University of Southampton - Jane Austen: Myth, Reality and Global Celebrity
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Jane Austen: Myth, Reality and Global Celebrity
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Duration | 3 weeks |
Total fee | ₹8,814 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Credential | Certificate |
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Jane Austen: Myth, Reality and Global Celebrity
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- Duration 3 weeks
- Weekly study 3 hours
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- Jane Austen went from being a moderately successful anonymous novelist in her own time to a global celebrity in ours. On this course you will explore how that happened, exploring Austen's own literary influences, and her reputation over time.
- You will learn about her origins in Hampshire, uncovering her formative years, and the society she lived in, asking how Austen's location, background and reading influenced her novels. You will also consider the ways her own contemporaries read and responded to her, and her place in the modern canon of world literature today, 200 years after she died.
Jane Austen: Myth, Reality and Global Celebrity at FutureLearn Curriculum
Jane Austen: Myth, Reality and Global Celebrity
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Education and reading
Welcome
An 18th Century education
What would Austen have read?
Summary activities
Influences and afterlives
Introduction to week 2
Influences on Austen: the arts
Influences on Austen: money and capital
Biography: how Austen was described to the world
Summary activities
Adaptation and Legacy
Welcome to week 3
Austen in translation: from Chawton to the world
Adaptations of Austen
Telling Austen's story
Summary activities
Closing words
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