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Adaptation Before Cinema

Literary and Visual Convergence from Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century

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Editors:
  1. Lissette Lopez Szwydky

    1. Department of English, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA

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  2. Glenn Jellenik

    1. Department of English, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, USA

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  • Charts the convergence of textual, visual, and dramatic storytelling before 1900
  • Provides a critical history of adaptation before the invention of film and television
  • Constructs bridge between literary history and contemporary media studies via innovative critical approaches

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture (PSADVC)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: Adaptation’s Past, Adaptation’s Future

    • Glenn Jellenik, Lissette Lopez Szwydky
    Pages 1-17

  4. Transmedia Culture-Texts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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    2. Shakespeare’s Adaptations of the Fae and a “Shrewd and Knavish Sprite” in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

      • Valerie Guyant
      Pages 137-153

    3. The Medea Network: Adapting Medea in Eighteenth-Century Theatre and Visual Culture

      • Katie Noble
      Pages 155-181

    4. The Making of Monsters: Thomas Potter Cooke and the Theatrical Debuts of Frankenstein and The Vampyre

      • Eleanor Bryan
      Pages 183-211

    5. Dante Gabriel Rossetti at the Intersection of Painting and Poetry

      • Dominique Gracia
      Pages 213-233

    6. Markers of Class: The Antebellum Children’s Book Adaptations of The Lamplighter and Uncle Tom’s Cabin

      • Maggie E. Morris Davis
      Pages 235-259

    7. Alice, Animals, and Adaptation: John Tenniel’s Influence on Wonderland and Its Early Adaptation History

      • Kristen Layne Figgins
      Pages 261-282

    8. CODA: Transmedia Cultural History, Convergence Culture, and the Future of Adaptation Studies

      • Lissette Lopez Szwydky
      Pages 283-303

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 305-311
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About this book

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.

Reviews

“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 primaryattraction.” (Joe Kember, Adaptation, September 7, 2023)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of English, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA

    Lissette Lopez Szwydky

  • Department of English, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, USA

    Glenn Jellenik

About the editors

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Adaptation Before Cinema

  • Book Subtitle: Literary and Visual Convergence from Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century

  • Editors: Lissette Lopez Szwydky, Glenn Jellenik

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09596-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09595-5Published: 20 January 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09598-6Published: 20 January 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-09596-2Published: 19 January 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2634-629X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-6303

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 311

  • Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 29 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Adaptation Studies

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