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LIST 550 or LIST 555: Jane Austen: Writer of Wit and Morality

Area: Diverse Perspectives Thematic Area or Ethics and Liberal Studies Area
Instructor: Dr. Robert Boyer

Course Description
This course will be an examination of Jane Austen's six major novels in the context of the transition from the Eighteenth-Century's "Age of Reason" to the Nineteenth-Century's "Age of Romanticism".

Required Book List
This course will require the Penguin individual paperback editions of the following Jane Austen Novels:
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    • Northanger Abbey
    • Sense and Sensibility
    • Pride and Prejudice
    • Mansfield Park
    • Persuasion
    • Emma
    • There will also be a required bound collection of excerpts that will be for sale at the St. Norbert College Bookstore only.