Jane Austen Studies

[stella]

Originally Posted by Virginia Claire T

These courses look so fantastic I want to take them all. I am but a senior in college and had the very good fortune to take a Jane Austen seminar from a wonderful teacher. I cant tell everyone how rewarding it is to be in a room full of people who are all drawn to Jane Austen. Most were not Janeites but several of them became Janeites as the semester progresses. I made some of my best friends of college in that class because wonderful subject matter and discussion. But there were people in the class who were not as big of fans as some of us and others who were not as thoughtful. I loved the girls in the class who though new to Austen brought a new and different perspective to the study of her works. That is what brought out the best insight and discussion for the class.

I can agree with that Virginia as most classes academic or not can improve ones view and knowledge on Jane and bring like-minded people together whether it be male or female.

Stella

PS. I always keep an eye and ear out for new courses as I always like to encourage myself and others to try a course or continue studies.

[Claudine]

About Manhattanville

At Manhattanville College, rigorous academic preparation within a nurturing environment is matched by personalized attention to every student. Our close-knit community of 1,700 undergraduate students and 1,200 graduate students is diverse, representing over 48 states and 76 countries.
With more than 50 areas of undergraduate study, ranging from the Liberal Arts to cross-disciplinary studies such as Environmental Science, and professional concentrations such as Business and Museum Studies, our students discover their passions while here and feel empowered to make a difference in the larger local, national, and international communities around us.
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ENG 3020: Jane Austen and Popular Culture (3 cr.)
This seminar examines the status of the Regency writer Jane Austen, often considered one of England's finest novelists, in our own popular culture. Readings will include a biography of Austen, four of her novels, selected scholarly articles on her current popularity, and creative responses to her work in the realms of fiction and non-fiction. We will also view several recent film adaptations of her novels. Note: this course counts as a major author course.

ENG 3061: The English Novel (3 cr.)
This seminar will examine definitions of the novel as a genre from the eighteenth century to the twentieth century. As a new art form in the eighteenth century, the novel represented a new voice and new values in literature, embedded in realism, relatively democratic, sometimes female, and often middle class. Readings will include representative novels from the 18th- 19th- and 20th-centuries. Alternates every other year with ENG 3076: Satire in Literature and Film. Note: this counts as a genre course. Research paper.

ENG 3108: Victorian Novels of Vocation (3 cr.)
This course examines the importance of vocation - a call to meaningful work in the world, which sometimes takes the form of a particular profession - in the novels by Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. It will also attend to other key themes and to evolving techniques of narration, characterization, and description; contextual reading will include brief biographical selections and some criticism. Recommended: ENG 2035 (Victorian Literature). Note: this counts as a genre course.

Creative and Professional Writing Courses:
ENW 2030: Approaches to Creative Writing (3 cr.)
This prose class will examine the mechanics and basic techniques essential to master such prose forms as: the memoir, the short story and the personal essay. These essentials of the craft of writing are 1) narrative voice, 2) characterization, 3) use of critical details as well as 4) fluency with college level grammar and vocabulary. The course is writing intensive and reading intensive. (Fall) (Spring)


Juliette Wells teaches courses in Victorian literature, women’s writing, the novel, and contemporary literature. She joined the Manhattanville faculty in 2003 upon receiving her Ph.D. from Yale University; she also holds master’s degrees from Yale and Johns Hopkins. She is the author of articles on Jane Austen, George Eliot, and “chick lit,” as well as a co-editor of The Brontës in the World of the Arts (from Ashgate).

Many more courses offered but not enough room here to list them all.




http://www.mville.edu/AdmissionsandF...d/Default.aspx

http://www.mville.edu/SearchResults.aspx

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EDUCATION AND RESEARCH



VISITING FELLOWSHIPS In partnership with the University of Southampton


> 2009 -2010 > 2008 - 2009> 2007 - 2008By clicking the above dates you can view a list of our current and previous visiting fellows.

Our visiting fellowship programme enables scholars undertaking significant research in the long eighteenth century to access the collections at Chawton House Library.

From January 2010, our fellowship scheme will be offered in partnership with the School of Humanities at the University of Southampton, which has particular strengths in eighteenth-century studies.

Applications are therefore invited for 1-3 month visiting fellowships at Chawton House Library (CHL) to be taken up between October 2010 and the end of August 2011.

Chawton House library visiting fellows will also be made visiting fellows at the University of Southampton, enabling them to use the electronic resources and archives at the Hartley library.

