Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century by Szwydky, Lissette Lopez
Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century by Szwydky, Lissette Lopez

Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century

How did Mary Shelley's Frankenstein give rise to the iconic green monster everyone knows today? In 1823,...
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Author: Lissette Lopez Szwydky
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Language: English
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Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century by Szwydky, Lissette Lopez

Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century

$250.85
Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century by Szwydky, Lissette Lopez

Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century

$250.85
Author: Lissette Lopez Szwydky
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
How did Mary Shelley's Frankenstein give rise to the iconic green monster everyone knows today? In 1823, only five years after publication, Shelley herself saw the Creature come to life on stage, and this performance shaped the story's future. Suddenly, thousands of people who had never read Shelley's novel were participating in its cultural animation. Similarly, early adaptations magnified the reception and renown of all manner of nineteenth-century literary creations, from Byron and Keats to Dickens and Tennyson and beyond. Yet, until now, adaptation has been seen as a largely modern phenomenon.

In Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century, Lissette Lopez Szwydky convincingly historicizes the practice of adaptation, drawing on multiple disciplines to illustrate narrative mobility across time, culture, and geography. Case studies from stage plays, literature, painting, illustration, chapbooks, and toy theaters position adaptation as a central force in literary history that ensures continued cultural relevance, accessibility, and survival. The history of these forms helps to inform and put into context our contemporary obsessions with popular media. Finally, in upending a traditional understanding of canon by arguing that adaptation creates canon and not the other way around, Szwydky provides crucial bridges between nineteenth-century literary scholarship, adaptation studies, and media studies, thus identifying new stakes for all.


Author: Lissette Lopez Szwydky
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 06/09/2020
Pages: 250
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780814214237

About the Author
Lissette Lopez Szwydky is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Arkansas.


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