Wuthering Heights
By: edited by Alison Booth.
Contributors: Booth, Alison.
Series: Longman cultural editions
Publisher: Pearson Longman
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Softcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780321212986
Subjects: Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction; Rejection (Psychology) -- Fiction; Rural families -- Fiction; Foundlings -- Fiction; Yorkshire (England) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Wuthering Heights
Description: From Longman's Cultural Editions series, Wuthering Heights, edited by Alison Booth, presents Emily Bronte's haunting, brilliant novel freshly edited, smartly annotated, and illuminated by various contexts.

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The text is enriched by poems, diaries, and memoirs, from Brontë to Virginia Woolf. 
This illustrated edition is unique in locating Wuthering Heights in its region as well as period, while it follows every phase of the Brontë renown, from tourism to adaptations, from early reviews to recent critical trends.  
Alison's Booth's extraordinary edition will fascinate students of the Brontës, the novel, female literature, the gothic, and the fraught conflicts of Victorian literary imagination.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-432).
Table of contents: title: List of Illustrations; title: Top Withins; title: High Sunderland; title: "Gun Portrait" from Marion Harland; title: Portrait; title: Several illustrations from Bronte Society Transactions:; title: Main Street, Haworth; title: Haworth Old Church; title: The Birthplace of the Bronte Sisters, Thornton; title: The Black Bull; title: Branwell Bronte's Chair; title: The Waterfall on the Moor; title: Haworth Parsonage; title: Emily Bronte, drawing of Keeper; title: Haworth Parsonage; title: Facscimile Title Page of First Edition; title: About This Edition; title: Introduction; title: Chronologies; title: Text of Wuthering Heights; title: Notes; title: Contexts; title: Biographical; title: Emily and Anne Bronte, "Diary Note"; title: Charlotte Bronte, "Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell"; title: "Editor's Preface"; title: Ellen Nussey on Emily; title: Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life Of Charlotte Bronte on Emily; title: Emily Bronte, Poems; title: Historical, Social, and Legal; title: Inheritance, Law, and Women; title: From Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, A Brief Summary, in Plain Language, of the Most Important; title: LawConcerning Women (London: Chapman, 1854); title: Class, Urban Culture, and Mobility; title: Urban Slums and Street Children; title: Self-Help; title: Houses, Home Decor, and Consumer Goods; title: From Charles Eastlake, Hints on Household Taste; title: From John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice; title: Regional and International; title: Ireland; title: Family History; title: William Wright, The Brontes In Ireland; title: The Great Hunger; title: Yorkshire; title: Dialect; title: From Richard Blakesborough, Wit, Character, Folklore & Customs of the Nortern Riding of Yorkshire, 1898; title: Religion; title: Literacy: Summary and Quotation from J. Paul Hunter, Before Novels; title: Haworth and Vicinity; title: Original Locations; title: Memoirs and Pilgrimages; title: C. Holmes Cautley, "Old Haworth Folk Who Knew the Brontes," 1910; title: Virginia Woolf, from "Haworth, November 1904"; title: Sylvia Plath; title: Muriel Spark; title: The Bronte Society and Parsonage Museum; title: From Claude Meeker, "Haworth: Home of the Brontes," 1895; title: Critical and Artful; title: Reviews; title: Early Criticism; title: Sequels, Adaptations, Films; title: Further Reading; title: Web materials