Description: Renegotiating the cultural topography of the romantic period and the place of romanticism in subsequent cultural history, this collection focuses romantic writers' adaptation of source material and the adaptation in subsequent periods of romantic tropes and ideologies. In essays that challenge hierarchical distinctions between source and text and b
Review Quotes: 'The very idea of a collection of essays on the topic 'romantic adaptations' - counter-intuitive for an era whose ideology of originality is infamous - makes this an appealingly contrarian volume from the start. It is well set-up by an able critical, theoretical, and historical introduction that deconstructs various commonly accepted hierachies: those of 'original' source material and adaptation, as well as high art and popular culture.' BARS Review