“Oh Dear, Yes!”: Mashing up Little Women, Vampires, and Werewolves

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Acknowledgments

I thank LuElla D’Amico for her feedback on an earlier draft of this article.

Notes

¹ Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters was released in 2009. Jane Slayre by Charlotte Brontë and Sherri Browning Erwin was released in 2010.

² For example, Emma and the Vampires, Murder at Mansfield Park, and Grave Expectations.

³ This section title alludes to Angela M. Estes and Kathleen Margaret Lant’s well-known essay, “Dismembering the Text: The Horror of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women” (1989). Its identification of repression and social anxiety in Little Women anticipates the horror mashups.

⁴ Rizzuto’s argument focuses on Little Women fanfiction, which, like the mashup, uses the original world, characters, and setting of Little Women as the basis for a reinvented world.