Screen LibraryWuthering Heights : the 1847 text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism /
"Wuthering Heights, the only novel by Emily Bronte, traces the passionate relationship of Catherine and Heathcliff. Their affair ripples across the moors as it determines the fate of two generations of lovers. The "Background and Contexts" section includes selections of Bronte's...
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W.W. Norton & Company,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2019] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Fifth edition. |
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A Norton critical edition
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"Wuthering Heights, the only novel by Emily Bronte, traces the passionate relationship of Catherine and Heathcliff. Their affair ripples across the moors as it determines the fate of two generations of lovers. The "Background and Contexts" section includes selections of Bronte's diary entries, devoirs, and poetry. Readers will also find a selection of letters from Charlotte Bronte, as well as reviews of the 1847 and 1850 editions of Wuthering Heights. Bringing together a wide range of topics, the 'Criticism' section highlights the complexities of the text and analyzes the role of memory and trauma, animals, and Victorian domesticity. A Chronology of Bronte's life and a Selected Bibliography are also included"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 448 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-448). |
| ISBN: |
9780393284997 0393284999 |
| Index Number: | PR4172 |
| CLC: | I561.44 |
| Call Number: | I561.44/B869-60 |
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"Spirits so lost and fallen" / Looking oppositely : Emily Bront�e's bible of hell / The romantic ascent : Emily Bront�e / Petted things : cruelty and sympathy in the Bront�es / Memory possessed : trauma and pathologies of remembrance in Emily Bront�e's Wuthering Heights / Wuthering Heights and domestic medicine : the child's body and the book / |