Janite

plural Janites

1. alternativeAlternative form of Janeite.

   “So you are a Janite, too! But how fortunate. Right over there,” he so forgot manners as to use his fork for a pointer, “lies Northanger Abbey.”

   2014, Andre Norton, Snow Shadow

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   And in the sect—fairly large and yet unusually choice—of Austenians or Janites, there would probably be found partisans of the claim to primacy of almost every one of the novels.

   1894, George Saintsbury, Pride and Prejudice, London: George Allen, Preface, page ix

   The process of "straightening Austen out" thus transpired within an institutional framework determined to discredit the authority of Janite reception by repositioning her novels within heteronormative cultural codes.

   2001, James L. Machor, Philip Goldstein, Reception Study: From Literary Theory to Cultural Studies, page 77