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Adaptation and Illustration New Cartographies
This collection examines the relationship between illustration and adaptation from an intermedial and transcultural perspective. It aims to foster a...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism
This handbook offers analysis of diverse genres and media of neo-Victorianism, including film and television adaptations of Victorian texts, authors’...
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Dramaturgies of War Institutional Dramaturgy, Politics, and Conflict in 20th-Century Germany
This book examines the institutional contexts of dramaturgical practices in the changing political landscape of 20th century Germany. Through...
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The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fern
The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fernargues that Sara Parton and her literary alter ego, Fanny Fern, occupy a star-power position...
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Rewriting White Masculinities in Contemporary Fiction and Film
This book focuses on the construction of hegemonic masculinity as well as its representations in literature, culture, and film. Although white...
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Peter S. Beagle's “The Last Unicorn” A Critical Companion
This book assesses the work of one of the foundational figures of American fantasy, Peter S. Beagle. Through its focused analysis of The Last Unicorn, ...
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Indigenous and Transcultural Narratives in Québec Ways of Belonging
This book focuses on modes of cultural belonging in Québec. It looks at recent literary memoir, autobiographical fiction, and documentary...
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Adapting Television and Literature
Adapting Television and Literature is an incisive collection of essays that explores the growing sub-category of television adaptations of literature...
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British and American Musical Theatre Exchanges in the West End (1924-1970) The “Americanization” of Drury Lane
This monograph centres on the history of musical theatre in a space of cultural significance for British identity, namely the Theatre Royal, Drury...
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Coyolxauhqui and Coming of Age in Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street
In an exploration of The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (1984) as a survival narrative, I propose a theory of transformative narrativity, a...
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Introduction
On Friday, 23 January 1925, Lane Manager Basil Dean proclaimed the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane to be the National Theatre of Britain. He argued:His...
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Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I: Ruritanian Imperialism at the Lane
This chapter explores the significance of The King and I at Drury Lane, examining the relationship between the production process and the critical...
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Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and the Resurgence of the British Musical
This chapter explores both the triumphs and flops of the 1960s as the Lane sought to find their footing in a new commercial landscape. Several...
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Introduction: Cicatrix Poetics: Chicana Literary Trauma Studies
Chicana literature often represents gender violence while simultaneously presenting strategies of survival in response. In this book, I aim to...
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Illustration and Adaptation in the Balbussos’ Pride and Prejudice (2013) and The Handmaid’s Tale (2012)
Illustration has a varied life as a mode of adaptation. From frontispieces that concentrate an entire work into a single visual to magazines and...
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Dust and Sewers, Filth and Waste: “Disgusting” Retro-Speculation in Neo-Victorian Narratives
This chapter investigates neo-Victorian material culture and more specifically the way in which neo-Victorian writing engages with Victorian...
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Neo-Victorian Victoria(s) on Screen
In this chapter, Friars and DeMerchant explore neo-Victorian representations of Queen Victoria on film from 1913–2019, with a focused analysis of two...
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Introduction
The introduction provides an overview of neo-Victorianism, giving a brief history; defining it as a term, genre, and discipline; and identifying its...
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Victorian Women’s Hysteria and Neo-Victorian Women’s Madness
From a modern perspective, most Victorians seemed to have been obsessed about controlling women, subjugating the animal within men, and adjudicating...
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“Don’t Fence Me In”: Interiorized Outsides and Japanese American Concentration Camps
The family separation policy that peaked in the summer of 2018 has had an unintended consequence, that of recalling Japanese internment in the 1940s....