Wuthering Heights
Subtitle: authoritative text, backgrounds, criticism
By: Emily Brontë ; edited by William M. Sale, Jr. and Richard J. Dunn.
Contributors: Sale, William Merritt, 1899-; Dunn, Richard J., 1938-; Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Series: A Norton critical edition
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780393957600
Subjects: Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848.; Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.; Rejection (Psychology) -- Fiction.; Rural families -- Fiction.; Foundlings -- Fiction.; Yorkshire (England) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: This Norton Critical Edition reprints, as it has in its previous two editions, a text that is a careful collation of both the 1847 and the 1850 editions of the novel. The numerous typographical errors of the 1847 edition have been corrected, and teh inappropriate changes Charlotte Bronte made to the 1850 manuscript of her sister's novel have been removed. the result is a responsible, clearly annotated edition complete with textual commentary.

New to this third edition are seventeen poems by Emily Bronte, which Charlotte Bronte selected for inclusion in the 1850 edition of Withering Heights to introduce her sister to the public as a poet William M. Sale's "emily Bronte's History of Gondal" explores the connection between these poems and the prose history of the imaginary island of Gondal that Emily Bronte and her sister Anne wrote over a number of years. Also included are selections from Emily Bronte's diary, contemporary reviews of the novel, and Charlotte Bronte's preface and biographical introduction to the 1850 edition (prompted by the negativism of the book's reviewers). Emily Bronte's poems and diary excerpts are new to this edition, as are several contemporary reviews of the novel.

Six critical essays appear, and five of them are new. Charles Percy Sanger's germane essay on the structure of Wuthering Heights is again included. Two pieces by A. Stuart Daley examine, respectively, the significance of nature and chronology in the novel. In each of their critical investigations, Carol Jacobs, Nancy Armstrong, and J. Hillis Miller examine the problems of genre and critical reputation which to the present day continue to surround Wuthering Heights.
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Notes: Bibliography: p. 395.