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Prerequisites: ENG-299T (any version)

Emily, Charlotte, and Anne Bronte, daughters of a Yorkshire clergyman, startled and intrigued their contemporaries with their literary work. They maintain a place among the most popular Victorian writers, and their lives have taken on a mystique of their own. This class will study their creative work within the contexts of nineteenth-century British culture, twentieth-century literary scholarship, and the phenomenon of persistent reinterpretations of their lives and environs.