This online course, led by Gothic literature expert Dr Sam Hirst, will explore different aspects of this question. We’ll examine the histories of publication and discovery, looking at the ‘afterlives’ of the Brontës in biographies and biopics – as well as claims of the Brontës’ afterlife return!
We'll also look at how the Brontës' novels have inspired whole genres, rewrites and reimaginings, novels that speak back to the Brontës both critically and admiringly, and transformative works. This course will also include a book discussion group (with the text to be chosen by the class from a shortlist) and will have an optional creative element, working on our own concepts for adaptation.
Sam Hirst completed their PhD on the Theology of the Early Gothic and since then has worked as a lecturer in Romanticism, Nineteenth Century literature and the Gothic at universities around the UK. They published their first book Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic in 2023 and have run a number of courses for the Brontë Parsonage Museum.
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