Bibliography

This bibliography is not intended to list all research contributions on the history of fandom. Which contributions belong to Celebrity Studies rather than Fandom Studies may well be debatable in individual cases. Nevertheless, the bibliography may provide a good overview of research that deals with the history of fandom before the 1960s.

Please let us know if you have any additional suggestions: fan-history@uni-koeln.de

•  Historical Method/General
•  Cinema
•  Literature
•  Music
•  Radio
•  Science Fiction
•  Sports
•  Stage (Theater, Opera)
•  Other

Historical Method/General

Benecchi, Eleonora and Erika Wang. »Fandom: Historicized Fandom and the Conversation between East and West Perspectives«. Digital Roots: Historicizing Media and Communication Concepts of the Digital Age, ed. by Gabriele Balbi et al. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter, 2021: 281–297.

Cavicchi, Daniel. »Fandom Before ›Fan‹: Shaping the History of Enthusiastic Audiences«. Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, Vol. 6 (2014): 52–72.

Cavicchi, Daniel. »Foundational Discourses of Fandom«. Wiley Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, edited by Paul Booth. Oxford, UK: Wiley Pub, 2018: 27–46.

Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn. »Archaeologies of Fandom: Using Historical Methods to Explore Fan Cultures of the Past«. The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom, ed. by Melissa A. Klick and Suzanne Scott. New York & Abingdon: Routledge, 2017: 27–35.

Lanckman, Lies. »›They Took Our Jobs!‹ Finding Fan History in Movie Magazines«. A fan studies primer. Method, research ethics, ed. by Paul Booth and Rebecca Williams. Fandom & culture. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2021: 163–178.

Reagin, Nancy, and Anne Rubenstein. »›I'm Buffy, and You're History‹: Putting Fan Studies into History«. Transformative Works and Cultures, Vol. 6 (2011). https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2011.0272

Cinema

Abel, Richard. »Fan discourse in the heartland: the early 1910s«. Film History, Vol. 18 (2006): 140–153.

Andree, Courtney. »Broncho Billy and the Problem of the Male Movie Fan«. Film History, Vol. 26, No. 3 (2014): 57–83. https://doi.org/10.2979/filmhistory.26.3.57.

Anselmo, Diana. »Made in Movieland: Imitation, Agency, and Girl Movie Fandom in the 1910s«. Camera obscura. Feminism, culture, and media studies, Vol. 32 (2017): 129–165.

Anselmo, Diana. »Bound by Paper: Girl Fans, Movie Scrapbooks, and Hollywood Reception during World War I«. Film History, Vol. 31, No. 3 (2019): 141–172.

Anselmo, Diana W. »Fire in the Hole«. Feminist Media Histories, Vol. 10, No. 1 (1 January 2024): 28–56. https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2024.10.1.28.

Anselmo Sequeira, D. »Gasps of Violet Ink«: Female Adolescence, Personal Archives, and Movie Fandom in the United States during the 1910s. PhD Dissertation, UC Irvine. 2014.

Anselmo-Sequeira, D. »Screen-Struck: The Invention of the Movie Girl Fan«. Cinema Journal, Vol. 55, No. 1 (2015): 1–28.

Anselmo-Sequeira, Diana. »Blue Bloods, Movie Queens, and Jane Does: Or How Princess Culture, American Film, and Girl Fandom Came Together in the 1910s«. Princess Cultures: Mediating Girls’ Imaginations and Identities, ed. by Miriam Forman-Brunell and Rebecca Hains. Mediated Youth Series. New York: Peter Lang, 2015: 161–188.

Anselmo, Diana W. »Picture Pain: Anti-Heteronormative Female Fandom in Early Hollywood«. JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Vol. 62, No. 1, Fall (2022): 7–35.

Anselmo, Diana W. A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood. Feminist Media Histories. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023.

Barbas, Samantha. Movie Crazy: Fans, Stars, and the Cult of Celebrity. New York: Palgrave, 2001.

Buckley, Réka. »The Emergence of Film Fandom in Postwar Italy: Reading Claudia Cardinale’s Fan Mail«. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol. 29, No. 4 (December 2009): 523–559. https://doi.org/10.1080/01439680903363222.

