Jane Austen, Queen of Goth
Lecture no. 16
Dear Heart,
A few years ago there was a fashion for parody books with titles like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. The premise, should it need to be spelled out, was that the world of the author Jane Austen (1775-1817), with its bonnets and its mannered tales of love in early nineteenth-century England, was an incongruous match for the genre of violent h…
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