9781840461411

Wuthering Heights

Format: Paperback

ISBN13: 9781840461411

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Overview

Baffling and fascinating its first readers, it has been read as a great love story, a tragedy of hatred, a promise of spiritual sublimity, an intriguing textual puzzle, an analogue of the class war, a feminist protest, a poem, a drama, a dialogue. It has inspired hundreds of interpretive versions in other media, and the image of Catherine and Heathcliff on the hill-top (despite not appearing in the novel) has become a cultural icon. In this Icon Readers' Guide, Patsy Stoneman has devised a careful route through the bewildering profusion of critical writing on Wuthering Heights. After a chapter on 19th century responses, the Guide links together a selection of extracts demonstrating the major critical developments of the 20th century, from humanism through formalism to deconstruction. Subsequent chapters, working within this general framework, focus on psychoanalytic readings, source studies, readings using discourse theory, work on dissemination, and political readings including Marxism, postcolonialism and feminism. In addition, the bibliography is probably the most comprehensive currently available. By combining thoroughness and accessibility, this Guide aims to be useful to both undergraduates and more advanced scholars.

ISBN-13

9781840461411

ISBN-10

1840461411

Weight

0.61 Pounds

Dimensions

8.66 x 5.51 x 0.51 In

List Price

$28.99

Edition

2nd Edition

Format

Paperback

Pages

208 pages

Publisher

Published On

2000-04-01



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