ENGL 427: Jane Austen

Course Description

A reading of Jane Austen’s “big six” novels as well as her one unfinished novel, her juvenilia, letters, and favorite novelists of her own time. We will particularly analyze Austen’s novels as attempts to resolve historical tensions related to sexuality, obscene wealth, and ideas of national community. The literary periods addressed include the eighteenth century, Romantic Age, and reasons for her legacy and current popularity in postmodern centuries such as our own. (OC).