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Title Adapting the eighteenth century : a handbook of pedagogies and practices / edited by Sharon R. Harrow and Kirsten T. Saxton
Published Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 305 pages) : illustration
Contents Introduction -- 1. "Je suis Voltaire," or, Appropriating the Philosophe in the Social Media Age -- 2. "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?" : The Uses of Hamilton in Special Collections Pedagogy and Public Engagement -- 3. Performing Frankenstein in the South : Sex, Race, and Science across the Disciplines -- 4. French Fairy Tales and Adaptations in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom -- 5. Select Trials at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey (1742) and Mark Ravenhill's Mother Clap's Molly House (2001) -- 6. Teaching with The Pilgrim's Progress Video Game -- 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 -- 8. Teaching Eighteenth-Century Literature through Eighteenth-Century Adaptations : Adaptive Structures -- 9. "A Private Had Been Flogged": Adaptation and the "Invisible World" of Jane Austen -- 10. Fifty Shades of Pamela in the Undergraduate -- 11. Teaching the Austen-Monster-Mashup: Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters -- 12. Learning to Adapt : Teaching Pride and Prejudice and Its Adaptations in General Education Courses -- 13. Race and Romance : Adapting Free Women of Color in the Long Eighteenth Century -- 14. The Crusoeiana : Material Crusoe -- 15. Adaptation in Strange Places : Terrence Malick's To the Wonder and the Narrative Effect and Form of Samuel Richardson's Pamela -- 16. Adapting the Tombeaux des Princes : A Study in Media Variations -- 17. Experiential Pedagogy to Join the Thread of Conversation with Paul et Virginie -- 18. "Lookin' for a Mind at Work" : Hamilton, Adaptation, and Enlightenment Ideals for the Core Curriculum
Summary "A collection of pedagogical essays that presents proven strategies for the teaching of adaptation and eighteenth-century texts"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Adaptation
Adapting
Cultural Studies
Eighteenth Century
Genres
Historical Periods
Literature
Masterpieces
Pedagogies
Teaching Strategies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject English literature -- 18th century -- Study and teaching
English literature -- Adaptations.
English literature
English literature -- Study and teaching
Genre/Form Adaptations
Adaptations.
Form Electronic book
Author Harrow, Sharon, editor.
Saxton, Kirsten T., 1965- editor.
ISBN 9781787446618
1787446611