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The Bronte Sisters- Dozent/in
- Prof. Dr. Christoph Houswitschka
- Angaben
- Hauptseminar
Rein Online
2 SWS
Gender und Diversität, Zentrum für Interreligiöse Studien, Erweiterungsbereich
Zeit: Mi 18:00 - 20:00; Bemerkung zu Zeit und Ort: All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact the lecturer.
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09):
freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY:
Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies:
Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students:
Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)
open for Consolidation Module Literature (semimar)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt
- “I declare he is that strange acquisition my late neighbour made, in his journey to Liverpool—a little Lascar, or an American or Spanish castaway.” ‘“A wicked boy, at all events,” remarked the old lady, “and quite unfit for a decent house! Did you notice his language, Linton? I’m shocked that my children should have heard it.”
The novels of Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848), and Anne Brontë (1820–1849), introduce us to those who have not been born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Far away from London, in the village of Haworth in the West Riding
of Yorkshire, we find the Brontë Parsonage. In this modest house the three sisters and their uninspired brother Branwell started writing novels. Male pen names, Currer Bell for Charlotte Brontë, Ellis Bell for Emily, and Acton for Anne helped to carefully reach out for the reading public. Success was instant and rumours about their true
identity spread fast.
On the one hand, all three Brontës are quite different in their approaches in developing characters, plots and settings. On the other hand, they have much in common and share characteristics that originate in their belonging to Yorkshire and the Midlands. In class we will read some of their major novels, but also their poetry and novels that
were written in their narrative tradition.
Novels we will discuss are Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847), Villette (1853), Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847), and Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848).
Possible topics are love and marriage, the Yorkshire moors, the Gothic tradition (ghosts, vampirism and necrophilia) and Romanticist traditions, colonialism and racism (mad woman in the attic), the governess and other female roles, genre traditions (John Bunyan), city vs country, gender and class, alcohol and domestic violence, Heathcliff as a Byronic hero, prequels, sequels and film adaptations of the Brontës’ novels.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre (1847)
Brontë, Charlotte. Villette (1853)
Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights (1847)
Brontë, Anne. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 8
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 15
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft
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