Deborah YaffeDec 10, 2018P&P: MulticulturalJane Austen’s mature work features only one character of color: the teenaged West Indian heiress Miss Lambe, “half mulatto, chilly and...
Deborah YaffeNov 26, 2018Mistletoe, yes; pride and prejudice, noLast summer, when I learned that the Hallmark Channel would celebrate Christmas by broadcasting a movie based on a Jane Austen fanfic...
Deborah YaffeNov 1, 2018Never too much JaneSometimes it feels as if only die-hard Janeites are still thinking about Jane Austen. And other times – like these past few weeks --...
Deborah YaffeSep 3, 2018Still trendingOnly two months ago, I announced that second-order Austen adaptations -- adaptations of adaptations of Austen novels -- were now...
Deborah YaffeMar 22, 2018No JAFF for this famous JaneiteFor generations of teenagers, including me, reading the young-adult novels of S.E. Hinton – classics like The Outsiders and That Was...
Deborah YaffeFeb 12, 2018Jane Austen in the age of the selfieLong, long ago – wait, was it only 2009? – a clever young man named Seth Grahame-Smith interpolated zombie references into the text of...
Deborah YaffeNov 16, 2017Austen in AustenistanAs I’ve noted before, the Indian subcontinent has a curious affinity for the works of Jane Austen. (The Economist's current online issue...
Deborah YaffeOct 19, 2017The wild and wanton Jane AustenFifty-three years ago, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart wrote that, while he could not fully define hard-core pornography, “I...
Deborah YaffeMay 4, 2017Jane Austen meets Texas debsThe year advances apace, and yet there still doesn’t seem to be a release date for the supposed-to-come-out-in-2017 film adaptation of...