via Alfred University: AU professor analyzes new take on Austen classic
It might just be enough to rouse Jane Austen from the dead.
But maybe the introduction of zombies into her classic novel would not seem incongruous to the classic’s author, says Allen Grove, professor of English at Alfred University.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Graham-Smith, published by Quirk Classics, interjects an element of the supernatural into Austen’s Victorian-era tale.
“Such is the accomplishment of Pride And Prejudice And Zombies that after reveling in its timeless intrigue, it’s difficult to remember how Austen’s novel got along without the undead. What begins as a gimmick ends with renewed appreciation of the indomitable appeal of Austen’s language, characters, and situations,” according to a review by The Onion A.V. Club, posted on amazon.com
Incorporating the supernatural into the novel works, says Grove, who wrote the afterword to the “deluxe” edition of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. He teaches “Tales of Terror,” a survey of 200 years of Gothic fiction. The course is one of the most popular offered by AU’s English Division.
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By George Smith at the UK Register: The best mad scientist memoir of the year
The best mad scientist autobiography this year, perhaps the only one, is Tony Zuppero’s To Inhabit the Solar System. Better still, it’s free and in time for holiday reading. It’s a long but definitely not windy 391 pages.
In it, Zuppero confirms everything – bad, weird, insane, amusing or simply astonishing – you might have always suspected about US government crazy weapons and the world of aerospace.
“Tony Zuppero, one of [a few] would-be nuclear rocketeers, tells those stories as he recalls them, with sometimes alarming candor, humor, and disappointment,” opined Steve Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists after linking to the memoir on his secrecy blog.
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I never really thought about the horror aspect around Jane Austin’s time, but he’s right. I don’t know if I’ll go read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies again, but I did enjoy it the first time.
What do you think?
