Ye Old Fanfic
Jan. 26th, 2007 04:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dunmurderinFound this on Fanthropology: Afterlife of Character: 1726-1825 by David A Brewer.
From the Amazon.com page: "The Afterlife of Character, 1726-1825 reconstructs how eighteenth-century British readers invented further adventures for beloved characters, including Gulliver, Falstaff, Pamela, and Tristram Shandy. Far from being close-ended and self-contained, the novels and plays in which these characters first appeared were treated by many as merely a starting point, a collective reference perpetually inviting augmentation through an astonishing wealth of unauthorized sequels. Characters became an inexhaustible form of common property, despite their patent authorship. Readers endowed them with value, knowing all the while that others were doing the same and so were collectively forging a new mode of virtual community."
In other words, fanfic is older than you think! *bwah!*
Looks like a neat book to pick up, except for the $55 price tag. Ye Gods!
Dun
Edited to Add: There's an excerpt from the book at the University of Pennsylvania Press's website.
From the Amazon.com page: "The Afterlife of Character, 1726-1825 reconstructs how eighteenth-century British readers invented further adventures for beloved characters, including Gulliver, Falstaff, Pamela, and Tristram Shandy. Far from being close-ended and self-contained, the novels and plays in which these characters first appeared were treated by many as merely a starting point, a collective reference perpetually inviting augmentation through an astonishing wealth of unauthorized sequels. Characters became an inexhaustible form of common property, despite their patent authorship. Readers endowed them with value, knowing all the while that others were doing the same and so were collectively forging a new mode of virtual community."
In other words, fanfic is older than you think! *bwah!*
Looks like a neat book to pick up, except for the $55 price tag. Ye Gods!
Dun
Edited to Add: There's an excerpt from the book at the University of Pennsylvania Press's website.
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Date: 2007-01-26 10:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-01-27 04:04 am (UTC)...That was bad. =D
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Date: 2007-01-27 02:38 pm (UTC)