The Life and Works of Jane Austen
Vortrag
Part 2: Leaving Norland Park, Visiting Pemberley and Enjoying Highbury
In the second part of this three-part lecture on Jane Austen we will focus on her three best known novels Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Emma.
Casting a look on sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, we will try to understand what marriage and financial security really meant for young women in the time of the Regency. Furthermore we will take a look at the workings of family politics which were far more important back then than and trying to answer the question which is more important: sense or sensibility?
Carrying these ideas over to Elizabeth Bennet and her sisters we will look out for the themes of social position and clashes between the lower and upper gentry and the nobility in the English countryside.
Emma Woodhouse on the other hand will give us a completely different topic to discuss. When it comes to her we will look at the influences of wealth and boredom on everyday life in a small enclosed social circle and investigate how much trouble can be caused by well meant intentions and people who see themselves on a higher level than others when in fact they are in no way better.
Deutsche-Britisches Forum
Dr. Jens Anger
Dr. Lisa Homrich