Jane Austen’s Novels
Michael Auer
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In A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf singles out Jane Austen as the consummate female novelist of the nineteenth century writing in English. This is because she wrote her novels without having a room of her own and was nonetheless capable of devising “a perfectly natural, shapely sentence” all her own. In this class, we will engage in close readings of the four novels published during Jane Austen’s lifetime: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, and Emma. Besides analyzing the different plots and figures, shapes and structures, we will discuss the role rooms and other (inside and outside) spaces play in the novels, all the while never losing sight of the fact that the true space the novels inhabit is the space of the text itself, produced by the sequence of Jane Austen’s sentences. Class discussion will be in English but you are welcome to contribute in German if you are uncertain of your English.
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