Authors: Emily Bronte, Patricia Routledge
ISBN-13: 9781602835658, ISBN-10: 1602835659
Format: Compact Disc
Publisher: AudioGO
Date Published: June 2010
Edition: 14 hrs
Emily Bronte (1818-1848) was a British author best known for her novel Wuthering Heights, considered by many to be one of the greatest romantic novels in the English language.
Wuthering Heights, first published in 1847, is set amongst the wind-blasted moors known to Emily Brontë from her life at Haworth in Yorkshire, where her father was a clergyman. The dramatic and somber story is dominated by Heathcliff, a passionate and embittered soul. It is a story of universals: love, hate, and revenge. The power of good is stronger than the power of evil, and it eventually prevails.
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 |