British Literature Survey
Path 2: Brontë Sisters Group

 

Student-Researched Reference Topics

Reading Foci

  • characteristics of the Gothic
  • the ubiquitous presence of madness
  • the relative validity/trustworthiness of different narrators' perspectives
  • women configured as animals (birds, etc.)
  • Byronic heroes and anti-heroes
  • attitudes towards faith and religious practice
  • women as moral teachers of men
  • the uses of dreams and visions
  • gender issues and the visual arts
  • domestic care of disordered minds
Week One: Jan 12-14 Wuthering Heights (1847): Vol I, chps 1-9
Week Two: Jan 15-21 Wuthering Heights (1847): Vol 1, chps 10-14, Vol II, chps 1-2
Week Three: Jan 22-28 Wuthering Heights (1847): Vol II, chps 2-10
Week Four: Jan 29-Feb 4 Wuthering Heights (1847): Vol II, chps 11-20
Week Five: Feb 5-11 Jane Eyre (1847): chps 1-8 (Vol. 1, chps 1-8)
Week Six: Feb 12-18 Jane Eyre (1847): chps 9-16 (Vol. 1, chps 9-16; Vol. 2, chp 1)
Week Seven: Feb 19-25 Jane Eyre (1847): chps 17-24 (Vol. 2, chps 2-9)
Week Eight: Feb 26-Mar 4 Jane Eyre (1847): chps 25-32 (Vol. 2, chps 10-11; Vol. 3, chps 1-6)
Week Nine: Mar 5-11 Jane Eyre (1847): chps 33-38 (Vol. 3, chps 7-12)
Spring Break
Week Ten: Mar 19-25 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848): pp. 7-122 (chps 1-15)
Week Eleven: Mar 26-Apr 1 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848): pp. 123-196 (chps 16-23)
Week Twelve: Apr 2-8 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848): pp. 197-296 (chps 24-33)
Week Thirteen: Apr 9-15 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848): pp. 297-380 (chps 34-44)
Week Fourteen: Apr 16-22 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848): pp. 381-471 (chps 45-53)
Week Fifteen: Apr 23-29

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Paul Marchbanks
marchban@email.unc.edu