Buckely, Réka. »Italian Film Stars and Their Fans in the 1950s and 1960s«. A Companion to Italian Cinema, ed. by Frank Burke. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2017: 158–178.

Cowan, Michael. »Learning to Love the Movies: Puzzles, Participation, and Cinephilia in Interwar European Film Magazines«. Film History, Vol. 27, No. 4 (2015): 1-45.

Denk, Clare. »The Gregory Peck papers: It’s Not Just Hollywood«. Journal of Western Archives, Vol, 7. No. 1  2016. https://doi.org/10.26077/76CD-7DF3.

Fee, Annie. Gender, Class and Cinephilia: Parisian Cinema Cultures, 1918–1925. PhD thesis, University of Washington, 2015.

Fee, Annie. »Les Midinettes Révolutionnaires«. Feminist Media Histories, Vol. 3, No. 4 (2017): 162–194. https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2017.3.4.162.

Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn. At the picture show: small-town audiences and the creation of movie fan culture. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.

Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn. »Motion Picture Story Magazine and the Gendered Construction of the Movie Fan«. the Eye of the Beholder. Critical Perspectives in Popular Film and Television, ed. by Gary Edgerton, Michael Marsden, and Jack Nachbar. Bowling Green OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1997: 97–112.

Haller, Andrea. »Film, Fashion and Female Movie Fandom in Imperial Germany«. Not so silent: Women in cinema before sound, ed. by Sofia Bull and Astrid Söderbergh Widding. Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis: Stockholm Studies in Film History. Stockholm: Stockholm University, 2010: 325–238.

Juan, Myriam. »›Encore une admiratrice !‹ À quoi sert une star de cinéma : réflexion à l’aune de lettres de spectateurs et de spectatrices (début des années 1920, début des années 1930)«. Mise au point, No. 6 (1 April 2014). https://doi.org/10.4000/map.1684.

Lanckman, Lies. »In Search of Lost Fans: Recovering Fan Magazine Readers, 1910-1950«. Star Attractions: Twentieth-Century Movie Magazines and Global Fandom ed. by Tamar Jeffers McDonald and Lies Lanckman. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2019: 45–60. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvrs8xs2.7

Lanckman, Lies. 2020. »Fans, Community, and Conflict in the Pages of Picture Play, 1920–38«. Transformative Works and Cultures, No. 33. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2019.1745

McLean, Adrienne L. »›Give Them a Good Breakfast, Says Nancy Carroll‹: Fan Magazine Advice Across Time«. Star Attractions: Twentieth-Century Movie Magazines and Global Fandom, ed. by Tamar Jeffers McDonald and Lies Lanckman. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2019: 11–28.

Monnier, Solène. »L’expression et les formes du souvenir dans les lettres d’admirateurs et admiratrices reçues par l’acteur René Navarre au début du XXe siècle«. Double jeu, No. 16 (31 December 2019): 33–50. https://doi.org/10.4000/doublejeu.2498.

Monnier, Solène. »Les Lettres d’admiratrices et Admirateurs Reçues Par l’acteur René Navarre Au Début Du Vingtième Siècle«. French Historical Studies, Vol. 44, No. 2 (1 April 2021): 307–324. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-8806482.

Navitski, Rielle. »Early Film Critics and Fanatical Fans: The Reception of the Italian Diva Film and the Making of Modern Spectators in Postrevolutionary Mexico«. Film History, Vol. 29, No. 1 (2017): 57–83. https://doi.org/10.2979/filmhistory.29.1.04.

Orgeron, Marsha. »Making ›It‹ in Hollywood: Clara Bow, Fandom, and Consumer Culture«. Cinema Journal, Vol. 42, No. 4 (2003): 76-97.

Orgeron, Marsha. »›You Are Invited to Participate‹: Interactive Fandom in the Age of the Movie Magazine«. Journal of Film and Video, Vol. 61, No. 3 (2009): 3–23.

Scheiner, Georganne. Signifying female adolescence: film representations and fans, 1920–1950. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000.

