S261 - An Integrated Approach to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (IGCSE 08/09/2010)

Sessions	Dates	Start	Finish
1	15 Aug 2008	05:30 PM	08:30 PM
2	29 Aug 2008	05:30 PM	08:30 PM

IGCSE Literature teachers; teachers/schools who wish to introduce IGCSE English Literature in their curriculum.

- To provide Literature teachers with useful tools for the analysis of literary texts.
- To make it possible for teachers to understand the historical, literary and social background to the text, both at the moment of its composition and the moment of its setting in time.
- To provide them with strategies to facilitate students' access to those texts through textual intervention.
- To enhance critical thinking in both teachers and student

Historical focus:
The Period of the Napoleonic Wars in England. The shaping of a new society: The rise of the middle class. Aristocracy vs. Bourgeoisie.
The new role of women in the 19th century.

Literary focus:
Background: Augustan sense and sensibility. The arts and the social order. Women in life and literature. Jane Austen's place in English literature. The importance of the comedy of manners. The construction Jane Austen's novels.

Pride and Prejudice: Setting and plot. Style. Characterisation: The plight of the Jane Austen heroine. Heroes, caricatures and minor characters. The use of foils. Narrative strategies. The novel as bildungsroman.

- Ford, B. (ed.) (1954) The Pelican Guide to English Literature : Volume 5: From Blake to Byron – Chapter 1: "The Social Setting". Middlesex: Penguin Books.

- Guillie, C. (1974) A Preface to Jane Austen. Hong Kong: Commonwealth Printing Press Ltd.

- Gooneratne, Y. (1970) Jane Austen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

- Hardy, B. (1985). Forms of Feeling in Victorian Fiction. Suffolk: Methuen & Co. Ltd.

- Hosbawn, E. (1987) La Era De la Revolución 1789-1848. Buenos Aires: Crítica.

- Hosbawn, E. (1993) The Age of Capital, 1848-1875. London: Abacus.

- Pool, D. (1993) What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew. New York: Touchstone Books.

- Pope, R. (1995) Textual Intervention. New York: Routledge.

- mero, J. L. (1987) Estudio de la mentalidad burguesa. Buenos Aires: Alianza.

Stone, Lawrence (1979) The Family, Sex, and Marriage in England - 1500-1800. London: Penguin Books Ltd.

Tanner, Tony (1985). Jane Austen – Chapter 4: ‘Knowledge and Opinion: Pride and Prejudice’. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press

Weldon, Fay (1993). Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen. New York: Carroll and Graf Publishers

Presentation of an integrated approach to the text covering both a historical and a literary background, as well as literary analysis and pedagogical considerations through presentations, debates, pair work and group work activities.