Wuthering Heights; Including Introductory Essays by Virginia Woolf and Charlotte Bront�
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Wuthering Heights; Including Introductory Essays by Virginia Woolf and Charlotte Bront�
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781528771689 |
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| Publisher: | Read & Co. Classics |
| Publication date: | 03/29/2018 |
| Pages: | 364 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.94(d) |
| Age Range: | 8 - 12 Years |
About the Author
John Bugg is Professor in the Department of English at Fordham University in New York City. He is the author of Five Long Winters: The Trials of British Romanticism (Stanford UP, 2013) and editor of The Joseph Johnson Letterbook (2016). His essays and reviews have appeared in PMLA, ELH, TLS,
Romanticism, and several other journals
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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations viiiAbout Longman Cultural Editions ix
About This Edition xi
Introduction xv
Table of Dates: The Life of Emily Bronte xxvi
The Chronology of Wuthering Heights xxx
Wuthering Heights 1
Volume 1 3
Volume 2 141
Contexts 299
Biographical 303
Biographical Sketch 303
Emily Bronte in Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857) 308
Writings Emily Bronte 313
from "Diary Papers" (1834-1845) 313
"The Cat" (translation) (1842) 319
Charlotte Bronte's Selection of Poems by Ellis Bell (1850) 320
Charlotte Bronte on Ellis Bell 329
from "Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell" (1850) 330
from "Editor's Preface" (1850) 335
Historical, Social, and Legal 339
Heathcliff and the Unsettled Classes 339
Nomads of City and Country 341
Henry Mayhew, from London Labour and the London Poor (1861) 341
Self-Made Men and Luddites 343
Samuel Smiles, from Self-Help (1859) 343
Women's Rights and Roles 348
Ellis Bell and Sarah Stickney Ellis 348
Sarah Stickney Ellis, from The Women of England, Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits (1839) 349
Harriet Martineau, from "On Female Education" (1823) 352
Wills, Women, and Property 355
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, from A Brief Summary, in Plain Language, of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women (1854) 355
A Tale of Two Houses: Interiors and Servants 357
Interiors 358
John Ruskin, from "The Nature of Gothic," The Stones of Venice (1851-1853) 359
Domestic Servants 361
Isabella Beeton, from The Book of Household Management (1861) 362
Regional and Popular 366
Where Are the Brontes From? 366
Ireland, Heathcliff, and the Brontes 367
William Wright, from The Brontes in Ireland (1893) 368
Yorkshire: Regionalism, Dialect, and Ballads 374
Regionalism 374
Elizabeth Gaskell, from The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857) 375
Dialect 377
Richard Blakeborough, from Wit, Character, Folklore and Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire (1898) 377
Ballads 380
Anonymous, "The Ghaist's Warning" (1812) 382
Pilgrims to Haworth 387
Matthew Arnold, from "Haworth Churchyard, April 1855" (1877) 387
Claude Meeker, from "Haworth; Home of the Brontes" (1895) 390
Virginia Woolf, from "Haworth, November 1904" (1904) 393
Shifting Literary Honors and the Beaten Track 395
Critical and Artful 398
Reviews of Wuthering Heights, 1848-1851 399
from Douglas Jerrold's Weekly Newspaper (January 1848) 399
from Atlas (January 1848) 400
G. W. P[eck], from "Wuthering Heights," The American Review (June 1848) 401
[E. P. Whipple], from "Novels of the Season," North American Review (October 1848) 403
[George Henry Lewes], from The Leader (December 1850) 404
[Sydney Dobell], from Eclectic Review (February 1851) 405
Early Criticism 406
Algernon Charles Swinburne, from "Emily Bronte" (1883) 406
Angus M. MacKay, from The Brontes: Fact and Fiction (1897) 407
Mary A. Ward [Mrs. Humphry Ward], from "Introduction," Wuthering Heights, Haworth Edition (1900) 409
May Sinclair, from The Three Brontes (1912) 410
Virginia Woolf, from "Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights" (1916) 412
Sites and Resources on the Brontes 413
Exhibits 413
Selected Web sites 415
Adaptations and Translations 415
Performances 415
Film/Television Adaptations 417
Some Translations 418
Some Sequels, Pendants, and Biographical Fiction 422
Further Reading 425
General Resources and Biographical Studies 425
Popular Reception and Travels to Bronte Country 430
Selected Criticism Since 1995 430
What People are Saying About This
Wuthering Heights was hewn in a wild workshop, with simple tools, out of homely materials... And there it stands colossal, dark, and frowning, half statue, half rock; in the former sense, terrible and goblin-like; in the latter, almost beautiful, for its colouring is of mellow grey, and moorland moss clothes it; and heath, with its blooming bells and balmy fragrance, grows faithfully close to the giant's foot.
Reading Group Guide
1. To what extent do you think the setting of the novel contributes to, or informs, what takes place? Do you think the moors are a character in their own right? How do you interpret Bronte's view of nature and the landscape?
2. Discuss Emily Bronte's careful attention to a rigid timeline and the role of the novel as a sober historical document. How is this significant, particularly in light of the turbulent action within? What other contrasts within the novel strike you, and why? How are these contrasts important, and how do they play out in the novel?
3. Do you think the novel is a tale of redemption, despair, or both? Discuss the novel's meaning to you. Do you think the novel's moral content dictates one choice over the other?
4. Do you think Bronte succeeds in creating three-dimensional figures in
Heathcliff and Cathy, particularly given their larger-than-life metaphysical passion? Why or why not?
5. Discuss Bronte's use of twos: Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange; two families, each with two children; two couples (Catherine and Edgar, and Heathcliff and Isabella); two narrators; the doubling-up of names. What is Bronte's intention here? Discuss.
6. How do Mr. Lockwood and Nelly Dean influence the story as narrators? Do you think they are completely reliable observers? What does Bronte want us to believe?
7. Discuss the role of women in Wuthering Heights. Is their depiction typical of Bronte's time, or not? Do you think Bronte's characterizations of women mark her as a pioneer ahead of her time or not?
8. Who or what does Heathcliff represent in the novel? Is he a force of evil or a victim of it?How important is the role of class in the novel, particularly as it relates to Heathcliff and his life?
Foreword
1. To what extent do you think the setting of the novel contributes to, or informs, what takes place? Do you think the moors are a character in their own right? How do you interpret Bronte's view of nature and the landscape?
2. Discuss Emily Bronte's careful attention to a rigid timeline and the role of the novel as a sober historical document. How is this significant, particularly in light of the turbulent action within? What other contrasts within the novel strike you, and why? How are these contrasts important, and how do they play out in the novel?
3. Do you think the novel is a tale of redemption, despair, or both? Discuss the novel's meaning to you. Do you think the novel's moral content dictates one choice over the other?
4. Do you think Bronte succeeds in creating three-dimensional figures in
Heathcliff and Cathy, particularly given their larger-than-life metaphysical passion? Why or why not?
5. Discuss Bronte's use of twos: Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange; two families, each with two children; two couples (Catherine and Edgar, and Heathcliff and Isabella); two narrators; the doubling-up of names. What is Bronte's intention here? Discuss.
6. How do Mr. Lockwood and Nelly Dean influence the story as narrators? Do you think they are completely reliable observers? What does Bronte want us to believe?
7. Discuss the role of women in Wuthering Heights. Is their depiction typical of Bronte's time, or not? Do you think Bronte's characterizations of women mark her as a pioneer ahead of her time or not?
8. Who or what does Heathcliff represent in the novel? Is he a force of evil or a victimof it? How important is the role of class in the novel, particularly as it relates to Heathcliff and his life?