English 5000-02, Seminar: Jane Austen, Autumn 2009, MW 1:10 - 3:00 pm, HO 215

Dr. Eric W. Nye,  Office Hours: MWF 9:30 - 10:30 am or by appt., Hoyt Hall 308, 766-3244

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Jane Austen (c. 1789), aetat. 14.

"The Rice Portrait of Jane Austen" by English society artist Ozias Humphry (1742-1810).
  Unsold with an estimate of $400,000 to $800,000 by Christie's on April 19, 2007.

Syllabus

Mon., 24 Aug.:

Introduction to course, grades, books.  Henry Fuseli, "The Artist Moved by the Grandeur of Ancient Ruins," (1778-79).
*Joseph Warton, "The Enthusiast: or, The Lover of Nature" (1744).
 

Wed., 26 Aug.: some of the following

*Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Criticism" (1711).
*Thomas Gray, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" (1747) NAEL8 1:2863-65 and "Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard" (1751) NAEL8 1:2867-70  and "The Bard: a Pindaric Ode" (1757), see John Martin's oil rendition, 1817.
Anna Letitia Barbauld, NAEL8 2:26-38.
Charlotte Smith, NAEL8 2:39-66.
Mary Robinson, NAEL8 2:66-76.
500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art, Bach's Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma.
*Samuel Johnson, Rasselas (1759),  "The Vanity of Human Wishes" (1749) NAEL8 1:2666-74 and excerpts from Prefaces to The Dictionary of the English Language (1755) and The Works of William Shakespeare (1765) NAEL8 1:2749-66.
*William Collins, "Ode to Evening" (1748) NAEL8 1:2873-74.
A Pack of Useful Lies about the Eighteenth Century.
*Christopher Smart, excerpt from Jubilate Agno (1759-1763) and A Song to David (1759-1763) NAEL8 1:2874-76.
*Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770) NAEL8 1:2877-86.
*William Cowper, The Task (1785) NAEL8 1:2890-95 (excerpts) and "The Diverting History of John Gilpin" (1782).  See Caldecott's illustrations.  *Cowper, "The Castaway" (1799), NAEL8 1:2895-97.
Mary Wollstonecraft, NAEL8 2:167-212.
Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, and Thomas DeQuincey, NAEL8 2:491-576.
Joanna Baillie, NAEL8 2:212-26.

18th C English Hymnody.
Classic and Romantic music.
A Note on English Titles
 

Mon., 31 Aug.:

Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764).
Marilyn Butler's brief biography of Jane Austen in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Coleridge's two anonymous essays on M. G. Lewis, The Monk (1796), and Ann Radcliffe, The Italian (1798).


Tues., 1 Sept.:  7 pm, Hoyt Hall, room 215:  Extracurricular showing of Oliver Goldsmith's, She Stoops to Conquer (1773).
 

Wed., 2 Sept.:  Northanger Abbey (1818), vol. 1, pp. 5-87 (NCE).

 Wayne Booth, "Control of Distance in Jane Austen's Emma" from Rhetoric of Fiction (1961) reprinted in The Essential Wayne Booth (2006).
 

Tues., 8 Sept.:  (Cancelled) 7 pm, Hoyt Hall, room 215:  Extracurricular showing of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's, The Rivals (1775).


Wed., 9 Sept.:  , vol. 2, pp. 88-174 (NCE).
 

Mon., 14 Sept.:  Northanger Abbey (1818), concluded.
 

Wed., 16 Sept.:  Seminar Reports I
 

Mon., 21 Sept.:  Seminar Reports I
 

Tues., 22 Sept.:  7:30 pm, Hoyt Hall, room 215:  Extracurricular showing of ITV's, Northanger Abbey (2008), screenplay by Andrew Davies.


Wed., 23 Sept.:  Seminar Reports I


Mon., 28 Sept.:  Fanny Burney, Evelina (1778).
 

Wed., 30 Sept.:  Sense and Sensibility (1811).  Rebecca Mueller & Anna O'Rourke


Mon., 5 Oct.:  Sense and Sensibility, continued.
 

Tues., 6 Oct.:  7 pm, Hoyt Hall, room 215:  Extracurricular showing of BBC's, Sense and Sensibility (2008), screenplay by Andrew Davies.  See also the video interview with Andrew Davies, "Longing, Betrayal, & Redemption," about how he adapts the novels for the screen.


Wed., 7 Oct.:  Lady Susan (c. 1805).


