Pride And Promiscuity The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen
- 14 Oct 2004
- 9781841955827
- £9.99
- 160 pp
- 111×178mm
In a few words
A brilliantly executed parody of Jane Austen’s ‘forgotten’ sex scenes
Arielle Eckstut brings her ready imagination to conjuring the sex scenes that Austen was not able to provide; she can write as if this were homage rather than desecration.
Make of Pride and Promiscuity what you will, but it's so impudently indulgent, so wantonly imaginative, only a killjoy could dismiss it with a sniff.
More about
the book
In 2002, an amateur Jane Austen scholar, while staying at a Hertfordshire estate, stumbled upon a hidden cache of manuscript pages and made an extraordinary literary discovery – lost scenes from Jane Austen’s novels that reveal an altogether different dimension to her oeuvre.
Pride and Prejudice‘s Bingley sisters appear as Sapphic seductresses; Mansfield Park‘s incest subtext becomes manifest; and Darcy gets more than his shirt wet.
This incisive parody of academic study is sure to astonish and delight mischievous Austenites.
Eckstut, I mean of course, Austen, has not gone over the top. . . she has stayed faithful to both tone and characters. Reader, it works.
A parody to delight Austen aficionados
A wickedly funny collection that satirises the Austen oeuvre yet also manages to play implicit homage by echoing her incomparable style with astonishing fidelity.
