Synopses & Reviews
Reading Adaptations provides an original introduction to the widespread and extremely 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.
About the Author
Philip Cox is Principal Lecturer in English Studies at Sheffield Hallam University.
Table of Contents
Adaptation and the Ideologies of Genre * Celeb Williams and the Iron Chest * "Another the Same: " Repetition and Representation in Adaptations of Scott’s
The Lady of the Lake * Adapting the National Myth: Stage Versions of Scott’s
Ivanhoe * The Professional Writer: Adaptations of Dicken’s Early Novels * Conclusion--Reading Adaptations
Adaptation and the Ideologies of Genre * Celeb Williams and the Iron Chest * "Another the Same: " Repetition and Representation in Adaptations of Scott’s The Lady of the Lake * Adapting the National Myth: Stage Versions of Scott’s Ivanhoe * The Professional Writer: Adaptations of Dicken’s Early Novels * Conclusion--Reading Adaptations