Expanding Austenland: The Pride and Prejudice Fanfiction Archive

Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: ‘She Stimulates Us to Supply What is Not There’ – Expanding Austen’s World Through Fanfiction
	The Pride and Prejudice Archive(s)
	Expanding the Virtual World of ‘Austenland’
	‘Neither the Hope of Fame Nor Profit’ – Professionally Published ‘Profic’ Texts in the Austen Fandom
	‘The Family Circle Mode of Response’: Janeite Reception Practices
	Austen in Fan Studies
	Austen in Popular Culture Studies
	Fanfiction in Austen Reception Studies
	‘You’re Bringin’ Forth Abundant Fruit, Like a Good Janeite’ – Readers as Writers
	Online Archives and Women’s Digital Culture
	Death Comes to Pemberley – Disappearing Texts
	A Literary Approach to Fanfiction
	‘How Quick Come the Reasons for Approving What We Like’ – Fanfiction and Aesthetics
	‘One Half of the World Cannot Understand the Pleasures of the Other’: Understanding Janeites, the ‘Other’ Reader
	‘You Must Give Me Leave to Judge for Myself’: Fans’ Methods of Evaluating Fanfiction
	Works Cited
Chapter 2: ‘Light and Bright and Sparkling’ – Pride and Prejudice and Fairy Tales
	Pride and Proliferation in Different Periods
	Pride and Prejudice and the ‘Cinderella’ Archive
	Lizzirella: The Fairy Tale Princess?
	Inventing Jane Austen by Becoming Elizabeth Bennet
	‘The Happiest, Wisest, Most Reasonable End!’: The Utopian Appeal of Pride and Prejudice
	After the ‘Happily Ever After’ – Pride and Prejudice Sequels
	‘Happiness in Marriage Is Entirely a Matter of Chance’ – Questioning the Happily Ever After
	Works Cited
Chapter 3: ‘You Must Allow Me to Tell You How Ardently I Admire and Love You’ – Darcymania Takes Over
	Between ‘Heritage England’ and ‘Cool Britannia’: Austen Adaptations in the 1990s
	Challenging the ‘Ethic of Restraint’ Through Mr Darcy
	‘A Striking Resemblance[?]’ – Darcy in Austen Adaptations
	‘My Feelings Will Not Be Repressed’: Emotion in English Culture
	Production Trends – ‘Frock Flicks’ on Film and ‘Small Worlds’ on Screen
	‘A Collection of Romances’: Pride and Prejudice Fanfiction and the Construction of ‘an Alternate Mythology’
	‘Ooh Mister Darcy’: Darcymania in the Austen Fandom
	Elizabeth’s Story to Darcy’s Story, and Austen’s Story to Davies’s Story (?)
	Works Cited
Chapter 4: ‘An Arrival in Austenland’: The Virtual World of Pride and Prejudice
	Imaginary Worlds and Virtual Reality: A Literary Prehistory
	Why Jane Austen?
	‘Capping Miss Austen’: Playing the Janeite Game
	‘3 or 4 Families in a Country Village’: The Shared Neighbourhood of Austenland
	‘Safe Within the Borders of The Republic of Pemberley’: Fan Forums as Virtual Country Estates
	Why Pride and Prejudice?
	The First Virtual Reality Characters in Fiction
	Lost in Austenland
	Austenland: ‘Utopian England’ or ‘Mental America’
	Signpost to Austenland
	Works Cited
Chapter 5: ‘Are the Shades of Pemberley to Be Thus Polluted?’: Zombies and Vampires Invade Pride and Prejudice
	Zombies and Vampires: The Monsters of the Recession
	Pride and Prejudice and Profic and Profit
	Austenland as Refuge
	The Repeating Dead and the Viral Recirculation of the ‘Lake Scene’
	‘The Love That Started It All’: Pride and Prejudice as the Literary Template for Twilight?
	‘Where This Is Going’: Austen Jumps the Shark?
	Monster Mashups: Crossing Boundaries Between High and Low Culture
	Works Cited
Chapter 6: ‘How Differently Did Everything Now Appear’ – The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and Transmedia Storytelling
	From ‘Textual Poachers’ to ‘Influential Consumers’: The Changing Landscape of Digital Fandom
	Playing the Janeite Game
	From ‘Darcy’s Story’ Back to ‘Lizzie’s Story’
	‘You’re Only a Secondary Character If You Let Yourself Be’: Alternative Vlogs and Alternative Voices
	Excavating Charlotte’s Story – Minor to Major Character
	From Subtext to Text: The Elevation of Lydia’s Story
	‘Can I Suppose Her So Lost to Everything?’: Lydia’s Fall
	‘Widely Different Was the Effect of a Second Perusal’: Rereading Lydia
	The Janeites – From ‘Squires’ to ‘Seahorses’
	Works Cited
Chapter 7: ‘There’s No One to Touch Jane When You’re in a Tight Place’: Pride and Prejudice and the Pandemic
	Pride and Prejudice and the Pandemic
	Pride and Preservation: Safeguarding Digital Cultural Memory
	‘An Attention Which It Had Hardly Received on the First Perusal’: Rereading Pride and Prejudice Through Archontic Productions
	Gaps in the Digital Cultural Memory
	‘The Novels of Jane Austen Are the Ones to Get Lost in’: Further Adventures in Austenland
	Works Cited
Index