JANE AUSTEN: IN HER WORLD AND OURS
NOTE: There is NO mid-term exam in this course.
HONORS STUDENTS: Those who take this course for Honors will have an extra assignment, to be devised and agreed between student and professor by the third week of class.
WEEK 1
Tues. Jan. 22
Introduction to course and its requirements: Who was Jane Austen and who is she now?
Thurs. Jan. 24
Read Lady Susan and selections from the Juvenilia on the website, particularly those writings Austen compiled in Volumes 1, 2 and 3:
http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/juviscrp.html
WEEK 2
Tues. Jan. 29
Playing with the gothic novel and the novel of sensibility
Read: Chapters 1-10 of Northanger Abbey
Appendix C: Examples of Jane Austen's reading
Appendix D: Catherine Morland's reading
Thurs. Jan. 31
Read: Northanger Abbey Chapters 11-20
WEEK 3
Tues. Feb. 5 regular class PLUS lunchtime class with librarian on DH tool Voyant (12:45-1:30 in Library) as makeup for cancelled class on April 23.
Read: Northanger Abbey Chapter 21-end
Thurs. Feb. 7
Read: Volume I of Sense and Sensibility
WEEK 4
Tues. Feb. 12
Read: Volume II of Sense and Sensibility
Thurs. Feb. 14
Read: Volume III of Sense and Sensibility
WEEK 5
Tues. Feb. 19 First Essay Due today
SEMINAR Group 1 Critique of film version of Sense and Sensibility
Thurs. Feb. 21
Read: Volume I of Pride and Prejudice
Appendix B: From the Conduct Books
Appendix C: Burke on the French Revolution
Appendix D: Discussion of Women’s Role after the French Revolution
Fri. Feb. 22
Read: Volume II of Pride and Prejudice (Voyant refresher workshop)
WEEK 6
Tues. Feb. 26
Read: Volume II-III of Pride and Prejudice
Thurs. Feb. 28
Read: Volume III of Pride and Prejudice
WEEK 7
Tues. March 5
SEMINAR Group 2: Critique of film version of the novel.
Thurs. March 7
Read: Volume 1 of Mansfield Park
Appendix A: The Theatricals at Mansfield Park
Appendix B: Religion
WEEK 8 SPRING BREAK
WEEK 9
Tues. March 19
Read: Volume 2 of Mansfield Park
Appendix C: Ideals of Femininity
Appendix F: A Woman’s Education
Appendix D: “The Improvement of the Estate”
Thurs. March 21
Read: Volume 3 Mansfield Park
Appendix E: The West Indian Connection
WEEK 10
Tues. March 26 Second Essay Due Today
Seminar 3: Critique of film version of Mansfield Park
Thurs. March 28
Read: Volume I of Emma
Appendix A: The Composition and Reception of the Novel
Appendix B: Social Class and Landed Society
Appendix C: The Landless: Gypsies and Bastards
WEEK 11
Tues. April 2
Read: Volume II of Emma
Thurs. April 4
Read: Volume III Emma
WEEK 12
Tues. April 9
Read: To the end of Emma
Thurs. April 11
View DVD’s of Emma and Clueless in library
SEMINAR Group 4: Critique of film versions of the novel.
WEEK 13
Tues. April 16 Third essay due today
Read: Volume I Persuasion
Appendix G From Thomson’s The Seasons
Appendix H From Walter Scott’s Marmion
Appendix I From Byron’s “The Gaiour”
Thurs. April 18
Read Volume 2 of Persuasion
WEEK 14
No Classes Tues. April 23 and Thurs. April 25
WEEK 15
Tues. April 30
Persuasion
View DVD of the book and come prepared to discuss.
Thurs. May 2
Persuasion and Summing up
Final Exams May 6-10