Feb 19, 2020 21:00:00

Many secondary creations by fans were as sexual as in the 18th century

In Japan,

secondary creations such as anime, manga, and games are thriving, but overseas, as fan fiction , secondary creations by fans rather than the original authors have been performed for a long time. Overseas, Harry Potter's secondary creations are popular, but secondary creations have been performed overseas since the 1700s, and at that time the same `` sexual and vile story '' as modern ones The Atlantic summarizes that there were many.

The Surprising 18th-Century Origins of Fan Fiction-The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/02/surprising-18th-century-origins-fan-fiction/606532/

Until a while ago, sharing secondary creations on the Internet seemed to be the act of polluting the works and characters created by others, but now it is not such a thing, as many as in Japan Has been overflowing in various places such as SNS and personal blogs.

The Archive of Our Own site, which organizes fan-created works that have been operating for over 10 years, has over 5 million fan-created works. In 2019, the site was recognized for its contributions to science fiction and fantasy works, and has become so well-known that it won the Hugo Awards . Also, renowned writers such as Meg Cabot of the Princess Diary series and Naomi Novik of the Series of The Battle of Temelea are known as authors of secondary creation, and the field of secondary creation is steadily abroad. You can see that it is popular.

It is a secondary creation that seems to have exploded due to the emergence of the Internet and SNS, but its history extends to centuries. The Atlantic claims that some of the great classical literature is akin to recreational works, such as Tom Stoppard's play

Rosenkrantz and Gilden Stern are dead, while Shakespeare's Hamlet Is a kind of secondary creation.

The Atlantic also wrote that at least in the 18th century, there were multiple works in the English-speaking world, such as modern creations. Outside of academia, the historical background of secondary creation has not been much discussed, but acts such as `` writing a continuation of the story on its own to extend the adventure of your favorite character '' have been done for a long time It is said that has been confirmed.

In particular,

Jonathan Swift 's satire novel ' Gulliver's Travels ' published in 1726 seems to have a firm record of fan creations. Shortly after Gulliver's Travelogue was published, readers were delusional about the adventures of the main character, Gulliver, and in fact some 'fan art' remains.

William Hogarth , one of the 18th-century British national painters, depicts a Gulliver being injected into his ass.

Another 18th-century poet Alexander Pope wrote poems by Mrs. Gulliver. Not surprisingly, it is not only prominent writers who have created the second creation of Gulliver's Travelogue. Hundreds of fans have devised Gulliver's adventures and imagined the background behind them to create secondary creations.

Samuel Richardson 's `` Pamira, or the Reward of Shukutoku, '' published in 1740, describes a beautiful booth that rejects the sexual temptation of an amorous young master, marries a converted young master, and becomes a landowning wife. A work that goes up to In the secondary creation of the same work, there are many works that inflate sexual delusions about Pamila, and Henry Fielding , a novelist and magistrate, said that `` Reward for Pamira or Shukutoku '' was too much. He opposes being hypocritical and publishes 'Shamira' and 'Joseph Andrews', parody works depicting sexually slutty Pamira. Although some of the early creations were poor, some were very popular, with The Atlantic saying, `` Fielding is a modern EL James (author of the Fifty Shades of Gray). And was supported by thousands of readers. '

The Japanese version of Shamira was released by Asahi Publisher in 1985, and Amazon.co.jp sells used ones for 13,115 yen.

Shamira | Henry Fielding, Nobuhiko Nobuhiko | Books |

Regarding secondary creation in the 18th century, The Atlantic states that `` it's a cumbersome but enthusiastic, self-selective reader community that has emerged across Europe and is essentially like the modern Archive of Our Own. '' Expressing. At that time, secondary creations were not as easy to share and comment on instantly, but in the 1900s the increasing literacy of the middle class helped them become more widely known. It seems to have become.

Eventually, the original authors, not the creatives, will begin to explore the commercial potential of the creative community. For example, Samuel Richardson frequently interacts with enthusiastic readers and sometimes incorporates their opinions into his work. The Atlantic says, 'Probably this was an attempt to curb the audience and their fantasies,' pointing out that it was the author's attempt to prevent others from trying to profit from their work. You.

In the 18th century, the Industrial Revolution changed people's view of marriage, requiring works of those days to have a flexible yet realistic character. In Samuel Richardson's Clarissa , Richardson argued that marriage was a complex social, economic, and moral choice that would have a life-long impact. All aspects of are described at length. The reader, on the other hand, was eager to argue that the author's claim was wrong, and produced a number of secondary works in which Clarissa formed another partner with a different ending from the original.

Even today, there are cases where fans who are dissatisfied with the ending of the work create secondary creations that have a different ending from the original. There are many examples of this, including fans who were dissatisfied with the end of the Star Wars series trilogy and rewrote the ending .

The quality of a work should be decided by the individual, but the fact that the Archive of Our Own, a platform for secondary creations, won the Hugo Award indicates the importance of secondary creations that have continued since the 18th century. The Atlantic wrote that it was.