Wuthering Heights - Ed. Newman

Emily Brontë, Beth Newman

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Year: 2007
• eBook ISBN: 9781460402191
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

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 representation of gender, and survey the ways contemporary scholarship has sought to account for Heathcliff, open up multiple contexts within which Wuthering Heights can be read, understood, and enjoyed.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Emily Brontë: A Brief Chronology
• A Note on the Text
• Wuthering Heights
• Appendix A: A Selection of Emily Brontë’s Essays and Poems
• Appendix B: Some Literary Influences
• Appendix C: Currer Bell’s [Charlotte Brontë’s] Prefatory Essays for the 1850 Edition of Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey
• Appendix D: Contemporary Responses to the Novel
• Appendix E: On Geographical Remoteness and Cultural Difference
• Appendix F: On “Brain Fever”
• Appendix G: Women in Marriage
• Appendix H: Maps
• Appendix I: Genealogical Table of the Earnshaw and Linton Families
• Works Cited and Select Bibliography