Tuesday, April 5th
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Volume I
Excerpt from Radcliffe’s Romance of the Forest (Appendix A, Broadview NA, pgs 244-246) and The Mysteries of Udolpho (Appendix D, Broadview NA, pgs 251-252)
Bath from Beechen Cliff, and a view from a Janeite, who is also an author of Austen “Variations”
Thursday, April 7th
Class Cancelled: see schedule changes below
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Tuesday, April 12th
Northanger Abbey, Volume II
What is Sensibility?
Definitions of Sense and Sensibility: sense_sensibility
William Cowper, “Light Shining out of Darkness” (1772), The Task (1785), “The Castaway” (1803), CP pgs 126-133
James Thomson, “Winter” (1726); “Rule, Britannia” (1740), CP pgs 134-141
Thursday, April 14th
Austen, Sense and Sensibility (Volume I)
Check eLC for today’s writing prompt
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Tuesday, April 19th
Austen, Sense and Sensibility (Volume II and Chapters 1-8 of Volume III)
Thursday, April 21st
Finish reading Sense and Sensibility
Austen on Film: clips from Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility
Some Definitions of Free Indirect Discourse: “the way, in many narratives, that the reports of what a character says and thinks shift in pronouns, adverbs, tense, and grammatical mode, as we move — or sometimes hover — between the direct narrated reproductions of these events as they occur to the character and the indirect representation of such events by the narrator” (from Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms)
“Discourse that is represented, rather than directly related, to the reader . . . in which the thoughts, statements, and even dialogues engaged in by the characters are recounted to the reader” (The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms)
Check eLC for today’s writing prompt
Tuesday, April 26th
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (Volume I)
It’s Donut Time! One evaluation = One Donut
<Wednesday, April 27th>
No Thursday Office Hours this week but I will be in the office today from 2-3
It’s Donut Time! One evaluation = One Donut
Thursday, April 28th
Austen, Mansfield Park (Volume II, Chapters I-VIII, pgs. 121-179)
Who was William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield? His dates are 1705 to 1793.
John Woolman, from “Considerations on the Keeping of Negros” (1754), CP 147-149
Selections from John Newton, Ottobah Cugoano, Falconbridge, Cowper, and Wilberforce , CP 150-155
William Blake, Disturbing Images of Enslavement (1796)
Thomas Clarkson, From History of the . . . Abolition of the African Slave Trade . . . (1808), (Norton Mansfield Park 409-410)
Check eLC for today’s writing prompt
It’s Donut Time! One evaluation = One Donut
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Tuesday, May 3rd: Last Day of Class
Austen, Mansfield Park (Finish Novel)
Please read “The Beautiful Cassandra” and look over The History of England
Today’s Writing Prompt will ask for a description of your second essay
We’ll finish class by watching some scenes from Patricia Rozema’s Mansfield Park (1999)
Suggested Reading for when you have time:
Johnson, Claudia L. “Run Mad, but Do Not Faint: the Authentic Audacity of Rozema’s Mansfield Park .” TLS. Times Literary Supplement, no. 5048, Dec. 1999, p. 16.
Monaghan, David. “In Defense of Patricia Rozema’s Mansfield Park.” Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal, vol. 28, Jan. 2006, p. 59.
NEW DUE DATE: Second Essay Due no later than Saturday, May 7th at 9:00pm
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Tuesday, May 10th: Final Exam 12:00-3:00
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