300-400 LEVEL COURSES 463-2 - Bront in Critical & Cultural Context #13046

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University of Massachusetts-Boston

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TT 11:00 PENNER OLD CATEGORY: E SATISFIES CAPSTONE REQUIREMENT This Capstone course covers the life and work of one of England's most celebrated and widely taught authors, Charlotte Bront . In order to appreciate Bront 's development as a writer and her particular contributions to literary history, we will read all of her fiction (The Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley, and Villette), including the stories that she, her brother, and sisters produced as children, as well as selections of their poetry, and we will work with her letters and biographies (both Victorian and contemporary) written about her. Our critical readings will be drawn from a variety of perspectives: feminism, post-colonialism, narratology, cultural studies, literary historicism, and queer theory. The class will be run as a seminar, with students doing research on literary, historical, and cultural contexts, including issues such as the social position of "redundant" women, class conflict, and the effects of both the growing middle class and British imperial projects on domestic life

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3.00

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Lecture

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www.umb.edu

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(617) 287-5000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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