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Reading Adaptations - Novels and Verse Narratives on the Stage, 1790-1840 (Paperback)
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Reading Adaptations - Novels and Verse Narratives on the Stage, 1790-1840 (Paperback)
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Reading adaptations provides an original introduction to the
widespread and popular practice of stage adaptation in the late
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Through a series of
specific case studies, the book offers readings of stage versions
of works by writers such as William Godwin, Walter Scott and
Charles Dickens and establishes important new contexts within which
to view the production and reception of the period's canonical
literature. The plays engage with the original texts' treatment of
issues such as social and political justice, the construction of
individual and national identity and the emergence of the
professional writer. Adaptations created both a literal and
metaphorical site for public debate about a text's meaning and
significance and, taken as a whole, the plays discussed within the
present study allow a unique insight into the development of modern
distinctions between 'literary' and 'popular' culture. The book's
argument demonstrates the significance of theatrical adaptation for
an improved understanding of the cultural complexity of the
Romantic period and rediscovers a fascinating but critically
neglected area of literary production. Reading adaptations will be
of interest to all lecturers, postgraduate and advanced
undergraduate students working on the literary or theatrical
culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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