Bronte's Wuthering Heights

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A concise but comprehensive student guide to studying Emily Bronte's classic novel Wuthering Heights. It covers adaptations such as film and TV versions of the novel and student-friendly features include discussion points and a comprehensive guide to further reading.

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Brinton's guide is, on the whole, an enlightening, well-researched, and ... convincing text that serves both its instructional purposes and the general reader's need for concise yet informed practical introduction to Wuthering Heights. * Journal of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) *
Another volume and the second by Ian Brinton in the series initiated by Continuum as introductions to classic literary texts. Designed as guides for undergraduate students, the volumes follow a format that is both tightly focussed and demanding in the provision of historical, critical and creative contexts.It proves a format that in good hands is far from formulaic: each of Ian Brinton's chapters is compact, informed and clear. The writing is a model of combining the pleasures of close reading with instruction of a rewardingly exact order. Imaginatively conceived, and executed with quiet authority and openness of mind, this is work that in the best sense makes an old' text new' again.' -- Jean Gooder, Fellow Emerita, Newnham College, University of Cambridge, UK
A new study of Wuthering Heights is always welcomed, and the benefit of this one is its close readings of several key passages... It is good to have a study of the novel that challenges us to say what about it is so fascinating and what makes it so much of a draw. -- The Use of English

Author Bio

Ian Brinton is Editor for The Use of English. He is author of Contemporary Poetry Since 1990 (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and A Manner of Utterance: Readings in the Poetry of J.H. Prynne (Shearsman Press, 2009). He is currently working on An Andrew Crozier Reader due to be published by Carcanet in 2012.