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Contents Acknowledgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Introduction: Why a Fan Fiction Studies Reader Now? . . . . . . . . . . 1 Part1.FanFictionasLiterature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 1. henry jenkins, Textual Poachers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 2. Roberta Pearson, It’s Always 1895: Sherlock Holmes in Cyberspace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 3. Cornel Sandvoss, The Death of the Reader? Literary Theory and the Study of Texts in Popular Culture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Part2.FanIdentityandFeminism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 4. Joanna Russ, Pornography by Women for Women, with Love. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 5. Patricia Frazer Lamb and Diana l. Veith, Romantic Myth, Transcendence, and Star Trek Zines. . . . . . . . . . 97 6. Sara Gwenllian Jones, The Sex Lives of Cult Television Characters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Part3.FanCommunitiesandAffect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 7. Camille Bacon-Smith, Training New Members. . . . . . . . . . . 138 8. Nicholas Abercrombie and Brian Longhurst, Fans and Enthusiasts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 9. Constance Penley, Future Men. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Part4.FanCreativityandPerformance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 10. Kurt Lancaster, Performing in Babylon— Performing in Everyday Life. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 11. Francesca Coppa, Writing Bodies in Space: Media Fan Fiction as Theatrical Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 Bibliography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Permissions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 ...

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