Advisor | Froula, Anna | en_US |
Author | Koballa, Katherine | en_US |
Date Accessioned | 2013-08-24T18:31:57Z | |
Date Available | 2013-08-24T18:31:57Z | |
Date of Issue | 2013 | en_US |
Identifier (URI) | http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4248 | |
Description | 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. | en_US |
Extent | 91 p. | en_US |
Format Medium | dissertations, academic | en_US |
Language | | en_US |
Publisher | East Carolina University | en_US |
Subject | Literature | en_US |
Subject | British and Irish literature | en_US |
Subject | Comparative literature | en_US |
Subject | Remix culture | en_US |
Subject | Pride and prejudice and zombies | |
Subject | Pride and prejudice--Parodies, imitations, etc. | |
Library of Congress Subject Headings | Grahame-Smith, Seth. Pride and prejudice and zombies | |
Library of Congress Subject Headings | Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Pride and prejudice--Parodies, imitations, etc. | |
Library of Congress Subject Headings | Zombies in literature | |
Title | The Waltzing Dead : The Merit of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies | en_US |
Type | Master's Thesis | en_US |
Department | English | en_US |
Degree | M.A. | en_US |