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Reading Adaptations provides an original introduction to the widespread and extremely popular practice of stage adaptation in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Table of Contents
Introduction - adaptation and the ideologies of genre; "Caleb Williams" and "The Iron Chest"; "another and 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 Dickens's early novels; conclusion - reading adaptations.

Reading Adaptations Novels and Verse Narratives

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 3/23/2000 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719053412, 978-0719053412
      ISBN10: 0719053412

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Reading Adaptations provides an original introduction to the widespread and extremely popular practice of stage adaptation in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction - adaptation and the ideologies of genre; "Caleb Williams" and "The Iron Chest"; "another and 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 Dickens's early novels; conclusion - reading adaptations.

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