The Brontes and Their World

Laura C. Berry
WEDNESDAYS 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
May 3 - May 31, 2017
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The Brontes and Their World

Summer 2017
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WEDNESDAYS
9:00 am to 12:00 pm
May 3 - May 31, 2017

Location: 

Main Campus

Tuition: 

$135

The Bronte family – their extraordinary literary output, as well as their fascinating lives – have become something like a cottage industry, inspiring imitators, adaptations, a tourist attraction, tea towels, dance, music, and even the names of three asteroids. What accounts for this popularity? Is it the novels themselves? Or is it what is sometimes seen as the sensational aspects of their lives? In this course we will look at the novels, reading them as classic works of literature, understanding them as separate artifacts, but also examining their interrelations. At the same time, we will consider our continuing fascination with the Bronte family. We will also read Jean Rhys’s retelling of Jane Eyre’s story through the eyes of the madwoman in the attic. And we will examine the historical conditions of the time and the geographic and sociopolitical differences between Yorkshire, where the sisters mostly lived, and London, seen as the center of literary life.

Required Reading: 

Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea. W. W. Norton, 2016. ISBN-10: 0393352560. ISBN-13: 978-0393352566.

 

Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre.  Penguin Classics, 2006. ISBN-10: 0141441143. ISBN-13: 978-0141441146.

 

 

-------- . Villette. Penguin Classics, 2004. ISBN-10: 0140434798. ISBN-13: 978-0140434798.

 

 

Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights. Penguin Classics, 2002. ISBN-10: 0141439556.  ISBN-13: 978-0141439556.

 

 

 

 

Meet Your Professor

Associate Professor
Department of English, UA Honors College

LAURA C. BERRY is Associate Professor of English at the University of Arizona.  She is the author of The Child, the State and the Victorian Novel, and numerous articles on Dickens, the Brontes, George Eliot, and Victorian literature and culture.  She received her doctorate from UC Berkeley in 1992.  

Location

Poetry Center
Dorothy Rubel Room
1508 E Helen
Tucson, AZ 85721
United States
Located on the SE corner of Helen Street and Vine Avenue, one block north of Speedway and three blocks west of Campbell Ave.

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