Syracuse University SURFACE Syracuse University Honors Program Capstone Syracuse University Honors Program Capstone Projects Projects Spring 5-1-2008 Jane Austen Film Adaptations, Fan Fiction, and Contemporary Anglo-American Culture Rebecka Schaber Follow this and additional works at: https://surface.syr.edu/honors_capstone Part of the Other English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Schaber, Rebecka, "Jane Austen Film Adaptations, Fan Fiction, and Contemporary Anglo-American Culture" (2008). Syracuse University Honors Program Capstone Projects. 502. https://surface.syr.edu/honors_capstone/502 This Honors Capstone Project is brought to you for free and open access by the Syracuse University Honors Program Capstone Projects at SURFACE. It has been accepted for inclusion in Syracuse University Honors Program Capstone Projects by an authorized administrator of SURFACE. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. 1 Jane Austen Film Adaptations, Fan Fiction, and Contemporary Anglo- American Culture Rebecka Schaber Candidate for B.A. Degree in English and Textual Studies with Honors May 2008 APPROVED Thesis Project Advisor: ____________________________ (Michael Goode) Honors Reader: __________________________________ (Patricia Moody) Honors Director: _________________________________ Samuel Gorovitz Date: ___________________________________________ 2 Jane Austen Film Adaptations, Fan Fiction, and Contemporary Anglo-American Culture Abstract The rise of “Austenmania” in the form of films and heritage tours has been well marked in the past twenty years. Films based on Austen texts have attained a mass market popularity and tours based on Austen texts (and even Austen film adaptations) have likewise become popular within the heterosexual, romance-consuming female demographic. With the advent of the heritage film, Austen’s original texts became prime fodder for the heritage industry and the conservative depiction of Britain’s past Margaret Thatcher’s administration wished to portray.