Colin Firth’s portrayal of Regency rogue Mr. Darcy in the BBC miniseries Pride and Prejudice ruined an entire generation of women for men who don’t sport waistcoats and rakish grins. (While also single-handedly causing the Great Smelling Salts Shortage of 1995.) Nowhere is this literary-lust more palpable than in Shannon Hale’s 2007 novel Austenland, which […]