NOTE: There is NO mid-term exam in this course.
HONORS STUDENTS will have an extra assignment to be devised and agreed between student and teacher by the third week of class.
WEEK 1
Tues. Sept. 2
Introduction to Course and its requirements: Who was Jane Austen and who is she now?
Thurs. Sept. 4
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. Sept. 9 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. 11
Read: Chapters 11-20 Northanger Abbey
WEEK 3
Tues. Sept. 16
Read: Chapters 21 to end Northanger Abbey
Thurs. Sept. 18
Read: Volume I of Sense and Sensibility
Appendix B: Sensibility
WEEK 4 Makeup Class this Friday
Tues. Sept. 23
Read: Volume II of Sense and Sensibility
Thurs. Sept. 25
Read: Volume III of Sense and Sensibility
Fri. Sept. 26
View DVD Sense and Sensibility in library
SEMINAR Group 1 Critique of film version of the novel:
WEEK 5 FIRST ESSAY DUE
Tues. Sept. 30 First Essay Due this week
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. 2 First Essay Due
Read: Volume II of Pride and Prejudice
WEEK 6
Tues. Oct. 7
Read: Volume III of Pride and Prejudice
Thurs. Oct. 9
Pride and Prejudice
WEEK 7
Tues. Oct. 14
View DVD Pride and Prejudice in library for today's class
SEMINAR Group 2: Critique of film version of the novel:
Thurs. Oct. 16
Read: Volume 1 of Mansfield Park
Appendix A: The Theatricals at Mansfield Park
Appendix B: Religion
WEEK 8
Tues. Oct. 21
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. Oct. 23
Read: Volume 3 Mansfield Park
Appendix E: The West Indian Connection
WEEK 9 SECOND ESSAY DUE
Tues. Oct. 28 Essay due today
Read: Volume 3 Mansfield Park
Thurs. Oct. 30
Seminar 3: Critique of film version of Mansfield Park : Participating Honors Students
WEEK 10
Tues. Nov. 4
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. 6
Read: Volume II of Emma
WEEK 11
Tues. Nov. 11
Read: Volume III Emma
Thurs. Nov. 13
Read: To the end of Emma
WEEK 12
Tues. Nov. 18
View DVD’s of Emma and Clueless in library
SEMINAR Group 4: Critique of film versions of the novel:
Emma:
Clueless:
Thurs. Nov. 20
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”
WEEK 13
Tues. Nov. 25
Read: Volume 2 of Persuasion
Thurs. Nov. 28 NO CLASS -- THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
WEEK 14 THIRD ESSAY DUE
Tues. Dec. 2 Essay due today
Read: Volume 3 Persuasion
Thurs. Dec. 4
SEMINAR Group 5: Critique of film version of the novel: