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Reviews: [Emily Bronte] looked out upon a world cleft into gigantic disorder and felt within her the power to unite it in a book. That gigantic ambition is to be felt throughout the novel. -Virginia Woolf
Wuthering Heights, with its story of Catherine’s willful separation from her ‘twin’, Heathcliff, her exile at Thrushcross Grange, the riddle of her delirium and the ‘baby-work’ of her pregnancy and delivery of the new Catherine, is an original myth of loss, exile, rebirth, and return. -Stevie Davies
Discription: Published a year before her death at the age of 30, Emily Bronte’s only novel is set in the wild, bleak Yorkshire Moors where she was born. When Wuthering Heights first appeared in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, it received predominantly negative and hostile reviews. For the next 50 years, Bronte’s romantic masterpiece was either ignored or reviled, until it gradually achieved critical respect and popular fame. As many of the critics in this volume attest, it is now considered a classic of English literature, praised for its innovative structure, originality, and poetic style. The tragic and passionate love story of Catherine and Heathcliff continues to entertain and enthrall contemporary readers around the world.
Contents: Introduction • Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights • On Wuthering Heights • Looking Oppositely: Emily Bronte’s Bible of Hell • Emily Bronte in and out of Her Time • Baby-Work: The Myth of Rebirth in Wuthering Heights • Wuthering Heights: Uneasy Wedlock and Unquiet Slumbers • The Power of Excommunication: Sex and the Feminine Text in Wuthering Heights • "Your Father was Emperor of China, and your Mother an Indian Queen": Reverse Imperialism in Wuthering HeightsISBN - 9788130906713
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Pages : 224
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