Adaptation Before Cinema: Literary and Visual Convergence from Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century 1st edition Lissette Lopez Szwydky

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3031095952
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3031095955
• Author: Lissette Lopez Szwydky

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.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: Adaptation’s Past, Adaptation’s Future
Part I. Reframing Adaptation’s Potential, Historically
2. A Classical Drama of Human Bondage: Recurrent Replications of Supplication, Appeals, and Social Justice Activism from Antiquity Through the Present
3. Adaptation as the Art Form of Democracy: Romanticism and the Rise of Novelization
4. Poetry After Descartes: Henry More’s Adaptive Poetics
5. History and/as Adaptation: MacBeth and the Rhizomatic Adaptation of History
6. Shakespeare, Fakespeare: Authorship by Any Other Name
Part II. Transmedia Culture-Texts
7. Shakespeare’s Adaptations of the Fae and a “Shrewd and Knavish Sprite” in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
8. The Medea Network: Adapting Medea in Eighteenth-Century Theatre and Visual Culture
9. The Making of Monsters: Thomas Potter Cooke and the Theatrical Debuts of Frankenstein and The Vampyre
10. Dante Gabriel Rossetti at the Intersection of Painting and Poetry
11. Markers of Class: The Antebellum Children’s Book Adaptations of The Lamplighter and Uncle Tom’s Cabin
12. Alice, Animals, and Adaptation: John Tenniel’s Influence on Wonderland and Its Early Adaptation History
13. CODA: Transmedia Cultural History, Convergence Culture, and the

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