Article
Tidying as We Go: Constructing the Eighteenth Century through Adaptation in Becoming Jane, Gulliver’s Travels, and Crusoe
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
(2014)
Abstract
Gevirtz argues that adaptations not only affect the cultural capital of the adapted material and the adaptation, but also affect the cultural construction of historical moments. Analyzing Becoming Jane (2007), Gulliver's Travels (2010), and Crusoe (2008-9), Gevirtz shows how adaptations create a version of history that in turn presents a particular construction of the present moment.
Keywords
- Jane Austen,
- Jonathan Swift,
- Daniel Defoe,
- adaptation,
- Becoming Jane,
- Gulliver's Travels,
- Robinson Crusoe,
- Crusoe,
- Jack Black,
- adaptation theory,
- eighteenth century,
- novel
Disciplines
Publication Date
2014
Citation Information
Karen Gevirtz. "Tidying as We Go: Constructing the Eighteenth Century through Adaptation in Becoming Jane, Gulliver’s Travels, and Crusoe" Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture Vol. 43 (2014) p. 219 - 237 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/karen_gevirtz/19/