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Tuesday, October 3rd
Emma, Finish Volume I, Chapters VI through (83-164)
Presentation:
The Gentry Woman’s Responsibilities, or what does Emma do all day? / Kayleigh Previte
Thursday, October 5th
Emma, Volume II, Chapters I through VIII (165-220)
Presentations:
Painting, Music, Poetry, and other “feminine” accomplishments / Caroline Newton
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Tuesday, October 10th
Emma, Finish Volume II (221-280) and begin Volume III, Chapters I through Chapter VII (281-326)
Presentation:
What does Austen’s London look like? /Barnett Gibson
Thursday, October 12th
Finish Emma, Volume III, Chapters VIII-XIX (327-405)
Watched the beginning of several Emma adaptations from 1996 (BBC with Kate Beckinsale and Miramax with Gwyneth Paltrow), 2009 (BBC with Romola Garai), and (Perfect World Pictures with Anya Taylor-Joy 2020)
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Tuesday, October 17th
Lev Grossman, “How Harry Potter Became the Boy Who Lived Forever. TIME. 7 July 2011.
Veerle Van Steenhuyse, “”Jane Austen fan fiction and the situated fantext.” From English Text Construction 4.2 (2011): 1-11. (The article is quite long; you only need to read the first 11 pages).
Fan Fiction Vocabulary
From Grossman: fan fiction (1/8); fandom (2/8); slash (3/8); canon (4/8); Alternate Universe (AU) (5/8); crossover stories (5/8); RPF (real-person fiction) (5/8); transformative fiction (6/8)
From Van Steenhuyse: another definition of fan fiction canon (1); fan fiction “negative capability” (4-5); fantext vs. fanon (6); Janeitism (11)
Watched Clips from Emma: Clueless (1996), Aisha (2010), and Emma Approved (2013)
Trailers for: Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), A Latter Day Comedy (2003), Bride and Prejudice (2004), Lost in Austen (2008), The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (2012-2013), Austenland (2013), Death Comes to Pemberley (2013), Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)
Trailer for Becoming Jane (2007)
Thursday, October 19th
Some of these fanfics are quite long and others are quite short. If a multi-chapter fanfic, just read until you get the sense of the story. If you are engaged, keep going. The only long fanfic I’d ask you to read is “Sif and Sensibility”.
Whole fanfic: newredshoes. “Sif and Sensibility.” Archive of Our Own. Organization for Transformative Works. 29 Aug 2011. Web. 8 Oct 2023.<http://archiveofourown.org/works/246793>
Prologue and Chapter One: paperclipz. “Love and Other Accidents.” Fanfiction.net. 12 January 2006. Web. 8 Oct 2023. <https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2749813/1/Love-and-Other-Accidents>
First two to three chapters: fanfictionscribbles. “Pride and Prejudice at Hogwarts.” FanFiction. 28 Sept 2012. Web. 8 October 2023. <https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8563405/1/Pride-and-Prejudice-at-Hogwarts>
First two chapters: heavenly1998. “For lack of the opening insult”. FanFiction. 30 Aug 2018. Web. October 8 Oct 2023. <https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13051272/1/For-lack-of-the-opening-insult>
Short fanfic: penna.nomen. “To Be Fond of Dancing.” FanFiction. 22 Feb 2019. Web. 8 Oct 2023. <https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13214722/1/To-Be-Fond-of-Dancing>
First two or three chapters: Lady_de_Winter. “Dependence and Independence.” Archive of Our Own. Organization for Transformative Works. 23 Mar 2021. Web. 8 Oct 2023. <https://archiveofourown.org/works/30218328/chapters/74461110>
Whole fanfic: Kadorienne. “Emma, Mafia Princess.” Archive of Our Own. Organization for Transformative Works. 2 Feb 2022. Web. 8 Oct 2023. <https://archiveofourown.org/works/36840322>
Fanfiction Groups Assigned
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Tuesday, October 24th
Second Semester Exam
Description of Second Semester Exam
Thursday, October 26th
Persuasion, Chapters I through V
Discussion of Creative Project Guidelines: Come into class with some ideas about what you might want to do for your final project. Formal description of that project will be due by Thursday, November 9th on eLc. See assignment description here.
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Tuesday, October 31st
Finish reading Persuasion Volume I
Presentation:
The British Navy during Austen’s time / Rainier Barfield
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