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"Dive into the wit, wisdom and world of Jane Austen." --Container

"Course No. 2448"--Container

24 lectures (30 min. each)

Lecturer, Devoney Looser, Arizona State University

DVD

In English; closed-captioned

Disc 1.

Entering Jane Austen's world ; Life and letters : the genuine Austen ; Juvenilia : Austen's raucous early works ; Sense and sensibility : sisters united ; Pride and prejudice : universal truths ; Mansfield Park : silence, place and price --

Disc 2.

Emma : the proper use of power ; Northanger Abbey : defending the novel ; Persuasion : a second bloom ; Regency romance and courtship ; Marriage and family in Austen's era ; Money, inheritance, and all they entail --

Disc 3.

Class and courtesy in regency society ; British life in revolutionary times ; Clerks, clergy, and other men's professions ; Accomplished woman ; Luxury, fashion, and labor in the regency ; Travel and leisure in the Georgian era --

Disc 4.

Health and wellness in Austen's England ; After 1817: Austen's growing posthumous fame ; Lady Susan : Austen's merry widow ; Sandition and Austen's unfinished fiction ; Austen's relations : from family to fandom ; Pop and popularity : Austen's enduring fame