Topics in American Literature

CAS EN 327

May be repeated for credit as topics change each semester. Topic for Fall 2013: Jane Eyre's Sisters. A close study of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, followed by nineteenth and twentieth century writers who appropriate and revise aspects of Bronte's novel in an American context. Authors include Jacobs, Alcott, Stoddard, Rhys, and Mukherjee.