Adapting Bridgerton

Valerie Estelle Frankel teaches English at Mission College and San Jose City College. The author of 75 popular culture books and more than 100 stories and essays, she lives in Sunnyvale, California.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Valerie Estelle Frankel
Section I: Identity and Intersectionality
Beyond the Pale: Genre, Race, and Intersectional Feminist Tensions in Bridgerton
Tracy H.Z. Reese
Casting the Future in Bridgerton's Past
Amy Cook and Jessica Hautsch
Is "the price we pay … worth the fight?" Undermining the Marriage Plot
April Toadvine
Hornier Than Thou: Revisioning Female Empowerment
Maria Juko
"You can choose to love me as much as I love you": Identity, Intentionality, and Agency
José I. Rodríguez
Whiteness Is the New Black: Alt–London and the EDI Industrial Complex
Tré Ventour-Griffiths
Section II: Period Arts, Society, and Culture
A More Colorful History Built on Thin Ice: How Modernizing History Creates Moral Issues
Marie Michlová
(Un)Romancing the Ton: Respectability, Leisure, and the Pursuit of Pleasure
Viviana Castellano
Benedict's Gaze
Sarah Stegall
Off to the Modiste: A Costume Analysis of Season
Valerie Estelle Frankel and Madeleine Loewen
Section III: Comparability with Popular Works
Spice Sells: Bridgerton, Sex, and the Jane Austen Brand
Kaitlyn Reid
A Regency Lady and an Edwardian Woman: Tensions Between Social Performances of Femininity and Female Empowerment in Period Pieces
Joy E. Morrow
Bridging the Gap Between Modern Life and the Period Piece: A Directorial Comparison of Bridgerton and Downton Abbey
Schuyler Becker
Natasha Rostova, Mr. Malcolm, and the Duke of Hastings: Comparing Introductions to Racially Inclusive Regency Fantasy
­Amanda-Rae Prescott
Conclusion
Valerie Estelle Frankel
About the Contributors
Index