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"Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be," British poet Robert Southey wrote in a letter to Charlotte Brontë in 1837. The Brontë sisters, however, could not have envisaged a life without literature. They lived far away from the excitement of Britain's metropolitan centres in a Yorkshire village called Haworth. In the biographical notice to her sister's now classic novel Wuthering Heights, Charlotte Brontë explains: "We were wholly dependent on ourselves and each other, on books and study, for the enjoyments and occupations of life. The highest stimulus, as well as the liveliest pleasure we had known from childhood upwards, lay in attempts at literary composition." The result of these "attempts" are stories about abusive and/or incestuous relationships, moral cruelty, hypocrisy, and love across boundaries of class.
In this course we are going to look at how three of the best-known works of the sisters, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847), Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847) and Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), challenge Victorian constructs of class, gender and sexuality.
Texts: Please purchase the following editions and read Jane Eyre before the start of term.
Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Ed. Stevie Davis. London: Penguin Classics, 2006. Print.
ISBN-10: 0141441143 ISBN-13: 978-0141441146
Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. Ed. Pauline Nestor and Lucasta Miller. London: Penguin Classics, 2003. Print.
ISBN-10: 0141439556 ISBN-13: 978-0141439556
Brontë, Anne. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Ed. Stevie Davis. London: Penguin Classics, 2006. Print.
ISBN-10: 0140434747 ISBN-13: 978-0140434743 |
