Graduate Seminar Fall 2024: Playing the 18th Century: Week Five, Emma & Austen Games

SNEAKY live recap of Week Five of my graduate seminar bringing together eighteenth-century texts and games inspired by the period.

Focus: Games in Emma (discussion and class visitor)

This week we'll spend some time discussing the most recent section of the novel before turning to a discussion of more games inspired by Austen. We were joined in the back half by Emily Kugler, Associate Professor of English at Howard U (and one of my collaborators on this channel, and in the study of game adaptation of the 18th Century)

(Long) 18th Century Reading:

Jane Austen, Emma (1816), p. 230-318

Game (Play Before Class):

Crow Tree Entertainment, Truths Untold (2020-22) [play in browser, sample] https://itch.io/queue/c/961630/18th-c...
Regency Love [mobile game, if available]
Seraphinite Games, The Lady's Choice (2016) [video game, Mac/Windows/Linux] https://itch.io/queue/c/961630/18th-c...

Scholarly Lens:

Friedman and Kugler, “‘Avoiding’ Racism: Race and Representation in Austen-Inspired Games." Persuasions Online Special Issue "Beyond the Bit of Ivory: Jane Austen and Diversity", (Summer 2021) http://jasna.org/publications-2/persu...
Friedman, "Indie game designers were refashioning the Regency long before Bridgerton" Polygon (October 14, 2022) https://www.polygon.com/23401231/jane...