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LIT3065 The Brontës Module convenor: Dr Amber Regis [email protected] Week 1: The Brontë Myth Seminar: Introductions Workshop: To Walk Invisible (2016) Week 2: Juvenilia and Poetry Seminar: Glass Town, Angria and Gondal Workshop: Poems by Ellis, Acton and Currer Bell (1846) Week 3: Jane Eyre* Seminar: Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) Workshop: Jane Eyre (dir. Robert Stevenson, 1943/1944) Week 4: Wuthering Heights Seminar: Wuthering Heights (1847) Workshop: Wuthering Heights (dir. Anthea Arnold, 2011) Week 5: Agnes Grey Seminar: Agnes Grey (1847) Workshop: Reviewing the Brontës Week 6: Branwell Seminar: Branwell Brontë Workshop: Mrs Gaskell’s Branwell Week 7: The Art of the Brontës Seminar: The Art of the Brontës Workshop: Brontë Portraits EASTER Week 8: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Seminar: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) Workshop: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (BBC Television, dir. Mike Barker, 1996) Week 9: Shirley Seminar: Shirley (1849) Workshop: Shirley (BBC Radio, dir. Tracey Neale, 2014) Week 10: Villette Seminar: Villette (1853) Workshop: Villette (BBC Radio, dir. Tracey Neale, 2009) Week 11: Deaths and Afterlives Seminar: Brontë Deaths Workshop: The Parsonage Museum and Brontë Bicentenaries *NB: Due to Jane Eyre being primary reading on the core module, LIT3101 Romantic and Victorian Prose, we will not be covering the novel directly on LIT3065. We will, instead, consider how the novel has been subject to post-colonial and neo-Victorian re-readings/re-writings, focusing upon Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea. Duals students not taking LIT3101 are invited to attend the lectures on Jane Eyre in the Autumn semester. Optional seminars on Jane Eyre and The Professor will run alongside LIT3065, subject to timetabling and availability. .

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