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ENGL3657: The Brontes
2025 unit information
The novels of the Bront sisters are among the most enduringly popular of Victorian texts, and provoke complex identifications. Their reputation has fluctuated since the mid nineteenth century, veering between intense fandom and critical distancing, in both cases founded on the perception that the Bronts were labile and cloistered writers, isolated from their times and over-compensatory in their emotional range. Keeping our focus, instead, on the form and content of five canonical Bront novels, we will think about the relationship between biography and authorship, gender and writing, the relative critical merits of history and theory, and judgments about literary value.
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Credit points | 6 |
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12 credit points at 2000 level in English |
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None |
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None |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. L1: Have gained skills in the kind of sustained critical investigation normally reserved for honours or masters work.
- LO2. L2: Be familiar with major works in the Brontë oeuvre and the main debates that have informed Brontë criticism.
- LO3. L3: Have learned about gender and literary production in the Victorian period.
- LO4. L4: Consider the relevance of biographical information to understanding literary texts.
- LO5. L5: Reflect on the assumptions that inform both literary critical trends and your own understanding of literary critical practice.
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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