Facets of Wuthering Heights: Selected Essays - Softcover

Graeme Tytler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1789016231 ISBN 13: 9781789016239

Publisher: Troubador Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

 

Facets of Wuthering Heights is a collection of essays by one author concerned to throw critical light on several different facets of Emily Brontė’s masterpiece, Wuthering Heights.

 

Although three of the essays deal partly with the historical background to the novel, the collection as a whole seeks to draw attention to Emily Brontė’s remarkable versatility as a novelist by, for example, implicitly pointing up the skill with which she has constructed the plot, the inventiveness with which she has created an astonishing variety of characters, and the brilliance with which she has made structural use of her central themes.

 

This book is intended to encourage readers to take a fresh look at Wuthering Heights as a work of art which, far from deserving to be read merely for its extraordinary treatment of love, is, in fact, eminently notable for its author’s objective and dispassionate portrayal of a particular society and a particular set of individuals in late eighteenth-century England and beyond.

About this title

About the Author:

Graeme Tytler was born in Yorkshire, educated at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University, and the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and taught Modern Languages, English and Latin in England and the U.S.A. His publications include Physiognomy in the European Novel: Faces and Fortunes (Princeton University Press, 1982), various essays on English, French and German literature, and many contributions to Bronte Society Transactions and Bronte Studies on the novels of the three Bronte sisters.

About this edition

• Publisher: Troubador Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1789016231
• ISBN 13: 9781789016239
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320