Pride and Publication: A Modern Retelling of Pride & Prejudice in the Academic World

By Julian Harborough

Liz Bennet is a fourth-year PhD candidate with work she believes in, a job market that gives her no real reason for optimism, and a new opinion of Fitzwilliam Darcy formed at a faculty mixer in approximately forty-five seconds.

He's the youngest department head in Pemberley University's history, and he delivered his verdict on her research without pausing for breath: unfocused, blog-like, lacking a solid theoretical framework. It would be satisfying to report that she was immediately and definitively correct about him. She was not.

Set in a world that prizes rigour, Pride & Publication is an academic retelling of Austen's masterpiece that finds its sharpest irony in a simple, devastating truth: the woman who critiques intellectual gatekeeping for a living is about to accept a convenient story without methodological scrutiny. And the man who has confused the standards of his discipline for the standards of all human endeavour is about to learn what rigour actually costs.

For readers who like their romance with footnotes, their enemies-to-lovers with citations, and their Austen served with academic irony. Book 3 in the Modern Pride & Prejudice Series.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GTYRBHBH
• ISBN13: 9798253452929
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"