Tues. Sept. 4
Introduction to Course and its requirements: Who was Jane Austen and who is she now?
Thurs. Sept. 6
Read Lady Susan and selections from the Juvenilia on the website, particularly those Austen compiled in Volumes 1, 2 and 3: http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/juviscrp.html
WEEK 2
Tues. Sept. 11 Playing with the gothic 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
Thursday Sept. 13
Read: Chapters 11-20 Northanger Abbey
WEEK 3
Tues. Sept. 18
Read: Chapters 21 to end Northanger Abbey
Thurs. Sept. 20
Read: Volume I of Sense and Sensibility
Appendix B: Sensibility
Friday Sept. 21 (MAKEUP DAY FOR NOV.1)
Read: Volume II of Sense and Sensibility
WEEK 4
Tues. Sept. 25
Read: Volume III of Sense and Sensibility
Thurs. Sept. 27
View DVD Sense and Sensibility in library
SEMINAR Group 1 Critique of film version of the novel:
WEEK 5 FIRST ESSAY DUE
Tues. Oct. 2
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
Thurs. Oct. 4
Read: Volume II of Pride and Prejudice
WEEK 6
Tues. Oct. 9
Read: Volume III of Pride and Prejudice
Thurs. Oct. 11
Pride and Prejudice
Friday Oct. 12
View DVD Pride and Prejudice in library
SEMINAR Group 2: Critique of film version of the novel:
WEEK 7
Tues. Oct. 16
Read: Chapters 1-12 of Mansfield Park
Appendix A: The Theatricals at Mansfield Park
Appendix B: Religion
Thurs. Oct. 18
Read: Chapters 13-24 of Mansfield Park
Appendix C: Ideals of Femininity
Appendix F: A Woman’s Education
Appendix D: “The Improvement of the Estate”
WEEK 8
Tues. Oct. 23
Read: Volume 3 to end of Mansfield Park
Appendix E: The West Indian Connection
WEEK 9 SECOND ESSAY DUE
Tues. Oct. 30
Read Chapter 37 - end of Mansfield Park
Thurs. NOV. 1 NO CLASS
WEEK 10
Tues. Nov. 6
Read: Volume I of Emma
Appendix A: The Composition and Receptionof the Novel
Appendix B: Social Class and Landed Society
Appendix C: The Landless: Gypsies and Bastards
Thurs. Nov. 8
Read: Volume II of Emma
WEEK 11
Tues. Nov. 13
Read: Volume III of Emma
WEEK 11
Tues. Nov. 13
Read: Volume III Emma
Thurs. Nov. 15
Read: To the end of Emma
WEEK 12
Tues. Nov. 20
View DVD’s of Emma and Clueless in library
SEMINAR Group 3: Critique of film versions of the novel:
Thurs. Nov. 22 NO CLASS -- THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
Read Persuasion over this break.
WEEK 13
Tues. Nov. 27
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. Nov. 29
Read: Volume 1 of Persuasion continued
WEEK 14 THIRD ESSAY DUE
Tues. Dec. 4
Read: Volume 2 to end Persuasion
Thurs. Dec. 6
SEMINAR Group 4: Critique of film version of the novel: