This course will focus on the close reading and analysis of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (1813), which sometimes is described as Austen's most controversial novel. The course is designed to clarify underlying paradoxes and complexities in the text.
授業概要
We will first overview some basics about Mansfield Park and then focus on topics related to significant themes of the novel. The class will be conducted in English.
テキスト
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, Norton Critical Edition, 1998.
参考文献・課題図書
To be announced in class.
受講生への要望
Active participation in discussion. Preliminary reading. Preperation for presentations.
評価方法
Class attendance / reading assignments / resumes and oral presentations / end-term paper
授業計画
１．Introduction ２．Novel of manners ３．Characters and their situations ４．Fanny Price as a heroine (1) ５．Austen and Class ６．Estates in Mansfield Park (1) ７．Estates in Mansfield Park (2) ８．Slave Trade (1) ９．Slave Trade (2) 10．Landscape design (1) 11．Landscape design (2) 12．Theatricals (1) 13．Theatricals (2) 14．Fanny Price a heroine (2) 15．Review and discussion
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