Serious book people don't like fan fiction...but should they? The history of reimagining stories (and making them a little spicy) is anything but brief. From Medieval Mystics and Jesus Christ all the way to Drive to Survive, there’s actually a reason behind fanfiction. Let's chat about it!

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Kempe Margery and Lynn Staley. The Book of Margery Kempe. Published for TEAMS (the Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages) in Association with the University of Rochester by Medieval Institute Publications Western Michigan University 1996.

https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA361553270&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=12192589&p=LitRC&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7Ed331d65f&aty=open-web-entry

Mixer, Lindsay M., "And then they boned: an analysis of fanfiction and its influence on sexual development" (2018). Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects. 131.

Higgs, Laquita. “Margery Kempe: ‘Whete-Breed or Barly-Breed?’” Mystics Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 2, 1987, pp. 57–64. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20716791. Accessed 10 Aug. 2023.

Stampa, Gaspara (1994). Laura Anna Stortoni; Mary Prentice Lillie (eds.). Gaspara Stampa: Selected Poems. New York: Italica Press.

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/02/surprising-18th-century-origins-fan-fiction/606532/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/aug/13/fan-fiction-fifty-shades-grey

Song:

Cinematic Electronic, Content Licence:

https://pixabay.com/music/beats-cinematic-electronic-inspiration-background-159335/

A Crush on Jesus? Fan-fiction Throughout History.