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Adaptations of Laurence Sterne's Fiction: Sterneana, 1760–1840 book cover

1st Edition

Adaptations of Laurence Sterne's Fiction Sterneana, 1760–1840

By Mary-Celine Newbould Copyright 2013
296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge
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Exploring how readers received and responded to literary works in the long eighteenth century, M-C. Newbould focuses on the role played by Laurence Sterne’s fiction and its adaptations. Literary adaptation flourished throughout the eighteenth century, encouraging an interactive relationship between writers, readers, and artists when well-known works were transformed into new forms across a variety... Read more
Contents: Making noise: Sterneana and adaptation; Sentimental journeys?: adaptations of Sterne’s travel narratives; Elegant extracts or fungous productions?: Sterneana and sentimental fiction; ’Forth from the closet to the improving stage’?: Sterneana on stage and page; ’A illustration to the mind’s eye’: Sterneana and the visual; (In)conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

Biography

Mary-Céline Newbould is a Director of Studies and Supervisor in English at the University of Cambridge, where she is a Bye-Fellow of Newnham College, UK.

"An extensive thirty-page bibliography and a very useful representative chronology of nearly three hundred Sterneana created between 1760 and 1840 concludes this essential study of an important phenomenon." - SHARP News

"She is (…) doing a service with the sheer breadth of her inquiry. With (I presume) the aid of full-text databases, she has discovered Sternean moments and allusions in places no previous scholar thought to even look, and has brought together genres and media often treated in isolation: travel writing, collections of excerpts, sentimental fiction, drama, songs, satirical prints, etc. And many of her comments on individual texts and images (…) are insightful." – David A. Bewer, The Ohio State University

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