Adapting Television and Literature

1 Introduction: Genesis of the Tele-Text / Paul Sheehan and Blythe Worthy
2 The Aesthetics of Television: Genre, Auteur, Canon / Paul Giles
3 Institutionalising the ‘Bad’ Postfeminist: Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag from Stage to Television / Heebon Park-Finch
4 Genre Trouble: Netflix’s Lady Dynamite and Self-Help Television / Rodney Taveira
5 What Is Television? Two Auteur Series in Literary Contexts / Thomas Britt
6 Retcon, Race, and Retransmission: The Role of HBO’s Watchmen in Contemporary Storytelling / Ryan Twomey
7 Entente cordiale: Netflix’s Lupin and the BBC’s Sherlock, a Tale of Two Fandoms / Shannon Wells-Lassagne
8 Breaking the Curse of Knowledge: Adaptation, Ethics, and Enchantment in Netflix’s Heartstopper / Debra Dudek
9 Hearing with Eyes and Seeing with Ears: Adaptive Aesthetics in the BBC’s Shakespeare for Children / Katrine K. Wong
10 Queering Emily Dickinson for the Millennial Age / Pamela Demory
11 Tracing Trans/National/Textual Limits in Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake: China Girl / Blythe Worthy
12 The Dialectic of Transnational Adaptation: Questioning the Web Adaptation of A Suitable Boy / Meenakshi Bharat
13 This Is Amerika: Dreaming of Kafka in FX’s Atlanta / Paul Sheehan
14 An Afterword: Adapting the Television of Television Studies  / Christine Geraghty