LHMP #576 Roulston 2023 From Anne Lister to Gentleman Jack

Full citation:
Roulston , Chris. 2023. “From Anne Lister to Gentleman Jack: Queer Temporality, Fandom and the Gains and Losses of Adaptation” in Decoding Anne Lister: From the Archives to ‘Gentleman Jack’, Chris Roulston & Caroline Gonda, eds. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781009280723

Publication summary:

At the time of writing, the ebook of this publication was available through Open Access at not cost at the following url: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/decoding-anne-lister/E6CFCB182F71891949C4709148422131

12. From Anne Lister to Gentleman Jack: Queer Temporality, Fandom and the Gains and Losses of Adaptation by Chris Roulston

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This article talks about the process of adopting Lister’s story for the screen (in various forms) and extensively explores viewer reception. It includes discussion of adaptations of queer histories in general. As the topic is removed from the historic grounding (in several senses), I’ll skip a detailed summary, but it’s definitely worth reading.

Time period:

19th c

Place:

England

Misc tags:

sexual/romantic desire