When [E.L] James erased her fan fiction from online fan archives, she deleted a part of the cultural heritage of her fellow fans to the detriment of their community, and she denied the explicitly communal nature of the authorship of
By revising contemporary narratives of both book history and fan history, we can reread women’s work in the literary and book trades from the seventeenth and the twenty-first centuries as a function of operating with and subverting patriarchal norms of
I was once told that book history is not applicable to the study of fan fiction as, “by definition,” such writing is not disseminated in book form—that is, as a printed codex. Coker, Catherine. 2017. “The Margins of Print? Fan