First Austen Reports:
Short reports on Austen's juvenilia, literature, society, and politics of
her youth.
Choose one of the unclaimed topics shown on the website below (or one of
your own invention) and clear your choice with me by conversation or e-mail.
Research your topic's relevance to this class and prepare a one-page handout for
your fellow-students on your topic. The handout should summarize the main names,
terms, dates, sources, or other memorable facts of your topic. Include maps,
graphics, tables, or whatever helps clarify your topic. In your own prose be
concise and original. Be sure the handout includes a brief bibliographic note of
at least one good print and one online source (standard form of citation, see
Chicago
Manual of Style). Bring 20 copies to distribute in class on Monday,
September 21st.
Then write up the results in a brief essay of three or four pages with a
list of sources consulted, due in class Monday, September 21st.
I will finally ask you to give an overall rating to each report, including
your own.
Popular Literature of Jane Austen's Youth:
Early Reviews of Northanger Abbey (NCE) pp. 243-63.
Jane Austen's Juvenilia:
The Three Sisters: a Novel (1792) (OWC)
pp. 55-67.
Catherine, or the Bower (1792) in Northanger
Abbey (NCE) pp. 206-12, (OWC) pp. 186-229.
Frederic and Elfrida: a Novel () (OWC)
pp. 3-10.
Jack and Alice: a Novel () (OWC) pp.
11-26.
Henry and Eliza: a Novel () (OWC) pp.
31-6.
Lesley Castle: an Unfinished Novel in Letters (1792)
(OWC) pp. 107-33.
History of England and other Scraps (1791) And see Northanger Abbey
(NCE) pp. 197-206; (OWC) pp. 134-44.
Politics: