Canon Fanfiction: Reading, Writing, and Teaching with Adaptations of Premodern and Early Modern Literature

Several scholarly fields investigate the reuse of source texts, most relevantly adaptation studies and fanfiction studies. The limitations of these two fields is that adaptation studies focuses narrowly on retelling, usually in the form of film adaptations, but is not as well equipped to treat other uses of source material like prequels, sequels, and spinoffs. On the other hand, fanfiction studies has the broad reach adaptation studies lacks but is generally interested in underground production rather than material that goes through the official publication process and thus enters the literary canon. This book sits in the gap between these fields, discussing published novels and their contribution to the scholarly engagement with their medieval source material as well as applying that creative framework to the teaching of literature in the college classroom.