The Jane Austen Collective
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English 232/ Comp Lit 236 Seminar Schedule, Fall 2011
Preferred editions for this seminar
I: 26 September Introduction and discussion of "The Jane Austen Collective"
Question: "Why study Jane Austen?"
Family, Country House, Home County: the literary Cartography of Jane Austen
Recommended background reading: Claire Tomalin. Jane Austen: A Life. New York: Knopf, 1998.
The Wikipedia page on Jane Austen
On-line syllabus
Warner PP: The Jane Austen Collective
II: 3 October: Pride and Prejudice & Loving Jane; or, taking account of the Janeites
Primary reading: Pride and Prejudice, Selected juvenilia (Three Sisters; The Watsons[Kristy McCants]; poems; and read around); please web surf The Jane Austen Society of the UK Austen British and The Jane Austen Society of North American Societies as well as the resource and on-line discussion at The Republic of Pemberley, “Your haven in a world programmed to misunderstand obsession with things Austen.”
Critical reading:
Deidre Lynch. "Introduction: Sharing with Our Neighbors". Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees. Ed. Deidre Lynch. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. [Lizzie Allen]
Claudia Johnson. “The Divine Miss Jane.” Janeites, 25-44. [Bethany Wong]
Mary Ann O’Farrell. “Jane Austen’s Friendship,” Janeites, 45-62. [Sammy Bosch]
Deidre Lynch. "Cult of Jane Austen." and "Sequels" Jane Austen In Context. Ed. Janet Todd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 160-168. [Leah Fry]
III: 10 October: Pride and Prejudice: the Power of Fantasy
Primarcy Reading: Pride and Prejudice
Critical reading:
Dorrit Cohn.From Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness, from McKeon, Theory of the Novel [Chris Walker]
Franco Moretti. “The Novel, the Nation-state.” From Atlas of the European Novel, 1800-1900. New York: Verso, 1998. 11-57. [Kyle Busy]
Deidre Lynch. “Jane Austen and the Social Machine,” Chapter 5, The Economy of Character [Tom Doran]WW Presentation: JAS.AJA.Pride.and.Prejudice
IV: 17 October: Sense and Sensibility: the Detours of Desire
Primary Reading: Sense and Sensibility: A Novel. By a Lady
Sense and Sensibility Starting Points Sense and Sensibility offers Austen's most heartfelt representation of desire--not just in the romantic figure, Marianne, but in the quiet suffering of her elder sister Elinor. It has been read as a novel that condemns not just the cult of sensibility, but the whole Romantic project of exalting the self over the social. Our point of departure willl be two important essays.
The first comes from Peter Knox-Shaw's important recent book Jane Austen and the Enlightenment. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. ?It argues that Austen should not be seen as a Tory, anti-Jacobite, Burkean conservative, (as Marilyn Butler had claimed) but as strongly influenced, through her father and brothers, by the modernizing currents of late 18th century Scottish Enlightenment. Next we'll move to Tony Tanner's passionate defense of Marianne in "Secrecy and Sickness: 'Sense and Sensibility'". It offers a forceful reponse to the critical question that has been central to the modern reception of this novel: is Marianne the sacrificial lamb in Austen's doctrinaire elevation of sense over sensibility, Elinor over Marianne? Or, alternatively, should we find a way to put important emphasis upon the copula (the "and") in the novel's title?Critical Reading: Tony Tanner. "Secrecy and Sickness: 'Sense and Sensibility'" from Jane Austen, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard: 1986, 75-102. [Lizzie Allen]
Peter Knox-Shaw. “Sensibility and the Philosophers” in Jane Austen and the Enlightenment. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. [Mary Jane Davis]Recommended reading: William B. Warner, "Resistance on the Circuit: the Novel in the Age of the Post". NOVEL: A FORUM IN FICTION. Special Issue, ed. Nancy Armstrong. 2009.
V: 24 October: Catherine & Northanger Abbey: an naïve young Girl enters the world & the problematic of the 'first time'
Primary reading: “Catherine” [Liz Shayne]; Northanger Abbey
Warner PP: Plotting Plot in Sense and Sensibility
Critical reading: Lisa Zunshine. "Why Jane Austen Was Different, and Why We May Need Cognitive Science to See It." In Style. [Kristy McCants]
VI: 31 October: Lady Susan & Mansfield Park: the intriguing Libertine
Primary Reading: Lady Susan [Lizzie Shaughnessy], Mansfield Park
Honored Guest: Dean David Marshall
Critical Reading:
Lionell Trilling, "Mansfield Park" [Tom Doran], in The Opposing Self, New York: Viking, 1950. 206-230.
Edward Said, “Jane Austen and Empire,” from Culture and Imperialism, 80-96. [Mary Jane Davis]
David Marshall. “True Acting and the Language of Real Feeling: Mansfield Park” In The Frame of Art: Fictions of Aesthetic Experience, 1750-1815. 72-90. Google Books [Sammy Bosch]Recommended reading: "Lover's Vows, by Elizabeth Inchbald (This link includes the Mansfield Park casting. A quick reading of this play will allow you to follow the nuances of the casting decisions (and refusals) made by Austen's characters.
