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Where is Adaptation?: Mapping cultures, texts, and contexts
Edited by Casie Hermansson and Janet Zepernick
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 9] 2018
► pp. 15–30

Chapter 1
Adaptation as salvage

Transcoding history into fiction in The Naturalist

Article outline
  • The ethics of adapting history for fiction
  • Historiographic adaptation
  • References
Published online: 16 October 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.9.02con
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