Staiger, Janet. »Cabinets of Transgression: Collecting and Arranging Hollywood Images«. Participations. Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, Vol. 1, No. 3 (2005). https://www.participations.org/01-03-03-staiger.pdf

Staiger, Janet. Perverse Spectators: The Practices of Film Reception. New York University Press, 2000.

Stead, Lisa Rose. »›So oft to the movies they've been‹: British Fan Writing and Female Audiences in the Silent Era«. Transformative Works and Cultures, No. 6 (2011). https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2011.0224

Stead, Lisa. Off to the Pictures: Cinema-Going, Women’s Writing, and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016.

Van der Velden, André. »Between Hollywood and Babelsberg: Popular Cinephilia in a Dutch Movie Magazine of the 1920s«. Mapping Movie Magazines: Digitization, Periodicals, and Cinema History. ed. by David Biltereyst and Lies Van de Vijver. Global Cinema. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020: 221–236.

Verhoef, Jesper. »Anti-Modern National Identity Formation: Dutch Depictions of America in Public Debates about Film Fandom, 1919–1939«. Powerlines, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2015).

Literature

Anderson, Jill E. »‹Send Me a Nice Little Letter All to Myself‹: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Fan Mail and Antebellum Poetic Culture«. University Library Faculty Publications 111 (2007). https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/univ_lib_facpub/111.

Ballinger, Susan Jane. »What do you think of Bleak House?«: Dickens’s Serial Novels and Victorian Literary Fandom. Master’s thesis, University of South Florida 2012. https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/masterstheses/44

Basu, Balaka. »Virgilian Fandom in the Renaissance«. »The Classical Canon and/as Transformative Work«, Transformative Works and Cultures, No. 21 (2016). https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2016.0683.

Bates, Courtney A.  »The Fan Letter Correspondence of Willa Cather: Challenging the Divide between Professional and Common Reader«. Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 6 (2011). https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2011.0221

Bates, Courtney Alice. »Addressing Each Other: Reciprocal Relationships in American Fan Letters«. Washington University in St. Louis, 2011. http://openscholarship.wustl.edu/art_sci_etds/499/.

Bergenmar, Jenny, and Maria Karlsson. »Bästa författarinna, Högtärade Dr. Lagerlöf, Kära sagotant! Om allmänhetens läsning av Selma Lagerlöf«. Läsning. Riksbankens jubileumsfonds årsskrift, ed. by Björn Fjaestad. Stockholm: Makadam, 2014: 50–59. https://view.publitas.com/riksbankens-jubileumsfond/riksbankens-jubileumsfond-arsbok-2013-14-lasning/page/50-51 

Bergenmar, Jenny, and Maria Karlsson. »The Reader in History and Letters to the Author: The Case of Selma Lagerlöf and Her Audience«. Re-Mapping Lagerlöf. Performance, Intermediality, and European Transmissions, ed. by Helene Forsås-Scott, Lisbeth Stenberg, and Bjarne Thorup Thomsen. Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2014: 44–59.

Bergenmar, Jenny, and Maria Karlsson. »Evidence of Reading? The Swedish Public’s Letters to Selma Lagerlöf: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to the History of Reading«. Plotting the Reading Experience: Theory, Practise, Politics, ed. by Paulette M. Rothbauer. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2016: 73–85.

Bergenmar, Jenny, and Maria Karlsson. Lagerlöfs läsara. Allmänhetens brev till Selma Lagerlöf. Göteborg: Makadam, 2022.

Birkenhold, Matthew H. Characters before Copyright: The Rise and Regulation of Fan Fiction in Eighteenth-Century Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Blair, Amy. »Main Street Reading Main Street«. New Directions in American Reception Study, ed. by Philip Goldstein. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007: 223–254.

Blake, David Haven. »When Readers Become Fans: Nineteenth-Century American Poetry as a Fan Activity«. American Studies Vol. 52, No. 1 (2012): 99–122.

Brombley, Katharine. »A Case Study of Early British Sherlockian Fandom«. Transformative Works and Cultures, No. 23 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2017.0861.

Crome, Andrew. 2019. »Considering Eighteenth-Century Prophecy as Transformative Work.« Transformative Works and Cultures, No. 30 (2019). https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2019.1629.

