Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights: [A Reader's Guide To Essential Criticism]

Columbia Critical Guides

by Patsy Stoneman

In this Readers' Guide, Patsy Stoneman has devised a careful route through the bewildering profusion of critical writing on Wuthering Heights. After a chapter on nineteenth-century responses, the Guide links together a selection of extracts demonstrating the major critical developments of the twentieth century, from humanism through formalism to deconstruction. Subsequent chapters, working within this general framework, focus on psychoanalytic readings, source studies, readings using discourse theory, work on dissemination, and political readings including Marxism, postcolonialism and feminism. By combining thoroughness and accessibility, this Guide aims to be useful to both undergraduates and more advanced scholars.

Genres: Fiction, Classics, Romance, Literature, British Literature

212 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Corinne · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the best selection of criticism I have read on Wuthering Heights, all of the essays are excellent and bring something different to the table.

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book. I didn't read this esact one but the one I read was slightly edited for younger people!

[Shishani · Rating 3 out of 5]

A happy ending for a very very very long yet sad story.

[A. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very insightful. It was great to have a summary of the critical history, instead of having to slog through all of it myself.

[Cecilia Vu · Rating 5 out of 5]

life through and through

[Charlotte · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very, very in depth analysis of Wuthering Heights with a literary theory twist.