Jane Austen

(4 Credits)

This survey of Jane Austen’s work examines her compact oeuvre of fiction, whose critical reception has been formative to the discipline of English literature itself. We will read Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and other classics to consider Austen’s deep, virtuosic inheritance of eighteenth-century narrative forms as well as their afterlives in contemporary culture, including popular film adaptations of Austen’s work (Clueless, Love and Friendship). Students will embark on a careful study of an author widely recognized as one of the master stylists of the English language.