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""This book offers a range of perspectives on Elizabeth Gaskell and adaptation. The contributors – Alan Shelston, Raffaella Antinucci, 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 fiction from Gaskell's own time to the 21st century, enabling her to join those authors, most prominently, Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens, who have received full-length book studies on adaptations of their work. The collection, as a whole, seems to confirm the notion that since the inception of film, the number of adaptations of an author's work equates to the writer's canonical status. No doubt, this book will prompt many more investigations into the adaptability of Elizabeth Gaskell's fiction.""– Deborah Cartmell, De Montfort University, Leicester

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Overall, this volume enriches the critical view on Elizabeth Gaskell, taking new perspectives and indicating new possibilities for critical-methodological investigations. A collected volume sets out on a path which the editor tries to bring together in the most coherent way, based on the works contained within it, without aiming for a totality which can never be achieved with this sort of work. Adapting Gaskell is no exception, as it takes one of many possible directions. It goes without saying that it would be too much to expect a complete picture of Gaskellian adaptations, but the valuable work carried out by Salis will have lasting effects. While there is still room for further debate, this volume should be given a great deal of credit for having explored territory that is still completely new to many. Francesca D'Alfonso Universita degli Studi Gabriele d'Annunzio Chieti-Pescara Merope 59-60 (2014)

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 fiction from Gaskell's own time to the 21st century, enabling Gaskell to join those authors, most prominently, Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens, who have received full-length book studies on adaptations of their work. The collection, as a whole, seems to confirm the notion that since the inception of film, the number of adaptations of an author's work equates to the writer's canonical status. No doubt, this book will prompt many more investigations into the adaptability of Elizabeth Gaskell's fiction. (Deborah Cartmell, De Montfort University, Leicester)

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Loredana Salis (MA in Irish Literature in English, PhD in English Literature) is Researcher at the University of Sassari, Italy. Her interests include migrant and gender(ed) narratives, and the contemporary reworking of classical myths. She has published articles on Marlowe, Dickens, Gaskell, Heaney and Edna O'Brien, as well as two monographs, Miti antichi, storie d'oggi (Pellegrini Editore, 2009) and Stage Migrants: Representations of the Migrant Other in Modern Irish Drama (CSP, 2010).

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