1. Love Stories: The Discourses of Desire in Literature and Culture, 1800 – the Present Session Five

2. Agenda Revisiting Pemberley Summary: 19th century love stories The 20th century – modernism – Lawrence The Virgin and the Gipsy

3. Revisiting Pemberley and the Cultural Studies Assignment Pemberley.com – how does it invent or construct: –Jane Austen: what’s interesting about her as a biographical subject? –Her work: what’s interesting about her work? Are some of her novels more interesting than others? –Reading: why read her work? What kind of reading must she be subjected to? –Readers: who are the ideal/ real JA-readers? Why do they read?

4. Summary: 19th century Love Stories The distinctive features of the discourses of desire: –Triangular desire: subject – object – obstacle –What threatens, prevents or hinders the merger between subject and object? –Mergers between subject and object and the death of the subject and the death of narrative

5. Summary: 19th century Love Stories Romanticism and Victorianism Love and marriage

6. The 20th century: Modernism and Lawrence 19th – 20th centuries: (dis)continuities Modernism as an aesthetics of rupture: Joyce and Woolf Lawrence [Joseph Allen Boon, Tradition-Counter- Tradition: Love and the Form of Fiction]

7. The Virgin and the Gipsy Lawrence’s novella and ”The Lady of Shalott” The narrator and desire: Why does the narrator narrate? Character, plot, and desire Imagery and desire