How to Find a Husband Between Living Corpses and Bloodthirsty Octopuses? Mash-up, or “the Classical Regency Romances” with an Addition of Subnatural Elements (the Example of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters) Cover Image
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Jak znaleźć męża między żywymi trupami a krwiożerczymi ośmiornicami? Mash-up, czyli „klasyczne romanse z okresu regencji” z domieszką elementów nadnaturalnych (na przykładzie Pride and Prejudice and Zombies oraz Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
How to Find a Husband Between Living Corpses and Bloodthirsty Octopuses? Mash-up, or “the Classical Regency Romances” with an Addition of Subnatural Elements (the Example of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters)

Author(s): Iwona Przybysz
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Fiction, Studies of Literature, Novel, British Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Jane Austen; Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility; mash-up novels; zombies; sea monsters; popular literature

Summary/Abstract: In this article, the author confronts two mash-up novels (novels, in which new motives and elements are added to the masterpieces of world’s literature) – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters. The author shows how the new elements (zombies and sea monsters) are added to Jane Austen’s novels and underlines which elements have to be left in their original form, and which can be changed. The author also describes how the development of the new motives affects the ways of describing the world of the novel and its characters.

  • Issue Year: 465/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 137-150
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish