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JANE AUSTEN'S NOVELS FOCUS OF EMORY'S FIRST 'GREAT WORKS SEMINAR'

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Date: 20080819
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Emory University's arts and humanities division issued the following news release:

Attention Jane Austen fans: Emory University's Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry is sponsoring a five-session seminar on the works of the renowned English novelist beginning Sept. 17. The Jane Austen course, the first in a series of "Great Works Seminars" sponsored by the center, is free and open to the public, although space is limited.

The reading group will be led by Emory history professor Judith A. Miller, a specialist of late 18th-century European cultural history. The seminar is designed ...

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