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123210 VO Literatures in English (2014S)

Jane Austen in Her Time

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

Details

max. 150 participants
Language: English

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 11.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3 2A211 2.OG UZA II Geo-Zentrum
    Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 18.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3 2A211 2.OG UZA II Geo-Zentrum
    Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 25.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3 2A211 2.OG UZA II Geo-Zentrum
    Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 01.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3 2A211 2.OG UZA II Geo-Zentrum
    Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 08.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3 2A211 2.OG UZA II Geo-Zentrum
    Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 29.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3 2A211 2.OG UZA II Geo-Zentrum
    Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 06.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3 2A211 2.OG UZA II Geo-Zentrum
    Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 13.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3 2A211 2.OG UZA II Geo-Zentrum
    Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 20.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3 2A211 2.OG UZA II Geo-Zentrum
    Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 27.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3 2A211 2.OG UZA II Geo-Zentrum
    Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 03.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3 2A211 2.OG UZA II Geo-Zentrum
    Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 17.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3 2A211 2.OG UZA II Geo-Zentrum
    Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Jane Austen lived and wrote during one of the most tumultuous periods in British history. Yet readers have taken her at her word about those little pieces of ivory that she claimed were her domain. In this course we will be reading Austen's four major novels, "Mansfield Park", "Pride and Prejudice", "Emma" and "Persuasion" (in that order for those of you who want to get a bit ahead in your reading) against their historical contexts. And I do mean against, not within--a great deal of what the novels are doing is playing with what the author does not explicitly include in the books. We also will do some talking about images of women in some of the earlier eighteenth-century novels, although I will not be asking you to read these other books. My plan is to have rather a good time with the novels; discussions of Austen have become much too stuffy lately. We are going to put her back into her own time and remove some of the burdens with which too many contemporary critics have overloaded her work.

Assessment and permitted materials

final written exam

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

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Examination topics

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Reading list

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Association in the course directory

Studium: UF 344, ME 812, MA 844;
Code/Modul: UF 4.2.4-321, ME1, MA1. MA7;
Lehrinhalt: 12-0367

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