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, as well as 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 coedited (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 (Routledge, 2021). Her research interests include eighteenth-century literature and culture, transatlantic history of early modern fiction, theories of the rise of the novel and Anglo-Spanish literary relations.

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1

Title: Eighteenth-Century Transplantations: Concepts and Contexts

Authors: Anna Paluchowska-Messing, Jakub Lipski and Joanna Maciulewicz

Part 1: Eighteenth-Century British Literature Transplanted

Chapter 2

Title: Localizing the Eighteenth-Century English Novel in Stanislavian Poland: The Case of Henry Fielding

Author: Jakub Lipski

Chapter 3

Title: The Reception History of Frances Burney’s Evelina in Hungary

Author: Gabriella Hartvig

Part 2: Transplantations into Eighteenth-Century British Literature

Chapter 4

Title: How The Picaresque Became the Novel (Or, The Secret History of Moll Flanders)

Author: Riccardo Capoferro

Chapter 5

Title: Transplanting Arabic History into English Drama: The Transtextuality of John Hughes’s The Siege of Damascus (1720)

Authors: Joanna Maciulewicz, Filip Jakubowski and Rowland Cotterill

Part 3: Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Transmedial Transplantations

Chapter 6

Title: Reynolds Redivivus: Continental Aesthetics, the Royal Academy and Benjamin Robert Haydon

Author: Hiroki Iwamoto

Chapter 7

Title: Pamela Visits the Warsaw Opera: The Adaptation of La buona figliuola by Wojciech Bogusławski

Author: Anna Parkitna

Chapter 8

Title: Gulliver Travels to Krakow: On Cultural Cannibalism and Transplanting Texts across Time and Space

Author: Anna Paluchowska-Messing

Index