From Pride and Prejudice to Death Comes to Pemberley. A Reader Oriented Study

Abstract

The paper looks at the afterlife of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as envisaged by detective fiction writer and theorist P.D. James who imagines, in one of her novels, a sequel to the famous Regency book. This intertextual connection is analysed in terms of reader orientedness, the paper describing a survey that was conducted by the two authors among MA students in humanities at the West University of Timișoara and the conclusions that were reached after processing the data of the survey.

Keywords

• detective fiction
• reader orientedness
• sequel
• survey