Wuthering Heights
Critics often comment on the importance of landscape in Wuthering Heights, and in this edition, Christopher Heywood locates the text more precisely than previous editions amid Yorkshire’s limestone north and moorland south, drawing out the importance of the region's slaveholding society.
Print Book, English, ©2002
Broadview Literary Texts, Orchard Park, NY, ©2002
Psychological fiction
519 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
9781551112473, 1551112477
48928985
PrefaceAbbreviationsAcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsEmily Brontë: A Brief ChronologyIntroductionThe Wuthering Heights landscapeThe story: symmetryThe marriage prohibitionLockwood’s Wilberforcean dreamsAfrica and Yorkshire unchainedSigns of fertilityNote on the textWuthering HeightsAppendix A: The Chronology of Wuthering HeightsAppendix B: Literary TraditionAppendix C: Family HistoriesAppendix D: DocumentsLandscapeJohn Hutton, Tour to the Caves (1781)EmancipationJohn Woolman, Journal (1776)John Woolman, Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes (1754)Slavery‘The Sorrows of Yamba’Robert Brougham (1778-1868),‘On the Immediate Emancipation of Negro Apprentices’Blacks in England‘Samboo’s Tomb’ (1822)Slavery in YorkshireThe Leeds Mercury, 1831Image of the RocksAdam Sedgwick (1785-1873)The Brontës in IrelandAlice Brontës InterviewSelect Bibliography
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