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Rewriting Jane Austen: The Austen Project’s 6 Books And Why We Should Read Them
“The Austen Project” – three little words which, if you’re of a certain age (ahem…) take you right back to a college seminar course.
But, no, this is the present day, wherein well-known authors have hoisted onto their shoulders the weighty task of literally rewriting Miss Austen’s widely beloved 19th Century classics.
This isn’t rewriting in the sense of fan fiction or a Quirk Classics’ overhaul (who’s there left in the world unaware of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies?
Or Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters?). Instead, HarperCollins’ idea was to re-situate the novels in the modern era.
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If a Shakespearean play can be temporally transposed for the stage, then why not Northanger Abbey for the printing press?
Well, there are quite a few who would beg to differ. However, let’s not forget that our entire knowledge of fairytales is based on an oral tradition of retelling.
Furthermore,