<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The paper looks at the afterlife of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as envisaged by detective fiction writer and theorist P.D. James who imagines, in one of her novels, a sequel to the famous Regency book. This intertextual connection is analysed in terms of reader orientedness, the paper describing a survey that was conducted by the two authors among MA students in humanities at the West University of Timișoara and the conclusions that were reached after processing the data of the survey.</p></abstract>

The paper looks at the afterlife of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as envisaged by detective fiction writer and theorist P.D. James who imagines, in one of her novels, a sequel to the famous Regency book. This intertextual connection is analysed in terms of reader orientedness, the paper describing a survey that was conducted by the two authors among MA students in humanities at the West University of Timișoara and the conclusions that were reached after processing the data of the survey.

From Pride and Prejudice to Death Comes to Pemberley. A Reader Oriented Study

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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The paper looks at the afterlife of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as envisaged by detective fiction writer and theorist P.D. James who imagines, in one of...

From Pride and Prejudice to Death Comes to Pemberley. A Reader Oriented Study

Publié en ligne: 18 janv. 2019

Pages: 82 - 91

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2018-0012

Mots clés
detective fiction, reader orientedness, sequel, survey

© 2019 Codruţa Goşa, Dana Percec, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

From Pride and Prejudice to Death Comes to Pemberley. A Reader Oriented Study

Publié en ligne: 18 janv. 2019

Pages: 82 - 91

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2018-0012

Mots clésdetective fiction, reader orientedness, sequel, survey

© 2019 Codruţa Goşa, Dana Percec, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Mots clés
detective fiction, reader orientedness, sequel, survey