%0 Journal Article
%T Horrorizando a Jane Austen: del matrimonio, la muerte y la mujer de clase media.
%A Marta Miquel-Baldellou
%J Oce¨¢nide
%D 2011
%I Sociedad Espa?ola de Estudios Literarios de Cultura Popular SELICUP
%X In 2009, Seth Grahame-Smith published the novel "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies", an adaptation of Jane Austen¡¯s classic, turning one of the most well-known romantic novels of the Regency period into a horror novel, including unexpected plot turns, and transforming Austen¡¯s smooth irony into a mordant satire about social classes at the beginning of the nineteenth-century. Grahame-Smith¡¯s novel achieved an extraordinary success in both the United States and Europe, thus becoming an outstanding paradigm of contemporary popular culture. This article offers a comparative study between both novels with a view to interpret the function and the outcome of introducing elements and characters pertaining to fantastic and horror literature in a literary classic, focusing on the economic discourse about marriage and the condition of middle-class women, as well as how this manifests through the metaphor of the so-called ¡®unmentionable plague¡¯ which sweeps away Regency England.
%K cultural discourse
%K social class
%K marriage
%K the double
%K middle-class woman
%K adaptation
%K popular culture
%K gothic literature
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