"Wuthering Heights": Collection of Critical Essays (20th Century Interpretations S.) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0139715495 ISBN 13: 9780139715495

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1968

Synopsis

Countless critics have tried to analyze the meaning and the haunting quality of Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights", one of the most popular and and widely read novels of the 19th century. "Much of what has been written on the book," the editor states, "tries to simplify is complexity by sizing only part of it, and claiming that part as the key which unlocks in some magic fashion all the mysteries and ambiguities of the text." Yet "any final view of the novel must be arrived at after immersion in the substance and complexities of the work itself; it must grow organically out of the experience of reading the work, and be related to it at every point." The essays in this collection reflect an interest in the novel's psychological philosophical depths, as well as an appreciation for its brilliance as a work of art. The diversified views of such eminent critics as Mark Schorer, Albert Guerard, V. S. Pritchett, and David Daiches give a better understanding of the significance of a work that has enchanted, puzzled, entertained, any mystified readers for over 100 years.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1968
• ISBN 10: 0139715495
• ISBN 13: 9780139715495
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 122
• Editor: Vogler Thomas A.