Jane Austen and Her Predecessors

Fall 2009 ENGL 1510A S01

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Instructor: Melinda Alliker Rabb

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Course Description

Before turning to an in-depth consideration of Austen's major work, this course takes a revisionary view of the rise of the novel by studying fiction by women writers from Aphra Behn to Mary Wollstonecraft. Readings include Haywood's Love in Excess, Inchbald's A Simple Story, Burney's Evelina, and, of course, Austen's Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion.