Courses: Session I

ENG 121 - Jane Austen's Novels

Yoon S. Lee, Caspersen Associate Professor of English

This course will focus on Austen’s five major novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion. What is the basis for their enduring appeal? Why do Austen’s characters appear to possess such presence? How important is plot, as opposed to the representation of an environment? How does Austen feel about change, internal or external, small-scale or large? Does she herself change as a writer? We will give special attention to how Austen develops new ways of depicting consciousness, society, and time.
Credit: 1.0 unit (4 sem. hrs.)
Course Fee: $2000

Lectures: M,W,TH 9:20 - 12:00

Location: Clapp Library 3

Professor Lee's teaching and research interests fall into two categories: 18th- and 19th-century British literature and Asian-American literature. In additon to teaching in the English department she teaches in the Writing Program and in the American Studies Program.
Her first book, Nationalism and Irony: Burke, Scott, Carlyle (Oxford UP, 2004), examines the political and literary uses of irony by conservative non-English writers in Romantic and early Victorian Britain. Her second book, currently in progress, focuses on the construction of the everyday in Asian Pacific American literature and history.

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