Emily Bronte, "Wuthering Heights" (Norton Critical Editions), 4th Edition
Emily Bronte, "Wuthering Heights" (Norton Critical Editions), 4th Edition
W.W. Norton & Co. | 4th Edition | 2003 | ISBN: 0393978893 | 448 pages | siPDF | 6.5 MB
W.W. Norton & Co. | 4th Edition | 2003 | ISBN: 0393978893 | 448 pages | siPDF | 6.5 MB
This best-selling Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1847 first edition of the novel. For the Fourth Edition, the editor has collated the 1847 text with several modern editions and has corrected a number of variants, including accidentals. The text is accompanied by entirely new explanatory annotations.
New to the Fourth Edition are twelve of Emily Brontë's letters regarding the publication of the 1847 edition of Wuthering Heights as well as the evolution of the 1850 edition, prose and poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and Edward Chitham's insightful and informative chronology of the creative process behind this beloved work.
Five major critical interpretations of Wuthering Heights are included, three of them new to the Fourth Edition. A. Stuart Daley considers the importance of chronology in the novel. J. Hillis Miller examines Wuthering Heights's problems of genre and critical reputation. Susan Gubar assesses the role Victorian Christianity plays in the novel, while Martha Nussbaum traces the novel's romanticism. Finally, Lin Haire-Sargeant scrutinizes the role of Heathcliff in film adaptations of Wuthering Heights.
A Chronology and updated Selected Bibliography are also included.
Contents
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Editions of Wuthering Heights, 1847–1850
Recovering a Wuthering Heights Text
The Text of Wuthering Heights
Backgrounds and Contexts
The 1847 Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë's Diary
November 24, 1834
June 26, 1837
July 30, 1841
July 30, 1845
"The Butterfly"
Edward Chitham • Sculpting the Statue: A Chronology of the Process of Writing Wuthering Heights
Publishing the 1847 Wuthering Heights
April 6, 1846
July 4, 1846
November 10, 1847
December 14, 1847
December 21, 1847
February 15, 1848
Reviews of the 1847 Wuthering Heights
Athenaeum
Atlas
Douglas Jerrold's Weekly Newspaper
Examiner
Britannia
Unidentified Review
New Monthly Magazine
Palladium
North American Review
The 1850 Wuthering Heights
The 1850 Wuthering Heights in Progress
September 5, 1850
September 5, 1850
September 13, 1850
September 20, 1850
September 27, 1850
November 19[?], 1850
December 8, 1850
Charlotte Brontë • Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell
Charlotte Brontë • Editor's Preface to the New Edition of Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë's Poems for the 1850 Wuthering Heights
Charlotte Brontë • Selections
Poems
40 [A little while, a little while]
42 [The bluebell is the sweetest flower]
39 [Loud without the wind was roaring]
84 [Shall Earth no more inspire thee]
79 [The night wind]
85 [Aye there it is! It wakes to night]
128 [Love is like the wild rose briar]
112 [From a Dungeon Wall]
106 [How few, of all the hearts that loved]
98 [In the earth, the earth thou shalt be laid]
35 [Song by J. Brenzaida to G.S.]
32 [For him who struck thy foreign string]
120a [Heavy hangs the raindrop]
120b [Child of Delight!]
123 [Silent is the House]
89
201 [Stanzas]
125 [No coward soul is mine]
Reviews of the 1850 Wuthering Heights
Examiner
Leader
Athenaeum
Eclectic Review
Criticism
A. Stuart Daley • A Chronology of Wuthering Heights
J. Hillis Miller • Wuthering Heights: Repetition and the "Uncanny"
Susan Gubar • Looking Oppositely: Emily Brontë's Bible of Hell
Martha Nussbaum • Wuthering Heights: The Romantic Ascent
Lin Haire-Sargeant • Sympathy for the Devil: The Problem of Heathcliff in Film Versions of Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography
Tags: Literature, LiteraryCriticism, 19CEngland
John Sutherland, "Can Jan...zles in Classic Fiction" 1 puzzle on Brontë novels
Julia Prewitt Brown, "A R...th-Century English Novel"
Ian Gregor (ed), "Reading...Novel: Detail into Form"
Daniel Pool, "What Jane A...neteenth-Century England"
John Sutherland, "Who Bet...ction (World's Classics)" 1 puzzle on Brontë novels
Kristine Hughes, "The Wri...cy and Victorian England"