Wuthering Heights
Subtitle: an authoritative text, with essays in criticism
By: Edited by William M. Sale, Jr.
Contributors: Sale, William Merritt, 1899- ed.
Edition: Revised Edition
Series: A Norton critical edition
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1972
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 382
Copyright date: 1972
Subjects: Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848.; Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.; Rejection (Psychology) -- Fiction.; Rural families -- Fiction.; Foundlings -- Fiction.; Yorkshire (England) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: This revision of the Norton Critical Edition of Wuthering Heights incorporates significant new materials to help the reader toward a heightened understanding of the text. Featured are two new essays, as well as a revised section on Emily Bronte's hand-corrected copy of the book.

The editor, in preparing the text offered here, returned to the original first edition as a basis. This had contained many printer's errors, but Charlotte Bronte's editing assumed privileges that now seem unwarranted. In his careful collation of the texts, Professor Sale provided the first responsible edition of Wuthering Heights to be made available to present-day readers. The edition is annotated; a specil feature is the glossary of words in the Yorkshire dialect.

The critical materials following the text include, first of all, a sampling of contemporary notices; these are followed by essays and articles that present the prevailing critical opinions of our century. The critical reviews are from the Palladium, the Examiner, the Britannia, the North American Review, and the Leader; the essays are by Charles Percy Sanger, David Cewcil, Mary Visick, John K. Mathison, Carl R. Woodrig, and Mark Schoerer. Essays new to this editiona re by Q. D. Leavis, Inga-Stina Ewbank, and Professore Sale.

The bibliography has been expanded and thoroughly updated.
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Notes: Bibliography: p. 381-382.