Jane Austen Horror Writer

[sartorias]

My friend and BVC colleague Nancy Jane Moore has her say, over at the BVC blog.

Naturally I had to respond!

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Comments

[puddleshark]

Fascinating article and discussions - thank you!

[whswhs]

I don't think that, in terms of genre theory, I would call anything by Jane Austen "horror" (though Northanger Abbey seems to be a sendup of Gothic, which is somewhat ancestral to horror). It's possible to have horrific content without being in the horror genre; neither The Jungle nor 1984 is horror, for example. Horror is defined by conventions and themes that are more specific than that

[sartorias]

Excellent points.