The Darcy myth : Jane Austen, literary heartthrobs, and the monsters they taught us to love / by Feder, Rachel

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Books of the dead : reading the zombie in contemporary literature / by Lanzendörfer, Tim

Table of Contents: “…Max Brooks's World War Z: an oral history of the zombie war: conservative Armageddon and liberal postapocalypse -- Pariah and dying to live: imagining community after the apocalypse -- The Walking Dead and the never-ending zombie story: the everyday, community, and the need for an ending -- "So many unmentionables about": parody, pride and prejudice and zombies, and the politics of mash-up fiction -- Sadie and Allison in the apocalypse: zombies and gender -- The postracial, postcapitalist zombie: Colson Whitehead's Zone One and Junot Díaz's "Monstro."…”

Jane Austen and the Buddha : teachers of enlightenment / by Duncan, Kathryn

Table of Contents: “…Why Stories Matter: The Evolution and Narrative of Anxiety -- A Buddhist Solution -- Pride and Prejudice and Poison -- Sense and Sensibility and Love -- The Secret to the Happy Ending: Compassion in Jane Austen's Emma -- Catherine as Child of Nature in the Consumer Culture of Northanger Abbey -- Powerful, Not Poor: Fanny Price as Bodhisattva -- Persuasion: Why I Didn't Want to Be Anne Elliot and Why I Now Aspire to Be Her.…”

Books of the dead : reading the zombie in contemporary literature / by Lanzendörfer, Tim

Table of Contents: “…Max Brooks's World War Z: an oral history of the zombie war: conservative Armageddon and liberal postapocalypse -- Pariah and dying to live: imagining community after the apocalypse -- The Walking Dead and the never-ending zombie story: the everyday, community, and the need for an ending -- "So many unmentionables about": parody, pride and prejudice and zombies, and the politics of mash-up fiction -- Sadie and Allison in the apocalypse: zombies and gender -- The postracial, postcapitalist zombie: Colson Whitehead's Zone One and Junot Díaz's "Monstro."…”
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Georgette Heyer, history, and historical fiction /

Table of Contents: “…Judith Taverner as dandy-in-training in Georgette Heyer's Regency Buck, / Laura George -- Part 2: Genre -- 4. Pride and prejudice: metafiction and the value of historical romance in Georgette Heyer / Kim Sherwood -- 5. …”
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The postworld in-between utopia and dystopia : intersectional, feminist, and non-binary approaches in 21st-century speculative literature and culture /

Table of Contents: “…Alien bodies, alien selves : Under the skin (2013) and beyond / Tomasz Fisiak -- Dys/utopian narratives on the screen : beyond the binaries in Children of men and The lobster / Emrah Atasoy -- Zombie mayhem in Austen's Hertfordshire -- intersectionality of class and gender politics in Burr Steers's Pride and prejudice and zombies / Magdalena Cieślak -- "Where did all you zombies come from?" …”