A Research Task on Wuthering Heights
Jack Todhunter | Friday August 07, 2009
Categories: Courses, GCSE, KS3, Prose, Wuthering Heights, Writing, Essays, Lexical Analysis
Emily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights” was published in 1847 under the pseudonym of Ellis Bell. It is now considered a classic novel in English literature.
Originally, the book seemed to hold little promise, selling very poorly and receiving only a few mixed reviews. Even the author’s sister, Charlotte, stated in a preface to the book, which she wrote shortly after Emily Brontë’s death “Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know. I scarcely think it is.” and other Victorian readers found the work “shocking and inappropriate”.
What elements of the novel do you consider readers in the Nineteenth Century might have found so repulsive?
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