British Literature Module 4.6

Study Guide: British Literature (Excellence in Literature, English 4)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Focus Text: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Honors Texts

Sense and Sensibility or other novel by Jane Austen

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Module 4.6 Context Links

These links represent only the online resources referenced in this module. Instructions, background information, offline resources, and assignments are all found in the Excellence in Literature study guide listed above.

Readings

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/specialfeatures/a-guide-to-jane-austens-novels/#

http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/ppdrmtis.html

http://www.jasna.org

The Author’s Life

Deirdre Le Faye’s Jane Austen

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/jane-austen-biography/

http://labrocca.com/ja/index.html

http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/austen/bio.html

http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janelife.html

https://pemberley.com/janeinfo/litallus.html

Poetry

Please see the study guide for notes and the list of assigned poems from the pages below.

Blake: https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/william-blake-poetry

Wordsworth: https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/william-wordsworth-poems

Coleridge: https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/poems-by-samuel-taylor-coleridge

Shelley: https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/percy-bysshe-shelley-poems

Keats: https://www.excellence-in-literature.com//john-keats-poetry

Audio

Pride and Prejudice: The 200th Anniversary Audio Edition (Recommended)

http://librivox.org/pride-and-prejudice-by-jane-austen-3/ (Amateur)

Dr. Lorraine Murphy’s interviews on Austen’s works

Music

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02gd95

https://www.bfv.com/regency/

https://www.kickery.com/2009/11/what-did-jane-austen-dance.html

https://youtu.be/uzlmpst99Fk

Video

1995 BBC/A&E Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle

http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/prideandprejudice/episodes/

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/1995-pride-and-prejudice-fan-trailer

Visual Arts

https://www.wikiart.org/en/artists-by-art-movement/neoclassicism

http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/ppbrokil.html

Historical Context

The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Essayists and Poets

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/the-romantic-era-by-steven-kreis/

Jane Austen’s England by Maggie Lane; published by Robert Hale

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/social-background-of-pride-and-prejudice-by-pamela-whalan 

http://www.bl.uk/turning-the-pages/

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/austen/accessible/introduction.html

http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janeinfo.html#janetoc

Places to Go

https://janeaustens.house

Just for Fun

http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/austt10j.html

http://www.dwiggie.com/

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Index of British Literature context link pages

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British Literature Texts (recommended editions)

British Lit study guide, and links to focus and honors texts (opens in a new tab at the author’s Everyday Education site)