Cuddy-Keane, Melba. »From Fan-Mail to Reader’s Letters: Locating John Farrelly«. Woolf Studies Annual, Vol. 11 (2005): 3–32.

D’Alessandro, Michael. »Dickens and Shakespeare and Longfellow, Oh My!: Staging the Fan Canon at the Nineteenth-Century Authors’ Carnivals«. American Literary History, Vol. 35, No. 2 (2023): 715-743.

Edwards, Alexandra. Fanaticism, Yes! Literary Fan Cultures of the Early Twentieth Century. PhD thesis, University of Georgia, 2017. https://getd.libs.uga.edu/pdfs/edwards_alexandra_201705_phd.pdf

Edwards, Alexandra. »Literature Fandom and Literary Fans«. Wiley Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, edited by Paul Booth. Oxford, UK: Wiley Pub, 2018: 47-64.

Edwards, Alexandra. Before Fanfiction: Recovering the Literary History of American Media Fandom. Baton Rouge: Louisana State University Press, 2023.

Eisner, Eric. »Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Energies of Fandom«. Victorian Review, Vol. 33, No. 2 (2007): 85–102.

Eisner, Eric. »Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Energies of Fandom«. Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Literary Celebrity, ed. by Eric Eisner. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009: 136–153.

Ferris, Ina. »Book Fancy: Bibliomania and the Literary Word«. Keats-Shelley Journal, Vol. 58 (2009): 33–52.

Finnerty, Páraic. »›If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her‹: Dickinson and the Poetics of Celebrity«. The Emily Dickinson Journal, Vol. 26, No. 2 (2017): 25–50.

Fletcher, Harriet. »Byromania: Polidori, fandom and the Romantic vampire’s celebrity origins«. The Legacy of John Polidori. The Romantic Vampire and its Progeny, ed. by Sam George and Bill Hughes. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024: 64–80. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526166395.00014

Friedman, Emily C. »What We Talk About When We Talk About Fanfiction«. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 36, No. 1 (January 2024): 159–168.

Frost, Mark. »A Disciple of Whitman and Ruskin: William Harrison Riley, Transatlantic Celebrity, and the Perils of Working-Class Fandom«. Critical Survey, Vol. 27, No. 3 (2015): 63–81.

Gibson, Megan E. »Fandom: Enthusiastic Devotion, Religious and Theatrical Celebrity«. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Volume 48 (2019): 269–273.

Glosson, Sarah. Performing Jane: A Cultural History of Jane Austen Fandom. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020.

Haugtvedt, Erica. Transfictional Character and Transmedia Storyworlds in the British Nineteenth Century. Cham: Springer International Publishing Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

Honings, Rick. »›Mijn heer, ben jy die groote poëet!‹: Literair toerisme in de vroege negentiende eeuw.« Spiegel der Letteren, Vol. 56, No. 3 (2014): 279–307. https://doi.org/10.2143/SDL.56.3.3040763.

Jamison, Anne. »Look Back in Angria (The Bronte Family Fandom)«. Humanities, Vol. 11 (2022), 114.

Jones, Emily Griffiths. »Intimate Creations: Margaret Cavendish and the Violent Desires of Fandom«. Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Vol. 21, No. 3 (2021): 37–64.

Martin, Kristi. Nineteenth-Century Perceptions of Robert Browning: The Poet Through His Own Eyes and Those of His Victorian Critics and Devoted Readers. Master’s Thesis, Wake Forest University, 2010. https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/bitstream/handle/10339/14658/Kristi%20Martin%20Thesis.pdf

McClellan, Ann. »Creating transmedia fan engagement in Victorian periodicals: The case of Sherlock Holmes«. Transmedia Practices in the Long Nineteenth Century, ed. by Christina Meyer and Monika Pietrzak-Franger. Routledge Advances in Transmedia Studies. London: Routledge, 2022: 305–340.

Moskal, Jeanne. »A missionary in Byron’s fandom«. Notes & Queries, Vol. 65, No. 3 (2018): 361–363.

Pearson, Roberta. »Janeites and Sherlockians: Literary Societies, Cultural Legitimacy, and Gender«. Wiley Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, ed. by Paul Booth. Oxford, UK: Wiley Pub, 2018: 495–508.

