Reconfiguration : l’ère médiatique et la migration du récit populaire du théâtre à l’imprimé au xixe siècle

Abstract

The history of the adaptations based on French popular fiction reveals how the rising power of newspapers, serialized novels, and related formats all contributed to reconfigure the hegemonic phase of the melodrama. Printed fiction gradually became the nucleus of popular cultural production and theatre merely its satellite. In this period, the media culture redefined its own cultural pratices in terms of entertainment and the market, and the ancient art of narration was itself adapted to fit the new means of diffusion.

Keywords

• adaptation
• French popular fiction
• serialized novel
• theatre
• nineteenth century
• book