BA Advanced Course           Fall Semester 2013-4                             amygarnai@yahoo.com

 

  

This course will examine the novels of Jane Austen. We will locate Austen's writing within the cultural and historical contexts of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and view her exploration of a society undergoing change and the place of women within it. We will also engage with the debate surrounding the political positioning and cultural awareness that appears within these novels.

 

Course assessment:

 

40%: midterm assignment

40%: final exam

10%: two responses *

10% attendance and participation

 

* The responses will relate to the assigned reading for a particular lesson and must be submitted before the class discussion of that specific assignment. Each response should be about 1-1.5 pages and should reflect your own individual engagement with the text.

 

Texts:

 

Pride and Prejudice

Emma

Persuasion

The Watsons