Jane Austen--Fall 1993--brief course description
Required Texts:
Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. Ed. James Kinsley. Introd. Margaret Anne Doody. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1990.
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Second ed. Ed. Donald J. Gray. New York: W. W. Norton, 1993?.
Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Ed. James Kinsley. Introd. Marilyn Butler. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1990.
Austen, Jane. Emma. Second ed. Ed. S. M. Parrish. New York: W. W. Norton, 1993?.
Austen, Jane. Persuasion. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1990?.
One or two coursepacks of advice and essays.
Course Description:
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." We will analyze who acknowledges such "truths" and why, focusing on the social, political, and gender-inflected positions of Austen's characters, from Anne Elliot, whose "word had no weight," to Emma Woodhouse, who does "just what she [likes]." While enjoying the satiric pleasures of the novels, we will also reconsider the significance of Austen, a woman who published her novels anonymously, describing herself as "the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress."
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