Well, I can't name any either, but throw something at variations of 'Pride and Prejudice' or similarly structured names (say, 'Duty and Desire' or something) and you will probably hit ten thousand. ;) Or go to Amazon, and search for 'Darcy'.
It's not so much borrowed glory, in the case of Jane Austen, as the stuff published is not high brow at all, but rather a powerful marketing tool for romance fiction. Because it's a marketing tool, and the market is exploding right now (oh, how I wish it would die already), not much polishing is needed at all, which results in a fandom-like mix of quality: there's good stuff, but there's also hilariously bad stuff.
It's... I mean, it's one of my fandoms, and I'm reluctant to badmouth it to someone who doesn't know it, but the general population is so ignorant about copyright it's a like scary. Like the rest of fandom, more or less, except they are contemptuous of the rest of fandom for doing something immoral (not all, but, you know).
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Date: 5 Jun 2010 12:40 am (UTC)It's not so much borrowed glory, in the case of Jane Austen, as the stuff published is not high brow at all, but rather a powerful marketing tool for romance fiction. Because it's a marketing tool, and the market is exploding right now (oh, how I wish it would die already), not much polishing is needed at all, which results in a fandom-like mix of quality: there's good stuff, but there's also hilariously bad stuff.
It's... I mean, it's one of my fandoms, and I'm reluctant to badmouth it to someone who doesn't know it, but the general population is so ignorant about copyright it's a like scary. Like the rest of fandom, more or less, except they are contemptuous of the rest of fandom for doing something immoral (not all, but, you know).