Robertson, Michael. Worshipping Walt: The Whitman Disciples. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.

Ryan, Barbara. Chronicling Ben-Hur’s Climb, 1880–1924. London: Routledge, 2019.

Ryan, Barbara. »›A Real Basis from Which to Judge‹: Fan Mail to Gene Stratton-Porter«. Reading Acts, U. S. Readers’ Interactions with Literature, 1800-1950. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002: 161–178.

Rzepka, Charles J. »›The Unofficial Force‹: Irregular Author Love and the Higher Criticism«. Transatlantic Literature and Author Love in the Nineteenth Century, ed. by Paul Westover and Ann Wierda Rowland. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Cham: Springer International Publishing Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016: 293–320.

Thomas Ruys Smith. »›The Enchantments of Waverley‹: Walter Scott and Children’s Reading in Nineteenth-Century America«. Nineteenth-Century Literature, Vol. 77, Nos. 2–3 (2022): 145–175.  https://doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2022.77.2-3.145

Throsby, Corin. »Flirting with Fame: Byron’s Anonymous Fan Letters«. Byron Journal, Vol. 32 (2004): 115–24.

Throsby, Corin. »Byron, commonplacing, and early fan culture«. Romanticism and Celebrity Culture, 1750-1850, ed. by Tom Mole. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009: 227–244.

Watson, Nicola J. »Fandom mapped: Rousseau, Scott and Byron on the itinerary of Lady Frances Shelley«. Romantic Circles Praxis Series: Romantic Fandom, 2011. https://oro.open.ac.uk/26939/1/Watson%20Fandom%20Mapped%20Romantic%20Fandom.pdf

Wilson, Anna. »Fan Fiction and Premodern Literature: Methods and Definitions«. Transformative Works and Cultures, Vol. 36 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2021.2037

Music

Blissett, William. »Ernest Newman and English Wagnerism«. Music & Letters, Vol. 40, No. 4 (1959): 311–323.

Cavicchi, Daniel. »Loving Music: Listeners, Entertainments, and the Origins of Music Fandom in the Nineteenth Century.« Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World, ed. by Cornell Sandvoss, Jonathan Gray, and C. Lee Harrington. New York: New York University Press, 2007. Second Edition 2017.

Cavicchi, Daniel. Listening and Longing: Music Lovers in the Age of Barnum. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press, 2011.

Davis, Tracy C. »Opera Fans: Female Stratagems and Social Power«. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 55, No. 4 (2022): 517–543.

Fishzon, Anna. Fandom, Authenticity, and Opera: Mad Acts and Letter Scenes in Fin-de-Siecle Russia. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Hollenbach, Katie Beisel. The Business of Bobby Soxers: Cultural Production in 1940s Frank Sinatra Fandom. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.

Holmes, Gerard. »Emily Dickinson, Jenny Lind, and Rural Nineteenth-Century Fandom«. Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, Vol. 12 (2020): 38–53.

Hunt, Andrew. Beatlemania in America: Fan Culture from Below. London: Bloomsbury, 2023.

Liu, J. »Writing on Actresses and the Modern Transformation of Opera Fandom in 1910s Beijing«. Modern China, Vol. 45, No. 4 (2019): 433–465. https://doi.org/10.1177/0097700418798765

Palazzetti, Nicolò. »Opera, Audio Technologies, and Audience Practices in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Case of Jules Verne«. Sound Stage Screen Vol. 2, No. 2 (2023): 33–59. https://doi.org/10.54103/sss18617

Peretti, Burton W. »Democratic Leitmotivs in the American Reception of Wagner«. 19th-Century Music, Vol. 13, No. 1 (1989): 28–38.

Rasula, Jed. »Wagnerism: A Telephone from the Beyond.« The Georgia Review, Vol. 65, No. 2 (2011): 399–430.

Reiman, Heli. »Those Who Built Socialism with a Jazz Face: Soviet Jazz Fandom in the 1960s and Latvian Jazz Fan Leonid Nidbalsky«. Mūzikas akadēmijas raksti, XX. https://taju.uniarts.fi/handle/10024/7727

Ross, Alex. Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music. New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2020.

