Webinar: The Brontës: Landscape, Nature and the Unnatural

Deirdre Sneddon Scholarship recipient Gay Longbottom shares her experience on the Oxford Experience, Summer School at Christ College, Oxford

The Brontës shared a love of nature and long walks in wild, Gothic wind-blown spaces, of the Yorkshire moorland scenery.

Inspired by Romanticism, they wrote about nature's power and its connection with the imagination. Yet, for the Brontës, nature is not always tranquil and benevolent, but also representative of wild, stormy moods.

This course on nature and the unnatural in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall will examine characters connected to landscape, extreme states and experiences, and nature as a mysterious and supernatural force.