{"id":18984,"date":"2017-08-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leithart.level2d.com\/?p=707"},"modified":"2017-08-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T00:00:00","slug":"austen-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/leithart\/2017\/08\/austen-updated\/","title":{"rendered":"Austen Updated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

A<\/span>t the New Yorker<\/a><\/em>, Blythe Roberson is having fun imagining futuristic updates of Jane Austen\u2019s novels. Real-life efforts to update Austen aren\u2019t nearly as much fun.<\/p>\n

Paula Hollingsworth ends her The Spirituality of Jane Austen<\/em><\/a> by summarizing the plots of the novels in the \u201cJane Austen Project,\u201d a HarperCollins attempt to \u201cset the stories of Jane Austen\u2019s novels in the present day\u201d (173). They all sound dreadful, but the update of Pride and Prejudice<\/em> is especially so:<\/p>\n

Curtis Sittenfeld sets her version of Pride and Prejudice, \u201cEligible,\u201d in Cincinnati. In an environment where Elisabeth and Darcy engage in \u201chate sex\u201d soon after their first meeting, it must have been hard for Sittenfeld to come up with something shocking enough for Lydia to do to horrify and shame her family! Again, the story is not convincing\u2014Lydia elopes with a man who turns out to be transgender, which deeply shocks the prejudiced Mr and Mrs Bennet. However, Darcy, who is a neurosurgeon, helps the family by enabling Mr and Mrs Bennet to understand some of the physiological and psychological issues surrounding transgenderism and, thanks to his intervention, the Bennets are reconciled to Lydia\u2019s husband and Lydia is restored to the family<\/em>\u00a0(174\u20135).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To which I say: Bring on the zombies!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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