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Performing Jane : A Cultural History of Jane Austen Fandom by Sarah Glosson (2020, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherLSU
ISBN-100807171956
ISBN-139780807171950
eBay Product ID (ePID)27038418989
Product Key Features
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NamePerforming Jane : a Cultural History of Jane Austen Fandom
Publication Year2020
SubjectMedia Studies, Popular Culture, Modern / 19th Century
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science
AuthorSarah Glosson
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight14.4 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2019-044176
ReviewsGlosson makes a significant contribution to historical fan studies by exploring readers' performative enthusiasm for the works of Jane Austen since the early nineteenth century. Glosson's sensitive and deft analysis of Janeites' meaning-making--across print, media, and digital worlds--reveals how fans have creatively affirmed and extended the resonance of Austen's novels., Glosson makes a significant contribution to historical fan studies by exploring readers? performative enthusiasm for the works of Jane Austen since the early nineteenth century. Glosson?s sensitive and deft analysis of Janeites? meaning-making?across print, media, and digital worlds?reveals how fans have creatively affirmed and extended the resonance of Austen?s novels.
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SynopsisJane Austen has resonated with readers across generations like no other writer. More than two hundred years after the publication of her most celebrated novel, Pride and Prejudice , people around the world continue to honor ?dear Jane.? In Performing Jane , Sarah Glosson explores this vibrant fandom, examining a long history of Austen fans engaging with her work, from wearing hand-sewn bonnets and period-appropriate corsets to creating spirited fanfiction and comical gifsets. Sophisticated and engaging, this study demonstrates that Austen fans of today have a great deal in common with those who loved the English novelist long before the term ?fan? came into use. Performing Jane analyzes three ways fans engage with Austen and her work: collecting material related to the writer, whether in physical scrapbooks or on social-media platforms; creating and consuming imitative works, including fanfiction and modernized adaptations such as The Lizzie Bennet Diaries ; and making pilgrimages to Steventon, Hampshire, Chawton Cottage, and even to annual meetings of Jane Austen societies. Key to Glosson?s exploration of Austen fans is the notion that all of these activities, whether occurring in private or in public, are fundamentally performative. And in counterbalance to studies that center on fans with a tendency to transform and disrupt the original text, this study provides much-needed understanding of a fandom that predominantly reaffirms Austen?s works. Because Austen?s writing has bridged the realms of both literary and popular culture, this fandom serves as an excellent case study to understand the ways in which we draw distinctions between fandom and other forms of intensive engagement and, more importantly, to appreciate how fluid those distinctions can be. Performing Jane embraces a holistic view of the long history of Austen fandom, relying on archival research, literary and visual analyses, and ethnographic study. This groundbreaking book not only demonstrates the ways in which fan practices, today and in the past, are performative, but also provides fresh perspectives into fandom and contributes to our understanding of the ways readers engage with literature., Jane Austen has resonated with readers across generations like no other writer. More than two hundred years after the publication of her most celebrated novel, Pride and Prejudice , people around the world continue to honor "dear Jane." In Performing Jane , Sarah Glosson explores this vibrant fandom, examining a long history of Austen fans engaging with her work, from wearing hand--sewn bonnets and period--appropriate corsets to creating spirited fanfiction and comical gifsets. Sophisticated and engaging, this study demonstrates that Austen fans of today have a great deal in common with those who loved the English novelist long before the term "fan" came into use. Performing Jane analyzes three ways fans engage with Austen and her work: collecting material related to the writer, whether in physical scrapbooks or on social--media platforms; creating and consuming imitative works, including fanfiction and modernized adaptations such as The Lizzie Bennet Diaries ; and making pilgrimages to Steventon, Hampshire, Chawton Cottage, and even to annual meetings of Jane Austen societies. Key to Glosson's exploration of Austen fans is the notion that all of these activities, whether occurring in private or in public, are fundamentally performative. And in counterbalance to studies that center on fans with a tendency to transform and disrupt the original text, this study provides much--needed understanding of a fandom that predominantly reaffirms Austen's works. Because Austen's writing has bridged the realms of both literary and popular culture, this fandom serves as an excellent case study to understand the ways in which we draw distinctions between fandom and other forms of intensive engagement and, more importantly, to appreciate how fluid those distinctions can be. Performing Jane embraces a holistic view of the long history of Austen fandom, relying on archival research, literary and visual analyses, and ethnographic study. This groundbreaking book not only demonstrates the ways in which fan practices, today and in the past, are performative, but also provides fresh perspectives into fandom and contributes to our understanding of the ways readers engage with literature.
LC Classification NumberPR4038.I52G58 2020
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