Jane Austen: Myth & Reality – Online Course – FutureLearn

Discover the fascinating story of author Jane Austen from her own life in Hampshire to what she means to a global audience today Discover the life and impact of Jane Austen Jane Austen went from being a moderately successful anonymous novelist in her own time to a global celebrity in ours On this course you will explore how that happened exploring Austens own literary influences and her reputation over time You will learn about her origins in Hampshire uncovering her formative years and the society she lived in asking how Austens location background and reading influenced her novels You will also consider the ways her own contemporaries read and responded to her and her place in the modern canon of world literature today 200 years after she died The Austen myth who is she and what does she mean to people around the world An 18th century education Jane and womens education and reading Austens literary and family influences Austens dirty walks gardens and landscapes in Austens writing The marketing of Jane Austen at home and abroad how her legacy has endured and built her celebrity Austens afterlives adapting Jane Austen for the modern age in film TV Austen as a commodity portraits hair and merchandising