Wuthering Heights

Paperback, 400 pages

English language

Published April 11, 2007 by Broadview Press.

ISBN:
978-1-55111-532-0
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OCLC Number:
78042860

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Over a hundred and fifty years after its initial publication, Emily Brontë’s turbulent portrayal of the Earnshaws and the Lintons, two northern English households nearly destroyed by violent passions in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, continues to provoke and fascinate readers. Heathcliff remains one of the best-known characters in the English novel, and Catherine Earnshaw’s impossible choice between two rivals retains its appeal for contemporary readers. At the same time, the novel’s highly ambivalent representations of domesticity, its famous reticence about its characters and their actions, its formal features as a story within a story, and the mystery of Heathcliff’s origins and identity provide material for classroom discussion at every level of study.

The introduction and appendices to this Broadview edition, which place Brontë’s life and novel in the context of the developing “Brontë myth,” explore the impact of industrialization on the people of Yorkshire, consider the novel’s …

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Subjects

  • Classics
  • Romance - Gothic
  • Fiction / Literary
  • Literary
  • Fiction
  • Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Rejection (Psychology)
  • Rural families
  • Triangles (Interpersonal relations)