Session 1: Jane Austen for Our Times: Austen’s Brilliant Designs
Jane Austen for Our Times • 54m
Evelyne Ender – Senior Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature – explores how novels such as EMMA and PERSUASION can do more than nourish an attraction towards romance. In exploring such volatile entities as beauty, wit, secret loves, or fatal attractions, they invite an exploration of social configurations that do not necessarily lead to happiness. Visit www.jhu.edu/hopkinsathome for more lectures and mini-courses.
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Session 2: Jane Austen for Our Times:...
Evelyne Ender – Senior Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature – delves into PERSUASION, through which Austen provides a line-up of characters who are forced by circumstances or illness to watch and experience life from the sidelines. Visit www.jhu.edu/hopkinsathome to se...
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Evelyne Ender – Senior Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature – considers the novels, EMMA and PERSUASION, in a comparison built around the contrast between Emma Woodhouse, the “imaginist” and child of privilege, and Anne Elliot, the late bloomer who dwells in melanchol...
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Session 4: Jane Austen for Our Times:...
Evelyne Ender – Senior Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature – explores how the 2020 film adaptation of EMMA raises to a new pitch the blend of feelings, well-meaning intentions, gossip, and secrecy that propels Emma towards a fatal realization, namely, that there are l...
