There’s Something About Darcy

There’s Something About Darcy

by Gabrielle Malcolm

Endeavour Media

Endeavour Quill

Biographies & Memoirs , Nonfiction (Adult)

Pub Date 11 Nov 2019.

I am reviewing a copy of There’s Something About Darcy through Endeavour Media and Netgalley:

In 1995 a cultural revolution took place with the new BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice which sent reverberations around the world that still echo today. Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy, are as much a focus of today’s online fan culture as, for example, JK Rowling’s Harry Potter characters and the Star Wars or Dr Who universes.

In 1796 Jane Austen began work on First Impressions which would be published as Pride and Prejudice In 1813 by Thomas Egerton.

Elizabeth’s marriage was the equivalent to marrying into aristocracy.

In There’s Something About Darcy Dr Gabrielle Malcolm she examines Jane Austen’s influences influences in creating Darcy’s potent mix of brooding Gothic hero, aristocratic elitist and romantic Regency man of action. She investigates how Darcy’s character She investigates how he made way for later characters like Heathcliff, Rochester and even Dracula, and what his impact has been on popular culture over the past two centuries…