Wuthering Heights
Edition: 1 edition
Series: Longman Cultural Editions
Publisher: Longman; Pearson Longman
Published: 2008 February 3
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780321212986
Subjects: Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; General; Fiction; Rejection (Psychology); Rural families; Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
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.

Handsomely produced and affordably priced, the Longman Cultural Editions series presents classic works in provocative and illuminating contexts-cultural, critical, and literary. Each Cultural Edition consists of the complete text of an important literary work, reliably edited, headed by an inviting introduction, and supplemented by helpful annotations; a table of dates to track its composition, publication, and public reception in relation to biographical, cultural and historical events; and a guide for further inquiry and study.

The following Longman Cultural Editions are available now: Beowulf; Emma; Persuasion; Hamlet, 2/e; Othello and the Tragedy of Mariam; Pride and Prejudice; Frankenstein, 2/e; Hard Times; Northanger Abbey; King Lear; The Merchant of Venice; Heart of Darkness, The Man Who Would Be King, and Other Works on Empire; John Keats; Antony and Cleopatra; The Castle of Otranto and the Man of Feeling; The Picture of Dorian Gray; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the Wrongs of Woman, or Maria; and Henry IV, Parts I & II.

New titles include Dorothy Wordsworth and Jekyll and Hyde, The Secret Sharer, and Transformation: Three Tales of Doubles.

One Longman Cultural Edition can be packaged at no additional cost with The Longman Anthology of British Literature by Damrosch, Dettmar, et al. and Masters of British Literature, or at a discount with any other Longman textbook.

Features
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.
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