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Harold Bloom suggests Emily Bronte?s Wuthering Heights ?is one of those canonical works or classics that reward readers at ever level of literary sophistication.? Along with a collection of some of the best criticism available on her work, this text includes a brief biography of the author, structural and thematic analysis, an index of themes and ideas, and more.

The title, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, part of Chelsea House Publishers' Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics.This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Emily Bronte, a chronology of the author's life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. ... Read more

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Not likeable, but likeable!
I too read this book for high school. I found myself not liking any of the characters and wondering how I could like a book with such an unlikeable cast! I soon realised, however, that the point is not to 'like' thecharacters particularly (as we are made to do in most modern books andmovies) but to see their struggles, passion and lives for what they are.Life is hard, life can be ugly.Another thing that struck me was theintense love and devotion to Catherine from such an unloveable being asHeathcliff. The story tells me that Catherine and Heathcliff could onlyreally love each other.My advice is read this book. You may not likeall the characters and you can forget all the romance cliches, but it isvaluable to know both as a piece for school and a tragic story. Oh, anddo read Joseph's parts aloud-it helps!

Wow, what a waste of my time!
I am a senior in high school...My teacher loves this book for some WEIRD reason.. She made all kinds of hype over it and made it sound like a great book and we would love it.How wrong she was!!!I don't think one personin class liked the book, and most of us are advanced readers.At any rate,the teacher still thinks its a great book and tries to ignore the fact thatnobody likes it.The storyline is boring ...its someone telling anotherstory....when half the characters have the same name and its really hard tofigure out who is doing what and who is who at times!I wish I didn't haveto read this book!

This novel was really complicated and a waste of my time.
I don't understand why we (seniors) had to read Wuthering Heights in order to graduate.The book has nothing to do with us at all.The book was really complicated and the movie was worse.Why did they use the samecharacters over and over again.And by the way, how old was Nelly Deananyway?This book really sucked. ... Read more

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The Bronte sisters have little resemblance to any writers prior to their publication. They are viewed as self-generated, an autonomous myth in their lives and in their work. This title offers an extensive biography, along with critical examinations of their novels as a group, Withering Heights, Agnes Grey, Villette, and more.

This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School; preeminent literary critic of our time. The lives of the greatest writers of the world are explored in the new series Bloom's BioCritiques. In addition to a lengthy biography, each book includes an extensive critical analysis of the writer's work, as well as critical views by important literary critics throughout history. These volumes are the perfect introduction to critical study of the important authors currently read and discussed in high schools, colleges, and graduate schools. ... Read more

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A focussed, critical look at the Bronte sisters
This slender volume contains a number of interesting critical articles on the Brontes and some analysis of influences on their writing.Some comparisons are made between the Brontes themselves as well as other writers.

The book includes a useful bibliography, a timeline and lists some Bronte-related websites.

Recommended for those who want to know more about the life, times and influences behind the Brontes without immersing themselves in the glorious detail that the biographies provide.

Recommended.

Jennifer Cameron-Smith ... Read more

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A life of Emily Bronte based chiefly upon the internal evidence of her poems, supplemented with the letters of Charlotte Bronte, and the novels and poems of the family. The author attempts to correct Charlotte's and other errors which appeared in the prefaces. ILLUS.

THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY:Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. ... Read more

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Worth Reading
Romer Wilson's passion for his subject shines through, though little in the way of new 'realities and truths' are offered. Yet his biography is my favorite to date, especially because of his interpretation of "Wuthering Heights." Catherine is the adult Emily and Heathcliff is her childhood.
This book is thought provoking and worth the read. In fact, now I'd like to know more about Romer Wilson. ... Read more

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The tale of Heathcliff's and Cathy's ungovernable love and suffering, and the havoc that their passion wreaks on the families of the Earnshaws and the Lintons, shocked the book's first readers, with even Emily's sister Charlotte claiming Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know. I scarcely think it is. ... Read more

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This account of the Bronte family traces their Irish ancestry from its murky origins around 1710, to 1820 when the Bronte family arrived at Haworth Parsonage, Yorkshire. Patrick Brunty was the eldest of a family of ten from Ballynaskeagh near Newry in Cou ... Read more

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Before the Bronte sisters
This is an interesting and easy to read history of the Bronte family.This book focusses more on Patrick Bronte and his antecedents than on his famous offspring and, perhaps, fills in some gaps about the origins of one of the most famous literary families.

Of special interest to me was the tale of the first male to be named Welsh Bronte, and the similarities between his story and the character of Heathcliff.

Recommended to those who are interested in the Irish roots of the Bronte family history.

Jennifer Cameron-Smith ... Read more

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In "We Are Three Sisters," Drew Lamonica focuses on the role of families in the Brontës' fiction of personal development, exploring the ways in which it recognizes the family as a defining community for selfhood.

