Williamsburg Regional Library

Performing Jane, a cultural history of Jane Austen fandom, Sarah Glosson

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Performing Jane

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Sarah Glosson

a cultural history of Jane Austen fandom

""Performing Jane" expands the history of fandom by exploring the ways in which early Jane Austen fandom prefigured many of the features we recognize in media fandom today. Because Jane Austen fandom has been predominantly driven by women and in celebration of the works of a woman, the project provides a much-needed counterbalance to the preponderance of studies devoted to male-centered fandoms. Glosson explores three modes of fannish engagement -- collecting, creating imitative works, and pilgrimage -- and follows them through the two hundred years since Austen's work was first published, up through the digital age of today. Because Jane Austen has beautifully bridged both literary and popular culture realms, she makes an excellent case study to understand the ways we draw distinctions between fandom and other forms of intensive engagement, and, more importantly, to understand how fluid those distinctions can be. From historical newspapers to troves of print and online fanfiction, from private scrapbooks to Tumblr pages, Performing Jane embraces a holistic view of Jane Austen fandom's long history, relying on archival research, literary and visual analyses, and ethnographic work. It demonstrates the ways that fan practices-today and in the past-are performative, providing fresh insight into fandom and challenging long-held assumptions"--, Provided by publisher

A "sense of kindred" in nineteenth-century transatlantic literary fandom -- Performing virtue : Jane Austen in the press and in American cultural imagination, 1830-1850 -- Three modes of fandom : fanfiction, pilgrimage, and collecting -- "My very happy pastime" : Alberta Burke's Jane Austen collection and scrapbooks -- The scrapbook of Barbara Winn Adams, book collector -- "A ready reference archive" : the research scrapbooks of George Holbert Tucker -- The Jane Austen scrapbook of David Gilson, bibliographer and correspondent -- Pride and polyjuice : the visual culture of internet fandom -- The Lizzie Bennet diaries : adaptation and social media -- Fanfiction and visual pleasure -- Literary pilgrimage and the Jane Austen society of North America -- Representations of literary pilgrimage in the popular imagination -- Coda: Effigies of experience

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