The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction [Hardcover]

This book explores the adaptation and appropriation of a range of canonical and lesser-known British and Irish novels of the eighteenth century.This collection of essays offers insights into the ways in which eighteenth-century novels have been adapted and appropriated by later writers. It will be of interest to students of the rise of the novel, interdisciplinary approaches to literature, and the developing field of adaptation studies.This collection of essays offers insights into the ways in which eighteenth-century novels have been adapted and appropriated by later writers. It will be of interest to students of the rise of the novel, interdisciplinary approaches to literature, and the developing field of adaptation studies.The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction probes the adaptation and appropriation of a wide range of canonical and lesser-known British and Irish novels in the long eighteenth century, from the period of Daniel Defoe and Eliza Haywood through to that of Jane Austen and Walter Scott. Major authors, including Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding and Laurence Sterne, are discussed alongside writers such as Sarah Fielding and Ann Radcliffe, whose literary significance is now increasingly being recognised. By uncovering this neglected aspect of the reception of eighteenth-century fiction, this collection contributes to developing our understanding of the form of the early novel, its place in a broader culture of entertainment then and now, and its interactions with a host of other genres and media, including theatre, opera, poetry, print caricatures and film.Introduction; 1. On authorship, appropriation, and eighteenth-century fiction Daniel Cook; 2. The afterlife of family romance Michael McKeon; 3. From P?caro to Pirate: afterlives of the Picaresque in early eighteenth-century fiction Leah Orr; 4. Ghosts of the guardian in Sir Charles Grandison and Bleak House Sarah Raff; 5. The novel's afterlife in the newspaper, 171250 Nicholas lSz