Janeiteism

English Etymology From en Janeite ism. Noun - The love or worship of the works of Jane Austen. en 1992 Roger Gard Introduction: Jane Austen’s Ease – and Criticism Jane Austen’s Novels: The Art of Clarity New Haven, Conn.; London w:Yale University Press vi 12 https://archive.org/details/janeaustensnovel0000gard/page/12/mode/1up 0-300-05494-7 [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. en 2000 Deidre Lynch Janeites: Austen’s Disciples and Devotees Princeton, N.J. w:Princeton University Press 13 https://archive.org/details/janeitesaustensd0000unse/page/13/mode/1up 0-691-05006-6 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). See also en bardolatry en eponyms en British fiction