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Adapting the Eighteenth Century - A Handbook of Pedagogies and Practices (Hardcover)
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Adapting the Eighteenth Century - A Handbook of Pedagogies and Practices (Hardcover)
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A collection of pedagogical essays that presents proven strategies
for the teaching of adaptation and eighteenth-century texts The
eighteenth century was a golden age of adaptation: classical epics
were adapted to contemporaneous mock-epics, life writing to novels,
novels to plays, and unauthorized sequels abounded. In our own
time, cultural products of the long eighteenth century continue to
be widely adapted. Early novels such as Robinson Crusoe and
Gulliver's Travels, the founding documents of the United States,
Jane Austen's novels, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein-all of these have
been adapted so often that they are ubiquitous cultural mythoi,
even for people who have never read them. Eighteenth-century texts
appear in consumer products, comics, cult mashups, fan fiction,
films, network and streaming shows, novels, theater stagings, and
web serials. Adapting the Eighteenth Century provides innovative,
hands-on pedagogies for teaching eighteenth-century studies and
adaptation across disciplines and levels. Among the works treated
in or as adaptations are novels by Austen, Defoe, and Shelley, as
well as the current worldwide musical sensation Hamilton. Essays
offer tested models for the teaching of practices such as close
reading, collaboration, public scholarship, and research; in
addition, they provide a historical grounding for discussions of
such issues as the foundations of democracy, critical race and
gender studies, and notions of genre. The collection as a whole
demonstrates the fruitfulness of teaching about adaptation in both
period-specific and generalist courses across the curriculum.
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