“This is 1806, for Heaven's sake!”

Austen’s modernity has often been obscured by what Andrew Higson perceives as the postmodern “museum culture” of costume drama. In particular, such nostalgia—often centered on the home and romance—in many ways veils Austen’s dialogue with Enlightenment feminism. This chapter interrogates the ways in which the screen’s domestication of Austen’s image has been further enforced by YouTube fanvids and “spin-offs.” The tension between Austen’s novels and her adaptation and reception in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is traced through the dual lens of postmodern nostalgia and feminism.