Mary Shelley, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, and Charles Dickens, individually distinctive as writers, produced a body of literature dealing with concerns about human potential and rights rendered problematic by ideologies and and social institutions.hall spend about two weeks on each novel, including backgrounds and critical material included in the required editions. Midterm and final papers on assigned study questions (details in forthcoming syllabus forthcoming by end of pre-registration). Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, C. Bronte Jane Eyre, E. Bronte, Wuthering Heights, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Hard Times.