Slides for Day 1 in ELIT 46C, S18

1. ELIT 46C
WELCOME! IT’S TIME TO GET WRAPPED UP IN BOOKS!

2. Who am I? And who are you?
(Who is anyone, really?)
Icebreaker (of sorts):
1. What is the name (last name) on my roster?
2. What first name do you want me to call
you?
3. What are your pronouns?
(She/hers; He/his; They/them; etc.)
4. What is your favorite book? Or, alternatively,
what was your favorite work that you read in
ELIT 46B?

3. Syllabus
Party!

4. Icebreaker 2: Back to Breaking
Turn to the person sitting next to you.
Introduce yourself.
Then tell each other:
--What part of the course are you most excited
about?
--What aspect of the course are you most
concerned about?

5. Tips and Guidelines for
Good Discussion Questions
(See the handout in the syllabus
for more details.)
-Be respectful!
-Don’t escalate.
-This is not a debate.
-Be vigilant about avoiding
“mansplaining” and other assumptions
that you know more than your
classmates.
Bad
-Do you like this book?
-What was the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?
-What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
Good
-Why is Dorothea an orphan? Why are so many of our
narrators orphans?
-Why didn’t Browning choose to say his point more
clearly? Why use such a complicated style?
-Is Tennyson just another Romantic? Why or why not?
-Does the author expect us to like Rosamund? Why or
why not?
-Do you think Dorothea would have been viewed as too
feminist by Victorian readers?
-What are some of the consequences (intended or
unintended) of using the metaphor of a “factory” for life
in the home?
-How is Pip similar to Will? What might these
similarities suggest?

6. What’s the homework for Thursday?
You have a discussion post due by
Wednesday, 6PM.
◦ Discussion post could be about Jane Eyre or
about the Mansfield short story or about
the Auden poem (on the syllabus for today).
You should read some Jane Eyre.
Read the Katherine Mansfield short story,
“The Garden Party” (1921).
◦ Link on the syllabus and on Canvas.
◦ Also in the Norton (p. 2581).
Yes, but where are the details of these
assignments? On CANVAS!
Key info for Mansfield, “The Garden
Party”:
◦ skipping ahead in our period—from the end
of our period (1921).
◦ Katherine Mansfield was from New
Zealand (British colony).
◦ We’ll use it as an intro to many of the
themes we’ll be dealing with this
quarter.
◦ Who’s who:
◦ Sheridan family: Laura (main character), Jose
(girl), Laurie (boy), Meg, Mother and Father.
◦ Servants: Sadie, Hans, Cook, etc.
◦ Friend: Kitty.

7. How to read Jane Eyre

8. The life of
Charlotte Brontë
A Brief Biographical Sketch
Charlotte in 1850; Age 34ish.

9. Early life
-born in 1816 to Maria and Patrick Brontë, third child.
-Patrick was a pastor (priest) in the Church of England.
-in 1820, the family moved to Haworth—isolated village in
Yorkshire.
-lived in a large, stone parsonage, next to the church graveyard.
-in 1821, Mrs. Brontë dies (age 38); Charlotte’s aunt Branwell
moves in to take care of the kids.
-1824: Mr. Brontë sends Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, and Emily
away to school. Conditions at the school are bad. All of the girls
return ill.
-Both Maria (age 11) and Elizabeth (10) die of tuberculosis in 1825.
-the remaining siblings—Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and brother
Branwell—stay at home and collectively create fictional worlds
together.
Haworth Parsonage

10. Haworth Parsonage (now).

11. Yorkshire Moors

12. Second half of her life.
-Charlotte is sent to a different school, then works (unsatisfactorily) as a governess.
-1839: Charlotte and Emily go to boarding school in Brussels. They learn French. Charlotte falls in
love with the headmaster.
-1842: Aunt Branwell dies. Emily returns home and eventually so does Charlotte (in 1844).
-In September 1848, brother Branwell dies, likely due to alcoholism and addiction. Age 30.
-In December 1848, Emily dies of tuberculosis (age 29).
-In May 1849, Anne dies of tuberculosis (age 27).
-1854: Charlotte marries one of the few men she knew: Arthur Bell Nichols, her father’s curate
(assistant priest).
-1855: Charlotte (pregnant) dies, age 38, possibly of tuberculosis.

13. Novels published, 1847-48.
Charlotte: Jane Eyre (1847)
Anne: Agnes Grey (1847)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
Emily: Wuthering Heights (1847)
Portrait by Branwell Brontë, 1834

14. What’s the homework for Thursday?
Read the Auden poem I asked you to read
for today.
You should read some Jane Eyre.
Read the Katherine Mansfield story, “The
Garden Party.”
You have a discussion post due by
Wednesday, 6PM.
◦ Discussion post could be about Jane Eyre or
about the Mansfield short story or about
the Auden poem (on the syllabus for today).
Yes, but where are the details of these
assignments?
On CANVAS!
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