Wuthering Heights – Ed. Newman

Emily Brontë

Apr 2007 · Broadview Press

About this ebook

Over a hundred and fifty years after its initial publication, Emily Brontë’s turbulent portrayal of the Earnshaws and the Lintons, two northern English households nearly destroyed by violent passions in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, continues to provoke and fascinate readers. Heathcliff remains one of the best-known characters in the English novel, and Catherine Earnshaw’s impossible choice between two rivals retains its appeal for contemporary readers. At the same time, the novel’s highly ambivalent representations of domesticity, its famous reticence about its characters and their actions, its formal features as a story within a story, and the mystery of Heathcliff’s origins and identity provide material for classroom discussion at every level of study.

The introduction and appendices to this Broadview edition, which place Brontë’s life and novel in the context of the developing “Brontë myth,” explore the impact of industrialization on the people of Yorkshire, consider the novel’s representation of gender, and survey the ways contemporary scholarship has sought to account for Heathcliff, open up multiple contexts within which Wuthering Heights can be read, understood, and enjoyed.

Ratings and reviews

I was shocked to actually enjoy this book. However, the writing for Joseph is awful. I couldn't understand what he was supposed to be saying throughout the book. Some of it, yes, others I guessed and some I had no clue. When you write a story with a character that has a terrible drawl or speech impediment, I think you can show that clear enough without writing in code. That was the most obnoxious part of the book and if it wasn't for the storyline being enjoyable enough, it could actually lose 2 stars for that alone. That being said, it's kind of creepy and has enough going on to keep you interested. It's worth a read, even more so if you are into psychological drama.

Moody atmosphere; dark love interest. Hello comfy weekend with a blanket.

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About the author

Beth Newman is an Associate Professor of English at Southern Methodist University.