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 extra work, typically involving 5,000 more words of critical writing and a presentation. The nature of those assignments are to be devised and agreed between student and professor by the third week of class.
WEEK 1
Tues. Jan. 18
Introduction to course and its requirements: Who was Jane Austen and who is she now?
Thurs. Jan. 20
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. 25
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. 27
Read: Northanger Abbey Chapters 11-20
WEEK 3
Tues. Feb. 1
Read: Northanger Abbey Chapter 21-end
Thurs. Feb. 3
Training in Voyant tools
Read: Volume I of Sense and Sensibility
WEEK 4
Tues. Feb. 8
Read: Volume II of Sense and Sensibility
Thurs. Feb. 10
Read: Volume III of Sense and Sensibility
View film version of Sense and Sensibility
WEEK 5
Tues. Feb. 15 First Essay Due today
Seminar Group 1: Critique of film version of Sense and Sensibility
Thurs. Feb. 17
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
(Voyant refresher workshop)
WEEK 6
Tues. Feb. 22
Read: Volume II Pride and Prejudice
Thurs. Feb. 24
Read: Volume II-III of Pride and Prejudice
WEEK 7
Tues. March 1
Read: Volume III of Pride and Prejudice
View film version of Pride and Prejudice
Thurs. March 3
Seminar Group 2: Critique of film version of the novel.
WEEK 8
Tues. March 8
Read: Volume 1 of Mansfield Park
Appendix A: The Theatricals at Mansfield Park
Appendix B: Religion
Thurs. March 10
Read: Volume 2 of Mansfield Park
Appendix C: Ideals of Femininity
Appendix F: A Woman’s Education
Appendix D: “The Improvement of the Estate”
WEEK 9
Tues. March 15 Second Essay Due
Read: Volume 3 Mansfield Park
Appendix E: The West Indian Connection
Thurs. March 17 NO CLASS (Makeup to occur during a lunchtime session in the week after Spring break during which the group doing their film critique of Mansfield Park will present).
WEEK 10 SPRING BREAK March 21-25
WEEK 11
Tues. March 29
Volume 3 Mansfield Park
MAKEUP LUNCHTIME CLASS THIS WEEK: Seminar Group 3: Film critique of Mansfield Park
Thurs. March 31
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 12
Tues. April 5
Read: Volume II of Emma
Thurs. April 7
Read: Volume II-III of Emma
WEEK 13
Tues. April 12
Read: Volume III Emma
Thurs. April 14
View films Emma and Clueless
Seminar Group 4: Critique of film versions of the novel.
WEEK 14
Tues. April 19 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 21
Read Volume 2 of Persuasion
WEEK 15
Tues. April 26
Read Volume 3 of Persuasion
Thurs. April 28
Persuasion and Summing up
View film version of Persuasion
Final Exams