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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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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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