Wuthering Heights

by Bronte, Emily; Peterson, Linda H.

• ISBN13: 9780312256869
• ISBN10: 0312256868
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-05
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

This revision of a widely adopted critical edition presents the 1847 text of Emily Bronte's British Victorian novel along with critical essays that readWuthering Heightsfrom four contemporary perspectives: psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, and cultural studies. An additional essay demonstrates how several critical perspectives can be combined. In the second edition, two of the five essays are new. The text and essays are complemented by contextual documents and illustrations (new), introductions with bibliographies, and a glossary of critical and theoretrical terms.

Table of Contents

About the series
About this volume
Wuthering heights : the complete text in cultural context
Introduction : biographical and historical contexts	p. 3
The complete text (1847)	p. 15
Cultural documents and illustrations	p. 289
The regional context: Haworth, Yorkshire, and the Moors	p. 292
The political context : the women's movement	p. 295
The historical context : the Irish potato famine	p. 302
Imperial and racial contexts : models for Heathcliff	p. 316
The legal context : English inheritance laws	p. 324
Wuthering Heights : a case study in contemporary criticism
A critical history of Wuthering Heights	p. 333
Psychoanalytic criticism and Wuthering Heights	p. 348
What is psychoanalytic criticism?	p. 348
Psychoanalytic criticism : a selected bibliography	p. 359
The absent mother in Wuthering Heights	p. 364
Marxist criticism and Wuthering Heights	p. 379
What is Marxist criticism?	p. 379
Marxist criticism : a selected bibliography	p. 391
Myths of power : a Marxist study on Wuthering Heights	p. 394
Cultural criticism and Wuthering Heights	p. 411
What is cultural criticism?	p. 411
Cultural criticism : a selected bibliography	p. 424
Imperialist nostalgia and Wuthering Heights	p. 430
Feminist criticism and Wuthering Heights	p. 451
What is feminist criticism?	p. 451
Feminist criticism : a selected bibliography	p. 459
Changing the names : the two Catherines	p. 468
Combining perspectives on Wuthering Heights	p. 478
From "your father was emperor of China, and your mother an Indian queen" : reverse imperialism in Wuthering Heights	p. 480
Glossary of critical and theoretical terms	p. 503
About the contributors	p. 530
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