Over the course of the 24 lessons of <b>The Life and Works of Jane Austen</b>, you will get invaluable insight into Austen’s everyday reality in the elegant and tumultuous Regency period and a more thorough understanding of her influence and lasting legacy. You will explore her six completed works, as well as her raucous teenage writings and unfinished novels. You will also get a guided tour of Austen’s world—the politics, social dynamics, major events, cultural markers, and class structures that defined the late 18th and early 19th centuries in Great Britain, and how these elements shaped her life and inspired her work.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Entering Jane Austen’s World
- 02: Life and Letters: The Genuine Austen
- 03: Juvenilia: Austen’s Raucous Early Works
- 04: Sense and Sensibility: Sisters United
- 05: Pride and Prejudice: Universal Truths
- 06: Mansfield Park: Silence, Place, and Price
- 07: Emma: The Proper Use of Power
- 08: Northanger Abbey: Defending the Novel
- 09: Persuasion: A Second Bloom
- 10: Regency Romance and Courtship
- 11: Marriage and Family in Austen’s Era
- 12: Money, Inheritance, and All They Entail
- 13: Class and Courtesy in Regency Society
- 14: British Life in Revolutionary Times
- 15: Clerks, Clergy, and Other Men’s Professions
- 16: The Accomplished Woman
- 17: Luxury, Fashion, and Labor in the Regency
- 18: Travel and Leisure in the Georgian Era
- 19: Health and Wellness in Austen’s England
- 20: After 1817: Austen’s Growing Posthumous Fame
- 21: Lady Susan: Austen’s Merry Widow
- 22: Sanditon and Austen’s Unfinished Fiction
- 23: Austen’s Relations: From Family to Fandom
- 24: Pop and Popularity: Austen’s Enduring Fame
Taught by
Devoney Looser
