你将学到什么
Develop knowledge and understanding of the historical and literary contexts in which Jane Austen was writing
Investigate virtually the important locations associated with Jane Austen and their impact on her writing
Assess and discuss the impact of Austen’s society on the depiction of arts and reading in her novels
Explore some of the myths surrounding women writers of the long eighteenth century
Identify the challenges of adapting, translating and interpreting Jane Austen’s works and how this affects global understanding of her work
Evaluate the marketing of Jane Austen in her own time and now
课程概况
Jane Austen went from being a moderately successful anonymous novelist in her own time to a global celebrity in ours. On this course you will explore how that happened, exploring Austen’s own literary influences, and her reputation over time.
You will learn about her origins in Hampshire, uncovering her formative years, and the society she lived in, asking how Austen’s location, background and reading influenced her novels. You will also consider the ways her own contemporaries read and responded to her, and her place in the modern canon of world literature today, 200 years after she died.
课程大纲
The Austen myth: who is she and what does she mean to people around the world?
An 18th century education: Jane and women’s education and reading
Austen’s literary and family influences
Austen’s ‘dirty walks’: gardens and landscapes in Austen’s writing
The marketing of Jane Austen at home and abroad – how her legacy has endured and built her celebrity
Austen’s afterlives: adapting Jane Austen for the modern age in film, TV
Austen as a commodity: portraits, hair and merchandising
面向人群
This course is for anyone with an interest in Jane Austen, including the members of Jane Austen Societies in North America, Japan, Brazil and many European countries. You will need a basic knowledge of her novels.
Learners may be interested in the Master of Arts in Jane Austen offered by the University of Southampton.