From Fiction to Libretto : Irving, Hawthorne, and James as Opera
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik
ISBN-10
3631534140
ISBN-13
9783631534144
Publisher
Peter Lang GmbH
Imprint
Peter Lang GmbH
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 15th, 2005
Print length
594 Pages
Weight
798 grams
Dimensions
16.10 x 21.20 x 3.90 cms
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This study introduces the reader to the mostly unknown world of libretto adaptations of nineteenth-century American fiction. The analysis of stage works based on Washington Irving’s «Rip Van Winkle», Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, and Henry James’s Washington Square explores a largely unexamined area of the reception history of these authors and narratives. As opera and drama have been interlinked throughout American theater history, the discussion of adaptations will include multiple types of spoken and musical theater. Appendices documenting the existence of over 350 stage works based on nineteenth-century American fiction further illustrate how librettists, composers, and playwrights have participated in the endeavor to understand and contextualize literary texts within cultural history.
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