First Austen Reports (& Paper One):
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) As
soon as a topic is taken, I'll enter the name of the student who claimed it next
to it in the list below. Present your topic in the form of a two-page report for
your fellow-students (single-sheet front and back), due in class Friday, Sept.
9th. Bring 15 copies to distribute that day. The report should summarize
the main names, terms, dates, sources, or other memorable facts of your topic.
Be sure it includes a bibliographic note of at least one good print and one online source.(standard form of citation, see
Chicago
Manual of Style). All reports
will be evaluated and rated by the rest of the class. Then write up a
short essay in standard expository prosed based on your topic, three or four
pages long, due in class Wednesday, Sept. 14th. This essay will be graded
by me alone.
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: