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Record Nr.

UNINA9910799493503321

Autore

Parisot Eric

Titolo

Jane Austen and Vampires : Love, Sex and Immortality in the New Millennium / / by Eric Parisot

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

3-031-49286-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (133 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Gothic, , 2634-6222

Disciplina

016.35960973

Soggetti

Fiction

Goth culture (Subculture)

Audiences

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Literature, Modern - 21st century

America - Literatures

Fiction Literature

Gothic Studies

Fan and Audience Studies

Contemporary Literature

North American Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: Reading Austen-Vampire Mashups -- 2. To Kiss or Kill? Austen’s Vampire-Slaying Heroines -- 3. Trouble in Paradise: Pride and Prejudice as Vampire Romance -- 4. Eternally Yours: Jane Austen as Vampire -- 5. Conclusion: An Unlikely Confluence.

Sommario/riassunto

Jane Austen and Vampires is the first book to investigate the literary convergence of Jane Austen and vampires in Austen fanfic after the success of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight (2005) and Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009). It asks how the shifting cultural values of Austen and the vampire have aligned, and what their connection might mean for their respective contemporary legacies. It also makes a case for reading “low brow” Austen fanfic attentively, as a



way to gain meaningful insight directly from Austen fans into the tensions and anxieties surrounding contemporary notions of love, sex, femininity, and Austen’s modern currency. Offering close readings of Austen’s vampire-slaying heroines, vampiric retellings of Pride and Prejudice, and the transformation of Austen herself into a vampire, this book reveals Austen-vampire mashups as messy, complex entanglements that creatively and self-reflexively interrogate modern fantasies of vampire romance. By its unique intersection of Jane Austen with the vampire, the Gothic, fan culture and popular romance, Jane Austen and Vampires adds a new chapter to the history of Austen’s reception, for fans, students and scholars alike.