ENG 339 - Topics in 18th-Century Literature - Jane Austen in Context

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Princeton University

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Jane Austen is the darling of popular audiences and high culturists alike. The inventor of the modern novel and a pivotal, inspirational figure in English literary history, she is venerated or despised with peculiar intensity--for being a brilliant stylist or a provincial bore, a benign aunt or a nasty spinster, an instrument of tedious and oppresive normality or of dazzling and expansive fabulousness. We will test such views by studying all of Austen's novels, paying close attention to the context of 18th-century literature out of which she develops and contrasts her achievements to recent film adaptations.

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0.00 - 4.00

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www.princeton.edu

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(609) 258-3000

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Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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