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or set of 'traditional' values....This may demonstrate the influence of a sentimental account of Austen's novels that presents them as means by which readers might go home again – to a comfortable, soothingly normal world." More recently, scholars have been less dismissive of the cultural importance,
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delivered "A Depreciation of Jane Austen" before the Royal Society for Literature in May 1928, which Johnson called extremely misogynistic and homophobic, as he attacked Austen as a writer for no other reason than she was a woman, whose male characters were all "soft", and contemptuously stated that
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At the same time, Austen remains a topic of serious academic inquiry at top global universities in a way to which very recent subcultures are only just beginning to aspire. The male Janeites have often been attacked as unmanly. For an example, the British scholar
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in North America, and a brisker antiquarian meticulousness in England, and whose interests range from Austenian dramatizations, to fabrics, to genealogies, and to weekend study trips". Lynch has described committed Janeites as members of a
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and accepted as worthy of academic study, the term began to change meaning. It was used to signify those who appreciated Austen in the "wrong" way and the term, according to Lynch, began to be "used almost exclusively about and against
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any man who liked Austen was effeminate and not a real man at all. Johnson argued that attacks such as Garrod's on the Janeites might help explain why the Janeites were once wrongly understood to be predominately female.
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soldiers who were secretly fans of Austen's novels. There were, however, late nineteenth and early twentieth-century female devotees of Austen, especially in the New Woman movement and among women's suffrage activists.
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people" (emphasis in original). This is no longer necessarily the case, as Austen appreciators have reclaimed the term in books and on social media.
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in 1870, when the literary elite felt that they had to separate their appreciation of Austen from that of the masses. The term
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Scholars such as Johnson and Lynch study "the ludic enthusiasm of amateur reading clubs, whose 'performances' include teas,
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is "the self-consciously idolatrous enthusiasm for 'Jane' and every detail relative to her".
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Global Jane Austen: Pleasure, Passion, and Possessiveness in the Jane Austen Community.
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Modern Janeites are described by their most fervent detractors in the same tones as
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Among the Janeites: A Journey through the World of Jane Austen Fandom
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and used as a term of opprobrium. According to Austen scholar
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Lynch, Deidre. "Introduction: Sharing with Our Neighbors".
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Janeitism did not begin until after the publication of
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Austentatious: The Evolving World of Jane Austen Fans
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During the 1930s and 1940s, when Austen's works were
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