ENGL 660 "Jane Austen and Her Legacy "

Spring 2011 ~ T, 7:05 p.m.

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Professor Westman
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1xbet best casino website Texts
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813) (Pearson Longman Cultural Edition)
Jane Austen, Emma (1815) (Broadview or Oxford)
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (1814) (Norton Critical Edition)
George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871-2) (Penguin)
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927) (Harvest)
Georgette Heyer, Frederica (1965)
J. K Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999) (Scholastic)
Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary (1997) (Knopf)
Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Quirk Books)
1xbet best casino website Pack (available at A&S Copy Center in Eisenhower Hall as of 1/24)
Film: Pride and Prejudice (A&E, 1995); Pride and Prejudice (Dir. Joe Wright, 2005); Clueless (1995); Bride and Prejudice (2004); Lost in Austen (T.V. mini-series, Granada, 2008)

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1xbet best casino website : 1xbet best casino website attendance is important, but I recognize that the unexpected will happen. Therefore, you will not be penalized for 1xbet best casino website first absence. However, subsequent absences will lower 1xbet best casino website final course grade; excessive absences (three or more) or excessive lateness/early departure may result in failure of the course. While I appreciate 1xbet best casino website offering explanations for 1xbet best casino website absence, the only way to excuse an absence is to provide me with an official letter from 1xbet best casino website dean or advisor or an official notice of illness from the Health Center or 1xbet best casino website doctor. If you are absent, it is 1xbet best casino website responsibility to find out from another class member any announcements or assignments.

Leading 1xbet best casino website Discussion: As part of the class participation grade, students will sign up in groups to initiate discussion for one of our class sessions. Questions for class discussion (4-5 in number) should highlight issues or themes or queries 1xbet best casino website think we should address in our class discussion of the assigned texts for that day. After conferring about and drafting the questions, groups leading discussion should email me their questions by 7 p.m. the night before; I will confirm receipt and offer any suggestions for the order or focus of the questions.

1xbet best casino website Message Board: To offer another venue for discussion, we'll be using an online message board in K-State Online. Each week, each student is required to post at least one paragraph-length comment about the materials we're reading and discussing in class. I will read these discussions and assess a grade (at the end of the semester) based on the thoughtfulness of 1xbet best casino website comments, their ability to foster discussion among 1xbet best casino website classmates, and their responsiveness both to our readings and to 1xbet best casino website classmates’ comments in class and on the board. I'll provide some weekly question prompts as I follow these conversations, and I may also participate, but I see the message board primarily as a way for you to raise issues we haven’t addressed – or addressed fully or to 1xbet best casino website satisfaction – during our regular class meetings.

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1. Go to my homepage at http://www.ksu.edu/english/westmank/ and click on our course (ENGL 660), and then “Message Board” to login to K-State Online and go directly to the “Message Board.” (1xbet best casino website may also login to the K-State Online course page for ENGL 660, click on “Collaboration” and then select “Message Board.”)
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1xbet best casino website and Response 1xbet best casino website : All students will write one shorter paper (4 pages in length); undergraduates will also write a longer paper (7-8 pages in length), while graduate students will also write a longer paper with secondary sources (8-10 pages in length), an abstract of that paper, and an essay review of four articles or a book-length study about one of our authors on the syllabus. You will have a choice of two topics for Paper #1, and you will have a choice of text for Paper #2. Both papers should follow the general rules of composition and be typed or word-processed with standard double-spacing, 1-inch margins, and either 11- or 12-point typeface. Title pages and cover sheets are unnecessary. Pages should be numbered, stapled together, and spell-checked. Papers are due by the date and time on the syllabus; late papers will be penalized one grade (i.e.: A to B) for each day late. (Note: The University's Honor Code obliges you to cite the source of any idea that is not 1xbet best casino website own. Otherwise, you have plagiarized. If you do plagiarize, you will fail this course.)

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Everyone 1xbet best casino website write a response paper for our second reading assignment (Austen’s Emma) and for our seventh 1xbet best casino website assignment (the conclusion of Middlemarch); for the remaining two response papers, 1xbet best casino website may choose from the other texts on the syllabus, being sure to choose one novel and one film. Response papers are due at the start of class on the day we begin our discussion of the reading. Responses will be graded on a 1-5 scale: 5=A, 4=B, 3=C, 2=D, 1=F. I do not accept late response papers.

Multi-Media Project: You will choose one of four possible multi-media projects to complete during the semester. 1xbet best casino website multi-media project can be submitted on any class day but must be turned in no later than Tuesday April 26. Each project should demonstrate insight and understanding of the text with which it connects, should be thoughtfully constructed, and should be presented professionally with attention to detail. Refer to the grading rubrics (posted in K-State Online as of 1/25) for detailed grading criteria. The assignment will be distributed next week, but here are brief descriptions:
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1xbet best casino website and video resources: Along with some required viewing (see the films listed under “Required Texts”) and required online reading, I will refer 1xbet best casino website to resources available online or on video to complement our readings and discussions. Links within the online “Schedule of Classes” will take 1xbet best casino website to related online resources. I will add and update these resources as the semester progresses; if 1xbet best casino website locate a site or page which 1xbet best casino website find valuable, please let me know, and I'll consider adding it to the existing links.
Email: I highly recommend email as a way of touching base with me about 1xbet best casino website work for the class -- a kind of virtual office hours. You can send me queries about reading or writing assignments, 1xbet best casino website thesis statement for an essay, or anything else that could be handled with a quick exchange of messages. I check my email throughout the day, but please remember that I am not perpetually online.


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Schedule of Classes (Subject to change.)

