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Author: Jane Austen & Kate Christie
Publisher: 2nd Growth Books
Publication Date: Jun 28, 2023
Types of Queerness: Sexuality
Summary:
In book one of the Queering the Canon series(Gay Pride & Prejudice), Kate Christie posed a question: What if some among Jane Austen’s characters preferred the company of their own sex? In this new retelling of Emma, one of Austen’s most entertaining novels, Christie’s question once again applies. Only this time, her rainbow-hued pen takes on the characters–and storylines–of Emma Woodhouse, Mr. Knightley, and certain other residents of Highbury. As Austen herself wrote, “Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.” This was particularly true for queer characters and themes in Austen’s Queering the Canon advances the proposition that everyone deserves a happy ending–or, at least, to be included in the Western literary canon.
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