Eighteenth-Century Transplantations

New Literary Lives, Forms and Contexts

Anna Paluchowska-Messing, Jakub Lipski, Joanna Maciulewicz, Anna Paluchowska-Messing, Jakub Lipski, Joanna Maciulewicz

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9781040132333
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Medieval & Early Modern Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Eighteenth-Century Transplantations: Concepts and Contexts
• Part I Eighteenth-Century British Literature Transplanted
• Part II Transplantations Into Eighteenth-Century British Literature
• Part III Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Transmedial Transplantations
• Index