Wuthering Heights

Description

Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language, and a potent tale of revenge. This new edition explores its extraordinary power and unique style and narrative structure, and includes a selection of poems by Emily Brontë.

• An introduction which moves beyond the cliché of Emily Brontë as an untutored genius in order to show her deep understanding of literary tradition as well as her experience in visual art and music.
• Uses the 1976 Clarendon text, with restored the punctuation of the 1847 text.
• Up-to-date bibliography and chronology.
• Appendices include original reviews of the novel, Charlotte Brontë's three prefacing documents from the 1850 edition, and a selection of Emily Brontë's poetry.

New to this edition

• This new edition of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights features a revised version of the 1976 Clarendon text, along with updated annotations, and a new introduction that situates Brontë's novel within the broader context of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, and brings fresh attention to how Heathcliff's ambiguous ethnicity impacts familiar novelistic discourses of sympathy.

About the Author(s)

Emily Brontë

John Bugg is Professor in the Department of English at Fordham University in New York City. He is the author of Five Long Winters: The Trials of British Romanticism (Stanford UP, 2013) and editor of The Joseph Johnson Letterbook (Oxford UP, 2016). His essays and reviews have appeared in PMLA, ELH, TLS, Romanticism, and several other journals

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Emily Brontë
Genealogical Table
Wuthering Heights: Main Text
Appendix 1: Contemporary Reviews of Wuthering Heights
Appendix 2: Charlotte Brontë's Prefaces to the 1850 Edition
Appendix 3: Selected Poems by Emily Brontë
Explanatory Notes