Wuthering Heights
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Where can I find the professionals online

I wish there were a "general" comment section, but since I cannot find one I will just go ahead and post my question here--this book certainly gets a lot of attention!
Does anybody know of any website where one may read studies by professional critics? This site is like the IMDB of novels ("spoiler alerts," forsooth!). Most of the discussion here--"I don't like any of the characters;" "This is my favorite book;" "The romance made me swoon"--does not provide the type of insight I am looking for. I would like to hear scholars' opinions on topics such as: the author's clumsy narrative devices; the curious unexpectedness of Catherine's birth; the cause of her mother's illness (I think it may be related to the old-fashioned concept of the "woman's disease" of "hysteria," which unlearned (as Emily Bronte certainly was) people in the Victorian era still adhered to); the provenance of this type of work, and its influence, if any, on later writers.
I could go to my local university library to obtain what I want, but soon that will become more difficult for me, so it would be very nice to be able to find it online. Of course I presume recent criticism will be under copyright, but that stuff, anyway, since around 1980, I have found unbearably off-point, arcane, nearly inhumane, often incomprehensible, having developed a jargon all its own and thus disconnecting from the lay person, and also often risibly reprehensible (Jane Austen as a sexual deviant!).
I hope one of you at least can help me out, if such a site exists. Thank you.
Does anybody know of any website where one may read studies by professional critics? This site is like the IMDB of novels ("spoiler alerts," forsooth!). Most of the discussion here--"I don't like any of the characters;" "This is my favorite book;" "The romance made me swoon"--does not provide the type of insight I am looking for. I would like to hear scholars' opinions on topics such as: the author's clumsy narrative devices; the curious unexpectedness of Catherine's birth; the cause of her mother's illness (I think it may be related to the old-fashioned concept of the "woman's disease" of "hysteria," which unlearned (as Emily Bronte certainly was) people in the Victorian era still adhered to); the provenance of this type of work, and its influence, if any, on later writers.
I could go to my local university library to obtain what I want, but soon that will become more difficult for me, so it would be very nice to be able to find it online. Of course I presume recent criticism will be under copyright, but that stuff, anyway, since around 1980, I have found unbearably off-point, arcane, nearly inhumane, often incomprehensible, having developed a jargon all its own and thus disconnecting from the lay person, and also often risibly reprehensible (Jane Austen as a sexual deviant!).
I hope one of you at least can help me out, if such a site exists. Thank you.
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