EGL 225 - The Brontë Sisters

Course Units: 1.0

(Not Offered this Academic Year) This course will examine five first-person narratives by Charlotte Brontë and her sisters Emily and Anne. Readings will include The Professor, Jane Eyre, Villette, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and Elizabeth Gaskell’s 19th-century biography The Life of Charlotte Brontë. We will consider biographical, interpersonal, and inter-textual relations alongside questions of gender, class, religious vocation, communal authorship, pseudonymous publication and the cult of genius. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM