Wuthering Heights
By: Emily Brontë ; edited by Christopher Heywood.
Contributors: Heywood, Christopher.
Series: Broadview literary texts
Publisher: Broadview Literary Texts
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Peterborough, Ont; Orchard Park, NY
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 519
ISBN-13: 9781551112473
Copyright date: 2002
Subjects: Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848.; Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.; Rejection (Psychology) -- Fiction.; Rural families -- Fiction.; Foundlings -- Fiction.; Yorkshire (England) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Critics often comment on the importance of landscape in Wuthering Heights, and in this edition, Christopher Heywood locates the text more precisely than previous editions amid Yorkshire’s limestone north and moorland south, drawing out the importance of the region's slaveholding society. Heywood also makes an important contribution to scholarship arguing persuasively for a re-structuring of the chapter and section breaks. Finally, this edition includes a variety of appendices that help to illuminate the novel’s historical background.
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Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 514-519).
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Abbreviations; title: Acknowledgements; title: List of Illustrations; title: Emily Brontë: A Brief Chronology; title: Introduction; title: The Wuthering Heights landscape; title: The story: symmetry; title: The marriage prohibition; title: Lockwood’s Wilberforcean dreams; title: Africa and Yorkshire unchained; title: Signs of fertility; title: Note on the text; title: Wuthering Heights; title: Appendix A: The Chronology of Wuthering Heights; title: Appendix B: Literary Tradition; title: Appendix C: Family Histories; title: Appendix D: Documents; title: Landscape; title: John Hutton, Tour to the Caves (1781); title: Emancipation; title: John Woolman, Journal (1776); title: John Woolman, Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes (1754); title: Slavery; title: ‘The Sorrows of Yamba’; title: Robert Brougham (1778-1868),‘On the Immediate Emancipation of Negro Apprentices’; title: Blacks in England; title: ‘Samboo’s Tomb’ (1822); title: Slavery in Yorkshire; title: The Leeds Mercury, 1831; title: Image of the Rocks; title: Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873); title: The Brontës in Ireland; title: Alice Brontës Interview; title: Select Bibliography