ENGL 321 - Jane Austen in Literature and Film

Credits: (3)
Jane Austen was an English spinster who left us only six complete novels. Yet, if you google her today, you’ll get 3,840,000 results in .23 seconds! Her popularity grows by the minute. You can currently take an on-line test to see which Austen protagonist is most like you. You can buy Jane Austen cookbooks and Jane Austen cookies. You can buy Jane Austen t-shirts, mugs, totes, and stationery. You can join the Jane Austen Society of North America or the Jane Austen Society of the United Kingdom. You can subscribe to a Jane Austen journal. You can read sequels and prequels. You can also still read the six novels. In this class we will study Austen’s novels and at least one film adaptation of each of the novels. As we do this, we will try to understand what Austen had to say about her own time and why she speaks so clearly to ours.
This course fulfills British/European post-1650 requirement.