We have been remiss in linking a special issue of Persuasions On-line, JASNA’s digital journal, featuring papers given at last summer’s Chawton House conference, “New Directions in Austen Studies.”
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The one article out of all of them which, if read, ought to raise a few thousand Janeite eyebrows, is the excellent one by Helena Kelly:
http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol30no2/kelly.html
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The article by Laurie Kaplan about ‘Lost in Austen’ is a very interesting and astute analysis of the appeal of this film – even though its deliberate anachronisms annoy some austenites!
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I enjoyed that too-silly film as a spoof, better than Becoming Jane !
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An advantage that the unwashed, fanfic-reading “Janeites” enjoy over the academics is that we recognize a Mary Sue when we see one; a concept unfortunately not covered in literature classes. š
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You are so right – I was there at Ms Kaplan’s talk and actually suggested the LIA writer had made a study of the Mary Sue school of fan fiction. Several of the audience (I would take them to be academics – none of them liked LIA and one got very exercised over the inclusion of solid chocolate, which was not actually invented until 30 years after Jane Austen’s death) asked me afterwards what that was.
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