Course Details
Country:
United Kingdom
Institution:
University of York
Course Title:
Jane Austen
Course Number:
ENG00074H
Course Description:
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen gets an audience. From Hollywood to Bollywood her novels have been adapted and reworked in cinematic love stories, while Janeites the world over continue to pore over the details of the cuts of dresses, dance steps, and Regency courtship rituals. Literary critics, on the other hand, now tend to focus on Austen’s pioneering narrative technique, and to situate her work in its historical and cultural contexts. This team-taught module will consider Austen’s published fiction (Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion) alongside some of her unpublished work. It will think about the way in which the novels explore the relationship between private feeling and the social world, and it will approach Austen as a writer whose work is suffused with politics – especially questions of gender, status, and authority – even as political ‘issues’ in
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
ENGH 309
Course URL:
https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/ENG00074H/latest
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