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Wuthering Heights

Second Edition ©2003 Emily Bronte, Edited by Linda H. Peterson

This revision of a widely adopted critical edition presents the 1847 text of Emily Brontë’s British Victorian novel along with critical essays that read Wuthering Heights from four contemporary perspectives: psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, and cultural studies. An additional essay demonstr...
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Edited by Linda H. Peterson - Second Edition, 2003 from Macmillan Student Store

This revision of a widely adopted critical edition presents the 1847 text of Emily Brontë’s British Victorian novel along with critical essays that read Wuthering Heights from four contemporary perspectives: psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, and cultural studies. An additional essay demonstrates how several critical perspectives can be combined. In the second edition, two of the five essays are new. The text and essays are complemented by contextual documents and illustrations (new), introductions with bibliographies, and a glossary of critical and theoretrical terms.

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PART I. WUTHERING HEIGHTS: THE COMPLETE TEXT IN CULTURAL CONTEXT
    The Complete Text [1847]
    Cultural Documents and Illustrations
    
PART II. WUTHERING HEIGHTS: A CASE STUDY IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM
    Psychoanalytic Criticism Philip K. Wion
    Marxist Criticism Terry Eagleton
    Cultural Criticism Nancy Armstrong
    *Feminist Criticism Lynn Pykett
    *Combining Critical Perspectives Susan Meyer
    
   * new to this edition

Emily Bronte

Emily Bronte was the author of Wuthering Heights.

Linda H. Peterson

Linda H. Peterson is the Niel Gray Jr. Professor of English and codirector of the Bass Writing Program at Yale University, where she teaches Victorian poetry and prose.  She is the coauthor of Victorian Women Artists and Authors (1994) and author of Victorian Autobiography: The Tradition of Self-Interpretation (1986) and Traditions of Women's Autobiography: The Poetics and Politics of Life Writing (1999).