Wuthering Heights

TY - CHAP

T1 - Wuthering Heights

AU - Lee, Louise

N1 - The essay's original title was 'The Tyrant Text: Narrative Imperiousness in Wuthering Heights' but it appears in the Brontë Companion under the more generic title -- Wuthering Heights. This is as the result of a change made in the last few weeks of production to produce parity with other works on the major novels in the collection.

PY - 2016/5/27

Y1 - 2016/5/27

N2 - Reading Wuthering Heights through Roland Barthes’s seminal essay “The Death of the Author” (1968), this essay explores the internal dissonances and sometimes barely restrained licence of Brontë’s self-narrating characters. It argues that the novel both disrupts (and even appears to taunt) its readers’ efforts at narrative unification – even at moments of powerful emotional intensity. Taking Heathcliff’s illegible death mask as a starting point, it suggests that Wuthering Heights, like its violent and Byronic anti-hero, wages war on bourgeois morality and conventional generic expectation, in a wider argument about deep and surface reading.

AB - Reading Wuthering Heights through Roland Barthes’s seminal essay “The Death of the Author” (1968), this essay explores the internal dissonances and sometimes barely restrained licence of Brontë’s self-narrating characters. It argues that the novel both disrupts (and even appears to taunt) its readers’ efforts at narrative unification – even at moments of powerful emotional intensity. Taking Heathcliff’s illegible death mask as a starting point, it suggests that Wuthering Heights, like its violent and Byronic anti-hero, wages war on bourgeois morality and conventional generic expectation, in a wider argument about deep and surface reading.

KW - Narrative, Emily Bronte, Death of Author

M3 - Chapter

SN - 9781118404942

T3 - Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

SP - 81

EP - 100

BT - A Companion to the Brontes

A2 - Long Hoeveler , Diane

A2 - Denenholz Morse, Deborah

PB - Wiley-Blackwell

ER -