January topic: S&S with comparative to Howards End
Additional texts: E.M Forster's Howards End
Blog post on topic
Supplemental reading: A Companion to the English Novel by Stephen Arata
February topic: P&P: when did it become sexy?
Additional reading:
Thank the BBC...
50 Shades of Mr. Darcy...
20 Fastidious Facts About BBC's 1995 Pride and Prejudice
A thoughtful critique of the 2005 P+P
The 2005 Film of Pride & Prejudice: an essentially Romantic interpretation of P&P
P&P: A decidedly unromantic, classic love story
Deciphering Mr. Darcy: Gendered Receptions through Time
Looking for Mr. Darcy: The Role of the Viewer in Creating a Cultural Icon
May topic: Biographies
Jane Austen: The Banker's Sister
Jane Austen at Home
(JA at Home - kindle)
June topic: Juvenalia
Edgar and Emma by JA
Edgar and Emma (free in kindle unlimited!)
Love and Freindship and other youthful writings of Jane Austen.
Christine Alexander, editor. Penguin Books, 2015.
OR
Catherine & Other Writings. Margaret Anne Doody & Douglas Murray, editors. Oxford University Press, 1998
Other readings (the first two review the Alexander’s juvenilia edition):
“The Beautiful, Proto-Feminist Snark of Jane Austen’s Juvenilia”
by Devoney Looser. Literary Hub blog, 2016
https://lithub.com/the-beautiful-proto-feminist-snark-of-jane-austens-juvenilia/
“Juvenile Jane” by Louis B. Jones. Threepenny Review, 2017
https://www.threepennyreview.com/samples/jones_w17.html
Robert Rodi’s Bitch in a Bonnet manifesto http://bitchinabonnet.blogspot.com/2009/07/proposition-and-plan.html
Persuasions #10, 1988
“The ‘Family Influence’ on Jane Austen’s Juvenilia by Deborah Kaplan
http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/printed/number10/kaplan.htm?
Persuasions #9, 1987 “The Madness of Jane Austen: Metonymic Style and Literature’s Resistance
to Interpretation” by Ellen E. Martin
http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/printed/number9/martin.htm?
Additional texts: E.M Forster's Howards End
Blog post on topic
Supplemental reading: A Companion to the English Novel by Stephen Arata
February topic: P&P: when did it become sexy?
Additional reading:
Thank the BBC...
50 Shades of Mr. Darcy...
20 Fastidious Facts About BBC's 1995 Pride and Prejudice
A thoughtful critique of the 2005 P+P
The 2005 Film of Pride & Prejudice: an essentially Romantic interpretation of P&P
P&P: A decidedly unromantic, classic love story
Deciphering Mr. Darcy: Gendered Receptions through Time
Looking for Mr. Darcy: The Role of the Viewer in Creating a Cultural Icon
May topic: Biographies
Jane Austen: The Banker's Sister
Jane Austen at Home
(JA at Home - kindle)
June topic: Juvenalia
Edgar and Emma by JA
Edgar and Emma (free in kindle unlimited!)
Love and Freindship and other youthful writings of Jane Austen.
Christine Alexander, editor. Penguin Books, 2015.
OR
Catherine & Other Writings. Margaret Anne Doody & Douglas Murray, editors. Oxford University Press, 1998
Other readings (the first two review the Alexander’s juvenilia edition):
“The Beautiful, Proto-Feminist Snark of Jane Austen’s Juvenilia”
by Devoney Looser. Literary Hub blog, 2016
https://lithub.com/the-beautiful-proto-feminist-snark-of-jane-austens-juvenilia/
“Juvenile Jane” by Louis B. Jones. Threepenny Review, 2017
https://www.threepennyreview.com/samples/jones_w17.html
Robert Rodi’s Bitch in a Bonnet manifesto http://bitchinabonnet.blogspot.com/2009/07/proposition-and-plan.html
Persuasions #10, 1988
“The ‘Family Influence’ on Jane Austen’s Juvenilia by Deborah Kaplan
http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/printed/number10/kaplan.htm?
Persuasions #9, 1987 “The Madness of Jane Austen: Metonymic Style and Literature’s Resistance
to Interpretation” by Ellen E. Martin
http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/printed/number9/martin.htm?