1xbet best casino website : All assigned 1xbet best casino website should be completed by the date listed.
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Austen: An Introduction
January 18 Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
25 Austen, Emma (1815)
Booth, 1xbet best casino website The Rhetoric of Fiction [CP & KSOL]
1xbet best casino website Paper #1 Due (2 pages) on Emma
February 1

Austen, Mansfield Park (1814)
Auerbach, “Jane Austen&1xbet best casino website ;s Dangerous Charm: Feeling as One Aught About Fanny Price” (Johnson 445-457); Lew, "'That Abominable Traffic': Mansfield Park and the Dynamics of Slavery" (Johnson 498-510)
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• Snow Day Catch-up: Reading and 1xbet best casino website scheduled for Feb 1

• Critical Reception of Austen
Waldron, “Critical Responses, 1xbet best casino website ”; Trott, “Critical Responses, 1830-1970"; Rajan, “Critical Responses, Recent” [CP]

• Historical and Cultural Contexts
~ “Money: 1xbet best casino website the 1790s to the Regency (1811-1820)” (P&P, Johnson and Wolfson 344-348)
~ “Marriage and the Marriage Market” (P&P, Johnson and Wolfson 349-375); additional excerpts 1xbet best casino website Blackstone, More, and Porter (E, Samuelian 437-441)
~ “Female Character and Conduct” (P&P, Johnson and Wolfson 384-400); additional excerpts 1xbet best casino website Gregory, Wollstonecraft, and Gisborne (MP, Johnson 391-397, 401-403)
~ “Male Character and Conduct” (P&P, Johnson and Wolfson 401-407); additional excerpts 1xbet best casino website Gisborne (MP, Johnson 398-400)
~ “The Picturesque and Great Houses” (P&P, Johnson and Wolfson 408-424); additional excerpts 1xbet best casino website Repton (MP, Johnson 382-387)

1xbet best casino website #1 Due (4 pages) M.L.A. documentation format.

Literary Legacies

15 Eliot, Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life (1871-2) (3-319 / Prelude through Chapter 33)
Sarah Stickney Ellis, 1xbet best casino website The Women of England [CP]; Coventry Patmore, 1xbet best casino website “The Angel in the House” [CP]
22 Middlemarch, cont&1xbet best casino website ;d (321-636 / Chapter 34 through Chapter 62)
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March 1 Middlemarch, cont&1xbet best casino website ;d (to end: 639-838 / Chapter 63 through Finale)
Flint, “George Eliot and Gender” [CP]
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1xbet best casino website Paper #2 Due (2 pages) on Middlemarch
8 Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927)
Woolf, “Modern Fiction” and “Professions for Women” [CP]
15 Heyer, Frederica (1965)
Kloester, 1xbet best casino website Georgette Heyer's Regency World : “On the Town”; “1xbet best casino website to Wear”; “A Glossary of Cant and Common Regency Phrases” [CP]
Recommended reading: Westman, “‘A Story of Her Weaving&1xbet best casino website ;: The Self-Authoring Heroines of Georgette Heyer&1xbet best casino website ;s Regency Romance” [CP]
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22 Spring Break
29 Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999)
Rowling, “Let Me Tell 1xbet best casino website a Story” (2000)
Recommended reading: Westman, “Perspective, Memory, and Moral Authority: The Legacy of Jane Austen in J. K. Rowling&1xbet best casino website ;s Harry Potter” [CP]
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Adapting Austen

April 5 Adaptation (I): Heritage Cinema
Pride and Prejudice (A&E, 1995), Pride and Prejudice (Dir. Joe Wright, 2005)
Hutcheon, 1xbet best casino website A Theory of Adaptation; Higson, “Heritage Cinema and Television”; Sutherland, “Austen on Screen”; Nixon, “Balancing the Courtship Hero: Masculine Emotional Display in Film Adaptations of Austen&1xbet best casino website ;s Novels”; Hopkins, “Mr. Darcy&1xbet best casino website ;s Body” [CP]
12 Fielding, Bridget Jones&1xbet best casino website ;s Diary (1997)
Readers&1xbet best casino website ; comments at Amazon.com; interview with Fielding; critical commentaries [CP]
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F 15 1xbet sports betting (If yo due (4 1xbet best casino website ) to my mailbox in ECS 119 by 5 p.m.
M 18 Prospectus for 1xbet best casino website #2 Due to my mailbox in ECS 119 by 5 p.m.
19 Adaptation (II): Transcultural Adaptation
Clueless (1995), Bride and Prejudice (2004)
Ferris, “Emma Becomes Clueless”; Nachumi, “‘As If!&1xbet best casino website ;: Translating Austen&1xbet best casino website ;s Ironic Narrator to Film”; Wilson, “Bride and Prejudice: A Bollywood Comedy of Manners” [CP]
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26 Adaptation (III): Postmodern Hybrids
Lost in Austen (2008); Austen and Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009); Owens, “Jane Austen over the Styx” (2009); Cowie, “1xbet best casino website Character in Search of Her Love Story Role” (2009); Neal, “See Jane Bite” (2010) [CP]
F 29 1xbet best casino website #2 (and abstract) Due to my mailbox in ECS 119 by 5 p.m. M.L.A. documentation format.

Austenmania
1xbet best casino website 3 • Johnson, “Austen Cults and Cultures” [CP]; The Republic of Pemberley [W]; excerpts 1xbet best casino website Webster, Lost in Austen: Create 1xbet best casino website Own Jane Austen Adventure [CP]
• Review for 1xbet best casino website Exam
10 1xbet best casino website Exam (IDs & essay): 6:20-8:10 p.m.

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