Emily Bronte, "Wuthering Heights" (Norton Critical Editions), 4th Edition

This best-selling Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1847 first edition of the novel. For the Fourth Edition, the editor has collated the 1847 text with several modern editions and has corrected a number of variants, including accidentals. The text is accompanied by entirely new explanatory annotations.

New to the Fourth Edition are twelve of Emily Brontë's letters regarding the publication of the 1847 edition of Wuthering Heights as well as the evolution of the 1850 edition, prose and poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and Edward Chitham's insightful and informative chronology of the creative process behind this beloved work.

Five major critical interpretations of Wuthering Heights are included, three of them new to the Fourth Edition. A. Stuart Daley considers the importance of chronology in the novel. J. Hillis Miller examines Wuthering Heights's problems of genre and critical reputation. Susan Gubar assesses the role Victorian Christianity plays in the novel, while Martha Nussbaum traces the novel's romanticism. Finally, Lin Haire-Sargeant scrutinizes the role of Heathcliff in film adaptations of Wuthering Heights.

A Chronology and updated Selected Bibliography are also included.

Contents

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Preface to the Fourth Edition  Editions of Wuthering Heights, 1847–1850  Recovering a Wuthering Heights Text The Text of Wuthering Heights Backgrounds and Contexts  The 1847 Wuthering Heights   Emily Brontë's Diary    November 24, 1834    June 26, 1837    July 30, 1841    July 30, 1845   "The Butterfly"   Edward Chitham • Sculpting the Statue: A Chronology of the Process of Writing Wuthering Heights   Publishing the 1847 Wuthering Heights    April 6, 1846    July 4, 1846    November 10, 1847    December 14, 1847    December 21, 1847    February 15, 1848   Reviews of the 1847 Wuthering Heights    Athenaeum    Atlas    Douglas Jerrold's Weekly Newspaper    Examiner    Britannia    Unidentified Review    New Monthly Magazine    Palladium    North American Review  The 1850 Wuthering Heights   The 1850 Wuthering Heights in Progress    September 5, 1850    September 5, 1850    September 13, 1850    September 20, 1850    September 27, 1850    November 19[?], 1850    December 8, 1850    Charlotte Brontë • Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell    Charlotte Brontë • Editor's Preface to the New Edition of Wuthering Heights   Emily Brontë's Poems for the 1850 Wuthering Heights    Charlotte Brontë • Selections    Poems     40 [A little while, a little while]     42 [The bluebell is the sweetest flower]     39 [Loud without the wind was roaring]     84 [Shall Earth no more inspire thee]     79 [The night wind]     85 [Aye there it is! It wakes to night]     128 [Love is like the wild rose briar]     112 [From a Dungeon Wall]     106 [How few, of all the hearts that loved]     98 [In the earth, the earth thou shalt be laid]     35 [Song by J. Brenzaida to G.S.]     32 [For him who struck thy foreign string]     120a [Heavy hangs the raindrop]     120b [Child of Delight!]     123 [Silent is the House]     89 [I do not weep]     201 [Stanzas]     125 [No coward soul is mine]   Reviews of the 1850 Wuthering Heights    Examiner    Leader    Athenaeum    Eclectic Review Criticism  A. Stuart Daley • A Chronology of Wuthering Heights  J. Hillis Miller • Wuthering Heights: Repetition and the "Uncanny"  Susan Gubar • Looking Oppositely: Emily Brontë's Bible of Hell  Martha Nussbaum • Wuthering Heights: The Romantic Ascent  Lin Haire-Sargeant • Sympathy for the Devil: The Problem of Heathcliff in Film Versions of Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë: A Chronology Selected Bibliography

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Tags: Literature, LiteraryCriticism, 19CEngland

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