Bookshelf

*Catherine the Younger and Hareton* (An illustration to Chapter 30. Hareton is taking down books for Catherine, who holds out her dress to receive them.), Edna Clarke Hall, ink and watercolour on paper, Presented to Tate by Mrs F. Samuel, Mrs. E. Bishop and Michel H. Salaman through the Contemporary Art Society 1941

“Wuthering Heights is a strange sort of book—baffling all regular criticism; yet, it is impossible to begin and not finish it; and quite as impossible to lay it aside afterwards and say nothing about it.”

Douglas Jerrold’s Weekly Newspaper, January 1848

Wuthering Heights (Editions)

Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. Cranford Classics ed, RBA Coleccionables, S.A. U, 2022.

Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. Union Square & Co., 2020.

Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights: A Norton Critical Edition (Fifth Edition). Edited by Alexandra Lewis, 5th ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2019.

Preface: “Spirits so Lost and Fallen” by Alexandra Lewis

Backgrounds and Contexts included: Emily Brontë’s Diary Papers and Devoirs | The 1847 First Edition of Wuthering Heights | The 1850 Second Edition of Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë’s Poetry: A Further Selection

Criticism included: Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, “Looking Oppositely: Emily Brontë’s Bible of Hell;” Martha C. Nussbaum, “The Romantic Ascent: Emily Brontë;” Ivan Kreilkamp, “Petted Things: Cruelty and Sympathy in the Brontës;” Alexandra Lewis, “Memory Possessed: Trauma and Pathologies of Remembrance in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights;” Janis McLarren Caldwell, “Wuthering Heights and Domestic Medicine: The Child’s Body and the Book”

Brontë, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë. The Annotated Wuthering Heights. Edited by Janet Gezari, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.

Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. 1st Vintage Classics ed, Vintage Books, 2009.

Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. Gramercy Books, 1847 (2006).

Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. Signet Classic, 1847. (Alice Hoffman Introduction, 2004).

Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. Edited by Pauline Nestor, Penguin Books, 2003.

Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights: A Norton Critical Edition (Third Edition). Edited by William M Sale Jr and Richard I Dunn, 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 1990.

Preface to the Third Edition by Richard J Dunn

Preface to the First Edition by William M. Sale Jr.

Textual Commentary by William M Sale Jr

Backgrounds included: Poems from the 1850 Wuthering Heights, William M Sale Jr—Emily Brontë’s History of Gondal; Emily Brontë’s Diary; Contemporary Reception; Reviews

Criticism included: Charles Percy Sanger, “The Structure of Wuthering Heights;” A. Stuart Daley, “The Moons and Almanacs of Wuthering Heights;” A Stuart Daley, “A Chronology of Wuthering Heights;” Carol Jacobs, “At the Threshold of Interpretation;” Nancy Armstrong, “Emily Brontë In and Out of Her Time;” J. Hillis Miller, “Wuthering Heights: Repetition and the ‘Uncanny’”

Bloom, Harold. Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. Chelsea House Publishers, 1987.

Introduction by Harold Bloom

Criticism included: (1953) Dorothy Van Ghent, “On Wuthering Heights;” (1971) David Sonstroem, “Wuthering Heights and the Limits of Vision;” (1975) Frank Kermode, “A Modern Way with the Classic;” (1978) Margaret Homans, “Repression and Sublimation of Nature in Wuthering Heights;” (1979) Sandra M. Gilbert, “Looking Oppositely: Catherine Earnshaw’s Fall;” (1979) Carol Jacobs, “Wuthering Heights: At the Threshold of Interpretation;” (1983) Stevie Davies, “Baby-Work: The Myth of Rebirth in Wuthering Heights”

Brontë, Emily, and Jack Sullivan. Wuthering Heights. Illustrated by Skip Liepke, Reader’s Digest Association, 1847 (1982).

Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. Illustrated by Bernarda Bryson. Macmillan, 1963.

Essays ● Articles ● Reviews

Marsh, Nicholas. Emily Brontë : Wuthering Heights. St. Martin’s Press, 1999.

