num_pages: 396
description: 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.
language: English
title: Wuthering Heights
titlecomplete: Wuthering Heights
characters: Mr. Lockwood, Heathcliff, Hareton Earnshaw, Ellen (Nelly) Dean, Linton Heathcliff, Edgar Linton, Catherine Linton, Hindley Earnshaw, Catherine Earnshaw, Isabella Linton
genres: Fiction, Historical, Gothic, Classic Literature, Romance, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 1730218
places: England, Yorkshire, England
awards: awardedAt: 1514793600000
name: Premio Euskadi de Literatura
category: Traduccion, awardedAt: 1483257600000
name: Audible’s Narrator of the Year Award
publisher: Broadview Press