Here's some news for any Jane Austen fans - UK publishers Canongate have released two great titles based on the work of Austen: parody Pride and Promiscuity and Jane's Fame.Pride and Promiscuity: The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen is a hilarious short story collection from Arielle Eckstut. Here's the info:
In 2002, an amateur Jane Austen scholar, while staying at a Hertfordshire estate, stumbled upon a hidden cache of manuscript pages and made an extraordinary literary discovery - lost scenes from Jane Austen's novels that reveal an altogether different dimension to her oeuvre. Pride and Prejudice's Bingley sisters appear as Sapphic seductresses; Mansfield Park's incest subtext becomes manifest; and Darcy gets more than his shirt wet. This incisive parody of academic study is sure to astonish and delight mischievous Austenites.
Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World by Claire Harman focuses on Jane's life, fame and literary career. Click here to find out more about the book and Claire herself.Part biography and part cultural history, this splendid book not only tells the captivating tale of Jane Austen's life, but also her literary legacy. The slow growth of Austen's fame and the changing status of her work and what it stands for in English culture is a story of personal struggle and family dynamics as well as a history of critical practices and public taste.
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