The Digital Afterlives Of Jane Austen: Janeites At The Keyboard (palgrave Pivot)

This is the first scholarly study to explore the ever-expanding world of online Austen fandom and fan fiction writing. Using case studies from the Internet writing community and publisher, Wattpad, as well as dedicated fan websites, it illuminates the literary processes and products that have given Austen multiple afterlives in the digital arena. Jane Austen's novels are constantly re-imagined on page and screen, in updated and transplanted re-tellings, adaptations, spin off publications, and fan fiction. "The Digital Afterlives of Jane Austen" explores the ever-expanding realm of Austen fandom on the Internet, tracking the many re-workings of this Regency writer's novels on today's electronic writing platforms and websites. Situating online Austen fandom within developing as well as continuing modes of literacy and publishing, this book provides an insight into a dynamic, diverse and sometimes surprising fan culture. By reading print and digital literary cultures in relation to each other, and as contiguous rather than competing, it challenges static notions of literature and literary practice, and offers new ways of seeing and understanding Austen fandom and the activities of Janeites at the keyboard Front Matter....Pages i-vi Introduction: Janeites at the Keyboard....Pages 1-7 Jane Austen’s Adventures in Wattpadland....Pages 8-33 Reading (Austen) on Wattpad....Pages 34-53 ‘Thanks for Fanning’: Online Austen Fan Fiction....Pages 54-76 ‘Canon can only get you so far’: Janeites Read and Write ‘The Bennet Brother’....Pages 77-104 (No) Conclusion....Pages 105-107 Back Matter....Pages 108-136