E-raamat: Authors and Adaptation: Writing Across Media in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

This book studies British literary writers’ engagement with adaptations of their work across literary, theatrical, and film media in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It considers their critical, reflective, and autobiographical writings about the process of adaptation, their responses to adaptations, and, in some cases, their playwriting and screenwriting of adaptations within wider contexts of media industries, cultures, and conventions. It traces how writers and their writing were shaped by their involvement with adaptations to different media and how they developed their writing by writing across media, whilst also highlighting how media and cultural hierarchies delimited their innovations in adaptation and intermedial writing. Linking canonical and non-canonical writers both chronologically and contemporaneously and bridging studies of prose fiction adaptation from nineteenth-century theatre to early twentieth-century film, this book offers an interdisciplinary, transhistorical, cultural, and analytical study of adaptation and the variable positions of writers within and across media.