Session 2: Jane Austen for Our Times: Confined to Home
Jane Austen for Our Times • 54m
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 see more lectures and mini-courses.
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