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    The Waltzing Dead : The Merit of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

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    Koballa, Katherine
    Abstract
    When Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was published in 2009, the parody of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice that now takes place in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, few expected the novel to be more than a joke. However, it instead inspired a phenomenon that wholly consumed popular culture. The monster mashup fuses well-known classical literature with traditional horror monsters. In PPZ, the nineteenth-century novel of manners is introduced to the twentieth century monster of the Americas, the zombie. Through this combination, new interpretations of feminism, otherness, epidemics, and Gothic horror can be gleaned, providing a richer reading of both Austen's original text and Grahame-Smith's new text. The unusual combination of remix studies, zombie studies, and Austen studies has effectively created a monster.  
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4248
    Subject
     Literature; British and Irish literature; Comparative literature; Remix culture; Pride and prejudice and zombies; Pride and prejudice--Parodies, imitations, etc. 
    Date
    2013
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    Koballa, Katherine. (January 2013). The Waltzing Dead : The Merit of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Master's Thesis, East Carolina University). Retrieved from the Scholarship. (http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4248.)

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    Koballa, Katherine. The Waltzing Dead : The Merit of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Master's Thesis. East Carolina University, January 2013. The Scholarship. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4248. February 23, 2019.
    Chicago:
    Koballa, Katherine, “The Waltzing Dead : The Merit of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” (Master's Thesis., East Carolina University, January 2013).
    AMA:
    Koballa, Katherine. The Waltzing Dead : The Merit of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies [Master's Thesis]. Greenville, NC: East Carolina University; January 2013.
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    East Carolina University

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