Introduction to Fiction: the Novels of Jane Austen

ENGLISH 91C - Introduction to Fiction: the Novels of Jane Austen - 5 units - UCLA GE Explore Fiction through the Works of the Beloved Jane Austen This course analyzes the techniques of prose fiction, including such elements as plot, characterization, setting, narrative voice and the use of dialogue, using four major novels by Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, and Persuasion - as exemplary. Anne K. Mellor is a Distinguished Professor of English. Her scholarly interests focus on eighteenth and nineteenth century British literature, women's writing, feminist theory, and the visual arts. Her most recent book, Mothers of the Nation - Women's Political Writing in England, 1780-1830, argues that women writers were instrumental in shaping public opinion during the Romantic era. She is the recipient of the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, the Keats-Shelley Association Distinguished Scholar Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships, three NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers Directorships, and ACLS, NEH, Rockefeller and Australian National University Fellowships in the Humanities.