Adapting Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park for a New Digital Generation

• María Heredia-Torres ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Granada
• Localización: Moving beyond the pandemic: English and American studies in Spain / coord. por Francisco Gallardo del Puerto, María del Carmen Camus Camus, Jesús Ángel González López, 2022, ISBN 978-84-19024-15-2, págs. 170-175
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Adaptation studies have significantly evolved during the past decades and moved from traditional fidelity discourses to analyses that take into account new filters and dimensions which go beyond the book/film dichotomy. Moreover, media have also evolved. Due to the technological development, different sources are used in order to create stories—or recreate them. The main aim of this paper is to present an analysis of From Mansfield with Love (Foot in the Door Theatre, 2014-2015), an independent transmedia web series that modernises Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park and adapts it for a new digital generation. The story is retold through videos in YouTube and entries in different social networks such as Twitter, Tumblr and WordPress. In conclusion, this analysis will evidence how transmedia and adaptation can be combined to adapt a classic novel in a new innovative way, which can open a new path in adaptation studies.