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    		• Looser, Devoney, 1967-
     
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    		• Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
     
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    		• Women novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
     
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    		• Looser, Devoney, 1967-
     
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    		• Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
     
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    		• Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation.
     
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    		• Women novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
     
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    		• Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
     
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    		• Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.
     
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    The life and works of Jane Austen [videorecording (DVD)] / Devoney Looser.
    by Looser, Devoney, 1967-
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    The Teaching Company, 2021.
    Call #:DVD 823.7 A933L
    Subjects
  • Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
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  • Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation.
    •  
  • Women novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
    •  
  • Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
    •  
  • Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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  • Literature and society -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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  • England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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  • Great courses (DVD). Literature & language. English literature.
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  • Great courses (DVD)
    • ISBN: 
    9781644650431 (set)
    Alternate title: 
    Great Courses. The life and works of Jane Austen [videorecording (DVD)]
    Format: 
    [videorecording (DVD)] /
    Description: 
    4 videodiscs (12 hr.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (190 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
    Notes: 
    Course No. 2448.
    "24 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture"--Container.
    Home use only.
    Closed-captioned.
    Bibliography: 
    Includes bibliographical references in course guidebook.
    Contents: 
    Disc 1. Entering Jane Austen's world -- Life and letters : the genuine Austen -- Juvenilia : Austen's raucous early works -- Sense and sensibility : sisters united -- Pride and prejudice : universal truths -- Mansfield Park : silence, place and price -- Disc 2. Emma : the proper use of power -- Northanger Abbey : defending the novel -- Persuasion : a second bloom -- Regency romance and courtship -- Marriage and family in Austen's era -- Money, inheritance, and all they entail -- Disc 3. Class and courtesy in regency society -- British life in revolutionary times -- Clerks, clergy, and other men's professions -- Accomplished woman -- Luxury, fashion, and labor in the regency -- Travel and leisure in the Georgian era -- Disc 4. Health and wellness in Austen's England -- After 1817: Austen's growing posthumous fame -- Lady Susan : Austen's merry widow -- Sandition and Austen's unfinished fiction -- Austen's relations : from family to fandom -- Pop and popularity : Austen's enduring fame.
    Production: 
    Director, The Great Courses.
    Performers: 
    Lecturer, Devoney Looser, Arizona State University.
    Summary: 
    "Dive into the wit, wisdom and world of Jane Austen." --Container.
    Over the course of the 24 lessons of The Life and Works of Jane Austen, get invaluable insight into Austen's everyday reality in the elegant and tumultuous Regency period and a more thorough understanding of her influence and lasting legacy. Explore her six completed works, as well as her raucous teenage writings and unfinished novels. Get a guided tour of Austen's world, the politics, social dynamics, major events, cultural markers, and class structures that defined the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Great Britain, and how these elements shaped her life and inspired her work.
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    Filmed lectures.
    Educational films.
    Films for the hearing impaired.
    DVDs.
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    Teaching Company.
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