Adapting Gaskell: Screen and Stage Versions of Elizabeth Gaskell's Fiction

This book offers a range of perspectives on Elizabeth Gaskell and adaptation. The contributors—Alan Shelston, Raffaella Aninucci, Thomas Recchio, Brenda McKay, Katherine Byrne, Patricia Marchesi, Marcia Marchesi and Loredana Salis—discuss the afterlives of Gaskell's fiction, from the author as adaptor of her own work to the role of the BBC in re-inventing Gaskell's narratives. Loredana Salis is to be congratulated for bringing together a collection that tackles the remediation of Gaskell's fi…