Authors: Emily Bronte, Anne T. Flosnik
ISBN-13: 9781400156887, ISBN-10: 1400156882
Format: MP3 on CD
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc.
Date Published: August 2008
Edition: Unabridged, 1 MP3, 12 hrs. 30 min.
Emily Bronte (1818-1848) was one of three 19th century novelists from the same English family. She wrote one extrordinary novel, Wuthering Heights, and several poems.
Set amid the wild and stormy Yorkshire moors, Wuthering Heights, an unpolished and devastating epic of childhood playmates who grow into soul mates, is widely regarded as the most original tale of thwarted desire and heartbreak in the English language.
Patricia Routledge's reading, with her subtle modulation and vocal range, irons out a possibly confusing plot, conveying the novel's dominating passion and power.
About the series | ||
About this volume | ||
Pt. 1 | Wuthering heights : the complete text in cultural context | |
Introduction : biographical and historical contexts | 3 | |
The complete text (1847) | 15 | |
Cultural documents and illustrations | 289 | |
The regional context: Haworth, Yorkshire, and the Moors | 292 | |
The political context : the women's movement | 295 | |
The historical context : the Irish potato famine | 302 | |
Imperial and racial contexts : models for Heathcliff | 316 | |
The legal context : English inheritance laws | 324 | |
Pt. 2 | Wuthering Heights : a case study in contemporary criticism | |
A critical history of Wuthering Heights | 333 | |
Psychoanalytic criticism and Wuthering Heights | 348 | |
What is psychoanalytic criticism? | 348 | |
Psychoanalytic criticism : a selected bibliography | 359 | |
The absent mother in Wuthering Heights | 364 | |
Marxist criticism and Wuthering Heights | 379 | |
What is Marxist criticism? | 379 | |
Marxist criticism : a selected bibliography | 391 | |
Myths of power : a Marxist study on Wuthering Heights | 394 | |
Cultural criticism and Wuthering Heights | 411 | |
What is cultural criticism? | 411 | |
Cultural criticism : a selected bibliography | 424 | |
Imperialist nostalgia and Wuthering Heights | 430 | |
Feminist criticism and Wuthering Heights | 451 | |
What is feminist criticism? | 451 | |
Feminist criticism : a selected bibliography | 459 | |
Changing the names : the two Catherines | 468 | |
Combining perspectives on Wuthering Heights | 478 | |
From "your father was emperor of China, and your mother an Indian queen" : reverse imperialism in Wuthering Heights | 480 | |
Glossary of critical and theoretical terms | 503 | |
About the contributors | 530 |