Wuthering Heights
by Bronte, EmilyEdition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-03-05
Publisher(s): Bedford/St. Martin's
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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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