文档介绍：WUTHERING
HEIGHTS
EMILY BRONTË
EDITED BY RICHARD J. DUNN
A NORTON CRITICAL EDITION
FOURTH EDITION
WUTHERING
HEIGHTS
This best-selling Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1847
first edition of the novel. For the Fourth Edition, the editor has
collated the 1847 text with several modern editions and has cor­
rected a number of variants, including accidentals. The text is
panied by entirely new explanatory annotations.
New to the Fourth Edition are twelve of Emily Bronte's letters
regarding the publication of the 1847 edition of Wuthering
Heights as well as the evolution of the 1850 edition, prose and
poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and
Edward Chitham's insightful and informative chronology of the
creative process behind this beloved work.
Five major critical interpretations of Wuthering Heights are in­
cluded, three of them new to the Fourth Edition. A. Stuart
Daley considers the importance of chronology in the novel.
J. Hillis Miller examines Wuthering Heights s problems of genre
and critical reputation. Susan Gubar assesses the role Victorian
Christianity plays in the novel, while Martha Nussbaum traces
the novel's romanticism. Finally, Lin Haire-Sargeant scrutinizes
the role of Heathcliff in film adaptations of Wuthering Heights.
A Chronology and updated Selected Bibliography are also
included.
ABOUT THE SERIES : Each Norton Critical Edition includes an authori­
tative text, contextual and source materials, and a wide range of inter­
pretations—from contemporary perspectives to the most current criti­
cal theory—as well as a bibliography and, in most cases, a chronology
of the author's life and work.
COVER ILLUSTRATION: Photograph of a pathway Emily Brontë fre­
quently walked when leaving her home village of Haworth to roam the
nearby moorland. In her 1850 preface, Charlotte Brontë spoke of
Wuthering Heights as "rustic all through. It is moorish, and wild, and