Promoting Jane Austen’s literary heritage. Janeites and cultural mediation
Bourdaa, Mélanie
Promoting Jane Austen’s literary heritage. Janeites and cultural mediation - 2022.
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This article aims to analyze, thanks to cultural studies and fan studies, the way in which, on the one hand, cultural institutions and writers’ houses create mediations to attract fan-tourists, and, on the other hand, how fans organize themselves to promote a literary work and to circulate it in the public sphere thanks to their activities and productions. We will take the work of Jane Austen as a case study. Our methodology will be twofold: we will analyze fan discourses and their narration on the internet (fan fiction, websites, web series) and offline (literary societies and cosplays at festivals), and we will study the mediations of the city of Bath and the Jane Austen house. We will thus see how literary mediation is constructed and how fans can play the role of cultural mediators, a role that until recently had been attributed to the traditional cultural institutions.
Promoting Jane Austen’s literary heritage. Janeites and cultural mediation - 2022.
3
This article aims to analyze, thanks to cultural studies and fan studies, the way in which, on the one hand, cultural institutions and writers’ houses create mediations to attract fan-tourists, and, on the other hand, how fans organize themselves to promote a literary work and to circulate it in the public sphere thanks to their activities and productions. We will take the work of Jane Austen as a case study. Our methodology will be twofold: we will analyze fan discourses and their narration on the internet (fan fiction, websites, web series) and offline (literary societies and cosplays at festivals), and we will study the mediations of the city of Bath and the Jane Austen house. We will thus see how literary mediation is constructed and how fans can play the role of cultural mediators, a role that until recently had been attributed to the traditional cultural institutions.
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