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Ann Herendeen

Queering the romance, from Phyllida to Jane Austen--and beyond 

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Fay Weldon's Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen

November 11, 2012
Tags: jane austen, fay weldon, reading, writing, fiction, women, feminism
Letters to Alice on first reading Jane AustenLetters to Alice on first reading Jane Austen by Fay Weldon

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


"Alice" is a fictional character, the author, Fay Weldon, signs her letters to this nonexistent niece "your aunt Fay" and most of the book reads more like essays than a novel. Sounds ghastly, right? It probably is if you read it at the wrong moment.

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Jane Austen and Zombies

November 3, 2012
Tags: jane austen, Walking Dead, comedy, tragedy, horror, genre fiction
By a strange confluence of programming during last month's Jane Austen Society of North America's annual general meeting (JASNA AGM), I would come home after a full day of sessions about the seduction of conversation, coded sexual references in Austen's fiction and gendered ways of speaking, and watch a couple of episodes of Season 2 of The Walking Dead, the popular zombie-apocalypse cable TV show--my own version of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.  Read More 
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