Description
Facets of Wuthering Heights is a collection of essays by one author concerned to throw critical light on several different facets of Emily Bronte's masterpiece, Wuthering Heights.
Although three of the essays deal partly with the historical background to the novel, the collection as a whole seeks to draw attention to Emily Bronte's remarkable versatility as a novelist by, for example, implicitly pointing up the skill with which she has constructed the plot, the inventiveness with which she has created an astonishing variety of characters, and the brilliance with which she has made structural use of her central themes.
This book is intended to encourage readers to take a fresh look at Wuthering Heights as a work of art which, far from deserving to be read merely for its extraordinary treatment of love, is, in fact, eminently notable for its author's objective and dispassionate portrayal of a particular society and a particular set of individuals in late eighteenth-century England and beyond.
About the Author
Graeme Tytler was born in Yorkshire, educated at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University, and the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and taught Modern Languages, English and Latin in England and the U.S.A. His publications include Physiognomy in the European Novel: Faces and Fortunes (Princeton University Press, 1982), various essays on English, French and German literature, and many contributions to Bronte Society Transactions and Bronte Studies on the novels of the three Bronte sisters.
Book Information
ISBN 9781789016239
Author Graeme Tytler
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Matador
Publisher Troubador Publishing
Although three of the essays deal partly with the historical background to the novel, the collection as a whole seeks to draw attention to Emily Bronte's remarkable versatility as a novelist by, for example, implicitly pointing up the skill with which she has constructed the plot, the inventiveness with which she has created an astonishing variety of characters, and the brilliance with which she has made structural use of her central themes.
This book is intended to encourage readers to take a fresh look at Wuthering Heights as a work of art which, far from deserving to be read merely for its extraordinary treatment of love, is, in fact, eminently notable for its author's objective and dispassionate portrayal of a particular society and a particular set of individuals in late eighteenth-century England and beyond.
About the Author
Graeme Tytler was born in Yorkshire, educated at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University, and the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and taught Modern Languages, English and Latin in England and the U.S.A. His publications include Physiognomy in the European Novel: Faces and Fortunes (Princeton University Press, 1982), various essays on English, French and German literature, and many contributions to Bronte Society Transactions and Bronte Studies on the novels of the three Bronte sisters.
Book Information
ISBN 9781789016239
Author Graeme Tytler
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Matador
Publisher Troubador Publishing
