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Camp Austen
Contributor(s): Scheinman, Ted (Author)

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ISBN: 086547821X     ISBN-13: 9780865478213
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
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Binding Type: Paperback
Published: March 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Women Authors
- Literary Criticism | Books & Reading
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 823.7
LCCN: 2017038310
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5" W x 7.5" L (0.20 lbs) 176 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Cultural Region - British Isles
Features: Price on Product
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2017
Publishers Weekly 01/22/2018
Booklist 02/15/2018 pg. 16
 
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Publisher Description:

A Paris Review Staff Pick and one of The Millions' Most Anticipated Reads of March

A raucous tour through the world of Mr. Darcy imitations, tailored gowns, and tipsy ballroom dancing

The son of a devoted Jane Austen scholar, Ted Scheinman spent his childhood 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 organizing 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.

In a haze of morning crumpets and restrictive tights, Scheinman delivers a hilarious and poignant survey of one of the most enduring and passionate literary coteries in history. Combining clandestine journalism with frank memoir, academic savvy with insider knowledge, Camp Austen is perhaps the most comprehensive study of Austen that can also be read in a single sitting. Brimming with stockings, culinary etiquette, and scandalous dance partners, this is summer camp like you've never seen it before.


Contributor Bio(s): Scheinman, Ted: - Ted Scheinman is a writer and scholar based in Southern California, where he works as a senior editor at Pacific Standard magazine. He has taught courses on journalism, satire, and poetry at the University of North Carolina and has written for The New York Times, the Oxford American, Playboy, Slate, and many others. Ted is the author of Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan.
 
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