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Author Kavanagh, James H.

Title Emily Brontë / James H. Kavanagh
Published Oxford, UK ; New York, NY USA : B. Blackwell, 1985

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Description xix, 120 pages ; 21 cm
Series Rereading literature
Rereading literature.
Contents Introduction: 'Wuthering Heights' and Critical Method -- Patriarchal Law and the Anarchy of Desire -- The Phallic Mother and the Sadism of Control -- The Contradictory Articulation of the Narrative -- The Daughter's Division -- The Limits of the Textual Ideology -- The Abolition of Characters in 'the Name-of-the-Father, but . . .' -- The Hol(e)y Family: Exiling Desire and Housekeeping Ideology -- Conclusion: The Text in Crisis
Summary The author draws on post-structuralism, Lacanian psychoanalysis and recent theories of ideology to analyze the tensions that underlie the narrative of "Wuthering Heights."
Analysis Fiction in English Brontë, Emily 1818-1848
Fiction in English Brontë, Emily Wuthering Heights - Critical studies
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-116) and index
Subject Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848. Wuthering Heights
Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848. Wuthering Heights.
BronteÌ ̂, Emily, 1818-1848. Wuthering Heights
LC no. 84028409
ISBN 0631135065
0631135073 paperback
9780631135067
9780631135074 paperback