Mashing up Jane Austen’s fiction with zombies, erotica, or extraterrestrials has become so common in pop culture that such stuff may no longer raise an eyebrow. Pride & Prejudice & Zombies …

Mashing up Jane Austen’s fiction with zombies, erotica, or extraterrestrials has become so common in pop culture that such stuff may no longer raise an eyebrow. Pride & Prejudice & Zombies …

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In her new book, “Wild for Austen,” Devoney Looser argues Austen was much more than a quiet spinster who never married and instead wrote about the love stories she never lived out.

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Just when you thought you knew everything about Jane Austen—her novels, her needlework, her famously “quiet” life—along comes a book that ...

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The first of a series of digital events for our Jane Austen Book Club with Devoney Looser, author of Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane.

Duets on horseback, Philadelphia nightlife … Inside an unmade Hollywood-musical version of the Austen classic, starring Judy Garland and Peter Lawford.

A combo installment, a four-star review along with the 12th in a series of summer interviews.

“The Austen biography space is fairly saturated and covered. But there’s still a lot more we can learn by seeing her in context: that is, by seeing Austen in relation to her society, her family, her f...

Pride and Prejudice’s Elizabeth Bennet is among the most beloved and recognized heroines in literature, with far more than her “pair of fine eyes” and “pretty face” to recommend her. Her lively min…

Pride and Prejudice’s Elizabeth Bennet is among the most beloved and recognized heroines in literature, with far more than her “pair of fine eyes” and “pretty face” to recommend her. Her lively min…

Turn-of-the-century English novelist Jane Austen is often thought of as a prim and proper figure, in part due to the social settings of novels like "Pride and Prejudice."Devoney Looser knows better.Th...

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