Austen cults and cultures

Johnson, Claudia L.

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“…Since Austen's novels are consistently set around the confined subjects of courtship and marriage of the genteel class, her works are considered to concern the sense of restraint, domestic obligation and the English national identity (Johnson, 1997: 217) [1] . Therefore, moral rectitude is often embedded inside the readers' imaginations of Jane Austen (Fu, 2018: 70) [2] .…”

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“Large fat sighings” of a “large bulky figure”: Identity-building and formation of new order in Persuasion

Zhang

Wei

2023

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This essay provides a multifaceted analysis of Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion through the lens of narrative consciousness, rhythm and sexual anxiety. Drawing on Lacanian theory, it examines the selfidentification processes of the heroine Anne Elliot and Mrs Musgrove against, and with relation to patriarchal norms. By analyzing the dynamics presented in Mrs Musgrove’s “large fat sighings”, the essay explores the effect of incongruity between the human body and spirit; and it further examines Mrs Musgrove’s Sphinx-like figure, who inspires desire and inhibitions in the Oedipus-like Captain Wentworth with a significant impact on the formation of community and order. The essay investigates long-neglected subjects presented in Austen’s novels and enriches the complex portrait of Mrs. Musgrove as both Mother and Sphinx.

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“Large fat sighings” of a “large bulky figure”: Identity-building and formation of new order in Persuasion

Zhang

Wei

2023

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“…In contrast to contemporary scholarly practice, The Republic of Pemberley operates as a space where "enjoyment rather than hermeneutic mastery is assumed to be the reward of reading, where reading is sociable rather than solitary, and where the stuff of erudition itself seems so different." 70 The site"s Frequently Asked Questions declare that "All kinds" of people are welcome to post on Pemberley"s various forums and lists, which include discussion boards devoted to each of Austen"s six major novels, boards focused on the juvenilia and unfinished works dubbed "Austenuations", . 79 Elsewhere, however, The Republic enjoins its users to use their own names and introduce themselves on a central roll of citizenry.…”

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“…86 Christopher Kent notes that Austen"s novels were similarly recommended to British veterans suffering shell-shock in the aftermath of the First World War, 87 reiterating the belief that her works "provided a refuge for the sensitive when the contemporary world grew too much for them." [B]y subtle, yet consciously undertaken means, we exude a bit of an attitude, which could be characterized as polite with a bite.…”

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The Republic of Pemberley: Politeness and Citizenship in Digital Sociability

Brideoake¹

2008

19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

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Early theorists of online networks likened the emerging terrain of cyberspace to the democratic underpinnings of Jürgen Habermas"s conception of the bourgeois public sphere.1 Habermas"s influential account describes the emergence of a discursive realm of public opinion in late-seventeenth-and early-eighteenth-century Britain, and its subsumption by 1830 within the consumer marketplace. 2 The rational-critical community constitutive of the public sphere was enabled by the emergence of new forms of print culture including the periodical, newspaper and sentimental novel. Characterised by openness and transparency, rather than the exclusivity of court culture, the bourgeois public sphere was potentially inclusive of all citizens.

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Jane Austen fan fiction and the situated fantext

Steenhuyse

2011

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Building on recent findings in the field of fan fiction studies, I claim that Pamela Aidan’s Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman is indirectly influenced by three cultural phenomena which centre around Jane Austen and her work. Aidan’s fan fiction text stays close to the spirit of Austen’s Pride and Prejudice because she “reimagines” the novel according to the interpretive conventions of the Republic of Pemberley, a fan community. These conventions demand respect for Austen and her novels because they are shaped by the broader, cultural conventions of Janeitism and Austen criticism. Similarly, Aidan’s text is more individualistic and “Harlequinesque” than Austen’s novel, because the Republic allows writers to reproduce the cultural reading which underlies BBC / A&E’s adaptation of Austen’s novel.

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Austen cults and cultures

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“Large fat sighings” of a “large bulky figure”: Identity-building and formation of new order in Persuasion

“Large fat sighings” of a “large bulky figure”: Identity-building and formation of new order in Persuasion

The Republic of Pemberley: Politeness and Citizenship in Digital Sociability

Jane Austen fan fiction and the situated fantext

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