Pemberley's Renaissance
Pemberley's Renaissance

Author: Lise Antunes Simoes

Publisher: Lise Antunes Simoes

Published: 2020-06-16

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 2981795929

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Having seriously believed that she was destined to become a spinster, Elizabeth Bennet finds herself married to one of the most eligible bachelors in Derbyshire. She now faces the daunting task of assuming her place within the vast and prestigious family estate of Pemberley. A few ill-disposed individuals would delight to see her fail so there is little room for error as she learns to lead her new household. Darcy is at her side, of course, but he cannot shelter her entirely as gossiping tongues follow her every move. She must navigate the isolation she feels as a stranger in this new setting and learn how to honour her new responsibilities while the lingering presence of her late mother-in-law, Lady Anne, to whom she is always compared, hangs over her. Thankfully, Elizabeth is resourceful. One day, she will triumph over even her harshest critics and prove herself worthy as mistress of Pemberley.

Mistletoe at Pemberley
Mistletoe at Pemberley

Author: Rosamund Redgrave

Publisher: Redgrave Press

Published: 2024-07-30

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13:

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Experience romance, love, and the unexpected magic of mistletoe at Pemberley this Christmas! Mistletoe at Pemberley is a wholesome Christmas Regency romance between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Set against the grandeur of Pemberley's festive celebrations, a series of mistletoe encounters unravels the layers of misunderstanding between them. As snow blankets the estate and a romantic sleigh ride ensues, hearts thaw, and unspoken confessions linger in the air. This heartwarming Pride and Prejudice variation explores the transformative power of the holiday season, promising a tale of unexpected love, personal growth, and the timeless magic of Christmas. Will Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy find a love that defies societal expectations? Find out in this delightful holiday romance! Mistletoe at Pemberley is a 24,000 word Pride and Prejudice variation featuring Jane Austen's most beloved characters: Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy and Miss Elizabeth Bennet in a sweet and clean Christmas story that celebrates love, commitment, and intimacy without crude language or graphic scenes.

The Phantom of Pemberley
The Phantom of Pemberley

Author: Regina Jeffers

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-09-14

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1569758875

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HAPPILY MARRIED for over a year and more in love than ever, Darcy and Elizabeth can’t imagine anything interrupting their bliss-filled days. Then an intense snowstorm strands a group of travelers at Pemberley, and terrifying accidents and mysterious deaths begin to plague the manor. Everyone seems convinced that it is the work of a phan-tom—a Shadow Man who is haunting the Darcy family’s grand estate. Darcy and Elizabeth believe the truth is much more menacing and that someone is trying to murder them. But Pem-berley is filled with family guests as well as the unexpected travelers—any one of whom could be the culprit—so unraveling the mystery of the murderer’s identity forces the newlyweds to trust each other’s strengths and work together. Written in the style of the era and including Austen’s romantic playfulness and sardonic humor, this suspense-packed sequel to Pride and Prejudice recasts Darcy and Elizabeth as a husband-and-wife detective team who must solve the mystery at Pemberley and catch the murderer—before it’s too late.

Mr. Darcy's Passion at Pemberley
Mr. Darcy's Passion at Pemberley

Author: Maria Dashwood

Publisher: Pemberley Playground Press

Published: 2024-04-11

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13:

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Amidst stolen kisses and fiery glances, can love triumph over treachery? In Spring 1811, when Elizabeth Bennet visits Derbyshire with her aunt and uncle, a chance encounter with Mr. Darcy at a village festival sets her world aflame. As the festival dances spin a tale of burgeoning desire and social machinations, Elizabeth's sharp wit and Mr. Darcy's brooding demeanor clash in a tempest of attraction and societal expectations. With each stolen moment and heated glance, the two must navigate their burgeoning connection, one neither expected nor understands. But the true storm brews with Mr. Wickham's nefarious intentions toward innocent Georgiana. Soon, Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy are pulled into a whirlwind of deceit, redemption, and heartbreak. And as danger and romance converge at the heart of Pemberley, can Elizabeth save Mr. Darcy and Georgiana from a betrayal that threatens to unravel everything? Dive into the intoxicating allure of Mr. Darcy's Passion at Pemberley, a steamy Pride and Prejudice variation of 21,000 words where love, honor, and passion collide in the most unexpected and exhilarating ways.

Movement in Renaissance Literature
Movement in Renaissance Literature

Author: Kathryn Banks

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-12-27

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 3319692003

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This book investigates how writers and readers of Renaissance literature deployed ‘kinesic intelligence’, a combination of pre-reflective bodily response and reflective interpretation. Through analyses of authors including Petrarch, Rabelais, and Shakespeare, the book explores how embodied cognition, historical context, and literary style interact to generate and shape responses to texts. It suggests that what was reborn in the Renaissance was partly a critical sense of the capacities and complexities of bodily movement. The linguistic ingenuity of humanism set bodies in motion in complex and paradoxical ways. Writers engaged anew with the embodied grounding of language, prompting readers to deploy sensorimotor attunement. Actors shaped their bodies according to kinesic intelligence molded by theatrical experience and skill, provoking audiences to respond to their most subtle movements. An approach grounded in kinesic intelligence enables us to re-examine metaphor, rhetoric, ethics, gender, and violence. The book will appeal to scholars and students of English, French, and Italian Renaissance literature and to researchers in the cognitive humanities, cognitive sciences, and theatre studies.

