When was Emily Bronte alive?
1818-1848
When was WH published?
1847
When was Wuthering Heights set?
very late 1700s - 1802
Kathleen Tillotson
“Many novelists in the forties and fifties chose the stony and thorny ground of social and religious controversy”
Raymond Williams
“new and major generation of novelists” in 1840s, who contributed their “exploration of community”
Pauline Nestor
“when characters leave that world [of the Grange and the Heights], as Heathcliff and Isabella do, they seem mysteriously to disappear into a void.”
Michael Macovski
the novel “foregrounds the act of interpretation by framing the characters’ experiences within the context of sustained audition.”
Michael Macovski
“for these characters to ‘let out’ (in Catherine’s words) their secrets, the presence of an interpreter appears to be vital.”
James Kincaid, ‘Coherent Readers, Incoherent Texts’
claims the novel insists on a multiplicity of readings
Pauline Nestor
“gratifying our taste both for the ‘emotions of recognition’ and for the ‘emotions of surprise’.”
Pauline Nestor
“even Cathy’s celebrated declaration of love for Heathcliff is undermined by the flawed premise on which it is based.”
Pauline Nestor
“Heathcliff is the ‘cuckoo’ without a history, an enigma so unsettling that Nelly is inclined… to invent a past for him”
Pauline Nestor
“Cathy’s effort to accommodate both loves represents an attempt to evade the necessity of choice and thereby avoid limitation.”
What is the ‘polymorphous perversity of the infant’, according to Sigmund Freud?
people born with unfocused pleasure/libidinal drives, deriving pleasure from any part of the body
- the objects and modes of pleasurable satisfaction are multifarious, directed at every object that might provide pleasure
- continues until the more rigid stages of psychosexual development, as well as socialisation, occur
essentially the desire of the child to have everything it wishes without the necessity for choice
Pauline Nestor
the characters’ behaviours are “determined much more by circumstance or necessity than by natural disposition or gender.”
Pauline Nestor
“before her marriages Catherine serves in a sense as a substitute partner for her father” -> Electra complex
Pauline Nestor
“The world of the Grange is vulnerable to intrusion precisely because in some senses it longs for it.”
Pauline Nestor
“The novel dramatises the impossibility of fixity, the vulnerability of boundaries and the futility of attempts to regulate them.”
Charlotte Bronte (‘Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell’)
“there was no inducement to seek social intercourse beyond our own domestic circle”
Charlotte Bronte
“I looked on her with an anguish of wonder and love.”
Charlotte Bronte
“In Emily’s nature the extremes of vigour and simplicity seemed to meet.”
Charlotte Bronte
“Under an unsophisticated culture, inartificial tastes and an unpretending outside, lay a secret power and fire that might have informed the brain and kindled the veins of a hero; but she had no worldly wisdom”
Charlotte Bronte
“Stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature stood alone.”
Charlotte Bronte
“she could hear of them [people around her] with great interest and talk of them with detail, minute, graphic, and accurate; but with them she rarely exchanged a word.”
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A Streetcar Named Desire - context69
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A Streetcar Named Desire - quotes113
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A Streetcar Named Desire - essay plans by theme/q2
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Material - Ros Barber31
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An Easy Passage - Julia Copus35
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Genetics - Sinead Morrissey21
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To My Nine-Year-Old Self - Helen Dunmore24
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Effects - Alan Jenkins0
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The Gun - Vicki Feaver21
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A Minor Role - U.A Fanthorpe14
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The Furthest Distances I've Travelled - Leontia Flynn19
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Please Hold - Ciaran O'Driscoll15
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Blake88
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Wordsworth93
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Byron0
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Shelley0
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Keats0
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Romantics: context36
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Context1
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Quotes0
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Wuthering Heights - context27
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Wuthering Heights - quotes23