Honored Guest: Summer Star
First Edition (1814): Mansfield Park: A Novel. Volume 1; Volume II; Volume III
Critical Reading:
Ian Watt. (After dinner speech at San Francisco) “Jane Austen and the Traditions of Comic Aggression - Sense and Sensibility.” [Kyle Busy]
Summer Star. “If Your Right Hand Offends You . . . ”: Anger and the Principle of Moral Regeneration in Mansfield Park.” Persuasions. Vol 29, no1 (Winter, 2008). [Leah Fry]
VIII: 14 November: Emma & Authorship/ Sovereignty
Primary Reading: Emma
Edition:
Emma: A Novel. First edition digital version in Google Books
Volume I; Volume II; Volume IIICritical readings:
Lionel Trilling, “Emma and the Legend of Jane Austen” “It is possible to say of Jane Austen, as perhaps we can say of no other writer that the opinions which are held of her work are almost as interesting, and almost as important to think about, as the work itself….”
Peter Knox-Shaw."Emma and the flaws of Sovereignty," (in Jane Austen and the Enlightenment, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004, 197-219) (8) [Chris Walker]
IX: 21 November: Emma and Moral Correction
Primary Reading: Oct 1815, Quarterly Review of Emma, Walter Scott
Critical readings:
Norton Critical Edition: 100 year Criticism Anthology: Responses to Emma.
Claudia Johnson. "Not at all what a man should be!": Remaking English Manhood in Emma," in Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in 1790s (Chicago: Univ of Chicago P, 1995), 191-201. [Bethany Wong]
X: 28 November: Persuasion: Rereading and second chances
Primary Reading: Persuasion
Recommended critical Reading:
Rohrbach. Emily. "Austen’s Later Subjects," SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Volume 44, Number 4, Autumn 2004, pp. 737-752
Seminar Paper Assignment
Due: 10th of June (but you can hand in earlier) •15 pages or more, plus works cited (MLA format)
•write on one novel from this seminar
•work up a topic and read appropriate criticism and/or archival texts
•develop a reading of some aspect of the novel
•Caution: this is an apprentice piece. Please hand in your paper on time
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Early Editions
(In the approximate order in which they will be read)
Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (1688)
Eliza Haywood, Fantomina: or, Love in a Maze (1725)
Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1741: 2nd edition)
Samuel Richardson, Familiar Letters (1741), the kernel of the Pamela story (#138-139)Henry Fielding, Shamela (1741) & Joseph Andrews (1742)
Denis Diderot: "Eloge de Richardson" in Journal etranger, Jan. 1762 (WBW selections)
Henry Fielding,“An enquiry into the causes of the late increase of robbers; etc.” (1751)
Samuel Johnson, Rambler #4 (Saturday, 31 March 1750),
Lawrence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, by Mr. Yorick (1768)
Frances Burney, Evelina; or, A Young Lady's Entrance into the World. In a series of Letters. (2nd edition, 1779)
Jane Austen,
Sense and Sensibility (1811) (Gutenberg)
Pride and Prejudice (1813) (Austen.com)
Mansfield Park (1814)(Austen.com) with the Inchbald play Lover's Vows
Emma (1815)(Austen.com)
Northanger Abbey (1818/1808)(Gutenberg)
Persuasion (1818)(Austen.com)
Juvenilia found on this Short Table of Contents (Pemberley.com)
Sir Walter Scott: Quarterley Reivew of Emma (January, 1821) (Project Gutenberg)
William Hogarth: The
Harlot's Progress (Wikipedia)
Articles and Book Chapters
Jane Austen Articles
Cohn, Dorrit: "Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction"
Johnson,Claudia. "Not at all what a man should be!": Remaking English Manhood in Emma," in Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in 1790s (Chicago: Univ of Chicago P, 1995), 191-201.
___. “The Divine Miss Jane.” Janeites, 25-44.
Knox-Shaw, Peter. “Sensibility and the Philosophers” in Jane Austen and the Enlightenment. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. (4)
___. "Emma and the flaws of Sovereignty," (in Jane Austen and the Enlightenment, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004, 197-219)
Lynch, Deidre. "Jane Austen and the Social Machine," from The Economy of Character, Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1998, 207-239.)
___. "Introduction: Sharing with Our Neighbors". Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees. Ed. Deidre Lynch. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
___. "Cult of Jane Austen". Jane Austen In Context. Ed. Janet Todd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
___. “Sequels.” 160-168.
Marshall, David. “True Acting and the Language of Real Feeling: Mansfield Park” In The Frame of Art: Fictions of Aesthetic Experience, 1750-1815. 72-90. Google Books.
Moretti, Franco. “The Novel, the nation-state.” From Chapter 1, Atlas of the European Novel, 1800-1900. New York: Verso, 1998. 11-57. (3)
O’Farrell, Mary Ann. “Jane Austen’s Friendship,” Janeites, 45-62. (2)
Rohrbach. Emily. "Austen’s Later Subjects," SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Volume 44, Number 4, Autumn 2004, pp. 737-752
Edward Said, “Jane Austen and Empire,” from Culture and Imperialism, 80-96.
