Wuthering Heights : complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives / edited by Linda H. Peterson
Published
Boston : Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press ; Basingstoke : Macmillan [distributor], [1992]
pt. 1. Wuthering Heights: the complete text -- pt. 2. Wuthering Heights: a case study in contemporary criticism : A critical history of Wuthering Heights -- Psychoanalytic criticism and Wuthering Heights -- The absent mother in Wuthering Heights / Philip K. Wion -- Feminist criticism and Wuthering Heights -- The name of the mother in Wuthering Heights / Margaret Homans -- Deconstruction and Wuthering Heights -- Wuthering Heights: repetition and the "uncanny" / J. Hillis Miller -- Marxist criticism and Wuthering Heights -- Myths of power: a Marxist study on Wuthering Heights / Terry Eagleton -- Cultural criticism and Wuthering Heights -- Imperialist nostalgia and Wuthering Heights / Nancy Armstrong
Summary
In 19th century Yorkshire, the passionate attachment between a headstrong young girl and a foundling boy brought up by her father causes disaster for them and many others, even in the next generation
