Janeiteism

From Janeite +‎ -ism.

Janeiteism (uncountable)

1. The love or worship of the works of Jane Austen.
   • 1992, Roger Gard, “Introduction: Jane Austen’s Ease – and Criticism”, in Jane Austen’s Novels: The Art of Clarity, New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, section VI, page 12:

     [F]ew true admirers will hesitate, much, to admit to the possession of a mug or a tea towel from Chawton. To do so is not necessarily latter-day Janeiteism.

   • 2000, Deidre Lynch, editor, Janeites: Austen’s Disciples and Devotees, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 13:
     • Deidre Lynch, “Introduction: Sharing with Our Neighbors”, page 13:

       It distracts us from the instability of the opposition between canonical and popular writing: from how uses of the classic text and passions for tradition shift shape when, as the difference between Bardolatry and Janeiteism suggests, we move from one sort of classic text and one sort of tradition to another.

     • Claudia L. Johnson, “The Divine Miss Jane: Jane Austen, Janeites, and the Discipline of Novel Studies”, page 34:

       Although the Janeiteism of this period was actually more productive than he [Denys Clement Wyatt Harding] acknowledges—giving us, for one thing, [Robert William] Chapman's 1923 edition of Austen's novel, the first scholarly edition of any British novelist—Harding dismisses Janeites as weakling escapists who resort to the idyllic figure of Jane as a "refuge" when "the contemporary world grew too much for them" ("RH," [Regulated Hatred] 166).

• bardolatry