With... Adam Sargant
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It's our last episode of series 1!!! Expect ghost, ghouls and lots of
laughs as we round off the series with Adam Sargant, AKA Haunted Haworth.
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5 months ago
Broad Recognition is quite interested too:
ENGL 431 01 (12893) The Brontës and Their Afterlives Linda Peterson T 9.25-11.15
Fall 2010 No regular final examination Skills WR Areas Hu Permission of instructor required The novels of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, with modern adaptations in film and fiction. Additional readings include Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë, Sinclair's Three Sisters, and Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea; films include Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and "biographies" of the Brontë sisters.
Our excitement about this class does not just derive from the fact that this is one of few courses devoted entirely to female authors. The syllabus looks delicious: students will read Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Shirley, and Villette. But Peterson’s course deserves a place on this list for its simultaneous focus on both the ways female characters are depicted by female authors, and how female authors are depicted by a largely male academy. The syllabus promises discussion of the mythology surrounding status of the sisters, crafted by critics of both genders. Peterson has not offered this course before, but her previous courses—including Major English Poets, and nobody likes Major English Poets—have gotten good reviews. One student from her Fall 2009 course on nature writing says that “Professor Peterson really knows her stuff, and she’s great at leading discussion and at asking the right questions.” And honestly, Heathcliff seems a little sexier than leaves. (Alexandra Brodsky)Linda H. Peterson's surely knows her Brontës as she was the editor of a 1992 (St Martin's Press) edition of Wuthering Heights.
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