The strained nervous subplots are troubling, keeping the reader on an emotional edge.
Midnight in Austenland departs from the sunny outlook of Austenland.Author Hale introduces a weird Heathcliff-like character from Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, not Peter Gallagher's comic strip Heathcliff the Cat. Together we must be Impertinence and Inflexibility.'" Touche.
'You are infuriatingly persistent, Miss Erstwhile.' "He tightened his lips, in annoyance or against a smile, she wasn't sure. In Austenland, the Lizzy-like character Jane Erstwhile and Darcy-clone Mr. Both of Hale's novels feature numerous witty give-and-take subtly-charged exchanges between characters a la Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy of Pride and Prejudice. Overall, the story and characters of Austenland receive a light touch from the author resulting in a thoroughly charming and delightful romp through Regency period life by very modern visitors. Guests arrive at Austenland's Pembroke Park estate delighted to step into the world they have read and dreamed about, but never thought they could personally experience. Austen fans are quite familiar with the social mores of the period although Hale explains some of the restrictions that might be unfamiliar to those not immersed (read: fanatic) in Austen's tomes. She liberally borrows from the Austen novels. Lewis' Narnia, but without all the detail needed for an alien setting. In devising Austenland, Hale creates her own world, along the lines of J.R.R. Visiting Austenland is limited to the wealthy few who can afford its charms. Herein lies the story.Īustenland beckons fashionable women of means to escape their humdrum realities in order to become someone in their dream world of two hundred years ago. In such settings emotional responses can be raw and unfiltered as one's social equilibrium is askew. Participants abdicate their regular daily lives to immerse themselves in a world alien to their normal experience in regard to setting, customs, behavior and expectations. The two separate novels are set in Austenland, which is not an amusement park, but an immersion experience along the lines of an Outward Bound expedition. The English Regency time period serves as the backdrop the twist is that the stories take place now. Shannon Hale's first foray into adult fiction, Austenland: A Novel (2007) and Midnight in Austenland (2012), revolves around the whirlpool of love, hope and disappointment in male-female relationships, standard Jane Austen fare.
Step into Austenland and you step into another reality.
Based on the book Austenland by Shannon Hale. Screenplay by Jerusha Hess and Shannon Hale. Midnight in Austenland by Shannon Hale. The Austenland book and movie, plus novel Midnight in Austenland, tell tales of love, hope and disappointment in male-female relationships.Īustenland: A Novel by Shannon Hale.
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