Wuthering Heights

by Bronte, Emily; Tarrant, Percy

• ISBN13: 9781582790336
• ISBN10: 1582790337
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Trident Reference Pub

Summary

Affordably priced, Longman Cultural Editions present classic works in provocative and illuminating contexts-cultural, critical, and literary. Each Longman Cultural Edition consists of the complete text of a key literary work, supplemented by helpful annotations and followed by contextual materials that reveal the conversations and controversies of its historical moment.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. viii
About Longman Cultural Editions	p. ix
About This Edition	p. xi
Introduction	p. xv
Table of Dates: The Life of Emily Bronte	p. xxvi
The Chronology of Wuthering Heights	p. xxx
Wuthering Heights	p. 1
Volume 1	p. 3
Volume 2	p. 141
Contexts	p. 299
Biographical	p. 303
Biographical Sketch	p. 303
Emily Bronte in Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857)	p. 308
Writings	p. 313
from "Diary Papers" (1834-1845)	p. 313
"The Cat" (translation) (1842)	p. 319
Charlotte Bronte's Selection of Poems by Ellis Bell (1850)	p. 320
Charlotte Bronte on Ellis Bell	p. 329
from "Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell" (1850)	p. 330
from "Editor's Preface" (1850)	p. 335
Historical, Social, and Legal	p. 339
Heathcliff and the Unsettled Classes	p. 339
Nomads of City and Country	p. 341
Henry Mayhew, from London Labour and the London Poor (1861)	p. 341
Self-Made Men and Luddites	p. 343
Samuel Smiles, from Self-Help (1859)	p. 343
Women's Rights and Roles	p. 348
Ellis Bell and Sarah Stickney Ellis	p. 348
Sarah Stickney Ellis, from The Women of England, Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits (1839)	p. 349
Harriet Martineau, from "On Female Education" (1823)	p. 352
Wills, Women, and Property	p. 355
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, from A Brief Summary, in Plain Language, of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women (1854)	p. 355
A Tale of Two Houses: Interiors and Servants	p. 357
Interiors	p. 358
John Ruskin, from "The Nature of Gothic," The Stones of Venice (1851-1853)	p. 359
Domestic Servants	p. 361
Isabella Beeton, from The Book of Household Management (1861)	p. 362
Regional and Popular	p. 366
Where Are the Brontes From?	p. 366
Ireland, Heathcliff, and the Brontes	p. 367
William Wright, from The Brontes in Ireland (1893)	p. 368
Yorkshire: Regionalism, Dialect, and Ballads	p. 374
Regionalism	p. 374
Elizabeth Gaskell, from The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857)	p. 375
Dialect	p. 377
Richard Blakeborough, from Wit, Character, Folklore and Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire (1898)	p. 377
Ballads	p. 380
Anonymous, "The Ghaist's Warning" (1812)	p. 382
Pilgrims to Haworth	p. 387
Matthew Arnold, from "Haworth Churchyard, April 1855" (1877)	p. 387
Claude Meeker, from "Haworth; Home of the Brontes" (1895)	p. 390
Virginia Woolf, from "Haworth, November 1904" (1904)	p. 393
Shifting Literary Honors and the Beaten Track	p. 395
Critical and Artful	p. 398
Reviews of Wuthering Heights, 1848-1851	p. 399
from Douglas Jerrold's Weekly Newspaper (January 1848)	p. 399
from Atlas (January 1848)	p. 400
G. W. P[eck], from "Wuthering Heights," The American Review (June 1848)	p. 401
[E. P. Whipple], from "Novels of the Season," North American Review (October 1848)	p. 403
[George Henry Lewes], from The Leader (December 1850)	p. 404
[Sydney Dobell], from Eclectic Review (February 1851)	p. 405
Early Criticism	p. 406
Algernon Charles Swinburne, from "Emily Bronte" (1883)	p. 406
Angus M. MacKay, from The Brontes: Fact and Fiction (1897)	p. 407
Mary A. Ward [Mrs. Humphry Ward], from "Introduction," Wuthering Heights, Haworth Edition (1900)	p. 409
May Sinclair, from The Three Brontes (1912)	p. 410
Virginia Woolf, from "Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights" (1916)	p. 412
Sites and Resources on the Brontes	p. 413
Exhibits	p. 413
Selected Web sites	p. 415
Adaptations and Translations	p. 415
Performances	p. 415
Film/Television Adaptations	p. 417
Some Translations	p. 418
Some Sequels, Pendants, and Biographical Fiction	p. 422
Further Reading	p. 425
General Resources and Biographical Studies	p. 425
Popular Reception and Travels to Bronte Country	p. 430
Selected Criticism Since 1995	p. 430
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