Eighteenth-Century Transplantations

Anna Paluchowska-Messing teaches English Literature at the Institute of English Studies at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. Her research interests include eighteenth-century fiction and culture as well as adaptation studies. She is the author of Frances Burney and Her Readers: The Negotiated Image (2020) and co-editor (with Monika Coghen) of Romantic Dialogues and Afterlives (2020). She has also published a number of articles on eighteenth-century English literature.Jakub Lipski is university professor in the Department of Anglophone Literatures at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. His research areas include eighteenth-century fiction and culture, word and image crossovers, and reception and adaptation studies. He is the author of Castaway Bodies in the Eighteenth-Century English Robinsonade (2024), Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Studies in Reception (2021), Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction (2018) and In Quest of the Self: Masquerade and Travel in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (2014). He has recently co-edited (with M-C. Newbould) The Edinburgh Companion to the Eighteenth-Century British Novel and the Arts.Joanna Maciulewicz is university professor at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. She is the author of Representations of Book Culture in Eighteenth-Century English Imaginative Writing (2018) and co-editor (with Jakub Lipski) of Neo-Georgian Fiction Reimagining the Eighteenth Century in the Contemporary Historical Novel (2021). Her research interests include eighteenth-century literature and culture, the history of the book, transnational history of early modern fiction, theories of the rise of the novel and Anglo-Spanish literary relations.

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionTitle: Eighteenth-Century Transplantations: Concepts and ContextsAuthors: Anna Paluchowska-Messing, Jakub Lipski and Joanna MaciulewiczPart I: Eighteenth-Century British Literature Transplanted Chapter 1Title: Localizing the Eighteenth-Century English Novel in Stanislavian Poland: The Case of Henry FieldingAuthor: Jakub LipskiChapter 2Title: The Reception History of Frances Burney’s Evelina in HungaryAuthor: Gabriella HartvigPart II: Transplantations into Eighteenth-Century British Literature Chapter 3Title: How The Picaresque Became the Novel (Or, The Secret History of Moll Flanders)Author: Riccardo CapoferroChapter 4Title: Transplanting Arabic History into English Drama: The Transtextuality of John Hughes’s The Siege of Damascus (1720)Authors: Joanna Maciulewicz, Filip Jakubowski and Rowland CotterillPart III: Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Transmedial Transplantations Chapter 5Title: Reynolds Redivivus: Continental Aesthetics, the Royal Academy and Benjamin Robert HaydonAuthor: Hiroki IwamotoChapter 6Title: Pamela Visits the Warsaw Opera: The Adaptation of La buona figliuola by Wojciech BogusławskiAuthor: Anna ParkitnaChapter 7Title: Gulliver Travels to Krakow: On Cultural Cannibalism and Transplanting Texts across Time and SpaceAuthor: Anna Paluchowska-MessingIndex