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Miss Austen Removes Her Gloves
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Austen herself observed that Pride and Prejudice might be too “light, bright, and sparkling” and thus her readers might ignore her analysis of bad marriages, poor parenting, and social snobbery. In her two final novels, Mansfield Park and Persuasion, the gloves are off. Austen’s satire takes on a darker cast and admirable upper class characters like Darcy and Knightley have been replaced with villains. Her heroines are powerless and at risk, as the upper class wields privilege and power. Austen analyzes the moral decay, selfishness, and extravagances of those with title and inherited wealth — her new heroes actually work for a living!
Instructor John Ward went to Amherst for his A.B. and the University of Virginia for his Ph.D. and taught English literature at liberal arts colleges in Ohio (Kenyon) and Kentucky (Centre) for 40 years. After retiring, for the last dozen years he has been teaching in Coastal Senior College. In a sense, he has hardly “retired” but instead is exploring new as well as familiar literary topics with his contemporaries. While his college courses were principally in the areas of 18th- and 19th-century British literature, more recently he has concentrated on major poets, from Yeats, Frost, Lowell, and Heaney.
Instructor Maryanne Ward holds a B.A. from Marymount Manhattan College, Masters degrees from the University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. from the Ohio State University. Her main fields of interest are the 19th-century novel (English and Russian) and Greek literature, particularly, Homer’s Odyssey. In addition to teaching her academic specialties, she shares her love of detective fiction with the Mystery Monday reading group. After retiring, Maryanne trained as a Master Gardener, has worked at Blaine House, and is currently a docent at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.
This course can be taken either in-person or on-line via Zoom - choose when you register.
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Location
Zoom: link will be sent before first class. In-person: St. Andrews, 11 Glidden St., Newcastle
USA
Event Contact(s)
John C Ward
Instructor
Maryanne C Ward
Instructor
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