Star, Summer. ““If Your Right Hand Offends You . . . ”: Anger and the Principle of Moral Regeneration inMansfield Park.” Persuasions. Vol 29, no1 (Winter, 2008); http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol29no1/star.html
Tanner, Tony. "Secrecy and Sickness: 'Sense and Sensibility'" (from Jane Austen, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard: 1986, 75-102.
Tanner, Tony. "Knowledge and Opinion: 'Pride and Prejudice'", (from Jane Austen, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard, 1986, 75-102)
Lionel Trilling, “Emma and the Legend of Jane Austen”
Warner, William B. "Resistance on the Circuit: the Novel in the Age of the Post". NOVEL: A FORUM IN FICTION. Special Issue, ed. Nancy Armstrong. 2009.
Watt, Ian. (After dinner speech at San Francisco) “Jane Austen and the Traditions of Comic Agression - Sense and Sensibility.”
Zunshine, Lisa. "Why Jane Austen Was Different, and Why We May Need Cognitive Science to See It." In Style. (5)
Rise of the Novel Articles
Armstrong, Nancy. “The Fiction of Bourgeois Morality and the Paradox of Individualism.” Moretti, Novel, II: 349-388
____. Ed. NOVEL: A FORUM IN FICTION. 3 Special Issues. Tables of Contents
Black, Scott. “Quixotic Realism and the Romance of the Novel.” Novel: A Forum in Fiction, 42:2, 239-244.
Duncan, Ian. “Waverley (Walter Scott, 1814)" in Moretti, Novel, II: 173-180
Levine, Caroline. "Narrative Networks: Bleak House and the Affordances of Form." Novel: A Forum in Fiction, 42:3 517-523.
Lynch, Deidre."Agoraphobia and Interiority in Frances Burney's Fiction," from The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning. Chicago: U of Chicago Pr., 1998. 164-207.
Lyons, John D. "The Emergence of the Novel." From A New History of French Literature. Ed. Denis Hollier. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard UP, 1998. 350-354.
Kennedy, Meegan. "Some Body's Story: the Novel as Instrument." Novel: a Forum in Fiction. 42:3, 451-459.
Moretti, Franco. “History of the Novel, Theory of the Novel,” Novel: a Forum in Fiction, 43:1, 1-10.
____. Graphs, Maps, Trees, 1-33
____. ed. THE NOVEL. 2 vols. Preface and Table of Contents
____. "Network Theory, Plot Analysis. New Left Review 68, Mar April 2011. 80-102.
Price, Leah. The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel: from Richardson to George Eliot. Chapter 1. Chapter 1, Part 2. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
Rose, Mark. "Authors as Proprietors"
Siskin, Clifford & William Warner, This is Enlightenment: “Introduction: this is Enlightenment,” 1-33. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
St. Clair, William. "The Political Economy of Reading"
Trumpener, Katie. Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire. Chapter 3, "National Character". Princeton: Princeton UP, 2000.
Watt, Ian. The Rise of the Novel, chapters 1 "Realism and Novel Form" & 2 "The reading public and the rise of the novel", 9-59, and chapter 5 "Love and the novel, 135-173.
Resource Links
Useful Links
General Research Resources (accessible through UCSB Davidson Library proxy server): OED, Historical Dababases; e-journals; etc.
Title pages of 18th and 19th century novels
Pemberly.com - Wealth of online resources about Jane Austen
Austen Society of North America - "Dedicated to the study and celebration of the classic English author. Find out how to join the Society, or order journals and newsletters."
Stanford Center for the Study of the Novel
Clarissa, 3rd edition http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/Clarissa/3rdEdition
Homegrown Resources
[These notes and questions were developed for students of the rise of the novel in Britain--WBW]General Paradigms for Interpreting Novels
The Pamela Media Event (1740-1742)
Bakhtin and Joseph Andrews
Jane Austen & Mansfield Park & Persuasion : notes and questions on Cohn, Said, Trilling, Anderson, Lynch, Galeprin
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1: Catharine: and Other Writings. Edited by Margaret Doody and Douglas Murray. (Oxford World's Classics) [Paperback]
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Reissue edition (August 3, 2009)
2: Northanger Abbey. Edited by Claire Grogan
Paperback: 280 pages
Publisher: Broadview Press; 2nd edition (April 29, 2002)
3: Sense and Sensibility. Edited by Kathleen James-Cavan. 427p.
Publisher: Broadview Press (April 3, 2001)
4: Pride and Prejudice. Edited by Robert Irvine.
Publisher: Broadview Press; 1 edition (December 20, 2001)
5: Mansfield Park. Ed. Jane Sturrock.
Broadview Press; 1 edition (April 3, 2001)
6: Emma. Edited by Kristin Flieger Samuelian. 453pp.
Publisher: Broadview Press; 1 edition (May 7, 2004)
7: Persuasion. Edited by Linda Bree. 312 pp.
Paperback: 312 pages
Publisher: Broadview Press (August 11, 1998)
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