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Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom (2013)

de Deborah Yaffe

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Looks at the culture that exists among devoted followers of Jane Austen, detailing the hidden subtext in the author's novels and the varied people they have inspired.
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Fan non-fiction about fan fiction, cosplay, scholarship centered on Jane Austen -- and I thought Trekkies were eccentric and uber-passionate! Ms. Jaffe, a journalist, is an avowed Janeite herself and she set out to find a common thread among the wide array of fans who worship all things Austen. She interviewed other fans, explored fan fiction, traveled to England for an Austen pilgrimage, and attended meetings of the Jane Austen Society of North America. The latter organization throws an annual ball in which the guests dress in Regency style and try to out-Austen each other; Ms. Yaffe joined in. Ms. Jaffe's writing is excellent, a dose humor with a lot of facts and some good observations about human nature, in general, and its many manifestations among the Janeites. Overall, an entertaining read. ( )
  bschweiger | Feb 4, 2024 |
An interesting look at Jane Austen fandom. A fun read. ( )
  secondhandrose | Oct 31, 2023 |
Suddenly I find myself wanting to order a tailor-made Regency gown, re-read every Jane Austen novel and spend a week on the fan sites and blogs about her.

I want to go to JASNA! (Please imagine me crying this out in this manner) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8O8CmVi5Y8
More accurately (just didn't have the same ring to it) I want to go to the Jane Austen Society of North America's next Annual General Meeting, which is more of a blast than it sounds, if Deborah Yaffe's description is in any way accurate.

Oh boy oh boy, this book was such a treat. Yaffe started the book describing how her own love of Jane Austen started and the rest of the book was the research, interviews and travel she did in the year leading up to the JASNA AGM in Fort Worth, Texas. She interviewed Janeites of every stripe, from professors to fan fiction authors (and of course she had to read a lot of Jane Austen fan fiction too—it made me so happy that she didn't poo-poo it), from obsessive bloggers to collectors of Austen memorabilia (one lady bought a lock of Austen's hair!). She went on a Jane Austen tour, visiting where she had lived and sites of film adaptations (I also want to do this, by the way, if anyone's looking for the perfect birthday gift for me). Every chapter was interesting, well-written and respectful of the different ways people understand and appreciate Austen. Her words in her last chapter sum this up nicely.
We are a tribe, we Janeites. We name our children and our pets after people who never existed, treat an elderly screenwriter like a rock star, and seek twenty-first century life lessons in two-hundred-year-old books, or the tarot cards based on them. Our love for Jane Austen unites us, and yet sometimes it seems that we all love something, or someone, different...We make our Austen into a reflection of our own preoccupations, a teller of our own stories...The rich diversity of responses to Austen captures something real about her—the depth and complexity of her writings, which like diamonds held up to sunlight, reflect something different from every angle.


I spent a summer reading Jane Austen while I was hiking The Camino de Santiago in France and Spain with my husband in 1996. Like many, I caught the fever after watching the BBC miniseries with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle. I remember getting it one or two tapes (yeah, I'm that old) at a time with a friend and doing a small cheer when the library had the last couple on hand right when we were ready for them. I read Northanger Abbey before my hiking trip and finished Sense and Sensibility about the time we realized we were going to have to skip most of the French side of the route. An Australian couple we met on the hike traded us a guide to the Spanish route for our copy of Sense and Sensibility . In cities along the route, I would pick up my next Jane Austen book, read it when we'd stopped for the day, and when I was done, I would leave it behind in one the pilgrim refuges where we stayed. I wonder how many people passed those books around as they hiked the Camino. Maybe they're still in circulation. At the end of the trip, I had a surprise treat. We spent a couple of nights in England before flying out of London for home. An unplanned excursion to Winchester Cathedral landed me where Austen was buried. What a special way to end my summer of Austen. Reading about other Jane Austen fans and their experiences brought this all back to me, and will probably cause anyone who reads it to smile and remember too. ( )
  Harks | Dec 17, 2022 |
I wanted this book to be more fun than it actually was. There was great variety in the many forms our Austen-mania takes, but too many wink-wink references to Colin Firth in a wet shirt (I mean, multiple times a chapter!) and too much about the romantic histories of the women who write Austen fan fiction. A lot of filler. I appreciated the balance and/or tension between academic and commercialized appreciation of Austen, which isn't (and won't ever be) resolved. But I don't think this really needed to be an entire book. It would have been perfect as a series of 2-3 long-form journalistic essays. ( )
  sansmerci | May 22, 2018 |
Yes, I absolutely love Jane Austen and have read all her books multiple times....but I do not belong to any of the groups described in this book. Deborah Yaffe writes an extremely readable book about official Jane groups, Jane bloggers, Jane Austen rewriters, Austen tour groups, Austen fashion designers, and Yaffe's experiences with all of them. If you like Austen, this will be particularly interesting, but if you don't, this will help you understand the Austen phenomena too. ( )
  Connie-D | Jun 21, 2017 |
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