The deadline for completed applications for these fellowships is May 30th 2010.


http://www.chawton.org/education/fel...tml#Fellowship

[stella]

The novels communicate a profound sense of the movement in English history--when the old Georgian world of the eighteenth century was being carried uneasily and reluctantly into the new world of Regency England, the Augustan world into the romantic

--I thought this would be a great link for those wanting to do their own home studies in Jane Austen and other great literature works.


http://www.auburn.edu/~rholejw/gb2pride.htm

[stella]

2010-2011 Course Catalog
ENGL-183 Jane Austen
ENGL-183 Jane Austen
Fall only
Faculty:
O'Malley, Patrick
FALL 2010
PROFESSOR PATRICK O'MALLEY
ENGL 183


Jane Austen

In this course, we will read all of Austen’s completed novels (Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion) as well as such other works as Lady Susan and Sanditon. We will examine such persistent questions in Austen’s work as the relationship between authorship and gender, the class structure, obedience and transgression, national identity, and the development of a literary tradition. In addition, we will read critical appraisals of Austen’s influence from nineteenth-century sources to such early twentieth-century admirers as Virginia Woolf to later analyses of Austen’s literary and political position. Regular participation in class discussions and frequent critical writing projects will be required.

http://courses.georgetown.edu/index....rseID=ENGL-183

Georgetown University Main Campus and Medical Center
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Jane Austen's England Syllabus 2010-2011
Jane Austen’s England (2010-2011 School Year)

Course Description:

Enter the world of Jane Austen and discover how her novels brought the genre to the forefront of English literature. This year-long tutorial covers Austen’s novels and minor works as well as the history and literature surrounding them. Students will complete a brief reading guide with each novel to aid class discussion. Graded work will include creative writing assignments, a research project, and timed in-class essays over all the readings for each semester. This reading-intensive tutorial is open to junior high and high school students.



http://www.pemberleytutorials.com/

http://pemberleytutorials.com/yearaustensyllabus.htm

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Jane Austen: The Novels and the Films
The novels of Jane Austen have continued to be popular two centuries after she wrote them and in a world she would hardly recognize. Part of their attraction is the love story, of course. But part is the way in which her characters and their situations seem to transcend time, space, and culture. The films based on these novels are the best indication of how adaptable Austen can be, for they reflect their own time as much as they reflect hers. We will look at Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion together in depth, and subgroups will work individually on other novels and films: Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, and Emma. Evaluation will be based on group presentations, class participation, a paper, and a final examination.


http://faculty.bsc.edu/jtatter/winter.html

John D. Tatter, Birmingham-Southern College, jtatter@bsc.edu
Birmingham-Southern College | 900 Arkadelphia Road | Birmingham, AL 35254

[Claudine]

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Originally Posted by Claudine

University/College and Online Courses available UK/US/Canada (Some may be available in the near future TBA)

Offering Jane Austen Studies courses, creative writing or english literature

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University of Toronto ~ Continuing Studies - Online Courses

1744 Jane Austen: Novelist
Often regarded as the greatest novelist in the English language, Jane Austen's life transpired almost entirely within the confines of a conventional domestic setting. Yet her novels are masterpieces of wit, perception, comedy, satire, morality, reason and style. This course examines her six novels - Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion - with an eye toward a fuller appreciation of her literary achievement. Some discussion of recent film and television treatments may also be considered.

http://2learn.utoronto.ca/uoft/searc...urseId=1183548

1346 The Writer's Handbook
Do you want to write with more confidence? Do you want to be certain that your basic written style is grammatically correct, coherent and energetic? A refresher in such essential elements as grammar, punctuation, sentence structure and usage, this course builds on your innate knowledge of how the English language works. Through a series of exercises and short, highly focused writing assignments you master the techniques of clear, correct and effective writing.


http://2learn.utoronto.ca/uoft/searc...ourseId=675421

George Brown College, Toronto

http://coned.georgebrown.ca/owa_prod...am_code=PS0081

Jane Austen: Novelist (1744), offered through the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, is now open for enrollment. Please click here (learn.utoronto.ca) to enroll. You are receiving this message at your request.

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Course Description: Often regarded as the greatest novelist in the English language, Jane Austen's life transpired almost entirely within the confines of a conventional domestic setting. Yet her novels are masterpieces of wit, perception, comedy, satire, morality, reason and style. This course examines her six novels - Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion - with an eye toward a fuller appreciation of her literary achievement. Some discussion of recent film and television treatments may also be considered.

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Instruction Method(s):
IN-CLASS

Schedule:
Wed 1:00PM - 3:00PM , 19 Jan 2011 to 9 Mar 2011
Campus: St. George Campus, TBA

Instructor(s): John Greenwood

Number of Meeting(s): 8

Required Text(s):

Fees:
Flat Fee : $290.00



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