Francesca Saggini, Universit脿 degli Studi della Tuscia (Viterbo)
Author Biography
Francesca Saggini is Professor in English Literature at the Universit脿 degli Studi della Tuscia (Viterbo), Italy. She is the author of The Gothic Novel and the Stage. Romantic Appropriations (2015, Honourable mention at the ESSE Book Awards), Backstage in the Novel: Frances Burney and the Theater Arts (2012, Walken Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work in eighteenth-century studies) and La messinscena dell鈥檌dentit脿. Teatro e teatralit脿 nel romanzo inglese del Settecento (2004, 鈥楳ario di Nola鈥� Prize awarded by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei). Francesca鈥檚 main field of research is transmediation, in particular adaptations and afterlives, and interart dialogues. She has written extensively on Burney, Austen, the Romantic canon, the Gothic and its transformations across genres and periods. Francesca is the recipient of several international fellowships, and she was PI on the EC-funded project 鈥淥peRaNew. Opening Romanticism: Reimagining Romantic Drama for New Audiences鈥� on Burney鈥檚 court dramas.
Abstract
The two famous portraits of Frances Burney, painted by her cousin Edward Francisco Burney in the 1780s, are recontextualized in light of the author鈥檚 discovery in 2021 of a mural inspired by the portraits, painted by the art duo id-iom in a pub in the Streatham area of southwest London. The article uses material heuristics to address the transmodalization of celebrity culture and sociability in a contemporary pop artwork. The article is accompanied by an interview with id-iom.
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