Owing to the high demand for the What Jane Austen Read courses, and in order to ensure a fair, “first come, first served” registration process, the initial registration period for these courses is by phone only. Registration begins at 9 am on August 9. The phone number of the Registration Department is 773.702.1722. Calls will be answered in the order they are received, even when they are placed on hold because of the large call volume.
Great human drama takes place in the domestic sphere, and great human melodrama transports heroines and heroes to uncanny places, ruined abbeys, haunted castles, derelict manor houses, and edifices marked by death and devastation. Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey reveals that she loved the genre, and its popularity has not abated since Ann Radcliffe was crowned its queen in the eighteenth century. We peruse Gothic literature from Radcliffe to the Victorian Age; from the fin siecle to the present. Our authors include Austen, the Brontes, Bram Stoker, du Maurier, McEwan and others. Opera, art, and film enhance our perusals.
This course is open to all.
Reading List
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey. Oxford University Press, USA (May 15, 2008),
ISBN 978-0199535545
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre. Oxford University Press, USA (May 15, 2008),
ISBN 978-0199535590
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White. Penguin Classics Hardcover (September 28, 2010), ISBN 978-0141192420
Bram Stoker, Dracula. W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition (December 17, 1996),
ISBN 978-0393970128
Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca. Turtleback (November 1, 1994), ISBN 978-0808514527
Ian McEwan, Atonement. Anchor (February 25, 2003), ISBN 978-0385721790
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