Burke.Jane Austen’s Emma, first published in the United States over 200 years ago, remains a beloved classic to this day. It was this novel that brought me to Hagley in a quest to uncover how nineteenth-century Americans read and understood Austen’s work. All these books highlight Goucher’s world-renowned Jane Austen Collection and its creator, alumna Alberta H. For Penguin Classics, she created reader-friendly 200 th -anniversary editions of Austen’s novels Emma (2015) and Persuasion (2017).
She is the author of three histories of Austen’s readers, all published by Bloomsbury Academic: Everybody’s Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination (2011), Reading Austen in America (2017), and A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World’s Greatest Novelist (forthcoming 2023). Juliette Wells is Professor of Literary Studies at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. Reading Emma syllabus About the Instructor Please purchase the special 200th anniversary edition of Emma, introduced and edited by Juliette Wells (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition ISBN 9780143107712) We will read and discuss Emma in relation to Austen’s life and career, her involvement in the publication of her novels, and the critical praise her works received during and after her lifetime. Austen, an inventive writer beginning in her teenage years, knew well what it was like to aspire to more than women were supposed to and to face hard choices about balancing creative work and family obligations.
Jane Austen took up this question most directly in Emma, which focuses on a heroine who is an “imaginist” and which also features a supporting character whose musical gifts greatly exceed what is expected of an accomplished woman. What is to become of a talented woman in a society that believes that her abilities are best spent amusing herself, entertaining her family, and educating her children? Register for the Waitlist Description Emma and the Woman Artist Registration opens for Delancey Society members on March 2, for members on March 9, and for the general public on March 16.If you have questions, please call (215) 732-1600 or email. Please check your spam folder for your email confirmation.This course is limited to participants who are 18 years of age or older.10% off for Rosenbach members and the Delancey Society. Not a member? Learn more.
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