Title from container. "Course No. 2448"--Container. 24 lectures (30 min. each). Includes bibliographical references in course guidebook. Lecturer, Devoney Looser, Arizona State University.
Contents:
Disc 4. Pop and popularity : Austen's enduring fame. Life and letters : the genuine Austen ; Juvenilia : Austen's raucous early works ; Sense and sensibility : sisters united ; Pride and prejudice : universal truths ; Mansfield Park : silence, place and price -- Disc 2. Emma : the proper use of power ; Northanger Abbey : defending the novel ; Persuasion : a second bloom ; Regency romance and courtship ; Marriage and family in Austen's era ; Money, inheritance, and all they entail -- Disc 3. Class and courtesy in regency society ; British life in revolutionary times ; Clerks, clergy, and other men's professions ; Accomplished woman ; Luxury, fashion, and labor in the regency ; Travel and leisure in the Georgian era -- Disc 4. Health and wellness in Austen's England ; After 1817: Austen's growing posthumous fame ; Lady Susan : Austen's merry widow ; Sandition and Austen's unfinished fiction ; Austen's relations : from family to fandom ; Pop and popularity : Austen's enduring fame.
Summary:
"Dive into the wit, wisdom and world of Jane Austen." --Container.
Series:
The great courses. Literature & language. Literature.
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