Emily Brontë : Wuthering Heights / edited by Patsy Stoneman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stoneman, Patsy.

Series:

Columbia critical guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848. Wuthering Heights.

Brontë, Emily.

Physical Description:

208 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2000]

Summary:

Charting a careful course through the bewildering profusion of material on "Wuthering Heights, " this "Guide" offers synopses of and excerpts from critical responses to the novel from the time of publication to the present day, supplemented by the most comprehensive bibliography currently available. Opening with a chapter on how Emily Bront's masterpiece was received in the nineteenth century, the "Guide" links together a selection of extracts that demonstrate the major critical developments of the twentieth century -- from humanism through formalism to deconstruction. Within this general framework, subsequent chapters focus on psychoanalytic readings, source studies, readings using discourse theory, work on dissemination, and political readings from Marxist, postcolonialist, and feminist points of view.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Victorian Responses: Power, Propriety and Poetry 11

Chapter 2 The Rise and Fall of the Author: Humanism, Formalism, Deconstruction 32

Chapter 3 Psychoanalysis: Uncovering the Unconscious 84

Chapter 4 Sources, Discourses, Disseminations 107

Chapter 5 Political Readings: Marxism, Postcolonialism, Feminism 135.

Notes:

"First published in the Icon critical guides series in 1998 by Icon Books Ltd."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-200) and index.

ISBN:

0231119208

0231119216

OCLC:

41977325