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and Popular Culture

Pride and Prejudice Adaptations of the 2000s and Beyond

Film (Selected): 's Diary (2001) Pride & Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy (2003) (2004) (2008) ( in Hebrew] (2008] גאווה ודעה קדומה The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (2012-2013) Death Comes to (2013) (2013) Pride and Prejudice and (2016) Orgulho e Paixão [Brazilian Telenovela inspired by Pride and Prejudice] (2018)

Books (Selected): Pamela Aiden- An Assembly Such as This (2006), (2006), (2007) Elizabeth Aston- Mr. Darcy's Daughters (2003) Janet Aylmer- Darcy's Story (2006) Carrie Bebris- Pride and Prescience: or, A Truth Universally Acknowledged (2004) Linda Berdoll- Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife (2004) Jack Caldwell- Pemberley Ranch (2010) Jane Dawkins- Letters from Pemberley: The First Year (2007) Seth Grahame-Smith- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009) Amanda Grange- Mr. Darcy's Diary (2007), Mr. Darcy, Vampyre (2009) - Austenland (2007) Ann Herendeen- Pride/Prejudice (2010) P.D. James- (2011) Colleen McCullough- The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet (2009) Melissa Nathan- Pride, Prejudice and Jasmin Field (2001) Vera Nazarian- Pride and Platypus: Mr. Darcy's Dreadful Secret (2012) Jane Odiwe- Lydia Bennet's Story (2007) Michelle Pillow- Pride and Prejudice: The Wild and Wanton Edition (2011) Jonathan Pinnock- Mrs Darcy Versus the Aliens (2011) Alexandra Potter- Me and Mr. Darcy (2007) Lev Raphael- Pride and Prejudice: The Jewess and the Gentile (2011) Debra White Smith- First Impressions (2004) Ola Wegner- Moonlighting (2009)

Questions to Consider:

▪Why is Jane Austen seeing such a continual upsurge of popularity and recreations during the 2000s? Why is Austen maintaining popularity 200+ years since her initial publication? ▪Why is Pride and Prejudice the medium of choice in this enterprise (her other works were also reimagined and recreated, but not nearly to the extent that Pride and Prejudice was and still is)? Or, in other words, what is the appeal of Pride and Prejudice for this contemporary audience (what keeps authors and audiences coming back for more)? ▪ These adaptations of Pride and Prejudice span a multitude of genres; does this novel lend itself to this kind of broad application? What does it mean that these authors and creators seek to make this Austen novel their own?