Camp Austen, my life as an accidental Jane Austen superfan, Ted Scheinman
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Camp Austen, my life as an accidental Jane Austen superfan, Ted Scheinman
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non fiction
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Camp Austen
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Ted Scheinman
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FSG originals
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my life as an accidental Jane Austen superfan
Summary
The son of a devoted Jane Austen scholar, Ted Scheinman spent his childhood summers eating Yorkshire pudding, singing in an Anglican choir, and watching Laurence Olivier as Mr. Darcy. Determined to leave his mother's world behind, he nonetheless found himself in grad school organising the first ever UNC-Chapel Hill Jane Austen Summer Camp, a weekend-long event that sits somewhere between an academic conference and superfan extravaganza. While the long tradition of Austen devotees includes the likes of Henry James and E.M. Forster, it is at the conferences and reenactments where Janeism truly lives. In Camp Austen, Scheinman tells the story of his indoctrination into this enthusiastic world and his struggle to shake his mother's influence while navigating hasty theatrical adaptations, undaunted scholars in cravats, and unseemly petticoat fittings
Table Of Contents
1. A Shared Inheritance -- 2. Dressing the Part -- 3. Table Talk -- 4. Theatricals -- 5. The Ball
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