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Adapting the Eighteenth Century
A Handbook of Pedagogies and Practices
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2020
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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.
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.
Author / Editor information
Contributor: Sharon R. Harrow
SHARON R. HARROW is Professor of English at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania.
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Contributor: Kirsten T. Saxton
KIRSTEN T. SAXTON is Professor of English at Mills College.
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Contributor: Nora Nachumi
NORA NACHUMI is Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of the minor in Women's Studies at Stern College for Women/Yeshiva University.
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Contributor: Sharon R. Harrow
SHARON R. HARROW is Professor of English at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania.
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The 18 essays in this collection are by accomplished teachers of 18th-century literature and culture. ...Though the essays describe courses that have been successfully taught, the strategies delineated are adaptable to other formats and contexts.
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As someone who teaches widely in eighteenth-century literature but also Shakespeare and the Victorian novel, I find that being able to connect with students through their familiarity with remixed versions of literary texts is invaluable. This book not only offers various case studies in how to pursue such connections, but it also provides useful reminders and suggestions for further reading within adaption theory and practice.
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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1 “Je suis Voltaire,” or, Appropriating the Philosophe in the Social Media Age
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2 “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?”: The Uses of Hamilton in Special Collections Pedagogy and Public Engagement
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3 Performing Frankenstein in the South: Sex, Race, and Science across the Disciplines
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4 French Fairy Tales and Adaptations in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom
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5 Select Trials at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey (1742) and Mark Ravenhill’s Mother Clap’s Molly House (2001)
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6 Teaching with The Pilgrim’s Progress Video Game
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7 Eliza Haywood’s “Bad Habits”: Teaching Adaptations of Fantomina: or, Love in a Maze and The Distress’d Orphan; or, Love in a Madhouse
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8 Teaching Eighteenth-Century Literature through Eighteenth- Century Adaptations: Adaptive Structures
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9 “A Private Had Been Flogged”: Adaptation and the “Invisible World” of Jane Austen
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10 Fifty Shades of Pamela in the Undergraduate Classroom
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11 Teaching the Austen-Monster-Mashup: Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
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12 Learning to Adapt: Teaching Pride and Prejudice and Its Adaptations in General Education Courses
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13 Race and Romance: Adapting Free Women of Color in the Long Eighteenth Century
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14 The Crusoeiana: Material Crusoe
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15 Adaptation in Strange Places: Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder and the Narrative Effect and Form of Samuel Richardson’s Pamela
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16 Adapting the Tombeaux des Princes: A Study in Media Variations
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17 Experiential Pedagogy to Join the Thread of Conversation with Paul et Virginie
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18 “Lookin’ for a Mind at Work”: Hamilton, Adaptation, and Enlightenment Ideals for the Core Curriculum
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Notes on the Contributors
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Index
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eBook published on:
January 17, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9781787446618
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University of Rochester Press
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Keywords for this book
Adapting; Eighteenth Century; Pedagogies; Adaptation; Literature; Cultural Studies; Teaching Strategies; Historical Periods; Genres; Masterpieces
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
