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ASE Summer Schools in Bath
June 6 - July 11, 2026
Limited places are available on each course to preserve the small, interactive class experience, and places will be allocated to suitably qualified applicants on a first-come-first-served basis.
The deadline for initial applications is February 15, 2026.
Jane Austen in Bath
Austen reputedly fainted on hearing that her family would move to Bath in 1801. Scholars have argued about her reaction: was it joy or horror?
Love, Sex, and Friendship in Early Modern England
How did 16th- and 17th-century English writers talk about love, sex, and friendship, and how were early modern representations of love and desire shaped by understandings of gender, sexuality, race, disability, class, and other identity categories?
This course focuses on representations of relationships between friends, lovers, and spouses in 16th- and 17th-century literature.