A course in Oxford

A course about the Brontës begins today in Oxford:

The University of Chicago Alumni Association, Graham School of General Studies
University of Oxford, Department for Continuing Education
Rewley House, Oxford

A FORTNIGHT IN OXFORD
June 14-27, 2009
A two-week travel/study program held at the University of Oxford, England
Sponsored by
The University of Chicago Alumni Association
The University of Chicago Graham School of General Studies and
The University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education


The Brontës.
What enabled three sisters living quietly in a secluded parsonage in a small Yorkshire town to write some of the most passionate and innovative fiction of the nineteenth, or any, century. This course will focus on four main texts: Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre and Villette; Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights; and Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. We look at the historical, cultural, and literary contexts of the novels in order to come to a better understanding and appreciation of the magnitude of the Brontë sisters’ achievement.
Sandie Byrne, tutor. Professor Sandie Byrne is chair of English at the University of Lincoln and formerly fellow and tutor in English at Balliol College, University of Oxford. She is the author of two books and a number of articles about Jane Austen’s work. Ms. Byrne taught in the Fortnight in Oxford program in 2007.

The Oxford's Department of Continuing Education offers some other Brontë courses for the following months, you can check them out here.

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