"Tidying as We Go: Constructing the Eighteenth Century through Adaptation in Becoming Jane, Gulliver’s Travels, and Crusoe" by Karen Gevirtz

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Tidying as We Go: Constructing the Eighteenth Century through Adaptation in Becoming Jane, Gulliver’s Travels, and Crusoe

Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (2014)

Karen Gevirtz, Seton Hall University

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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

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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/