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Jane Austen

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Public Domain/Out of Copyright

Many readers enjoy Austen’s novels but cannot define the qualities that make them so special and enduring. This course will help you to analyse Austen’s style and techniques, and give you a greater knowledge of the novels’ context, which will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of reading them.

Date created:

2012-01-04 16:48
Tutor: 
Sandie Byrne
Subjects: 
English literature
Keywords: 
Jane Austen, Fiction, Novels, Women's writing, Nineteenth-century, Eighteenth - century
Course type: 
Weekly class

Course: Further details, online booking

Resources for this course

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Document Jane Austen: Why?

A presentation used in the first session of the course to start discussion about why we read Austen

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Document Jane Austen: Life and Work

A longer Powerpoint presentation than ‘Jane Austen Why?’. Also used in lectures. The part of this that does not duplicate the ‘Why?’ presentation...

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Link The Jane Austen Information pages of The Republic of Pemberley

An online resource containing useful information about Austen, her family, and her work

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Document Time MP and the Regency

Handout to accompany lecture on Mansfield Park and the Regency

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Link Calendars for Jane Austen’s Novels

Website with chronologies for Austen’s narratives

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Document Austen Questions

List of undergraduate essay questions

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Document Epistolary fiction

Handout on epistolary fiction

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Document Gothic Novel

Handout to accompany talk on Northanger Abbey and the Gothic Novel. Used in conjunction with the WW. Norton Norton Topics Online link provided,...

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Document Handout Emma talk

Handout to accompany lecture on Emma.

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Document Handout on context Mansfield Park

Document to accompany talk on Mansfield Park and the Regency

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Document Literature of Sensibility

Handout to accompany talk on the literature of sensibility

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Document Pride and Prejudice Language

Handout to accompany lecture on language of Pride and Prejudice.

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Document Sublime Beautiful Picturesque

Handout to accompany lecture on the Gothic/18th-19th-c aesthetics

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Document Augustan Literature

Handout to accompany lecture on Mansfield Park

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Link The Mirror of the Graces

Link to etext of The Mirror of the Graces a contemporary publication

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Document Romanticism

Handout to accompany lecture on context of Austen’s work

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Link Mysteries of Udolpho

Full text of Mysteries of Udolpho on Gutenberg

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Link The Norton Anthology of English Literature Topics: The Gothic

The Norton Anthology of English Literature Topics website page on The Gothic

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Audio Irony in Jane Austen's novels

Podcast on irony in Jane Austen's novels

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Audio Jane Austen's equations

Podcast on Jane Austen's equations

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