Drawing on extensive primary sources, including works by Sarah Ellis, Sarah Lewis, Ann Richelieu Lamb, Harriet Martineau, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, and Elizabeth Gaskell, Lamonica examines the dialogic relationship between the Brontës' novels and a mid-Victorian domestic ideology disseminated in conduct books and home guides that held the family to be the original nurturer of subjectivity. Arguing that the sisters share a common interest in the familial influences on self-development and self-understanding, Lamonica draws connections among their works to prove this argument. ... Read more

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Topical ideas
In the history of famous authors, the Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne, stand out. Firstly, that three siblings would prove to be so gifted in the same field. For example, we can only wonder what if Charles Dickens had had two such siblings?

Then, of course, there is the obvious factor that all three Brontes were female. At a time when wealthy British women had such circumscribed career choices. Ever since their lifetimes, many have thusly commented.

But apparently few have focused on how the Brontes depicted families in their fiction, and how these tied in with their own familial situation and the Victorian ethos of family. In retrospect, this is one of those analyses whose idea is stunningly obvious. But for some reason, a priori to this book, it has been little (none?) touched on.

Most interestingly, Lamonica suggests that while the Brontes never actually denied the prospect of a woman being content through her family, they never made this out to be the only choice. A very contemporary stance. ... Read more

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Emily Brontë's writings explore, expand, and transgress limited nineteenth-century ideas of the nature of the female lot and of women's creativity. This study offers an extensive rereading of the poems which focuses on Emily Brontë's problematic relationship to the Romantic tradition in which they were produced, and to the critical tradition in which they have been reproduced. Using recent feminist work on gender and genre Lyn Pykett throws fresh light on the complexities of "Wuthering Heights, and suggests that much of this novel's distinctiveness may be attributed to the particular ways in which it both combines and explores Female Gothic and the emerging realist domestic novel, a genre also widely used and read by women." Contents: Emily Brontë: A Life Hidden from History; The Writings of Ellis Bell; "Not at all like the poetry women generally write" Emily Brontë and the Problem of the Woman Poet; Death Dreams and Prison Songs; Gender and Genre inàR "Wuthering Heights; Changing the Names: The Two Catherines; Nelly Dean: Memoirs of a Survivor; The Male Part of the Poem; Reading Women's Writing: Emily Brontë and the Critics" ... Read more

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Harold Bloom suggests Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights "is one of those canonical works or classics that reward readers at ever level of literary sophistication." Along with a collection of some of the best criticism available on her work, this text includes a brief biography of the author, structural and thematic analysis, an index of themes and ideas, and more. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all students of literature, presenting concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work. Also provided are multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (17)

Stands the test of time
the unknowledgeable who said the book is a waste of time(look above) have no clue how to comprehend this book. it is a book that showed me all facets of life. it is about true love, and the power it can have on us--good or bad. this book is about manipulation, power struggles, and blind love. many of the relationships in this book are created out of spite, ignorance, or greed. this book showed me that love can create more emotions than just happiness. it can be wild and unruley also.

It's all good
This book was exceptionally well written.It is terrible how the majority of books are all happy and perky and there is never a cloud in the sky. In this book, Bronte snapped me back to the reality that there is unhappiness in the world andyou have to live with it. She showed that love lasts through all darkness and bad situations. So if you are looking for a good historic love story, but not a "Happily Ever After" this is your best bet.

Horrible!
My advice on this book: don't waste your time!If you are very strange and want to improve your strangeness with more strangeness, then go right ahead.But I should've read something better.It is not a very realistic picture of the world or something that would inspire you to be closer in your walk with the Lord.If there was a slot where you could put in0 stars that would be what I rate it.

My Review of Wuthering Heights
When Cathy's father brings home a dirty orphan, she doesn't know what to think. She comes to know the boy and befriends him, while her brother treats him badly. A couple months later, Cathy's father dies, and herbrother is left head of the house. He makes Heathcliff, the boy who wastaken in, a servant. As they get older Cathy and Heathcliff fall in love.Until one day, Cathy goes away and doesn't come back for a while. When shefinally comes back to visit, she has fallen in love with Edgar Linton, arich, upperclass man. This makes Heathcliff extremely jealous. When Cathyis lying on her deathbed, she tells Heathcliff she loves him, and when shedies Heathcliff tells her to haunt him and never leave him. This story is agreat tale of undying love and the extents people will go for the one theylove. The story had many interesting twists, but the ending left mesatisfied.

My Review of Wuthering Heights
Cathy's dad brings home a Heathcliff, an orphin he found in the streets one day and lets him live with the family. A couple of months later Cathy's father dies and her brother makes him the family servant. Cathy andHeathcliff are secretly in love but it would never work out. Cathy movesaway and gets married and comes back home and visits. She realizes her lovefor Heathcliff and things start getting interesting. I liked the book. Iliked the book because it was very romantic. The plot had interestingtwists and turns but I still was satisfied with the ending. ... Read more

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Published in 1847 and initially considered excessivelymorbid and brutal, Wuthering Heights has a combination of violentRomantic vision and brutally controlled structure which has ripenedimmensely in recent years. Emily Bront's passionate and visionary lyricsare among the finest poems by a woman in English; more than sixty of themare included here. ... Read more