Rutherford, Susan. »Divining the ›Diva‹, or a Myth and its Legacy: Female Opera Singers and Fandom«. Schweizer Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft / Annales Suisses de Musicologie / Annuario Svizzero di Musicologia. Neue Folge 36 (2016): 39–62.

Salmi, Hannu. »Wagnerism as Participatory Culture: Nordic Perspectives«. Wagner and the North, ed. by Anne Kauppala and Martin Knust. Helsinki: University of Arts, 2021: 71–87. https://www.utupub.fi/handle/10024/169299

Sneeringer, Julia. »John Lennon, Autograph Hound: The Fan-Musician Community in Hamburg's Early Rock-and-Roll Scene, 1960–65«. Transformative Works and Cultures, No. 6 (2011). https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2011.0228

van Gessel, Jeroen. »Between Music Tourism and Fandom: The operatic exploits of Ferdinand de Beaufort (1797–1868).« Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, Vol. 69 (2019), 91–107.

Wood, Gillen D’Arcy. »Stendhal at La Scala: The Birth of Musical Fandom«. The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music, ed. by Delia da Sousa Correa. Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities. Edinburgh:  Edinburgh University Press, 2020: 429–436. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748693139-046

Radio

Birdsall, Carolyn. Radiophilia. The Study of Sound. New York: Bloomsbury, 2023.

McCracken, Alison. »A History of Fandom in Broadcasting«. A Companion to the History of American Broadcasting, ed. by Aniko Bodroghkozy. Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies, Vol. 18.  Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2018: 413–442.

Simmons, Charlene. »Dear Radio Broadcaster: Fan Mail as a Form of Perceived Interactivity«. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Vol. 53, No. 3 (July 2009): 444–459. https://doi.org/10.1080/08838150903102626.

Science Fiction

Hellekson, Karen L. »Fandom and Fan Culture in the Golden Age and Beyond«. The Cambridge History of Science Fiction, ed. by Gerry Canavan and Eric C. Link. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019: 295–307.

Hellekson, Karen L. »Fandom, Fanzines, and Archiving Science Fiction Fannish History«. Proceedings from The Document Academy, Vol. 10, No. 1 (2023). https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/docam/vol10/iss1/2/

Saler, Michael. As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Sweeney, Laura J. The Origins of the Star Trek Phenomenon: Gene Roddenberry, the Original Series, and Science Fiction Fandom in the 1960s. Master’s Thesis, California State University, 2012.

Sports

Brown, Paul. Savage Enthusiasm: A History of Football Fans. County Durham: Goal Post, 2017.

Cameron, Alan. Circus Factions: Blues and Greens at Rome and Byzantium. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.

Freedman, Stephen. »The Baseball Fad in Chicago, 1865–1870: An Exploration of the Role of Sport in the Nineteenth-Century City«. Journal of Sport History, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1978): 42–64.

Nash, Peter J. Boston’s Royal Rooters. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2005. https://archive.org/details/bostonsroyalroot0000nash

Pope, Stacey, and John Williams. »›White shoes to a football match!‹: Female Experiences of Football's Golden Age in England«. Transformative Works and Cultures, No. 6 (2011). https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2011.0230

Shulman, David. »On the Early Use of Fan in Baseball«. American Speech, Vol. 71, No. 3 (1996): 328–331.

Stein, Fred. History of the Baseball Fan. Jefferson, NC: McFarland 2005.

Tripp, Steve. »The Most Popular Unpopular Man in Baseball: Baseball Fans and Ty Cobb in the Early 20th Century«. Journal of Social History, Vol. 43, No. 1 (2009): 67–87.

Stage (Theater, Opera)

Hobgood, Allison P.: Passionate Playgoing in Early Modern England. Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Barstow, Susan Torrey. »›Hedda Is All of Us‹: Late-Victorian Women at the Matinee«. Victorian Studies, Vol. 43, No. 3 (2001): 387–411.

Theater Mania in Eighteenth-Century Europe. An Interdisciplinary and Contextual Approach to the History of Theater, ed. by Sonia Bellavia. Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2023.

