Fanfic 3/7

The Line of Thought

. . . to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.

--Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

Austen in Austenistan

As I’ve noted before, the Indian subcontinent has a curious affinity for the works of Jane Austen. (The Economist's current online issue...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 16, 2017

The wild and wanton Jane Austen

Fifty-three years ago, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart wrote that, while he could not fully define hard-core pornography, “I...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 18, 2017

Jane Austen meets Texas debs

The year advances apace, and yet there still doesn’t seem to be a release date for the supposed-to-come-out-in-2017 film adaptation of...

Deborah Yaffe

May 3, 2017

Twisted Austen?

By now, the juxtaposition of sex with the supposedly decorous Jane Austen has lost much of its incongruity: We’ve all run across...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 2, 2016

The Austen Catch-Up Project: Collins Hemingway

Jane Austen fanfiction is a female-dominated field. That’s not surprising: Twenty-first-century Austen fandom is heavily female, and many...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 10, 2016

The Austen Catch-Up Project: Jane Juska

Let us stipulate that Mrs. Bennet draws the short straw. Her clever, ironic husband treats her with thinly disguised disrespect. Her...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 27, 2016

Finishing the already finished

Excited as I am to see Love and Friendship, Whit Stillman’s new film adaptation of Lady Susan, I’ve been more than a little skeptical of...

Deborah Yaffe

May 11, 2016

Eligible: Skyline chili and marshmallow fluff

In the 1940 film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, played by the great comic actress Edna May Oliver, turns...

Deborah Yaffe

May 8, 2016

Sanditon: Adapting Austen and Dobbs

Regular blog readers know that I’m squeeing with excitement over the upcoming film adaptation of Sanditon, the novel Jane Austen left...

Deborah Yaffe

May 4, 2016

Talking Jane Austen fanfiction

My next book-related event is scheduled for this Wednesday, April 13, in Princeton, NJ: I’ll be speaking at our lovely independent...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 10, 2016

Re-leash Mr. Darcy, please

The life of a Jane Austen video completist is not easy. Yes, it’s true that in the service of her mission – to see and, ideally, to own...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 25, 2016

Popcorn time for Janeites

We Janeites fondly remember the years 1995-1997, when no fewer than six Austen adaptations hit the big screen in the US. The next few...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 18, 2016