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Literature & Language
Subtopic
Literature
The Life and Works
of Jane Austen
Course Guidebook
Devoney Looser
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Devoney Looser
Foundation Professor of English
Arizona State University
D
evoney Looser is a Foundation Professor of English at Arizona
State University. She earned her PhD in English from Stony
Brook University.
Professor Looser is the author or editor of nine books, including
The Daily
Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes
and
The Making of Jane Austen,
which
appeared on
Publishers Weekly’s
list of best summer books. Her essays
have appeared in
The Atlantic, The New York Times, Salon, Slate,
the
TLS, Entertainment Weekly,
and
The Washington Post,
and she has had
the pleasure of discussing Austen on CNN. She was named a Guggenheim
Fellow and a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar in
support of her book
Sister Novelists: Jane and Anna Maria Porter in the
Age of Austen.
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Entering Jane Austen’s World
Life and Letters: The Genuine Austen
Juvenilia: Austen’s Raucous Early Works
Sense and Sensibility:
Sisters United
Pride and Prejudice:
Universal Truths
Mansfield Park:
Silence, Place, and Price
Emma:
The Proper Use of Power
Northanger Abbey:
Defending the Novel
Persuasion:
A Second Bloom
Regency Romance and Courtship
Marriage and Family in Austen’s Era
Money, Inheritance, and All They Entail
Class and Courtesy in Regency Society
British Life in Revolutionary Times
Clerks, Clergy, and Other Men’s Professions
The Accomplished Woman
Luxury, Fashion, and Labor in the Regency
Travel and Leisure in the Georgian Era
Health and Wellness in Austen’s England
After 1817: Austen’s Growing Posthumous Fame
Lady Susan:
Austen’s Merry Widow
Sanditon
and Austen’s Unfinished Fiction
Austen’s Relations: From Family to Fandom
Pop and Popularity: Austen’s Enduring Fame
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CoUrSE SCoPE
ThE LiFE AND WorKS
oF JANE AUSTEN
ane Austen is remarkable for being one of the few classic novelists who
is considered not only a literary genius but also a pop culture icon. To
some, she’s a master of irony and social criticism as well as a remarkable
prose stylist. To others, Austen’s greatest value is in her ability to tell
enduring love stories with satisfying, happy endings. But the fact is, we don’t
need to choose between these points of view. It’s entirely fair to say that
Austen is all of these things.
In this course, we’ll look at what makes Austen great and what makes her
characters and stories so popular. We’ll delve into the time period and
historical contexts in which she wrote, making it possible for those who
are new to the study of her novels to grasp and enjoy her fiction more fully.
If you’re already well versed in Austen’s fiction and her world, then these
lessons will give you opportunities to revisit your previous knowledge and
assumptions and to expand your expertise in areas that might be less familiar
or even unfamiliar.
The first two lessons serve as a dual introduction. One introduces Austen
through her authorship, in literary and political history, defining and
explaining key periodizing terms as well as her overarching achievements.
The second introduces Austen through her remarkable life in Great Britain
in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It provides opportunities to
consider how what she produced arose from who she was and how she lived.
Next, the course moves into a series of lessons on her earliest writings—her
juvenilia—and each of her six major novels, in the order of their publication:
Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma,
Northanger Abbey,
and
Persuasion.
We’ll consider the novels’ unforgettable
characters, trenchant themes, opening lines, and famous quips. You’ll
emerge with the opportunity to resee everything from their catchy titles to
their signature conclusions.
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