Block, Adrienne Fried. »Matinee Mania, or the Regendering of Nineteenth-Century Audiences in New York City«. 19th-Century Music, Vol. 31, No. 3 (2008): 193–216.

Grime, Helen. »Postcards, Letters and Magazines. Fan Culture in the Early Twentieth Century«. The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century British Theatre and Performance: Vol. 1: 1900–1950, ed. by Claire Cochrane, Lynette Goddard, Catherine Hindson, and Trish Reid. London: Routledge, 2024: 276–289.

Łuksza, Agata. »›Orgies of the upper gallery‹: Preliminary reflections on nineteenth-century theatre fans«. Journal of Fandom Studies, Vol. 6, No. 3 (2018): 263–278.

Łuksza, Agata. »Being a Modrzejewska's Fangirl: Female Fandom and Celebrity in Nineteenth-Century Polish Theatre.« Theatre Journal, Vol. 74, No. 1 (2022): 17-40.

Łuksza, Agata. Polish Theatre Revisited: Theatre Fans in the Nineteenth Century. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2023. 

Matsudaira, S. »Hiiki Renchū (Theatre Fan Clubs) in Osaka in the Early Nineteenth Century«. Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 18, No. 4 (1984): 699–709.

Mendonca, Marlene Ramos. Archiving the »Sweet« Candy-Loving Matinee Girl: Fashion, Confectionaries, and Fan Scrapbooking in Urban American Culture, 1880–1915. PhD thesis, York University, 2018. https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/items/356c1ff6-f766-444c-ab74-9f1d119bc951

Millette, Holly Gale. »›Mad About the Blonde‹: Lydia Thompson’s Transatlantic Celebrity and Fandom«. Comparative American Studies. An International Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1 (2016): 34–48. https://doi.org/10.1080/14775700.2016.1213015

Pope, Jonathan. Shakespeare’s Fans: Adapting the Bard in the Age of Media Fandom. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

Schoch, Richard. Shakespeare’s House: A Window onto his Life and Legacy. London: Bloomsbury, 2024.

Soulstein, S. K. Macbeth as Avatar: fandom in British Romantic theatre audiences. MA Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0072698

Wanko, Cheryl. »Patron or patronised?: ›Fans‹ and the eighteenth-century English stage«. Romanticism and Celebrity Culture, 1750–1850, ed. by Tom Mole. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009: 209–226.

Other

Dawson, Ruth Pritchard. Catherine the Great and the Culture of Celebrity in the Eighteenth Century. Cultures of Early Modern Europe. London et al.: Bloomsbury, 2022.

Drouin, Jeremy. »Early BaseBall ›Cranks‹ and ›Fans‹ – KCQ Touches Alle the Bases in This Investigation«. https://kchistory.org/blog/early-baseball-“cranks”-and-“fans”-kcq-touches-all-bases-investigation, 8. April 2021.

Grasso, Linda M. »›You are no stranger to me‹: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Fan Mail«. Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, Vol. 5 (2013): 24–40.

Johnson, Evan Jeremy. But the Crowd Was Not Satisfied: Blackface Minstrelsy and Lynching as Fandoms of the Black Remediated Body. PhD thesis. University of Texas Dallas, 2017. https://utd-ir.tdl.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/b0fdf831-8695-41a6-a1cd-c9ade8fc393a/content

Keller, Vera. »The ›Lover‹ and Early Modern Fandom«. Transformative Works and Cultures, No. 7 (2011). https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2011.0351

Reagin, Nancy. »Dances With Worlds: Karl May, ›Indian‹ hobbyists, and German fans of the American West since 1912«. Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, Vol. 13, No. 1 (2016): 553–583. https://www.participations.org/13-01-32-reagin.pdf

Reagin, Nancy. Re-living the American Frontier: Western Fandoms, Reenactment, and Historical Hobbyists in Germany and America Since 1900. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2021.

Sartin, Roy Jo. »Egyptomania as a fandom (or two): How fanon became canon in the world’s oldest fandom«. Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, Vol. 18, No. 2 (2021): 159–186. https://www.participations.org/18-02-07-sartin.pdf