ABSTRACT
April Lindner desires to bring that level of fandom to Victorian texts as well. She claims the many adaptations of Jane Austen's work have put "Team Jane" in the lead for prominent female dead author, and she wants to use her texts as a means of claiming some celebrity for "Team Bronte" among modern YA readers. Lindner's inclusion of celebrity fandom in her adaptations, as well as the structural and cultural alterations in her novels, demonstrate that intertextuality can be fandom and fanfiction can be a type of adaptation. The morphing genres that result from adaptation change the interactions of both readers outside and characters within a text. By utilizing the overlapping genre conventions of adaptation, fanfiction, and intertextuality, Lindner is able to write neo-Victorian novels that celebrate the Bronte sisters and increase their fandom without engaging in Victorian conventions.
