Title:
The life and works of Jane Austen [DVD].
Author:
Looser, Devoney, 1967-
ISBN:
9781644650431
Publication Information:
Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2021]
©2021
Physical Description:
4 videodiscs (12 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (190 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Series Title:
The
great
courses.
Literature
&
language.
Literature.
courses
(DVD)
General Note:
Title from container.
"Course No. 2448"--Container.
24 lectures (30 minutes each).
Contents:
Disc 1. Entering Jane Austen's world ; Life and letters : the genuine Austen ; Juvenilia : Austen's raucous early works ; Sense and sensibility : sisters united ; Pride and prejudice : universal truths ; Mansfield Park : silence, place and price -- Disc 2. Emma : the proper use of power ; Northanger Abbey : defending the novel ; Persuasion : a second bloom ; Regency romance and courtship ; Marriage and family in Austen's era ; Money, inheritance, and all they entail -- Disc 3. Class and courtesy in regency society ; British life in revolutionary times ; Clerks, clergy, and other men's professions ; Accomplished woman ; Luxury, fashion, and labor in the regency ; Travel and leisure in the Georgian era -- Disc 4. Health and wellness in Austen's England ; After 1817: Austen's growing posthumous fame ; Lady Susan : Austen's merry widow ; Sandition and Austen's unfinished fiction ; Austen's relations : from family to fandom ; Pop and popularity : Austen's enduring fame.
Summary:
"Dive into the wit, wisdom and world of Jane Austen." --Container.
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Performer:
Lecturer,
Devoney
Looser,
Arizona
State
University.
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The life and works of Jane Austen [DVD].