In this ground-breaking study Francesca Saggini explores the relationship between the late eighteenth-century novel and the theatre, arguing that the implicit theatricality of the Gothic novel made it an obvious source from which dramatists could take ideas. Similarly, elements of the theatre provided inspiration to novelists. Saggini opens her study with a very useful and persuasive overview of the themes and forms of Gothic drama. In her view, stage appropriation is the textual threshold in which novelistic and dramatic/ performative texts overlap on and disseminate through each other. She examines in details the use of three specific aspects of Gothic dramatic language as recorded by both novel and drama: music, lighting, and scene design. The following chapters, informed by semiotic and narrative theory, closely examine the stage appropriations respectively in and of the Gothic novel, particularly, though not exclusively, the representation of the supernatural in Ann Radcliffe and
Author(s): Francesca Saggini
Series: Literary Texts and the Popular Marketplace
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 310
City: London
Tags: Literature, gothic novel, fiction
Part, I The Gothic Stage --
chapter Introduction --
The Transforming Muses: Theorizing Stage Appropriation / Francesca Saggini --
chapter 1 A Stage of Tears and Terror: Introducing the Gothic Stage / Francesca Saggini --
chapter 2 Uncloseting the Gothic Monster / Francesca Saggini --
chapter 3 An Overview of Critical Responses to English Gothic theatre / Francesca Saggini --
chapter 4 A Chronology of Gothic Drama / Francesca Saggini --
chapter 5 The Gothic Drama: A Survey of Criticism / Francesca Saggini --
part, II Performing Stage Appropriation in the Romantic Era: The Languages of the Stage and the Page --
chapter 6 An Evening At The Theatre: Performance, Intertheatricality, Infratheatricality / Francesca Saggini --
chapter 7 A Pathognomic Theatre: The Body of the Actor and Contemporary Theories of Acting / Francesca Saggini --
chapter 8 Intersemiotic Translation and Appropriation: An Exploration of Sound, Scenery, Lighting and Costume in Gothic Dramas and Novels / Francesca Saggini --
chapter 9 Surface Vs Depth: Staging The Signifiers of The Gothic / Francesca Saggini --
part, III Practising the Appropriation of the Gothic Stage: Romantic Case Studies --
chapter 10 'To Ears of Flesh and Blood': Ann Radcliffe's Stage Hauntings / Francesca Saggini --
chapter 11 Change, Transformation, Spectacle: The Monk and the Forms of Georgian Scenic Spectacle / Francesca Saggini --
chapter 12 On the Re-Mediation of Gothic Dramas: The Gothic Stage and The Gothic Trade / Francesca Saggini.