Stoneman, Patsy. Emily Brontë : Wuthering Heights. Columbia University Press, 1998.

Vogler, Thomas A., editor. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Wuthering Heights : A Collection of Critical Essays. Prentice-Hall, 1968.

Part One—Interpretations
“The Structure of Wuthering Heights” by Charles Percy Sanger
“Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights” by Arnold Kettle
“Fiction and the Matrix of Analogy” by Mark Schorer
“The Brontë Sisters and Wuthering Heights” by Derek Traversi
“Preface to Wuthering Heights” by Albert J. Guérard
“The Circumambient Universe” by J. Frank Goodridge
“Story and History in Wuthering Heights” by Thomas A Vogler

Part Two—View Points
“Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights” by Virginia Woolf
“Emily Brontë and Wuthering Heights” by David Cecil
“On Wuthering Heights” by Dorothy Van Ghent
“Lockwood’s Dreams & the Exegesis of Wuthering Heights” by Edgar D Shannon Jr.
“Implacable, Belligerent People of Emily Brontë’s Novel, Wuthering Heights by V. S. Pritchett
“Introduction to Wuthering Heights” by David Daiches
“The Incest Theme in Wuthering Heights” by Eric Solomon
“Emily Brontë and the Metaphysics of Childhood and Love” by Irving H Buchen
“Emily Brontë” by J. Hillis Miller

Critical Analysis

Boghian, Ioana. “A Semiotic Approach to Illness in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights.” Speech and Context, 1 (VII) 2015.

Krishnan, Lakshmi. “Why Am I So Changed? Vampiric Selves and Gothic Doubleness in Wuthering Heights.” Journal of Dracula Studies: Vol 9, Article 5, 2007.

Krebs, Paula M. “Folklore, Fear, and the Feminine: Ghosts and Old Wives’ Tales in Wuthering Heights.” Victorian Literature and Culture, 1998, 41-52., Cambridge University Press.

Davies, Stevie. Emily Brontë, the Artist as a Free Woman. Carcanet, 1983.

Homans, Margaret. “Repression and Sublimation of Nature in Wuthering Heights.” PMLA, vol. 93, no. 1, 1978, pp. 9–19.

Daley, A. Stuart. “The Moons and Almanacs of Wuthering Heights. Huntington Library Quarterly 1974, 337-353. The Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Fike, Francis. “Bitter Herbs and Wholesome Medicines: Love as Theological Affirmation in Wuthering Heights.” Nineteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 23, no. 2, 1968, pp. 127–49.

MacKay, Ruth M. “Irish Heaths and German Cliffs: A Study of the Foreign Sources of Wuthering Heights.” Brigham Young University Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, 1965, pp. 28–39.

Character Studies

Bloom, Harold. Heathcliff. Chelsea House, 1993.

Biographical Studies

Harman, Claire. The Oxford Companion to the Brontës. Edited by Christine Alexander and Margaret Smith, Anniversary edition, Oxford University Press, 2018.

Chitham, Edward. A Life of Emily Brontë. United Kingdom, Amberley Publishing, 2010.

Chitham, Edward. The Birth of Wuthering Heights: Emily Brontë at Work. Macmillan Press Ltd./St. Martin’s Press, Inc., 1998

Vine, Steven. Emily Brontë. Twayne ; Prentice Hall International, 1998.

“Living in Silence: The Life of Emily Brontë”
“Writing Worlds: Gondal”
“Anchors of Desire: Poems, Devoirs, Drawings”
“The Wuthering of Wuthering Heights”
“Gloomy Guests: Mourning, Ghosts, and Crypts”
“An Interpreter between Her and the World: Emily Brontë’s Critics”

Davies, Stevie. Emily Brontë : Heretic. Women’s Press, 1994.

Davies, Stevie. Emily Brontë: the Artist as a Free Woman. Carcanet, 1983.

Visick, Mary. The Genesis of Wuthering Heights. 3d ed, I. Hodgkins ; Meckler Books, 1980.

“Gondal Poems and Wuthering Heights”
“The Transformation of the Gondal People”