FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Rachel Feder’s <i>The Darcy Myth</i>
Literature Writing Education Women's and Gender Studies Comparative Literature

FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Rachel Feder’s The Darcy Myth

Love Is a HAUNTED HOUSE or, What Pride and Prejudice Would Look Like as a Horror Novel We know (and Jane knew) that Austen’s classic romances are deeply influenced by the Gothic, by the horror and terror of late-eighteenth-century popular fiction. Because Jane Austen is such an influential figure in the history of the novel,

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Rachel Feder’s The Darcy Myth

Literature Writing Education Women's and Gender Studies Comparative Literature
<i>The Darcy Myth</i> author Rachel Feder on Feminist Manifestos You Can Fit in Your Purse
Literature Writing Education Women's and Gender Studies Comparative Literature

The Darcy Myth author Rachel Feder on Feminist Manifestos You Can Fit in Your Purse

By: Rachel Feder When my new book, The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love, came out this November, I was doing what I usually do in November: teaching a course on Jane Austen. This one was a senior seminar with a brilliant and hilarious group of students

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The Darcy Myth author Rachel Feder on Feminist Manifestos You Can Fit in Your Purse

Literature Writing Education Women's and Gender Studies Comparative Literature