A cura di Caterina Colomba

Pride and Prejudice: A Bicentennial Bricolage

This volume celebrates the bicentenary of the publication of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, offering its reader multi- and inter-disciplinary critical essays which encompass literary criticism, analyses of the original novel as well as its postcolonial re-reading and re-writing in various forms, its cinematographic adaptations and translations, and its critical and public response throughout the years. The collection is introduced by Janet Todd and closes with a previously unpublished interview with Dario Marianelli, the film’s composer of Joe Wright’s Pride & Prejudice (2005).

Contributors: Janet Todd, Tegan Bennett Daylight, Anthony Mandal, Lynda A. Hall, Franca Cavagnoli, Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, Peter W. Graham, Nicholas Birns, Stefano Bronzini, Peter Mathews, John Thieme, Michael Ackland, Gary Kelly, Gillian Dooley, Linda V. Troost, Alice Villaseñor, Ruth Blandón, Francesca Bianchi, Caterina Colomba, Miguel Mera.

Caterina Colomba

Caterina Colomba is a Research Fellow at the University of Salento and a visiting scholar at Columbia University, New York, for the academic year 2015-16. She holds a PhD in postcolonial studies (2007) and has been the recipient of several awards, including an Australia-Europe scholarship for pursuing academic research in Australia. She has published essays and articles on English literature/s and, in particular, on Australian literature and culture.