Eighteenth-Century Transplantations New Literary Lives, Forms and Contexts
- Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2024
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- Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature .
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This collection studies eighteenth-century British literature as enmeshed within a dynamic intercultural traffic, participating in the import and export of literary and cultural forms. Eighteenth-Century Transplantations places this transcultural circulation at the centre of attention and presents its products in a unique configuration. Literary transplants into the British context, out of it, and their transmedial afterlives are set together in order to showcase the mechanisms of such cultural commerce. The term 'transplantation', borrowed from medical and horticultural discourses and evocative of eighteenth-century experiments in gardening, is offered here as a useful kinetic model to conceptualize the diverse practices involved in relocating a literary text into a new cultural environment.
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9781003362197 9781032423081 9781032423111
10.4324/9781003362197 doi
Biography, Literature and Literary studies Cultural and media studies Cultural studies Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literature: history and criticism Popular culture Society and culture: general Society and Social Sciences
adaptation studies British literature cultural transplantation eighteenth-century transcultural circulation