Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Edition) / Edition 4

by Emily Brontë, Richard J. Dunn

Overview

The text of the novel is based on the first edition of 1847.
For the Fourth Edition, the editor collated the 1847 text with the two modern texts (Norton’s William J. Sale collation and the Clarendon), and found a great number of variants, including accidentals. This discovery led to changes in the body of the Norton Critical Edition text that are explained in the preface. New to "Backgrounds and Contexts" are additional letters, a compositional chronology, related prose, and reviews of the 1847 text. "Criticism" collects five important assessments of Wuthering Heights, three of them new to the Fourth Edition, including Lin Haire-Sargeant’s essay on film adaptations of the novel.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393978896
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	12/28/2002
Series:	Norton Critical Editions Series
Edition description:	Fourth Edition
Pages:	464
Sales rank:	417,455
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Emily Brontë (1818-1848) spent most of her life in a stone parsonage in the small village of Haworth on the wild and bleak Yorkshire moors. Despite the isolation of Haworth, the Brontë family shared a rich literary life.

Richard J. Dunn is Professor of English at the University of Washington. His books include the Norton Critical Edition of Wuthering Heights, Approaches to Teaching Dickens’s David Copperfield, David Copperfield: An Annotated Bibliography, The English Novel, Twentieth-Century Criticism, Defoe to Hardy, and Oliver Twist: Whole Heart and Soul.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgements
	General Editors' Preface
	Introduction	1
1	A Fresh Approach to Wuthering Heights	24
2	Wuthering Heights as Classic	39
3	Framing in Wuthering Heights	54
4	Gender and Layered Narrative in Wuthering Heights	74
5	Gender and Genre in Wuthering Heights	86
6	Voicing a Silent History: Wuthering Heights as Dialogic Text	100
7	Myths of Power in Wuthering Heights	118
8	Looking Oppositely: Emily Bronte's Bible of Hell	131
9	The Language of Familial Desire	161
10	The (Self-)Identity of the Literary Text: Property, Proper Place, and Proper Name in Wuthering Heights	176
	Further Reading	204
	Notes on Contributors	209
	Index	211