EN 351 - The Brontes

The Brontës focuses on intensive literary analysis of the poetry and novels of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte, three important English writers of the nineteenth-century. The course studies Anne’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Emily’s Wuthering Heights, and Charlotte’s Jane Eyre and Villette. Also included are selections of Brontë juvenalia, Emily Brontë’s poetry, and the biography, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, written by Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell.

Four credits.