The Epistolary Renaissance
The Epistolary Renaissance

Author: Maria Löschnigg

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2018-09-10

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 3110582171

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Since the late twentieth century, letters in literature have seen a remarkable renaissance. The prominence of letters in recent fiction is due in part to the rediscovery, by contemporary writers, of letters as an effective tool for rendering aspects of historicity, liminality, marginalization and the expression of subjectivity vis-à-vis an ‘other’; it is also due, however, to the artistically challenging inclusion of the new electronic media of communication into fiction. While studies of epistolary fiction have so far concentrated on the eighteenth century and on thematic concerns, this volume charts the epistolary renaissance in recent literature, entering new territory by also focusing on the aesthetic implications of the epistolary mode. In particular, the essays in this volume illuminate the potential of the epistolary (including digital forms) for rendering contemporary sensitivities. The volume thus offers a comprehensive assessment of letter narratives in contemporary literature. Through its focus on the aesthetic and structural aspects of new epistolary fiction, the inclusion of various narrative forms, and the consideration of both conventional letters and their new digital kindred, The Epistolary Renaissance offers novel insight into a multi-facetted (re)new(ed) genre.

Pemberley Shades
Pemberley Shades

Author: Dorothea A. Bonavia-Hunt

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2008-09-01

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 140221216X

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Originally published in 1949, the unusual plot takes the Darcys into the realm of the Gothic-perfect for fans of Death Comes to Pemberley. Mr. Darcy must appoint a new rector at Pemberley, which affords the author the opportunity to introduce a host of new characters to mingle with the beloved and familiar ones of Jane Austen. A delightfully witty plot, full of surprises: "Who could have foretold that Dr. Robinson, who had done nothing of note in all his lifetime should, by the common and natural act of dying, set in motion a train of events so strange, so startling, so far removed from probability as to emulate the riotous fancies of a disordered mind?" "The kind of story Jane Austen would have delighted to tell." -J. Donald Adams What readers are saying: "Really a great book and captures Austen's characters quite well. I was excessively diverted." "A very original plot." "A wonderful addition to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice sequels!"

The Ugly Renaissance
The Ugly Renaissance

Author: Alexander Lee

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2014-10-07

Total Pages: 595

ISBN-13: 0385536607

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A fascinating and counterintuitive portrait of the sordid, hidden world behind the dazzling artwork of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, and more Renowned as a period of cultural rebirth and artistic innovation, the Renaissance is cloaked in a unique aura of beauty and brilliance. Its very name conjures up awe-inspiring images of an age of lofty ideals in which life imitated the fantastic artworks for which it has become famous. But behind the vast explosion of new art and culture lurked a seamy, vicious world of power politics, perversity, and corruption that has more in common with the present day than anyone dares to admit. In this lively and meticulously researched portrait, Renaissance scholar Alexander Lee illuminates the dark and titillating contradictions that were hidden beneath the surface of the period’s best-known artworks. Rife with tales of scheming bankers, greedy politicians, sex-crazed priests, bloody rivalries, vicious intolerance, rampant disease, and lives of extravagance and excess, this gripping exploration of the underbelly of Renaissance Italy shows that, far from being the product of high-minded ideals, the sublime monuments of the Renaissance were created by flawed and tormented artists who lived in an ever-expanding world of inequality, dark sexuality, bigotry, and hatred. The Ugly Renaissance is a delightfully debauched journey through the surprising contradictions of Italy’s past and shows that were it not for the profusion of depravity and degradation, history’s greatest masterpieces might never have come into being.

Transmedia Storytelling
Transmedia Storytelling

Author: Jennifer Camden

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2018-12-14

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1527523411

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This volume charts the evolution of Pemberley Digital’s transmedia adaptations of nineteenth-century novels in order to interrogate the uneasy relationship between transmedia storytelling and consumer culture. It first examines two Austen-centered films, Lost in Austen and Austenland, that present “immersive” Austen experiences that anticipate Pemberley Digital’s transmedia adaptations, bridging traditional film adaptations and transmedia’s participatory culture. Subsequent chapters turn to Pemberley Digital’s transmedia adaptations of Austen’s and Shelley’s novels to argue that, although such adaptations may appear feminist in their emphasis on female protagonists, their larger narratives expose a subtext of anxiety about unstable gender roles, financial vulnerability, and the undervaluation of career-specific skill sets, both for the characters and the production company itself. The study provides a robust theoretical framework within which to read transmedia adaptations of “classic literature,” illuminating both the potential of, and the challenges facing, digital and transmedia storytellers and participants.