and visual testimonies of reading, including book illustration, prints and drawings, personal documents, reviews, literary texts and literary criticism. The case studies are arranged into three sections: visual transvaluations, reception in Poland and critical afterlives, and are concluded by a discussion of the most recent socio-political uses and revisions of eighteenth-century fiction in the Age of Trump (2016–2020).


The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction

The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Author: Daniel Cook
Publisher:
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2015
Genre: English fiction
ISBN: 9781316332634

Explores the adaptation and appropriation of a range of canonical and lesser-known British and Irish novels of the eighteenth century.


Eighteenth-Century Transplantations

Eighteenth-Century Transplantations
Author: Anna Paluchowska-Messing
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2024-09-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040132332

This collection studies eighteenth-century British literature as enmeshed within a dynamic intercultural traffic, participating in the import and export of literary and cultural forms. Eighteenth-Century Transplantations places this transcultural circulation at the centre of attention and presents its products in a unique configuration. Literary transplants into the British context, out of it, and their transmedial afterlives are set together in order to showcase the mechanisms of such cultural commerce. The term 'transplantation', borrowed from medical and horticultural discourses and evocative of eighteenth-century experiments in gardening, is offered here as a useful kinetic model to conceptualize the diverse practices involved in relocating a literary text into a new cultural environment.


Literary Cultures and Eighteenth-Century Childhoods

Literary Cultures and Eighteenth-Century Childhoods
Author: Andrew O'Malley
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2018-12-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3319947370

The essays in this volume offer fresh and innovative considerations both of how children interacted with the world of print, and of how childhood circulated in the literary cultures of the eighteenth century. They engage with not only the texts produced for the period’s newly established children’s book market, but also with the figure of the child as it was employed for a variety of purposes in literatures for adult readers. Embracing a wide range of methodological and disciplinary perspectives and considering a variety of contexts, these essays explore childhood as a trope that gained increasing cultural significance in the period, while also recognizing children as active agents in the worlds of familial and social interaction. Together, they demonstrate the varied experiences of the eighteenth-century child alongside the shifting, sometimes competing, meanings that attached themselves to childhood during a period in which it became the subject of intensified interest in literary culture.


The Literary Afterlives of Roger Casement, 1899-2016

The Literary Afterlives of Roger Casement, 1899-2016
Author: Alison Garden
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2020-06-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 178962181X

This book explores the literary and cultural afterlives ofIreland's most enigmatic, shape-shifting and controversial son: Roger Casement.Drawing upon atransnational selection of modern and contemporary texts, alongside significantarchival research, this book positions Casement as a vital and fascinating figure in the compromised and contradictory terrainof Anglo-Irish history.


Rewriting Crusoe

Rewriting Crusoe
Author: Jakub Lipski
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2020-09-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 168448233X

Published in 1719, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is one of those extraordinary literary works whose importance lies not only in the text itself but in its persistently lively afterlife. German author Johann Gottfried Schnabel—who in 1731 penned his own island narrative—coined the term “Robinsonade” to characterize the genre bred by this classic, and today hundreds of examples can be identified worldwide. This celebratory collection of tercentenary essays testifies to the Robinsonade’s endurance, analyzing its various literary, aesthetic, philosophical, and cultural implications in historical context. Contributors trace the Robinsonade’s roots from the eighteenth century to generic affinities in later traditions, including juvenile fiction, science fiction, and apocalyptic fiction, and finally to contemporary adaptations in film, television, theater, and popular culture. Taken together, these essays convince us that the genre’s adapt- ability to changing social and cultural circumstances explains its relevance to this day. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.


Gale Researcher Guide for: Samuel Richardson and the Epistolary Novel

Gale Researcher Guide for: Samuel Richardson and the Epistolary Novel
Author: Kate Novotny Owen
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 15
Release:
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1535853913

Gale Researcher Guide for: Samuel Richardson and the Epistolary Novel is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.


Robinson Crusoe after 300 Years

Robinson Crusoe after 300 Years
Author: Andreas K. E. Mueller
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2021-04-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1684482887

There is no shortage of explanations for the longevity of Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, which has been interpreted as both religious allegory and frontier myth, with Crusoe seen as an example of the self-sufficient adventurer and the archetypal colonizer and capitalist. Defoe’s original has been reimagined multiple times in legions of Robinsonade or castaway stories, but the Crusoe myth is far from spent. This wideranging collection brings together eleven scholars who suggest new and unfamiliar ways of thinking about this most familiar of works, and who ask us to consider the enduring appeal of “Crusoe,” more recognizable today than ever before.