Mon., 12 Oct.:  Pride and Prejudice (1813).  Aubrey Knight, Kelly Meeboer, & Tenzin Nyinjey


Wed., 14 Oct.:  Pride and Prejudice, continued.
 

Fri., 16 Oct.: Pride and Prejudice, continued.

Glen Baxter

Mon., 19 Oct.:  The Watsons (1803-05) and Kotzebue/Inchbald, "Lovers' Vows" (1798).


Wed., 21 Oct.:  Mansfield Park (1814).  Elizabeth Bennett & Lindsey Hanlon.  Guest speaker, Heather Ackerman, PhD cand., Arizona State University.


Mon., 26 Oct.:  Mansfield Park, continued.


Wed., 28 Oct.:  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal (1777), 1975 production from the Guthrie Theater.


Mon., 2 Nov.:  Mansfield Park, continued.
 

Wed., 4 Nov.:  Emma (1816).  Jill Kristensen & Ashley Cobb


Fri., 6 Nov.:  Emma, continued.
 

Mon., 9 Nov.:  seminar cancelled, made up 13 Nov.
 

Wed., 11 Nov.:  seminar cancelled, made up 20 Nov.
 


 

Fri., 13 Nov..: Emma, continued.
 

Mon., 16 Nov.:  Persuasion (1818).  Ellie Bolender & Matthew Wright.


Tues., 17 Nov.:  7:30 pm, Hoyt Hall, room 215:  Extracurricular showing of BBC's, Persuasion (1995), screenplay by Nick Dear.


Wed., 18 Nov.:  Persuasion, continued.
 

Fri., 20 Nov. .: Persuasion, continued.


The ‘Wedding Ring Portrait’ engraved for Everet A. Duyckink’s
 Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America (1873).
Based on Lizzars' engraving of the portrait by James Andrews of Maidenhead.

Mon., 23 Nov.:  Sanditon (1817).
 

Mon., 30 Nov.:  Final Seminar Reports.
 

Wed., 2 Dec.:  Final Seminar Reports.


 Tues., 8 Dec.:  6:30 pm, Hoyt Hall, room 215:  Extracurricular showing of BBC's, Emma (2009), screenplay by Sandy Welch.


Wed., 9 Dec.:  Final Seminar Reports.
 

Fri., 11 Dec.:  Final Seminar Reports.



Final Exam: see Wed., 9 Dec. and Fri., 11 Dec. above.
Required Books:

Horace Walpole, ed. E. F. Bleiler. The Castle of Otranto (1764) (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., paper, 1966, Dover Thrift Editions). 0-486-43412-5

Frances Burney, ed. Stewart J. Cooke. Evelina (1778) (New York: W. W. Norton, paper, 1998, Norton Critical Edition). 0-393-97158-9

Jane Austen, ed. Susan Fraiman. Northanger Abbey (1818) (New York: W. W. Norton, paper, 2004, Norton Critical Edition). 978-0-393-97850-6

Jane Austen, ed. Claudia L. Johnson. Sense and Sensibility (1811) (New York: W. W. Norton, paper, 2002, Norton Critical Edition). 978-0-393-97751-6

Jane Austen, ed. Stephen M. Parrish. Pride and Prejudice (1813) (New York: W. W. Norton, paper, 3rd edn., 2001, Norton Critical Edition). 978-0-393-97604-5

Jane Austen, ed. Claudia L. Johnson. Mansfield Park (1814) (New York: W. W. Norton, paper, 1998, Norton Critical Edition). 978-0-393-96791-3

Jane Austen, ed. Stephen M. Parrish. Emma (1816) (New York: W. W. Norton, paper, 3rd edn., 2000, Norton Critical Edition). 0-393-97284-4

Jane Austen, ed. Patricia Meyer Spacks. Persuasion (1818) (New York: W. W. Norton, paper, 1995, Norton Critical Edition). 978-0-393-96018-1

 

Optional Book, Links, & CD (recommended):

Jane Austen. The Jane Austen Memoir Collection (CD).

Abrams, M. H. & Geoffrey Harpham. A Glossary of Literary Terms, 9th edn. (NY: Heinle-Cengage, paper, 2008). 978-1-413-03390-8.

 

Blogs and other links:

Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA)

Jane Austen Society (United Kingdom)

Jane Austen Today

Jane Austen's World

Jane Austen Centre (Bath)

Hyper-concordances of all Jane Austen’s novels


 

Last updated: 05-Nov-09

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