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  • The (Meme) Master: James’s Afterlives in Viral Satire

    Author(s):
    Shawna Ross (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Digital Humanists, LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English
    Subject(s):
    Fiction, Nineteenth century, Popular culture--Study and teaching
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Digital Comics, Henry James, memes, satire, meme, Nineteenth-century fiction, Popular culture studies
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6GV4M
    Abstract:
    This article investigates Henry James’s digital afterlives by analyzing popular James-themed images and articles that have been shared on the Internet since 2000. Adapting Richard Dawkins’s theory of virality and Michael Anesko’s concept of James’s cultural capital, this article engages with viral content published on websites such as Bustle, McSweeney’s, The Onion, The Paris Review, Hark! A Vagrant, and The Toast. Though some of this material is found to be simplistic, a complex strain of feminist satire is identified that reflects powerfully both on James texts and on the changing nature of academic employment and undergraduate education.
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    Published as:
    Journal article     Show details
    Pub. DOI:
    10.1353/hjr.2017.0025
    Publisher:
    Johns Hopkins University Press
    Pub. Date:
    2017
    Journal:
    The Henry James Review
    Volume:
    38
    Issue:
    3
    Page Range:
    289 - 301
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    5 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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