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Janeites And Their Benefactors: The Heritage Industry And The Commodification Of Nostalgia, Emma Swidler
Janeites And Their Benefactors: The Heritage Industry And The Commodification Of Nostalgia, Emma Swidler
Lawrence University Honors Projects
This project sets out to understand how Jane Austen's House Museum and Chawton House have told the stories of Jane Austen and British heritage over the course of the past 72 years. The two houses are nine minutes apart by foot, a walk taken regularly by Austen herself from her home at Chawton Cottage (now the Museum) to her brother’s home down the road (Chawton House). However, since the Museum’s establishment in 1947 and the House’s founding in 2003, the two houses have remained separate nonprofit cultural institutions with distinct purposes: the Museum preserves Austen’s home and legacy, and the …