Writers in Context: Reading Jane Austen’s ‘Persuasion’

This short-term study abroad course offers students the opportunity to immerse themselves in the cultural, historical, and geographic contexts of the literature they study. Each offering focuses on a specific work, author, or movement from the world of English literature and takes place in a location of relevance and importance to the works under study.

This year, we will read “Persuasion,” Jane Austen’s novel of love, the sea, and second chances. The tour will include a week in Bath and a week in London, with excursions to Bristol, Lyme, Hampshire, and Portsmouth.

This course fulfills the CL and ITL requirements.

The Circus, Bath

Bath Abbey from the Roman Baths

Bath Abbey reflected in a pool at the Roman Baths

Jane Austen’s writing table, Chawton House

Trafalgar Square, London

Elgin Marbles, British Museum, London

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