Wuthering Heights, A Longman Cultural Edition, 1st edition
Published by Pearson (January 15, 2008) © 2009
- Emily Bronte
- Alison Booth
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From Longman's Cultural Editions series, Wuthering Heights, edited by Alison Booth, presents Emily Bronte's haunting, brilliant novel freshly edited, smartly annotated, and illuminated by various contexts.
Handsomely produced and affordably priced, the Longman Cultural Editions series presents classic works in provocative and illuminating contexts-cultural, critical, and literary. Each Cultural Edition consists of the complete text of an important literary work, reliably edited, headed by an inviting introduction, and supplemented by helpful annotations; a table of dates to track its composition, publication, and public reception in relation to biographical, cultural and historical events; and a guide for further inquiry and study.
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- The text is enriched by poems, diaries, and memoirs, from Brontë to Virginia Woolf.Â
- This illustrated edition is unique in locating Wuthering Heights in its region as well as period, while it follows every phase of the Brontë renown, from tourism to adaptations, from early reviews to recent critical trends. Â
- Alison’s Booth’s extraordinary edition will fascinate students of the Brontës, the novel, female literature, the gothic, and the fraught conflicts of Victorian literary imagination.
List of Illustrations
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    Top Withins
    High Sunderland
    "Gun Portrait" from Marion Harland
    Portrait
    Several illustrations from Bronte Society Transactions:
        Main Street, Haworth
        Haworth Old Church
        The Birthplace of the Bronte Sisters, Thornton
        The Black Bull
        Branwell Bronte's Chair
        The Waterfall on the Moor
        Haworth Parsonage
        Emily Bronte, drawing of Keeper
    Haworth Parsonage
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    Facscimile Title Page of First Edition
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About This Edition
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Introduction
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Chronologies
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Text of Wuthering Heights
           Notes
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Contexts
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    Biographical
        Emily and Anne Bronte, "Diary Note"
        Charlotte Bronte, "Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell"
               "Editor's Preface"
        Ellen Nussey on Emily
        Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life Of Charlotte Bronte on Emily
        Emily Bronte, Poems
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    Historical, Social, and Legal Â
        Inheritance, Law, and Women
            From Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, A Brief Summary, in Plain Language, of the Most Important
            LawConcerning Women (London: Chapman, 1854)Â
        Class, Urban Culture, and Mobility
            Urban Slums and Street Children
            Self-Help
        Houses, Home Decor, and Consumer Goods
            From Charles Eastlake, Hints on Household Taste
            From John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice
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   Regional and International
        Ireland
            Family History
                William Wright, The Brontes In Ireland
            The Great Hunger
        Yorkshire
            Dialect
            From Richard Blakesborough, Wit, Character, Folklore & Customs of the Nortern Riding of Yorkshire, 1898
            Religion
            Literacy: Summary and Quotation from J. Paul Hunter, Before Novels
        Haworth and Vicinity
            Original Locations
            Memoirs and Pilgrimages
                C. Holmes Cautley, "Old Haworth Folk Who Knew the Brontes," 1910
                Virginia Woolf, from "Haworth, November 1904"
                Sylvia Plath
                Muriel Spark
            The Bronte Society and Parsonage Museum
                From Claude Meeker, "Haworth: Home of the Brontes," 1895
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    Critical and Artful
            Reviews
            Early Criticism
            Sequels, Adaptations, Films
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Further Reading
           Web materials
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