Pride and Prejudice 2.0

Interpretations, Adaptations and Transformations of Jane Austen’s Classic

By (author) Hanne Birk By (author) Marion Gymnich Edited by Hanne Birk Edited by Marion Gymnich

Book cover: Pride and Prejudice 2.0

Extent: 327 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: Representations & Reflections

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(September 2015)

ISBN: 9783847104520

6.34 x 9.33 inches

Price: $94.00

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Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has been adapted, transformed and translated into numerous languages for over 200 years. It is an international, transcultural, transmedial and iconic phenomenon of pop culture.


Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has been adapted, transformed and translated into numerous languages. Thus the classic today constitutes an international, transcultural, transmedial and iconic phenomenon of pop culture that transcends genre boundaries as easily as centuries. The vitality of the book at the crossroads of the literary canon and pop culture is analysed by contributions focusing on its translations, Bollywood adaptations, iconic TV versions or vlog adaptations, on erotic rewritings or generic transformations into Chick-Lit, crime fiction or the Gothic mode, on teaching contexts or on a diachronic analysis of its illustrations. Complemented by a compilation of student essays, this volume affirms and celebrates Pride and Prejudice being perhaps more alive than ever before.

Dr. Hanne Birk is a postdoc researcher at the University of Bonn. Dr. Marion Gymnich teaches English Literature and Culture at the University of Bonn.

  • By (author) Hanne Birk
  • By (author) Marion Gymnich
  • Edited by Hanne Birk
  • Edited by Marion Gymnich