Adapting the Eighteenth Century
A Handbook of Pedagogies and Practices
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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.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Sharon R. Harrow and Kirsten T. Saxton
1 "Je suis Voltaire," or, Appropriating the Philosophe in the Social Media Age
Maria Park Bobroff
2 "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?": The Uses of Hamilton in Special Collections Pedagogy and Public Engagement
Jeremy Brett and Cait Coker
3 Performing Frankenstein in the South: Sex, Race, and Science across the Disciplines
Chase Bringardner, Lindsay Doukopoulos, and Emily C. Friedman
4 French Fairy Tales and Adaptations in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom
Peggy Schaller Elliott
5 Select Trials at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey (1742) and Mark Ravenhill's Mother Clap's Molly House (2001)
Jason Gieger
6 Teaching with The Pilgrim's Progress Video Game
Jason J. Gulya
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 Sharon R. Harrow
8 Teaching Eighteenth-Century Literature through Eighteenth Century Adaptations: Adaptive Structures
Aleksondra Hultquist
9 "A Private Had Been Flogged": Adaptation and the "Invisible World" of Jane Austen
Catherine Ingrassia
10 Fifty Shades of Pamela in the Undergraduate Classroom
Ula Lukszo Klein
11 Teaching the Austen-Monster-Mashup: Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
Misty Krueger
12 Learning to Adapt: Teaching Pride and Prejudice and Its Adaptations in General Education Courses
Nora Nachumi and Heather King
13 Race and Romance: Adapting Free Women of Color in the Long Eighteenth Century
Robin Runia
14 The Crusoeiana: Material Crusoe
Rivka Swenson
15 Adaptation in Strange Places: Terrence Malick's To the Wonder and the Narrative Effect and Form of Samuel Richardson's Pamela
Kathleen E. Urda
16 Adapting the Tombeaux des Princes: A Study in Media Variations
Anne Betty Weinshenker
17 Experiential Pedagogy to Join the Thread of Conversation with
Paul et Virginie
Servanne Woodward
18 "Lookin' for a Mind at Work": Hamilton, Adaptation, and Enlightenment Ideals for the Core Curriculum
Jodi L. Wyett
Notes on the Contributors
Index
Introduction
Sharon R. Harrow and Kirsten T. Saxton
1 "Je suis Voltaire," or, Appropriating the Philosophe in the Social Media Age
Maria Park Bobroff
2 "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?": The Uses of Hamilton in Special Collections Pedagogy and Public Engagement
Jeremy Brett and Cait Coker
3 Performing Frankenstein in the South: Sex, Race, and Science across the Disciplines
Chase Bringardner, Lindsay Doukopoulos, and Emily C. Friedman
4 French Fairy Tales and Adaptations in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom
Peggy Schaller Elliott
5 Select Trials at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey (1742) and Mark Ravenhill's Mother Clap's Molly House (2001)
Jason Gieger
6 Teaching with The Pilgrim's Progress Video Game
Jason J. Gulya
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 Sharon R. Harrow
8 Teaching Eighteenth-Century Literature through Eighteenth Century Adaptations: Adaptive Structures
Aleksondra Hultquist
9 "A Private Had Been Flogged": Adaptation and the "Invisible World" of Jane Austen
Catherine Ingrassia
10 Fifty Shades of Pamela in the Undergraduate Classroom
Ula Lukszo Klein
11 Teaching the Austen-Monster-Mashup: Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
Misty Krueger
12 Learning to Adapt: Teaching Pride and Prejudice and Its Adaptations in General Education Courses
Nora Nachumi and Heather King
13 Race and Romance: Adapting Free Women of Color in the Long Eighteenth Century
Robin Runia
14 The Crusoeiana: Material Crusoe
Rivka Swenson
15 Adaptation in Strange Places: Terrence Malick's To the Wonder and the Narrative Effect and Form of Samuel Richardson's Pamela
Kathleen E. Urda
16 Adapting the Tombeaux des Princes: A Study in Media Variations
Anne Betty Weinshenker
17 Experiential Pedagogy to Join the Thread of Conversation with
Paul et Virginie
Servanne Woodward
18 "Lookin' for a Mind at Work": Hamilton, Adaptation, and Enlightenment Ideals for the Core Curriculum
Jodi L. Wyett
Notes on the Contributors
Index
"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." EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY INTELLIGENCER
"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." CHOICE
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